Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.

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Working from home at a laptop

Build your own text editor in Java

Sometimes, no one can make your dream tool but you. Here's how to start building your own text editor.
Seth Kenlon (Red Hat) 31 Dec 2020 1 comment
Digital images of a computer desktop

Use the Markdown Editor app in Nextcloud

Nextcloud has one of the smoothest editors of the popular Markdown file type, with lots of convenient and intuitive features.
Seth Kenlon (Red Hat) 30 Dec 2020
Puzzle pieces coming together to form a computer screen

Learn Lua by writing a "guess the number" game

Get to know Lua, a dynamically typed, lightweight, efficient, and embeddable scripting language, by programming a simple game.
Seth Kenlon (Red Hat) 30 Dec 2020
Programming keyboard.

Experience alternate computing with the Pe text editor

With elements of legacy systems, Pe is refreshingly simple with plenty of additional features.
Seth Kenlon (Red Hat) 29 Dec 2020 2 comments
A bunch of question marks

Practice programming in C++ by writing a simple game

The C++ language is complex, but it can teach you a lot about data types, memory management, and code linking.
Seth Kenlon (Red Hat) 28 Dec 2020
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Python in a tree

Resize images using Python

A quick explanation of how to resize images in Python while keeping the same aspect ratio.
Dayo Ntwari 01 Jan 2021 3 comments
Python programming language logo with question marks

The right and wrong way to set Python 3 as default on a Mac

There are several ways to get started with Python 3 on macOS, but one way is better than the others.
Matthew Broberg (Red Hat) Moshe Zadka (Correspondent) 01 Dec 2020 13 comments
People work on a computer server with devices

20 Linux commands every sysadmin should know

If your application isn't working—or you're just looking for more information—these 20 commands will come in handy.
Rosemary Wang 14 Oct 2020 31 comments
and old computer and a new computer, representing migration to new software or hardware

How to dual-boot Linux and Windows

Set up your computer to boot into Windows 10 or Ubuntu 18.04 as needed.
Jay LaCroix 23 Sep 2020 11 comments
Working from home at a laptop

Our favorite open source writing tools

Opensource.com correspondents share their favorite tools for churning out words.
Opensource.com (Red Hat) 13 Aug 2020 7 comments
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Commented on 5 Jan 2021
How to use the Eclipse IDE as your text editor
I do see what you mean. I don't know of a plugin to change the interface size, nor do I know of a function in the widget set to increase its size. One work-around might be to utilize Desktop Scaling, which Eclipse does...
Commented on 2 Jan 2021
Try GNU nano, a lightweight alternative to Vim
I might agree that "most" experienced users like Vim (or similar), but I'd be harder to convince that most new users, unfamiliar with Vim, prefer it to something clearly documented the way Nano is.
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