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Tux Machines
Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 03, 2023,
updated Mar 04, 2023
> Blender is a free and open-source 3D modeling software for creating 3D models, visual effects, 3D animations and interactive 3D apps. It is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, and BSD systems.
> Want to learn more about your system hardware?
> Maybe you’re looking to find out your motherboard make and model, your CPU stepping, or which “nanometre” technology your chipset is built from.
> I recorded a 15-minute long tutorial demonstrating how to automate the production of graphics from a CSV file or spreadsheet (basically a mailmerge type deal for graphics) in Inkscape. It uses the Next Generator Inkscape extension from Maren Hachmann.
> You can watch it on the Fedora Design Team Linux Rocks PeerTube channel (PeerTube is open source!) or the embedded YouTube video below:
> In this article, I provide some context for how this tutorial is useful. I also include a very high-level summary of the content in the video in case you'd rather skim text and not watch a video.
> Online Text Tools offers a collection of useful text processing utilities. All text tools are simple, easy to use, and they share the same user interface. Once you learn how to use one of the tools, you'll instantly know how to use all of them. The utilities work right from your browser and don't require downloads and installs. Created by team Browserling.
> GNU Emacs is a free, portable, extensible, internationalized, self-documenting text editor. That it is free means specifically that the source code is freely copyable and redistributable, so Emacs can never be discontinued and disappear. That it is portable means that it runs on many computers under many different operating systems, so that you can probably count on being able to use the same program no matter what computer you’re using. That it is extensible means that you can not only customize all aspects of its usage (from keystrokes through fonts, colors, mousage and menus), but that you, and the community, can modify and program Emacs, even while Emacs is running, to do entirely new things that its designers never thought of. That it is internationalized means that it has full Unicode1 support, including bidirectional text and many input methods for non-Latin scripts. That it is self-documenting means that every keystroke, menu item, and function can thoroughly explain itself and its usage, and that Emacs contains 395,759 lines of hypertext reference manuals and tutorial documentation about itself and its subsystems.
> Because of all this, GNU Emacs is an extremely successful program (having been in continuous development for 38 years2), and does more for you than any other editor. It’s particularly good for programmers. No matter what programming language you use, Emacs probably provides a mode that makes it especially easy to edit code in that language, providing syntax highlighting, context sensitive indentation, and layout. It also allows you to compile your programs inside Emacs, with links from error messages to source code; debug your programs inside Emacs, with links to the source; interact directly with the language interpreter (REPL); jump across multiple files to the definition of a symbol in your source code; and interact with your version control system3.
> Emacs also provides many built-in applications such as: [...]
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