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

Basic masking in Kdenlive: a useful trick

We've all seen behind-the-scenes footage, so it's no surprise to find out that a great many breathtaking shots never actually existed in reality. You know the kind of shot I…

How the Internet Archive maintains an information super highway

I've been an avid user of Internet Archive since I found out about it five years ago. Since then, I've used their Wayback Machine to search for fun glimpses at the World Wide…

Mixing sound with Qtractor and XJadeo

In last month's article, we learned the finer points of exporting video for a sound mix. If you're at the point of a sound mix in your production, you should have these assets…

Mozilla creates web tools and practices for open science

Abby Mayes is a lead developer for Mozilla Science Lab, which is a global network of researchers, tool developers, librarians, and publishers who work to further open science…

Vagrant: A powerful tool for configuring development environments

Seth Vargo is an open source programmer and graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. He specializes in Ruby development and has worked for Chef, CustomInk, and HashiCorp. At…

Audio and video with XJadeo

In my All About Audio article, I covered the basics of organizing audio in Kdenlive with the intent to round-trip the soundtrack out to a proper audio editor and mixer to…

Authored Comments

sethkenlon

30 Jun 2020

7 open source alternatives to VS Code

It was on my list of possible inclusions, but I eventually decided against it because its workflow felt so different from VSCode. As I say in a previous comment, though, I think there's an argument that VSCode doesn't see itself as an IDE (even though there are extensions that help it act like one), and so Netbeans is sort of a separate class entirely.

sethkenlon

30 Jun 2020

7 open source alternatives to VS Code

I'm a fan of Netbeans as well. I've been using it lately for Java development and have no complaints.