The Importance of Investing in Soft Skills in the Age of AI
I’ll set out my stall and let you know I am still an AI skeptic. Heck,…
Autostart AppImage Applications in Linux
One of the main downside of using AppImages is the lack of desktop integration. This can…
FOSS Weekly #25.01: 2 New Free Books, Homelab Dashboards, Plan 9 and More
Happy new year 2025 🥳 The Tuxmas Days continue in full swing. Main highlights are: Tuxmas…
Thank You (2024 Edition)
I’ll be honest: writing this post feels like a chore some years. Rounding up and reflecting…
Rediscovering Plan9 from Bell Labs
During a weekend of tidying up – you know, the kind of chore where you’re knee-deep…
9 Dashboard Tools to Manage Your Homelab Effectively
I host nearly all the services I use on a bunch of Raspberry Pis and other…
FOSS Weekly #24.52: Holiday Special Tuxmas Days
The “12 Days of Tuxmas” have begun 🎄 I’ll share 12 new content, features or changes…
9 Major Annoyances With Linux That Look Like a Thing of the Past in 2025
It has been a while since I switched to Linux as the daily driver over Windows….
Absolute Essentials You Need to Know to Survive Vi Editor
Vi is on almost every Unix and Linux distribution, so why not take advantage of it?…
A CSS Wishlist for 2025
2024 has been one of the greatest years for CSS: cross-document view transitions, scroll-driven animations, anchor…
Going Retro With AGC: Smart Computer That Powered Apollo Missions in the 60s
When we look at things retro, the Apollo Guidance Computer is about as retro as it gets! This…
5 Local AI Tools to Interact With PDF and Documents
We’ve covered a lot of local LLMs on It’s FOSS. You can use them as coding…
The Little Triangle in the Tooltip
Tooltips are like homemade food: everyone uses them and everyone has their own recipe to make…
FOSS Weekly #24.51: OBS Tip, New Linux Tools, Fun With Terminal, New Releases and More
‘Tis the season for ❤️ And I would appreciate your love and support in helping us…
How to Create Multi-Step Forms With Vanilla JavaScript and CSS
Multi-step forms are a good choice when your form is large and has many controls. No…
Use Zoom In and Out While Recording in OBS Studio
Have you ever wanted to zoom the screen recording area to where your cursor currently is?…
Using Cloudflare Tunnels to Access Homelab Services Out of Local Network
If you’ve ever dipped your toes into self-hosting, you know the struggle is real when it…
What ELSE is on your CSS wishlist?
What else do we want or need CSS to do? It’s like being out late at…
I Don’t See a Reason to Switch to Windows from Linux Anymore in 2025
I have a dual boot system with both Windows and Linux. So, I can switch to…
How I Turned my Raspberry Pi into a Wi-Fi extender
Whether you live in a large house or just struggle with weak Wi-Fi signals in certain…
FOSS Weekly #24.50: Beautiful Distros, Open Source for Windows, Thunar Tweaks, Hyprpaper and More
The holiday season is approaching us. Mariah Carey’s ‘All I want for Christmas is you’ is…
Fluid Superscripts and Subscripts
Superscripts and subscripts are essential elements in academic and scientific content — from citation references to…
6 Open-Source Tools for Windows to Enhance Your Frustrating Experience
For some reason, you cannot ditch Windows to completely switch to Linux? Assuming your workplace requires…
CSSWG Minutes Telecon (2024-12-04): Just Use Grid vs. Display: Masonry
The CSS Working Group (CSSWG) meets weekly (or close to it) to discuss and quickly resolve…