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Month: September 2019

Linux Candy

Linux Candy: ponysay – cowsay reimplemention for ponies

September 30, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ponysay is a rewrite of cowsay with lots of full-color characters from My Little Pony. There’s over 400 characters and character combinations.

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Programming Books

7 Excellent Free Books to Learn Scheme

September 26, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Scheme is a general-purpose, functional, programming language descended from Lisp and Algol. It is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of Lisp.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: Liquid Prompt – adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh

September 23, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Liquid Prompt gives you a nicely displayed prompt with useful information when you need it. It shows you what you need when you need it.

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eye care

Safe Eyes – protect your eyes from eye strain

September 20, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Safe Eyes protect your eyes from eye strain using a simple and extensible break reminder. It’s designed to reduce and stop repetitive strain injury. It’s not just your eyes that need to take a break.

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16 Excellent Free Books to Learn Lisp

September 19, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Lisp (derives from “LISt Processing”) is one of the oldest programming languages. It was invented in 1958, with the language being conceived by John McCarthy and is based on his paper “Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine”.

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cmus

cmus – free terminal-based audio player

September 16, 2019 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

This review looks at an alternative to musikcube. It’s called cmus. It shares many similarities with musikcube. Both are designed to run on a text-only user interface, reducing the resources required to run the application.

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Music Players

Sayonara Player – small, clear and fast audio player

September 13, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Sayonara is a small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, supported by the Qt framework. It uses GStreamer as audio backend.

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Programming Books

7 Excellent Free Books to Learn Logo

September 12, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

The Logo Programming Language, a dialect of Lisp, was designed as a tool for learning. It features interactivity, modularity, extensibility, with flexibility of data types.

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Programming Books

8 Excellent Free Books to Learn Fortran

September 10, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Fortran (Formula translation) is a multi-paradigm programming language invented by John Backus of IBM in the 1950s. Here’s our recommended free books.

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Music Players

Musicalypse – audio player and server built with Web technologies

September 9, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Musicalypse is cross-platform software that offers both an audio player and server functionality. It’s built with web technologies.

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