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Create your first WebSocket service
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Create your first WebSocket service

Mihalis Tsoukalos explains how to use the Go programming language to work with the WebSocket protocol.

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9 mins  |
April 2023
Fantastic Mr Firefox
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Fantastic Mr Firefox

Nick Peers takes a trip down memory lane to reveal the story behind the rise - and slight fall - of Mozilla's popular web browser.

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9 mins  |
April 2023
Set up your terminal and email like it's 1983
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Set up your terminal and email like it's 1983

Jump in the hot terminal time machine with Mats Tage Axelsson who emails from the command line using the latest technology.

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8 mins  |
April 2023
Universal layer text effects with GIMP
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Universal layer text effects with GIMP

Posters use them, films and presentations are hard to imagine without them: text effects. Attract attention with Karsten Günther and GIMP.

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8 mins  |
April 2023
Jump to a federated social network
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Jump to a federated social network

Nick Peers reveals how you can get up and running with this free, decentralised and non-profit alternative to Twitter.

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9 mins  |
April 2023
Free our SOFTWARE!
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Free our SOFTWARE!

Taking anything for granted is dangerous, so Jonni Bidwell and Mike Saunders revisit how the free software movement got started to help free us from proprietary tyranny!

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4 mins  |
April 2023
Master RPI.GPIO
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Master RPI.GPIO

Les Pounder goes back to the early days of the Raspberry Pi - and his career with this classic library! -

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5 mins  |
April 2023
Waveshare Zero to Pi3
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Waveshare Zero to Pi3

Transform your Pi Zero into a Pi 3, they promised Les Pounder, but it's more like adding on go-faster stripes.

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2 mins  |
April 2023
The Best OPEN SOURCE Software Ever!
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The Best OPEN SOURCE Software Ever!

In an attempt to trigger controversy, Michael Reed and Neil Mohr unequivocally state these are the greatest free software apps ever. Probably. We’re just trying to be helpful.

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10+ mins  |
April 2023
Linux-Mandrake 7
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Linux-Mandrake 7

Simplicity and a wide range of applications make this a great distribution for all Linux users.

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2 mins  |
April 2023
Ubuntu 5.04
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Ubuntu 5.04

Andy Hudson hopes this is one hedgehog that won’t get squashed.

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3 mins  |
April 2023
SUSE Linux 6.3
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SUSE Linux 6.3

We test this long-established German company’s latest distribution effort. Can it hold off the competition?

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2 mins  |
April 2023
Debian GNU/Linux 2.1
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Debian GNU/Linux 2.1

It may be a bit behind the times, but Debian is one of the best distributions on the market.

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2 mins  |
April 2023
Corel Linux 1.0
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Corel Linux 1.0

Corel’s entry into the Linux market has potential, but there are issues.

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2 mins  |
April 2023
Mailserver
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Mailserver

Linux is the way forward, is it? The future of alternative computing and all that? My experience of Unix machines only covers the terminals at uni and I wasn’t impressed, although I think they probably had outdated kernels and were badly configured – I never even got around to installing LinuxAPUS on my trusty PPC-powered Amiga (you shouldn’t laugh).

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4 mins  |
April 2023
Recreating the classic Bomberman
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Recreating the classic Bomberman

When we said \"go out with a bang\", Andrew Smith took it to heart and decided to blow more than just the blinking doors off!

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10 mins  |
March 2023
How to trace code directly with eBPF
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How to trace code directly with eBPF

Mihalis Tsoukalos explains how to take advantage of eBFP with a range of different programming languages.

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10+ mins  |
March 2023
Deck the hardware
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Deck the hardware

We revisit and trick out the Valve Steam Deck a year on from release.

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10 mins  |
March 2023
Making Git so easy, we say it's Magit!
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Making Git so easy, we say it's Magit!

Aaron Peters uses the Emacs Git client Magit to perform a long overdue update of his LXF repository.

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10+ mins  |
March 2023
Getting creative with algorithmic art
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Getting creative with algorithmic art

Mike Bedford demonstrates how you can exercise your left and right brain simultaneously by generating algorithmic art.

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10+ mins  |
March 2023
Using enhanced layer features with G'MIC
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Using enhanced layer features with G'MIC

Karsten Günther takes a look beyond GIMP's standard layer functions. Besides special GIMP operations, tasks provided by G'MIC loom into view.

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10+ mins  |
March 2023
Giving praise to the TempleOS
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Giving praise to the TempleOS

Michael Reed delves into one of the most unusual operating systems he's ever seen and explores the story behind its creation.

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10 mins  |
March 2023
No changes allowed!
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No changes allowed!

Matt Holder explores immutable operating systems, containerised apps and containers to see if they describe the future of the Linux distro.

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9 mins  |
March 2023
Add and monitor control sensors
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Add and monitor control sensors

Making sense of the situation, Les Pounder shows us how to use sensors with a robot to get about town!

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10+ mins  |
March 2023
Batch convert and optimise your images
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Batch convert and optimise your images

Nick Peers reveals how to quickly apply the same changes to multiple images at once with the simple-to-configure Converseen.

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5 mins  |
March 2023
Super system monitor
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Super system monitor

No sniggering at the back as Shashank Sharma shows you his bottom.

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5 mins  |
March 2023
Pico GPIO control with JavaScript
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Pico GPIO control with JavaScript

Les Pounder strays from Python to show us that JavaScript, the language of the web, is a viable Pico alternative.

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5 mins  |
March 2023
Pi Camera Module v3
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Pi Camera Module v3

The latest version of Pi's mainstream camera module has autofocus, HDR and wide angle, proclaims Les Pounder!

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2 mins  |
March 2023
Arduino 2.0.3
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Arduino 2.0.3

Les Pounder loves tinkering with hardware, so when Arduino revealed its latest IDE, he had an excuse to tinker some more.

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2 mins  |
March 2023
Pi USER
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Pi USER

Millions and millions of RP2040s! | More Pis in store

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2 mins  |
March 2023

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