Axel: A Lightweight Command Line Interface Download Accelerator
Dicover and explore a download accelerator that can decrease download time using a free and open source command line interface program called Axel.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/download-accelerator-axel/
#blog #FOSSFriday #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #commandline #linux #unix
For this week's #FOSSFriday I want to give a shout out to the TUI Git tool "tig".
Been using it for years and is really convenient for quickly reading through the Git history.
This week's #FOSSFriday project I want to share is Wails:
https://github.com/wailsapp/wails
Instead of using bloated Electron, you can write desktop applications with #GoLang for the backend and Web technologies of your choice for the frontend!
@Gina I’m so curious about the backstory to your question about villain-arcs and big boat Larry licensing. But in the interim, I’ll just say Hooray for https://www.postgresql.org/community/ #fossfriday
For this week's #FOSSFriday I'd like to share two excellent feedback tools, namely;
Fider: https://fider.io/ and a special mention to our friends at @LimeSurvey
What #FOSS project do you want people to know about?
For #FOSSfriday I would just like to add that, while I am not a programmer, I picked this instance when I first signed up because I felt like it was the most philosophically aligned with the way I see the world.
It always seemed strategically untenable to devolve all of our computing needs to giant private corporations. It also seemed that developing software for the commons was a quiet act of revolution.
So – I salute all of you!
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https://writefreely.org/ is the #FOSS project I use as my primary blog engine.
#fossfriday question: best opensource alternative to GitHub? Extra gratitude for municipal government engagement and/org a well set up list of issues/volunteer opportunities!
Let's make #FOSSfriday a weekly thing!
I'm currently excited about #OSMAnd which is an #OpenStreetMap Android app that is great for #bicycling navigation - way better than let's say Google Maps!
Hyprland - https://hypr.land
It looks to be a really awesome choice for great UX/DX on laptops. So quite excitet, even though it will be really challenging due to all the configuration in files needed to do.
Say it's #FOSSfriday today, what's a #FOSS project that you're currently excited about?
My #FOSSFriday for this week is diffpdf. It's a super-simple tool for comparing two PDFs that you can install from the Ubuntu archives. Really handy for comparing changes in contracts, terms etc. I've tried a few and it was the best, but it does now look discontinued. If you've found a better one, please let me know!
Well this is a nice way to go into the weekend, someone offering to help me maintain a #Drupal module. ☺️
OpenNutriTracker uses data from Open Food Facts (https://world.openfoodfacts.org/), which seems to be a giant, Wikipedia-like data of all food information that I had never heard of before. As a bonus #FOSSFriday, it also has a great open source Android app to add any missing products.
I'm not sure what the crossover is between Free and open source software fans and people who track macros/protein/calories, but in case there is any, my #FOSSFriday for today is OpenNutriTracker (https://github.com/simonoppowa/OpenNutriTracker/). OpenNutriTracker is a great, simple app that lets you scan what you are eating and see what the total calories, protein etc come to over the day. Most #Fitness apps are full of ads or have really expensive subscriptions, so this is great and keeps data private.
#fossfriday a great and useful FOSS app
#fairemail, a nice and full featured email android app. It's privacy-minded with no-picture, no-server-content defaults. Mails are nice to read with default clean reformatting. Plenty of options to customize. The dev has already wrote a lot of help.
The app is free. Some "pro" features unlocked with a little money - worth it !
The dev is Marcel Bokhorst, website https://email.faircode.eu/, and repo at https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail and #fdroid #foss #email #app
My #FOSSFriday this week is FUTO keyboard for Android. It is called "pre-alpha", but I'm using it my main keyboard in place of AnySoftKeyboard already and loving it. The built-in offline voice to text is brilliant.
https://keyboard.futo.org/
Today's #FossFriday is a tiny new open source project of my very own: Turn the Tables!
TtT aims to educate tech workers about their rights to organize & empower them to take action, via tabling at tech confs. More here: https://github.com/shaunagm/turn-the-tables
We got a last-minute invite to table at PyCon next week, so I could very much use help from anyone going to Pittsburgh for PyCon (or who lives in PGH already). I'm also taking recommendations for zines/pamphlets and other materials to have at the table.
I'm heading out for a #WashingtonSpirit game shortly, so today's #FossFriday shout out is a thematic one: a #woso open source project called nwslR!
https://github.com/nwslR/nwslR
nwslR is an R package created and maintained by my friend Arielle. It contains data AND analysis functionality for the #NWSL. I have not actually ever used it because I am more of a Python person but honestly maybe this is the excuse I need to brush up on my R skills.
Keeping it short so I don't miss my train. Go Spirit!
My #FOSSFriday for this week is Wine (https://www.winehq.org/). An incredible project running since 1993, Wine is the foundation on which Proton and CrossOver are built and is how Windows software/games run on Linux. I used to be amazed if I managed to make anything work, but now it is so good I just expect most games to work in Proton out of the box. We've reached my personal tipping point that I don't have any games left that are worth rebooting into Windows to play natively.
