The open sourcing continues...

When most people talk about "contributions to open source", what they mean is that you join an open source project and contribute code to it. However, that's not the only way to contribute to open source.

In 2014, I had written about seven other ways in which you can contribute to open source...to which Noah Slater replied, encouraging people to also promote the spirit of contributing to open source.

Each time you report bugs, help people on the internet and create your own open sourced software, you are indeed an open source contributor. 

Yesterday, I noticed that some of my repositories were being forked. Happy that the programs I developed are of use to the community. 

The file duplicate finder is a program I'd encourage people to use (and from the fact that an issue was reported, it looks like people are finding the project and hopefully finding it useful). Sometimes we have a lot of duplicate files and images lying around in various devices. This program helps identify and consolidate them. 

 

When looking at how often people contribute code:

I just noticed, that my public view of GitHub commits, does not show what is going on in the private repositories (which show a lot more commits). This is something recruiters would benefit from keeping in mind.

Public View

Private View (the actual number of commits)

WindowsXP image resizer powertoy equivalent for Linux

Windows XP's powertoy for resizing images was so convenient and popular, that people demanded it for future versions of Windows too. Linux however, seemed to lack such a feature, and people used to suggest using a bash script or GIMP to perform batch conversions.

There's a far simpler way now. Bitron software created Nautilus Image Converter which when installed, gives you image resize and rotate options in the right click menu itself. Really handy.

 

For Ubuntu, install it using:

sudo apt install imagemagick
sudo apt-get install nautilus-image-converter
nautilus -q

For Linux Mint, install it using:

sudo apt install imagemagick
sudo apt-get install nemo-image-converter
nemo -q

 

The "-q" is to stop nautilus (the file manager for Ubuntu that's the equivalent of Windows Explorer) or nemo (the file manager for Mint). You can restart the file manager by just clicking on any folder or the "Files" icon or by opening a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T and typing "nautilus". 

Now when you right-click on images, you'll see a "Resize images" option. So simply select all images and resize them.