My favorite Linux software of 2023

2023 was a great year for open source, in my opinion. Many of my old Linux software favorites got major updates or overhauls. Inkscape, Scribus, and Blender are more amazing than ever! Linux itself has become a lot easier and more stable thanks to the awesome kernel updates. I know some folks have issues with […]

Get Amazon Affiliate Links With Image From Python Using Amazon’s API.

This script will show you how to build an Amazon affiliate link with image from the new API that generates HTML that can be inserted into a blog. I made this as an example for my wife. She ended up using a plugin in WordPress. It uses python-amazon-paapi to do all the heavy lifting. You […]

Remove old snap data for uninstalled snap apps with Python

Snaps do have a purge argument but I always forget to use it. I wrote a script in Python to help with my laziness. This will only remove snap data for apps that have been uninstalled. If you want to keep the data and configs for some apps you will need to include the name […]

My favorite open source apps of 2023 that you may not have seen.

Here are a few tools I have been using this year. I absolutely love these open source apps and I think you might too. Amberol Amberol is a music player with no delusions of grandeur. If you just want to play music available on your local system then Amberol is the music player you are […]

AutoStart Maestral Dropbox Client In Python Virtual Environment

I got an update that hosed Dropbox today. I had installed the client directly from the Dropbox site. I tried their headless install for the hell of it and that did not work either. I did not try the AUR version as I assume I would get the same result. After a little poking around […]

Flet Color Picker Dialog Class

I am working on a project and decided on Flet for the interface. Flet does not include a color picker dialog. Here is what I came up with, a simple Python class. I hope it’s can be useful for others. What the hell is Flet? “Flet enables developers to easily build realtime web, mobile and […]

Interesting Linux Graphics Applications

I love working with graphics on my Linux machine and in looking for new tools I found a couple fairly nice Linux graphics applications that I have not seen before, along with a few I have. I hope they are useful to you as I find them to be nice additions to my graphic tool-sets. […]

Health, Exercise, and Nutrition Apps for Linux

I do a lot of tracking on my health, mostly on my phone, but what about the Linux desktop or mobile flavors? Here is a list of Linux health apps. There certainly is room for more. Inner Breath Meditate through breathing. UBPM  Universal Blood Pressure Manager Jogger Track and view your runs, walks, cycles, swims, […]

Install NovelWriter in an isolated Environment with Pipx

novelWriter is a Python GUI program used for authoring novels and short stories. Pipx will isolate all the various libraries and source code without the need to create a virtual environment or simply installing in the system’s Python environment. For this how-to I will be installing on Fedora 37 but this should be a similar […]