Development

Development

An index of KDE neon applications that are used for development purposes, either in web design or programming.

Updating KDE Neon
Although KDE neon is based on Ubuntu 18.04 it doesn't recommend using the same method to update. In Ubuntu you generally use some form of the application apt. Either in a GUI with the software installer or on a terminal emulator with a command such as, sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade...

How to measure your page speed
One of the ways of increasing visitors on a website is to lessen the amount of time that it takes a page to load. This also increases engagement as people are more likely to visit other pages on your website if they load quickly making it more likely they will find what they want. The basic meas...

Did the assassination attempt on activist Suzie Dawson really happen?
One of the more interesting claims by Suzie Dawson is that she was targeted for assassination, presumably by the New Zealand authorities at the behest of the United States. In A Diary of a Person of Interest Suzie refers to being targeted in the following way, In my case, on Mother’s Day no ...

Free VPN with OpenVPN, KDE Neon and ProtonVPN setup
To do this you are going to need a Protonmail or ProtonVPN account (the accounts are bridged so having one is having the other) and KDE neon installed. I am using 18.04 but it should work on any Debian based KDE distribution. RPM based distros will require changing a couple of commands but I will l...

Transmission
Transmission is a very popular BitTorrent client that works well in KDE neon. It also has a remote client called transgui if you are running Transmission on a server or NAS in your network. It is very good for downloading large files such as Linux distributions or scheduling them to download at tim...