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Tariq<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensourceFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opensourceFriday</a> A medium-long time ago I used to use an actual camera for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photography</a>. I didn't have a smartphone, and even if I did their cameras were bad.A tool I used to do tone-mapping was Lightzone. Not to be confused with Adobe's Lightroom.I loved how simple and understandable the UI was - simply push up/down tones from source to target. It was free but only became <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opensource</a> in 2012 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightZone" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightZone</a>tutorials: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGob3KtUcRJqz-GwA5Owbdg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGob3KtUcRJqz-GwA5Owbdg</a>releases: <a href="https://github.com/ktgw0316/LightZone/?tab=readme-ov-file" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/ktgw0316/LightZone/?tab=readme-ov-file</a>

Tariq<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensourceFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opensourceFriday</a> During 1990s - 2000s I ran <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BSD</a>.I started my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unix</a> journey on SunOS OpenWindows and Solaris CDE - both elegant desktops. I wanted that sweet spot again:✅ lightweight ✅ not distracting or visually busy - don't give me a headache ✅ stay out of my way, I want to work ✅ high quality elegant design ✅ just enough convenience, but no moreI settled on the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/XFCE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XFCE</a> desktop, which started in 1996 as a Linux version of CDE.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfce" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfce</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a>

Tariq<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensourceFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opensourceFriday</a> Back in the old days, late 1990s to early 2000s, before today's abundance of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#python</a> numerical analysis and visualisation frameworks and libraries ..... some of us used Scilab - a matlab work-alike created by the French INRIA. It was pretty good. In fact it was amazing to have access to such powerful tools without paying huge sums.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scilab" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scilab</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#data</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#visualisation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scilab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scilab</a>

Tariq<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensourceFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opensourceFriday</a> Waaaay back in the late 1990s I discovered Lyx - and have been using it ever since ... almost 30 years!Lyx has a noble ambition - to let you to write documents as if you were using a GUI word processor, but render the documents using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LaTex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaTex</a>. ✅ The key point is to write content - not code.It almost succeeds. <a href="https://www.lyx.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lyx.org</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LyX" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LyX</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/typesetting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#typesetting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/texLatex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#texLatex</a>

Tariq<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensourceFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opensourceFriday</a> Way back around the year 2000 I got a job in tech, and the team all used an IDE on windows called <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KDevelop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KDevelop</a> It was my first taste of an "IDE".Previously I have only ever edited program files in simple text editors like vi, gedit, and the text editor that came with sunos4.I learned how I didn't like C++ at all.Kdevelop 0.1 was released in 1988. It was part of the KDE family and still is.<a href="https://kdevelop.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://kdevelop.org</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a>

Joomla!Happy Open Source Friday! Log into GitHub to help Joomla solve issues or test features to perfect the upcoming releases. Remember, every little bit helps, and Joomla is hugely grateful for every ounce of support. Get started now and be a Joomla hero! <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues</a> <a href="https://joomla.social/tags/Joomla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Joomla</a> <a href="https://joomla.social/tags/WebDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WebDevelopment</a> <a href="https://joomla.social/tags/OpenSourceFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSourceFriday</a> <a href="https://joomla.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a>

Alison MeeksHappy Open Source Friday! Log into GitHub to help Joomla solve issues or test features to perfect the upcoming releases. Remember, every little bit helps, and Joomla is hugely grateful for every ounce of support. Get started now and be a Joomla hero! <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Joomla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Joomla</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WebDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WebDevelopment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OpenSourceFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSourceFriday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CMS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a>

Lucian GhindaHere is an example of code with and without endless methods. I found this while I was reviewing an open-source app for my series of articles <a href="https://ruby.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://ruby.social/tags/OpenSourceRuby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSourceRuby</a> <a href="https://ruby.social/tags/OpenSourceFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSourceFriday</a> Here is the original code with normal methods:

Lucian GhindaI wrote all these and a bit more about feedbin open-source project on my blog at <a href="https://allaboutcoding.ghinda.com/ruby-open-source-feedbin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://allaboutcoding.ghinda.com/ruby-open-source-feedbin</a><a href="https://ruby.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://ruby.social/tags/Ruby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ruby</a> <a href="https://ruby.social/tags/Rails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rails</a> <a href="https://ruby.social/tags/RubyFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RubyFriday</a> <a href="https://ruby.social/tags/OpenSourceFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSourceFriday</a>

MauticIt's that time again!Come and join us to help make <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Mautic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mautic</a> even more awesome!We have lots of ways you can contribute, from testing to writing, design to organising events!Read more on our forum post: <a href="https://forum.mautic.org/t/friday-the-best-day-of-the-week/27072" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://forum.mautic.org/t/friday-the-best-day-of-the-week/27072</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OpenSourceFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSourceFriday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Community</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ContributionDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContributionDay</a>

julia ferraioliHappy <a href="https://floss.social/tags/OpenSourceFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSourceFriday</a>!I have a request for all y'all <a href="https://floss.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> folks: what are some pivotal moments in open source history? Try to think beyond the usual suspects (licenses, operating systems, etc...).(Cross-posted from, but not linked to, Twitter.)

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