nyancat is an animated, color, ANSI-text program that renders a loop of the classic Nyan Cat animation. It’s free and open source candy.
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Golly – exploring cellular automata like the Game of Life
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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