Gregory Chamberlain

@chambln
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@LateNightLinux Would you rather fight a gnu-sized penguin or a hundred penguin-sized gnus?

This handy trick for combining a bunch of spreadsheet files from @chambln saved me some time using @libreoffice.

https://cosine.blue/2020-03-28-libreoffice-concatenate.html

How I Merged 36 Spreadsheets In 2 Minutes—LibreOffice on the Command-Line

A brief anecdote in which I use a spreadsheet application to manipulate lots of spreadsheets without actually opening any spreadsheets.

We can't believe we need to say this, but…

your files are yours.

The #Inkscape project will never peek at your files, and what's yours stays on your computer.

#floss #ArtWithOpenSource #freesoftware

🎉 Exciting news! After 5 years away, OggCamp, the ultimate unconference for open source and free culture enthusiasts is back for a triumphant return in 2024! 🌟

🗓️ Join us at The Manchester Conference Centre on October 12th and 13th.

🚀 Get ready for a weekend filled with innovation, collaboration, and community spirit!

🔗 Stay tuned for the Call for Papers (CfP) and ticket announcements – watch this space! 🎟️

#OggCamp2024 #OpenSource #TechConference #Manchester

Aaand it's minimally working, so: https://ffmpeg.app is now live!

Use FFmpeg recipes without fiddling with the command line!

Consider this an early beta. There's still a ton missing:

- Ability to tweak the command line (i.e. hand editing, or selectors)
- Proper mobile styles
- About, disclaimers, etc
- Many more command recipes
- Better accessibility
- "Bug fixes and performance improvements"

But, it's doing the thing!

#ffmpeg #video

FFmpeg.app

A website where you can search for and perform video and audio conversions, right on your browser.

Meanwhile somewhere in India 😂

I thought getting an RSS feed up would take quite a lot of work, but then I discovered @chambln's incredible pandoc-rss project (https://github.com/chambln/pandoc-rss) which made it almost trivial to integrate it into my build script, so there's now a feed at https://blog.nichobi.com/feed.xml

I did however notice pandoc-rss wasn't available on the AUR yet, so I remedied that as well: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pandoc-rss

GitHub - chambln/pandoc-rss: Generate an RSS feed from markup content and metadata

Generate an RSS feed from markup content and metadata - GitHub - chambln/pandoc-rss: Generate an RSS feed from markup content and metadata

GitHub
Shout out to RHEL for doing what no other distro has the balls to do and finally mark X org as deprecated
I really wish there was a culture in free/open source software of actually telling the person who made the thing when you do something good/interesting/cool/weird with it, used it in a workshop/teaching. It's super nice+motivating when I hear about tidal being used on a course or something, but it's generally only by chance.
I guess it's another case of people adopting the at-a-distance customer-supplier relationship of commercial/proprietary software, when free/open source _should_ take a friendlier approach
I put some new RAM in my laptop, switched it on and couldn't turn the screen brightness up. It was SO DIMM!