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

Is Lua worth learning?

Lua is a fun and robust language, with progressive improvements made with each release, and an ever-growing developer base. Discover all of its possibilities.

Set up a Matrix to Discord bot

Run a Python Matrix bot to bridge chat between a Matrix room and a Discord channel.

Trick Lua into becoming an object-oriented language

Lua isn't an object-oriented programming language. Here's a hack to use a Lua table as a stand-in for an object-oriented class.

Tips for using the Linux test command

The [ and test commands are vital conditional statements when scripting.

Learn programming at Open Jam 2022

Play to win, or play to play, in the game jam that promotes open source.

Business woman on laptop sitting in front of window

Drop your database for PostgreSQL

Postgres is one of the most flexible databases available, and it's open source.

Authored Comments

sethkenlon

9 Sep 2022

Free RPG Day: Create maps for your Dungeons & Dragons game with Mipui

It's both easier and harder than its reputation. Overall I'd definitely say it was a DC 15 check. If you give me some idea of your skill level and proficiency bonus for Computers (INT), I can try to write an article on how to make it happen.

sethkenlon

9 Sep 2022

Free RPG Day: Create maps for your Dungeons & Dragons game with Mipui

It's a really nice tool. I'm still enjoying it for my maps alllllll these months later (all 1.25 of them at the time of this writing, but in computer years that's ages).