Make a web-safe color guide with Bash
Make a web-safe color guide with Bash Jim Hall Thu, 04/06/2023 – 03:00 When computer displays had a limited color palette, web designers often used a set of web-safe colors to create websites. While modern websites displaying on newer devices can display many more colors than the original web-safe color palette, I sometimes like to refer to the web-safe colors when I create web pages. This way I know my pages look good anywhere....
How to lead through change with open leadership
How to lead through change with open leadership Ashish Lotangane Thu, 04/06/2023 – 03:00 Change is hard. It often brings discomfort, anxiety, and confusion. Even as an Agile enthusiast, I sometimes feel I’m not welcoming change the way I should. Change is often hard because the predecessor of change is chaos. Being in chaos is a natural part of the change process and an integral part of evolution. If chaos is handled...
Open source community analysis with actionable insights
Open source community analysis with actionable insights cdolfi Wed, 04/05/2023 – 03:00 Organizations are increasingly adopting open source software development models and open source aspects of organizational culture. As a result, interest in how open source communities succeed is reaching an all-time high. Until recent years, measuring the success of open source communities was haphazard and anecdotal. Ask someone what makes...
How I learned the hard way to keep my website updated
How I learned the hard way to keep my website updated dboth Wed, 04/05/2023 – 03:00 A few days ago, I received an email from a reader of one of my books. Among other things, he said that he was having trouble getting to one of the websites I’d referenced in the book. I responded that I would check it out. Usually, something like this is due to a misprinted URL in the referring article or book, or it could be that I’d...
BASIC vs. FORTRAN 77: Comparing programming blasts from the past
BASIC vs. FORTRAN 77: Comparing programming blasts from the past Jim Hall Wed, 04/05/2023 – 03:00 If you grew up with computers in the 1970s and 1980s, as I did, you probably learned a common programming language for personal computers called BASIC, or the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. You could find BASIC implementations on every personal computer of the era, including the TRS-80, Apple II, and the IBM...
Our favorite fonts for the Linux terminal
Our favorite fonts for the Linux terminal Jim Hall Wed, 04/05/2023 – 03:00 Terminal emulators came up as a topic for me recently, and it got me thinking: What’s everyone’s favorite terminal font? So I asked Opensource.com contributors to share what font they like to use. Here are their answers. VT323 I like to use a different font (VT323) in my GNOME Terminal than the font I use (Source Code Pro) in my programming...
