Jason B (He/Him/His)

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Jason was an Opensource.com staff member and Red Hatter from 2013 to 2022. This profile contains his work-related articles from that time. Other contributions can be found on his personal account.

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Authored Content

Listen to the radio at the Linux terminal

MPlayer is an extremely versatile open source media player that can be surprisingly useful at the Linux command line.

Let your Linux terminal speak its mind

eSpeak is an open source text-to-speech synthesizer that can be invoked from the Linux command line.

Solve a puzzle at the Linux command line with nudoku

Sudokus are simple logic games that can be enjoyed just about anywhere, including in your Linux terminal.

Use your Linux terminal to celebrate a banner year

Need make sure your command is heard? Pipe it to a banner and it won't be missed.

Take a swim at your Linux terminal with asciiquarium

Darling it's better, when your command line is wetter, thanks to ASCII.

Schedule a visit with the Emacs psychiatrist

Eliza is a natural language processing chatbot hidden inside of one of Linux's most popular text editors.

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Authored Comments

Jason B

4 Oct 2019

What's in an open source name?

I was reminded the other day of the text manipulation utilities unix2dos and dos2unix, which I find funny because they're still useful even though the two particular operating systems it references have been almost entirely superseded. (No offense meant, Jim, I still love FreeDOS!)

I've also always giggled a little bit at the fsck utility.

Jason B

2 Oct 2019

3 command line games for learning Bash the fun way

Great piece, Seth. I'd seen the Minesweeper implementation recently, maybe on Hacker News, and I'd played the CLH game before, but Bashcrawl is new to me and I can't wait to go try it out!