Turn any website into a Linux desktop app with open source tools
Mastodon is a great open source, decentralised social network. I use Mastodon every day, and it’s probably most common to use Mastodon through its web interface (although being open source, there are many different ways to interact with it, including terminal-based applications and mobile apps), but I prefer dedicated application windows. read more Powered by...
4 tips to becoming a technical writer with open source contributions
Whether you’re a tech hobbyist interested in dabbling in technical writing or an established technologist looking to pivot your career to become a professional technical writer, you can build your technical writing portfolio with open source contributions. Writing for open source projects is fun, flexible, and low risk. Contribute to a project of interest to you on your own schedule, and you might be surprised at how welcoming the...
4 ways to edit photos on the Linux command line
Linux is useful to photographers and graphic artists. It provides many tools for editing different types of image files and formats, including photographs. This roundup shows that you do not even need a graphical interface to work with your photos. Here are four ways that you can edit images at the command line. read more Powered by...
What you need to know about containers for Python
Python is a popular language for many applications. Those that run as backend services, now in the 2020s, are often run inside containers. For that to work, though, you have to build a container. Often, with microservice architectures, it makes sense to build a “root” base image, which all of your services get built on. Most of this article focuses on that base image since this is where it is easiest to make mistakes....
Use the Linux cowsay command for a colorful holiday greeting
You may have heard of a small program that takes input, such as a message that you type, and outputs a picture of a cow quoting your message. It is called cowsay. It has been written about before here on Opensource.com. So, to have a little fun with it, I thought I’d use it to celebrate Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). read more Powered by...
How I dynamically generate Jekyll config files
Jekyll, the static site generator, uses the _config.yml for configuration. The configurations are all Jekyll-specific. But you can also define variables with our own content in these files and use them throughout your website. In this article, I’ll highlight some advantages of dynamically creating Jekyll config files. read more Powered by...
