Tag: open source

Taking a look at ManifoldCAD

I’ve been taking a brief look at ManifoldCAD, a 3DCAD program in the style of OpenSCAD that runs in the browser and uses Javascript. ManifoldCAD is a relative new project from Emmet Lalish. It’s free and open source software (Apache-2.0 license). In case you are not familiar with these kind of CAD programs, instead of […]

My favorite free and open source software

A list of my favorite FLOSS programs for the PC (mostly) divided into several categories.

Lithophane creator for 3d printing

Create a lithophane from your own photo using the Customizer of OpenSCAD.

To improve Funkwhale

Funkwhale is a social platform to enjoy and share music. As part of the Fediverse Funkwhale is not only an audio server and player, it aspires to be a place for socializing around music and discovering new content. Below are some tips for the developers to improve Funkwhale.

Peeling the onion

Moving to Free and Open Source on the PC can be a very daunting task for someone that is used to a proprietary system. This is how I did it.

Your music library and MusicBrainz Picard

Why create your own music library and why use the free and open source MusicBrainz Picard for this.

My videos remastered on PeerTube

I uploaded my sixth remastered Solvespace video to PeerTube.

YouTube or PeerTube, which will it be.

PeerTube instead of YouTube

YouTube has a monopoly on video and this is bad news. Read what’s so bad about it and why PeerTube is a good alternative.

Giving OpenShot another try

Screenshot of Openshot with an altered user interface

After iMovie completely let me down I gave OpenShot another try and it didn’t disappoint.

Maintaining the Raspberry Pi Squeezebox server (aka Logitech Media Server)

This article describes how to maintain a Squeezebox server (or Logitech Media Server). All software used for this project is free and open source.