https://akos.ma/tags/open-source/Recent content in Open Source on akos.maHugo -- gohugo.ioenFri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/how-to-show-untagged-items-in-zotero/Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/how-to-show-untagged-items-in-zotero/I like having my Zotero library tidy and ordered, which means having proper tags for each item that I import, but I was missing an option to quickly list those items without tags.https://akos.ma/blog/zotero/Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/zotero/Writing articles for De Programmatica Ipsum made me adopt a workflow to read and annotate research papers. Most of the material that I use to write articles for DPI are papers, nearly all in PDF format, some with OCR’d text, some without (particularly older ones).https://akos.ma/blog/open-source-forbidden/Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/open-source-forbidden/What I’m going to tell you today might seem incredible, but just the same way as LLMs are banned from many workplaces these days, or mobile apps were outlawed by many an IT department 15 years ago, I was consulting 20 years ago for a large firm (a very large Swiss firm, actually) in which… Open Source code was explicitly forbidden to ever be put into production.https://akos.ma/blog/calibre/Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/calibre/I’ve already mentioned Calibre quite a few times in this blog in the past; for example when I talked about my sustainable ebook strategy, or when I gave some Flatpak tips and tricks. But Calibre has become such an important part of my workflow and daily computing habit, I feel I need to publish a product review about it.https://akos.ma/blog/plugins-for-tmux/Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/plugins-for-tmux/I’m a big fan of tmux since I started using it back in 2010. I can’t conceive working on a terminal window without it, and I also use it in remote systems I access via SSH.https://akos.ma/blog/lister-2.0.0/Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/lister-2.0.0/I’ve talked about my Rust project “lister” for the first time in this blog around 2 years ago, when I explained how to generate PDF files from individual Hugo entries. In the meantime I’ve enhanced it quite a bit, and this article provides some information about the latest version.https://akos.ma/blog/share-your-terminal-live-on-the-web-with-ttyd/Fri, 27 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/share-your-terminal-live-on-the-web-with-ttyd/If you’re in the business of giving demos or talking at conferences, webinars, or other gatherings, sooner or later you’ll have to show your terminal for a demo; in this case, this week’s article will surely interest you: ttyd.https://akos.ma/blog/the-proton-suite/Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/the-proton-suite/First, a mandatory disclaimer: this is not a sponsored post (there are none in this blog, btw), just me telling the story of how I became a happy Proton user during the past 5 years; I’m not affiliated with them in any way.https://akos.ma/blog/adopting-wezterm/Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/adopting-wezterm/I’ve recently discovered WezTerm, also known as “Wez’s Terminal Emulator” by Wez Furlong, and I’ve adopted it completely, becoming my default terminal application.https://akos.ma/blog/foss-in-developing-countries/Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/foss-in-developing-countries/The other day, I had friends in Bolivia asking me if they could install Windows on a laptop they got through an NGO that initially came bundled with Linux.