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Month: October 2019

RPI 4 Blog

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Music Players – Week 2

October 30, 2019 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop

This is a weekly blog about the Raspberry Pi 4 (“RPI4”), the latest product in the popular Raspberry Pi range of computers. For this week, Luke surveys music players on the RPI4.

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Programming Books

6 Excellent Free Books to Learn Bash

October 29, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Bash (acronym for the ‘Bourne-Again-SHell’) is a shell and programming language. Bash has become a de facto standard for shell scripting. Here’s our recommended free books to master Bash.

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Siren

Siren – text-based audio player

October 28, 2019 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Siren is a text-based audio player with one of the lowest system footprints. Luke Baker reviews this free and open source music player.

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7 Excellent Free Books to Learn ECMAScript

October 24, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Here’s our recommended texts to learn ECMAScript. They are all free to read, and a few are open source licensed.

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RPI 4 - Week 1

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Week 1

October 23, 2019 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop

This is a weekly blog where I share my experiences of using the Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop replacement using free and open source software.

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6 Excellent Free Books to Learn OCaml

October 22, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

The OCaml system is the main implementation of the Caml language. It has a very strong type-checking system, offers a powerful module system, automatic memory management, first-class functions, and adds a full-fledged object-oriented layer.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: cheat.sh – community driven cheat sheet

October 21, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

cheat.sh offers unified access to the best community driven documentation repositories of the world via curl/browser interface. There’s also an installable utility for more flexibility.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Ternimal – animated lifeform in the terminal

October 18, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews

Ternimal simulates a lifeform in the terminal using Unicode block symbols. It’s a script written in Rust with no dependencies and consumes few resources.

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Programming Books

3 Excellent Free Books to Learn VimL

October 17, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

VimL is a powerful scripting language of the Vim editor. You can use this dynamic, imperative language to design new tools, automate tasks, and redefine existing features of Vim. Here’s our recommended free VimL books.

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Programming Books

Excellent Free Books to Learn Erlang

October 15, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Erlang is a general-purpose, concurrent, declarative, functional programming language and runtime environment developed by Ericsson. Here’s our recommended free books for you to add another language to your bow!

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