You-Get is a tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the web. It’s free and open source software, with a huge number of GitHub stars.
Read moreExcellent Free Tutorials to Learn Julia
Julia aims to create an unprecedented combination of ease-of-use, power, and efficiency in a single language. Here’s our recommended Julia tutorials.
Read moreRaspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – News – Week 19
A news aggregator is software which collect news, weblog posts, and other information from the web so that they can be read in a single location for easy viewing.
Read moreExcellent Free Tutorials to Learn Clojure
Clojure is a dialect of the Lisp programming language. It’s a well-rounded language. It offers broad library support and runs on multiple operating systems.
Read moreLinux Candy: tetris – terminal interface for Tetris
tetris is a terminal interface for Tetris, a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov.
Read moreExcellent Free Tutorials to Learn Forth
Forth is an imperative stack-based programming language, and a member of the class of extensible interactive languages. Here’s our recommended tutorials.
Read moreRaspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Firefox Upgrade – Week 18
This is a weekly blog about the Raspberry Pi 4 (“RPI4”), the latest product in the popular Raspberry Pi range of computers. UPDATE: In Week 26, I revisit Firefox again, as the Raspbian repositories offer a current version of this
Read moreExcellent Free Tutorials to Learn Prolog
Prolog is a general purpose, declarative, logic programming language. Here’s a curated list of excellent free Prolog tutorials.
Read moreExcellent System Tools: nnn – portable terminal file manager
nnn is a free and open source terminal file manager written in the C programming language. nnn focuses on performance over features.
Read moreExcellent Free Tutorials to Learn Scheme
Scheme is a general-purpose, functional, programming language descended from Lisp and Algol. Here’s our recommended tutorials to learn Scheme.
Read moreRaspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Retro Gaming – Week 17
For this week, I’m going to look at a few retro games, all nestling in Raspbian’s repositories. Free and open source gaming.
Read moreExcellent Free Tutorials to Learn Haskell
Haskell is a standardized, general-purpose, polymorphically statically typed, lazy, purely functional language. Here’s our recommended Haskell tutorials.
Read moreLinux Candy: xcowsay – displays a cow on your desktop with message
xcowsay is a tiny utility that displays a cow with a speech bubble containing some text. It’s free and open source goodness.
Read moreExcellent Free Tutorials to Learn Ada
Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, wide-spectrum, multi-paradigm, object-oriented high-level language. Here’s our recommended Ada tutorials.
Read moreRaspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Screen Capture – Week 16
For this week’s blog, I turn to a desktop activity that I use fairly frequently. It’s screen capturing – sharing something on my computer screen with a colleague or friend. How does the Raspberry Pi 4 fare?
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