Features
Sail Away
Dashboard for RaspPi-controlled toy sailboat with Node-RED
With Node-RED, you can create a web dashboard that instructs a Raspberry Pi to set the rudder position on a toy sailboat.
Secret Pass
Pass is a simple shell script that helps you manage and synchronize passwords using Git.
Tutorials – Kdenlive and ImageMagick
Odd Couple
By using two very different tools, Kdenlive and ImageMagick, you can make animation less tedious and create some pretty cool video effects and transitions.
Tutorials – ODF Metadata
Metadata in ODF Files
It is no secret that the native file format of LibreOffice and OpenOffice, the OpenDocument Format (ODF), is a truly open standard for word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. What most people do not know is that ODF files contain lots of metadata that is very easy to read or modify.
Tutorials – Docker
Docker 101
You might think Docker is a tool reserved for gnarly sys admins, useful only to service companies that run complicated SaaS applications, but that is not true: Docker is useful for everybody.
TreeTime
Mind-mapping tools
Mind maps are designed to help display processes and projects clearly in a graphical format. This review explores the design possibilities offered by five mind map programs.
Tutorials – Cordova Sensor
Sensor & Sensoribility
Frameworks like Cordova make creating simple mobile apps quite easy. Making apps that use your phone's sensor is slightly trickier, but, thanks to a new universal standard, things are not as hard as you may think.
Many Branches
Manage and share files with Git
Software projects often comprise several code branches, some of which exist in parallel. Git supports community code development through remote repositories and code branching.
Charly’s Column – Sysdig
Alpha Beast
In this issue, sys admin columnist and tool veterinarian Charly Kühnast invites Sysdig, the jack-of-all-trades among system diagnostic tools, into his surgery for a quick checkup. The project promises to unite the functionality of lsof, iftop, netstat, tcpdump, and others.
Tutorial – Plasma
Pretty (Inter)face
If you want features, bells and whistles, and configurability in spades, your best choice of desktop is probably KDE's Plasma desktop. Navigating and discovering all that's on offer can be a challenge, though.
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