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

Try this Java file manager on Linux

JFileProcessor takes a minimal approach to both design and function as a Linux file manager.

Seven dolphins jumping into a small body of water

5 reasons I use the Dolphin file manager on Linux

The KDE Plasma Desktop provides the Dolphin file manager on Linux. It may appear minimal, but its useful features make a splash.

Get to know Lua for loops in 4 minutes

Understanding the for loop structure and the options you have when controlling it means you can make clever decisions about how to process data in Lua.

Parse arguments with Lua

Arguments are vital to interactive computing, and the Lua programming language provides the {…} expression to encapsulate varargs given at the time of launching a Lua script.

What is your favorite open source Java IDE?

Use arrays in Java

Instead of tracking dozens of individual variables, use an array in Java to collect and store data in a structured way.

Get verified on Mastodon with WordPress

Three steps to verify your Mastodon account with WordPress.

Authored Comments

sethkenlon

21 Nov 2022

My favorite tricks for navigating the Linux terminal faster

Just to clarify, as the article correctly states:

Ctrl+A: Move to the start of a line
Ctrl+E: Move to the end of a line
Alt+F: Move foward by a word
Alt+B: Move back by a word

Additionally:

Ctrl+F: Move forward by a character
Ctrl+B: Move back by a character

These shortcuts are provided by GNU Readline, and adds Emacs-like navigation to a shell.

You can read more about it with this command:

info readline --node "Readline bare essentials"

sethkenlon

24 Oct 2022

Use open source commands in Powershell

To use the open source pscp application in the open source Powershell application on the non-open source Windows OS, you need to know how to add it to the system's path. This article demonstrates that.

(We did attempt to demonstrate the same thing on ReactOS instead, but the process is considerably different.)