tuesdaytooling Tuesday Tooling: sh The return of Tuesday Tooling and we start with a little Python module for when we need to "just run that one terminal command".
tuesdaytooling Tuesday Tooling: Nerd-Dictation Tired of typing? Try talking to your computer, it will guess most of the words correctly, often leading to a little fun.
tuesdaytooling Tuesday Tooling: CPUFetch & Neofetch Two simple applications to learn more about your Linux machine.
tuesdaytooling Tuesday Tooling: Get The Message Get the most from dmesg and easily diagnose those issues.
tuesdaytooling Tuesday Tooling: hasciicam Are you the one? Do you know Kung-Fu? Is there a spoon? I can't answer these questions, but I can put you in The Matrix.
tuesdaytooling Tuesday Tooling: Grub Customizer Fancy customising your Grub menu? Want a cool image to greet you as you power on? Then this is the tool for you.
fridayfun Tuesday Tooling on a Fun Friday: Bashtop! Monitor everything on your Linux box with this great tool! It feels like I am working in a high tech 1980s control centre!
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday: Tio Connect to a serial device, then disconnect, the connect and carry on as if nothing happened!
Linux Saturday Snippet: Setup a local domain name Create a hostname, a local URL for a device on your network!
quick hack Quick Hack - Sending messages using BASH A quick hack to send messages from one PC to another via BASH!
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday: wttr Get the weather direct to your terminal! Who needs a pretty GUI when we have the command line!
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday - .bashrc : Information from your terminal Get any information that you require, automatically when you open a terminal window!
python Getting petition data from JSON A quick blog post to show how easy it is to get JSON data from a site.
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday - Auto Start a GUI application in Raspbian Want to load a GUI application when your Raspbian desktop starts up? Well here is the post that you need.
ubuntu Tooling Tuesday - Using ukuu to upgrade my kernel Need to update a kernel but a bit scared? No need to panic with this easy to use GUI tool.
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday - Using VLC with Python Use Python to control VLC and open up the possibilities of controlling media using sensors and new inputs.
tuesdaytooling Tuesday Tooling - Create GUIs for BASH Scripts This week a handy GUI creation tool for your BASH scripts ![] So what is it? Zenity is a tool that wraps BASH scripts and terminal commands in a lovely graphical user interface. So
Linux NTP FYI NTP, Network Time Protocol is the theme of today's post! This isn't the be all and end all, font of all knowledge blog post. Rather an aide memoir. What is NTP? Network Time
tuesdaytooling Tuesday Tooling: Pastebinit This week's Tuesday Tooling is a terminal application that can save you time and sanity by sending text to a pastebin. So what is it called? Pastebinit Where can I find it? It
Linux Quick Tip: Check the output of a running command Have you ever wished to peek inside a running command with Linux? Well I did today, I had a Python project that should start on boot, and I wished to check it was
friday fun Friday Fun QR Code Madness! Yeah that's the Greggs logo in a QR code for this website QR codes, (Quick Response), are all around us. We see them on adverts, newspapers, drinks bottles. They are a quick way
Linux Executable files on the Raspberry Pi An executable file is a file that can be double clicked and it will run automatically. For Windows users you will be familiar with .exe files, but for Linux, what is an executable
recovery Search & Rescue: SD Card Recovery So I had a great day at Mozilla Festival (MozFest) yesterday. I was there covering the event for Linux Format. I interviewed lots of great people and took lots of photos....and here
Linux Simple VNC connections Creating a VNC connection Controlling a Raspberry Pi using VNC is a great way to remotely control a robot. But how can you do it? For this project you will need. A Raspberry