About comics.scottk.net

This is about the love of art, computers, ironic humor, religion, and science.

This is a list of the primary products and projects used to create this site as well as the comics. Note: the projects listed have not endorsed this work.

Adobe Illustrator Vector illustration tool used to create many of the earlier comics.
Adobe Photoshop Photo manipulation tool used in the creation of some of the comics.
CANONICAL ubuntu Popular version of Debian GNU/Linux used for development, production, and desktops.
GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program A powerful free and open source raster image tool used to create some of the comics and generate the different sizes.
git/Git Bash git is a popular, free, and open source distributed version control system. Git Bash is a tool included with the Windows install that supplies a convenient *Nix command line.
INKSCAPE A free and open source vector graphics tool. I use it to make most new comics and graphics for the site.
MariaDB/MySQL MariaDB is based on the venerable MySQL code. Both are free and open source, interoperable, and popular databases.
Microsoft Visual Studio Code A free code editor that is powerful and fast. It is one of the best code editors I have used.
Mozilla Firefox A free and open source web browser. I run several browsers at the same time but have Firefox set up for web development.
php A free and open source scripting language.
Vagrant A tool that helps set up development environments that mirror your production environment.
Virtualbox A free computer virtualizer allowing running a sandboxed operating system.