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

Finding the signal in the noise of Linux system monitoring

Ilan Rabinovitch is well-known to anyone who has done the conference circuit around Southern California. He's a helpful and friendly guy who I met once at a BarCamp years ago…

How to use Darktable as a digital darkroom

Last month, Jason Baker wrote a great article on photo managers. As it happens in open source, the collaboration that followed his article (in this case, in the form of…

Meet the PHP developer behind monitoring tool JaM

Jess Portnoy is a prolific PHP developer and open source geek with lots of helpful data and web data utilities on SourceForge and GitHub. I was vaguely familiar with Jess's…

Low-cost music making with Raspberry Pi and MilkyTracker

How to produce electronic music with the Raspberry Pi

The world of electronic music has traditionally been a fairly expensive venture, whether you're paying for expensive hardware or software. Luckily, there are plenty of free…

Turn your old Raspberry Pi into an automatic backup server

If you're one of those people upgrading to the Raspberry Pi 3, you might wonder what to do with your old, lesser Pi. Aside from turning it into an array of blinking LEDs to…

How to configure Raspberry Pi as a microcontroller

Being small and low-powered, the Raspberry Pi is as popular with electronic hobbyists as it is with educators. As such, it gets associated with the "maker" scene, and…

Authored Comments

sethkenlon

3 Jul 2020

6 best practices for managing Git repos

Yes, that's correct. It is tig. We covered that here:

https://opensource.com/article/19/6/what-tig

sethkenlon

2 Jul 2020

Using Bash traps in your scripts

I agree with many of these suggestions, and have altered some parts of the article accordingly. Other points are well made, but I'll leave them as comments for users to decide upon for themselves.