Seth Kenlon

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New Zealand (South Island)

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.

Open Source Super Star Moderator's Choice Award 2011 Best Interview Award 2017 100+ Contributions Club Columnist Contributor Club Author

Authored Content

Houses in a row

7 Git tips for managing your home directory

Here is how I set up Git to manage my home directory.

Blender Hotkey Cheat Sheet

Partition a drive on Linux with GNU Parted

Learn the basics of partitioning a new storage device, then download our cheat sheet to keep info close at hand.

An introduction to GNU Screen

Find what changed in a Git commit

Git offers several ways you can quickly see which files changed in a commit.

Person standing in front of a giant computer screen with numbers, data

Manipulate data in files with Lua

Understand how Lua handles reading and writing data.

How Linux became my job

How to use the Linux sed command

Learn basic sed usage then download our cheat sheet for a quick reference to the Linux stream editor.

Read and write files with Bash

Learn the different ways Bash reads and writes data and when to use each method.

Authored Comments

25 May 2021

Remap your Caps Lock key on Linux

Very cool. This is a project I definitely want to do some time. I didn't know about the open source QMK firmware, though, so thanks for this tip!

21 May 2021

Learn the Lisp programming language in 2021

You're cheating :-) I was leaving it as homework for readers to figure out how to adjust the range. Somebody will appreciate your tip, though!