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

and old computer and a new computer, representing migration to new software or hardware

Revamp your old Linux desktop with Joe's Window Manager

This article is part of a special series of 24 days of Linux desktops. JWM's meager weight and simplicity makes it a great window manager for slow or old Linux computers.

Enable your Python game player to run forward and backward

Let your player run free by enabling the side-scroller effect in your Python platformer using the Pygame module.

3 easy steps to update your apps to Python 3

Python 2 has reached its end of life, so it's past time to convert your Python 2 project to Python 3.

Customize your Linux desktop with FVWM

This article is part of a special series of 24 days of Linux desktops. If you're looking for a lightweight, fast, and simple Linux window manager, FVWM qualifies. But if you…

Use the Fluxbox Linux desktop as your window manager

This article is part of a special series of 24 days of Linux desktops. Fluxbox is very light on system resources, yet it has vital Linux desktop features to make your user…

Why choose Xfce for your lightweight Linux desktop

This article is part of a special series of 24 days of Linux desktops. Looking for for a lightweight Linux distribution with plenty of features? The Xfce Linux desktop has…

Authored Comments

sethkenlon

22 Dec 2020

Learn Rust by writing a simple game

gen_range got changed recently (https://docs.rs/rand/0.8.0/rand/trait.Rng.html#method.gen_range) from X,Y to X..Y syntax. My fresh install of the Rust toolchain, like the one in this article, also used X,Y syntax.

cargo 1.48.0 (65cbdd2dc 2020-10-14)

After doing a `cargo update`, 0.8.0 of gen_range got pulled in, and the code broke, requiring the change you mention.

I've updated the article for Moshe to reflect these changes. Thanks for the alert!

sethkenlon

15 Dec 2020

Try the e3 Linux text editor

I'm intrigued! I'll check it out.

For future reference: https://github.com/Orc/levee