The Sagrada Familia: how Gaudí’s masterpiece became a myth and a divisive political tool: The new tower stands completed, to the left, with its summit star in place. Petr Tran | Shutterstock The Sagrada Familia, Antoni Gaudí’s Catalan masterpiece, recently celebrated the completion of the Mare de Déu tower by hoisting a giant, 12-pointed star …
Make MIDI loops on Linux with this open source tool: There are many great synthesizers for Linux, and like synthesizers in real life, most of them can be controlled using the MIDI protocol. read more: Opensource.com sethkenlon Supporting Open Source. Have you tried: Travelling to South Africa?
Create your own animations with this open source motion graphics tool: In animation, there’s an old saying that animation is easy, it’s the tweening that’s hard. In traditional animation practices established in the 1920s, key frames are drawn by a lead artist, and staff artists draw the in-between frames. This is called inbetweening, or “tweening” …
Open source file sharing with this Linux tool: In the early days of my Linux experience, I was the technology director of a small PreK-12 school district in the state of New York. Our technology budget was always stretched to the limit. We were a Windows 2000 Active Directory Domain, but we had limited central …
Explore 3D scans with this open source tool: Light detection and ranging, better known as LiDAR, is a method of taking photographs of 3D space using lasers and GPS. That sounds like science fiction—I can think of a few scenes in some movies that probably reimagined this technology without realizing it—but it’s a technology that’s …
I’ve fine-tuned a tool that advises the Bank of England what interest rates to set – here’s what it says: Interest rates were remarkably stable in ancient societies. It has been argued that this was because they reflected the local system of numerical fractions. Classical Greece had a “normal” interest rate of 10% per annum to …
Sign and verify container images with this open source tool: Many open source software projects get used in software builds every day, which is critical for almost every organization. Open source software brings many benefits and helps software developers focus on innovation and efficiency rather than reinventing the wheel. read more: Opensource.com aizuddin85 Supporting Open …
Advertising in the pandemic: how companies used COVID as a marketing tool: Corporate outreach. Shutterstock/Kevin Chen Images At the start of the pandemic, consumers were bombarded with a new and hastily constructed form of advertising. In those “uncertain times”, customers were promised, they could rely on their favourite brands for help. The adverts, often featuring …
Implement client-side search on your website with this JavaScript tool: Search is a must-have for any website or application. A simple search widget can allow users to comb through your entire blog. Or allow customers to browse your inventory. Building a custom photo gallery? Add a search box. Website search functionality is available from a …
Tool use and language skills are linked in the brain – and practising one improves the other: SvedOliver/Shutterstock Language has traditionally been considered a complex skill which mobilises brain networks specifically dedicated to linguistic processing. But in recent years, neuroscience research has returned to this idea and offered new insights. Notably, studies have suggested that …
Eric Zemmour: Jewish heritage is a useful tool for the French far right: French commentator Eric Zemmour has risen to political notoriety off the back of anti-Muslim hatred and anti-migrant incitement before even officially announcing his candidacy in the 2022 French presidential elections. One recent poll placed Zemmour at 16% – which would translate into …
Transfer files between your phone and Linux with this open source tool: Are you looking for a way to quickly copy files from your iPhone or Android mobile device to your Linux computer or from your Linux computer to your devices? I recently discovered an open source application that’s easy to install and makes transferring …
Inspect the capabilities of ELF binaries with this open source tool: If Linux is your primary working environment, then you might be familiar with the Executable and Linkable Format (ELF), the main file format used for executables, libraries, core-dumps, and more, on Linux. read more: Opensource.com gkamathe Supporting Open Source. Have you tried: Visiting Port …
Get memory use statistics with this Linux command-line tool: In my programming work, I often need to know the memory used by web applications. A rough estimate is usually enough before getting down to details and browser profiling tools. read more: Opensource.com Tomasz Supporting Open Source. Have you tried: Diving with Sharks?
South Africa in the news: “Fashion Can Be Such A Powerful Tool”: Thebe Magugu On His Family-Inspired SS22 Film: Shortly after touching down in Paris after creating his spring/summer 2022 collection in his home of South Africa, British Vogue speaks with the designer about the family photo albums he scoured to …: “South Africa” – …
Use this Linux command-line tool to learn more about your NVMe drives: NVMe stands for Non-Volatile Memory Express, and it refers to how software and storage communicate across PCIe and other protocols, including TCP. It’s an open specification led by a non-profit organization and defines several forms of solid-state storage. My laptop has an NVMe …
A guide to simplifying invoicing with this open source tool: Many IT projects are late, over budget, and subject to dramatic changes during development. This makes invoicing for them one of the most taxing activities in IT. It’s stressful—it involves dealing with ambiguities, conflicting interests, and human error. Worse, every single decision made during the …
Use this open source tool for automated unit testing: Modernizing and transforming legacy applications is a challenging activity that involves several tasks. One of the key tasks is validating that the modernized application preserves the functionality of the legacy application. Unfortunately, this can be tedious and hard to perform. Legacy applications often do not have …