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 Author 100+ Contributions Club Columnist Contributor Club

Authored Content

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.

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.

Experience alternate computing with the Pe text editor

With elements of legacy systems, Pe is refreshingly simple with plenty of additional features.

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.

Why and how to handle exceptions in Python Flask

Learn to use the JOE text editor on Linux

Joe's Own Editor (JOE) is a general text editor that is easy to learn and use.

Jot down your ideas in a digital notebook

If you have an analog soul but need a convenient digital version of your beloved paper notebooks, KJots is the editor for you.

Authored Comments

sethkenlon

14 May 2021

Use the Alpine email client in your Linux terminal

I have many fond memories of Alpine. It was one of the first terminal-based applications I used in earnest.

sethkenlon

14 May 2021

My first tech job: 8 stories from the community

I served bagels in the morning and sold people ethernet cables in the afternoon. Neither are terribly technical, but the latter made me realise I actually enjoyed solving tech problems and the former earned me one free meal per 6 hour shift.