Nix on the Steam Deck

Ana Hobden walks through installing and using Nix on the Steam Deck: keeping SteamOS intact while getting a reproducible Linux userland for development and custom tooling.

Tutorial · Linux · Tutorials · Open Source

RSS Feed Best Practices

Kevin Cox's technical checklist for publishing a blog feed: pick RSS 2 or Atom, serve the right content type, use absolute URLs, discovery tags, HTTPS, full content, stable entry IDs, caching and conditional requests, and sensible pagination.

Tutorial · Web Development · Writing · Tutorials

Each step of decoding a PNG

Smitty van Bodegom walks through the complete process of decoding a PNG file—chunks, zlib decompression, scanline filters and Adam7 interlacing—illustrated with a sample image at every stage.

Tutorial · Programming · Graphics · Tutorials

moreutils: the utilities package every UNIX/Linux/Mac OS developer should know

Miguel Rentes walks through the moreutils package of Unix command-line tools, explaining with examples what chronic, combine, ifne, pee, sponge, ts, vidir, vipe, zrun and the other utilities do and how to install them.

Tutorial · Linux · Developer Tools · Tutorials