Golly is a free and open source cross-platform application for exploring Conway’s Game of Life and many other types of cellular automata.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn PHP
PHP is an extremely popular, interpreted scripting language that is ideally suited for web development. Read our recommended PHP tutorials.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Remote Desktop – Week 8
Remote Desktop Control displays the screen of another computer on a local screen. For this article, the local screen is a Windows machine, the host is the RPI4.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn JavaScript
JavaScript is an interpreted, prototype-based, scripting computer programming language. Here’s our recommended tutorials to learn JavaScript.
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gorss – simple RSS/Atom reader written in Golang
gorss is a simple free and open source RSS/Atom reader. It’s written in the Golang language. The program offers support for highlighting specific words.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn C#
C# is a multi-purpose computer programming language suitable for a wide variety of development needs. Here’s our recommended C# tutorials.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – e-book Tools – Week 7
This week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog focuses on excellent free and open source e-book software that runs on this single-board computer.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn C++
C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, portable, compiled, general-purpose programming language. Read our recommended C++ tutorials.
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Gemini – audio player with wallpaper changer
Gemini is a simple audio player that sports an integrated wallpaper changer.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Python
Python is a high-level, general-purpose, structured, powerful, open source programming language that’s used for a wide variety of programming tasks. Here’s our recommended Python tutorials.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Office Software – Week 6
This week I’m summarizing my experiences of another fundamental desktop activity: running an office suite.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn C
C is a general-purpose, procedural, portable, high-level programming language that is one of the most popular and influential languages. Read our recommended C tutorials.
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Excellent Utilities: ripgrep – recursively search directories for a regex pattern
ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern. It’s free and open source software.
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Linux Candy: CMatrix – terminal based “The Matrix”
CMatrix is an ncurses program that simulates the display from “The Matrix”, and is based on the screensaver from the movie’s website.
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5 Excellent Free Books to Learn TypeScript
Here’s our recommended free books that’ll you master TypeScript.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Email – Week 5
Last week’s blog looked at whether the RPI4 cuts the mustard as a desktop web browser. It does although with a few reservations. This week’s blog focuses on another absolutely essential desktop activity. Managing your email.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Java
Java is designed to be simple enough that many programmers can quickly become proficient in the language. It’s one of the most popular programming languages especially for client-server web applications. Here’s our recommended tutorials to learn Java.
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nuclear – desktop music player focused on free streaming
nuclear is a modern music player (Electron based) focused on streaming from free sources. The software is released under a free and open source license.
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8 Excellent Free Books to Learn Vim
Vim is an open source configurable and powerful text editor. It’s an improved version of the vi editor, with development dating back to 1976. This software can be used to write any kind of text.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Web Browsing – Week 4
This week’s blog focuses on an absolutely essential desktop activity. Surfing the web. A web browser is the quintessential desktop application. Everyone needs one, and there is not a desktop Linux distribution around that does not make a web browser available.
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