FFmpeg
Why FFmpeg worth to learn FFmpeg is ... well, there's no sense in a classical introduction. This is the Swiss knife for multimedia. Big, solid and popular project without real competitors, also used in many applications. Of course, a lot of applications available to work with multimedia, from free
Book
Non-DRM e-books matters No sense to debate how important is reading in modern world: learning new skills and life patterns, live news, entertainment, travel and many more. Ernest Hemingway once said: "There is no friend as loyal as a book". Amazon and many other stores are trying to
Communication
Privacy matters Whatsapp, most popular messenger on Earth with more than two billions users; Apple iMessage, very popular in the USA; and an army of another proprietary messengers heavily relying on smartphones and phone numbers. Whatsapp supports web version only like mobile companion or "extension", login isn'
Shell
Why time matters Have you thought how many times you use your file manager? Yeah, it's very comfortable when you need to work with photos, videos or any content suitable for visualization. Some people are scared to use console 'cause it's "too hard"
Privacy
So why? Files often contain personal information. It can be timestamps, GPS location, owner, organization, specific hardware info and more. Removing it will increase user privacy. You maybe don't need it now, but will need it later: the future isn't always predictable. Is metadata bad? Metadata
Linux
Sometimes you need info about hardware, and you probably lost your invoice, spec list or a password to a store website. Maybe you did an upgrade and this info isn't accurate anymore. It's an easy case for home users, but what to do is you have
Zip
"Limited" Open Source 7-zip developed by Igor Pavlov, first release happened in far 1999. Licensed under LGPL-2.1-or-later, but one detail: you can't find the actual sources on Github, Gitlab, nor any public code hosting, only src.7z on official Sourceforge page. No history, no committers,
Microsoft
The Microsoft FOSS Fund has chosen GNOME as winner of 20th funding round for "From low-level libs over the window manager to end user applications the GNOME project is an essential part of many graphical Linux devices." They also noted Ubuntu as "the first Linux work environment
Photo
Introduction Cheap smartphones and digital cameras - the key factor of digital revolution. Every amateur can create a personal collection with gigabytes or even terabytes of multimedia content, and online services like Google Photos or Flickr can help to save them. Clouds are good, but sometimes local work with multimedia
Backend
This post dedicated for fast start with free tier and "pay as you grow" when time is up, and you prefer to focus on code with heavy PaaS lifting. If you just starting a new project and can spend your time for cloud configuration - welcome to AWS,
Dnf
DNF — package manager in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Centos, Fedora. It's a very powerful and fast tool, and solid user experience can be very helpful for your everyday tasks, massive deployments or even certifications like RHCSA, RHCE, LPIC. RHEL is very popular in the enterprise world and de
Communication
When you start to work in a big company, everyday messaging you knew before will dramatically change. All popular messengers designed mostly for shooting fast from mobile device, pumping all your contacts and comfortable emoji insertion. Bold or italic text? No way. Inside corporate environment you need a ton of