Jason B (He/Him/His)

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Jason was an Opensource.com staff member and Red Hatter from 2013 to 2022. This profile contains his work-related articles from that time. Other contributions can be found on his personal account.

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Head to the arcade in your Linux terminal with this Pac-Man clone

Want to recreate the magic of your favorite arcade game? Today's command-line toy will transport you back in time.

The Linux terminal is no one-trick pony

Bring the magic of My Little Pony to your Linux command line.

Relax by the fire at your Linux terminal

Chestnuts roasting on an open command prompt? Why not, with this fun Linux toy.

Patch into The Matrix at the Linux command line

Recreate the classic look and feel of everyone's favorite 1990s sci-fi movie code scroller with cmatrix.

Winterize your Bash prompt in Linux

Your Linux terminal probably supports Unicode, so why not take advantage of that and add a seasonal touch to your prompt?

Snake your way across your Linux terminal

Python isn't the only snake you'll find at the Linux command line with this classic 1970s game remake.

Contributed Content

Top 10 open source projects of 2014 with lightbulb

Top 10 open source projects of 2015

We round up 10 editor's picks from the most popular projects this year. ( Last year's list made a splash!) Top 10 open source projects of 2015 Apache Spark When it comes to…

Authored Comments

Jason B

23 Sep 2019

When was the last time you used Windows?

After starting on 3.1, XP was my last Windows, but 98SE was the last one that I truly loved.

Jason B

23 Feb 2019

An introduction to spatial joins with QGIS

There's so much awesome stuff to be done around maps and GIS, I love to see more of it here (I'm a not-very-secret map nerd when I'm not editing for this site). I'd love to toss around some ideas for follow-up content!