Control your computer time and date with systemd
Most people are concerned with time. We get up in time to perform our morning rituals and commute to work (a short trip for many of us these days), take a break for lunch, meet a project deadline, celebrate birthdays and holidays, catch a plane, and so much more. read...
Using pandas to plot data in Python
In this series of articles on Python-based plotting libraries, we’re going to look at an example of making plots using pandas, the hugely popular Python data manipulation library. Pandas is a standard tool in Python for scalably transforming data, and it has also become a popular way to import and export from CSV and Excel formats. read...
Why I switched from Java to Kotlin
After years as an educator, I became a professional software developer. That brought me to Java, but recently, I began enjoying a totally different but compatible programming language called Kotlin. read...
How to scale an open, energetic community
Open communities live and breathe. They grow, shift, and change when people join or leave them, learn something new, contribute something different. New contributors step up; long-time contributors take breaks. And the community’s dynamics reform every time they do. Just look at the Open Organization community. For the past five years, we’ve been helping the world better understand the ways open principles are changing the...