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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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Week 1
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
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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Excellent Utilities: cheat.sh – community driven cheat sheet
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: Ternimal – animated lifeform in the terminal
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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3 Excellent Free Books to Learn VimL
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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Excellent Free Books to Learn Erlang
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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starship – elegant cross-shell prompt at your fingertips
starship is an intelligent and non-intrusive prompt for anyone who spends time at a shell. It’s free and open source software. Read our verdict.
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kitty – hardware-accelerated terminal emulator
kitty offers GPU-acceleration and is targeted at power keyboard users. It’s billed as a modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator. Here’s a concise review of this terminal emulator.
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6 Excellent Free Books to Learn BASIC
BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use.
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6 Excellent Free Books to Learn HTML
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is used to create web pages and other information that is intended for display in a web browser.
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Linux Candy: cacafire – Color ASCII Fire
The nights are drawing in. You want to feel warm and toasty. And nothing beats a log fire. cacafire displays burning ASCII art flames.
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Excellent Utilities: Ananicy – auto nice daemon
Ananicy is a shell daemon created to manage processes’ IO and CPU priorities, with community-driven set of rules for popular applications. Here’s our review of this free and open source program.
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13 Excellent Free Books to Learn Prolog
Prolog is a general purpose, declarative, logic programming language, often associated with artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, intelligent database retrieval, and problem solving. Read about our recommended free Prolog books.
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Linux Candy: ponysay – cowsay reimplemention for ponies
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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