Introducing a Groff Macros cheat sheet
Linux has a handy text formatting command. GNU groff is quite old, but it’s still very useful to generate documents. Most people use groff to write papers, but you can also use groff as a lightweight intermediate report generator for an automated system. read...
Top 4 open source augmented reality SDKs
Advancements in augmented reality (AR) technologies have unearthed possibilities that previously were restricted to our imaginations. Today, it’s possible to use sophisticated computer-produced vision to augment our physical environment in entirely new and captivating ways. read...
The state of encryption: How the debate has shifted
Susan Landau, a former distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems and now a professor at Tufts. I had an opportunity to check in with her at a recent event in Washington, D.C. read...
5 microservice testing strategies for startups
Testing microservices is hard. I learned just how hard it could be when I first dived into a tech stack with seven separate microservices, each with its own code base, dependency management, feature branches, and database schema—which also happened to have a unique set of migrations. Talk about hectic. The approach I took was to run everything locally. That meant that whenever I wanted to run end-to-end tests, I needed to go...
Top 10 May must-reads: Linux vs. Unix, Firefox extensions, Python command-line tools, Git branching guide, and more
Opensource.com brought in 816,444 unique visitors who generated a new all-time record of 1,331,752 page views in May. We published 107 articles last month and welcomed 28 new authors. We also published three series of articles by Texas Linux Fest, SouthEast LinuxFest, and OSCON speakers. read...
