How to create and restore secure and efficient backups on Linux with Restic

How to create secure and efficient backups with Restic

Restic is a cross-platform, free and open source program written in Go. We can use it to create compressed, encrypted and space efficient backups, since it is smart enough to archive only changed fragments of files. Restic can use many storage services as targets, such as Google Drive or AWS (Amazon Web Services) S3 buckets, but works also locally and over plain SFTP connections.

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How to install Brave on Linux

How to install Brave on Linux

Brave is a free and open source web browser focused on providing a privacy-oriented setup by default. It is released under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0, and it is based on chromium, which is also the open source foundation upon Google Chrome is built.  Brave comes with useful built-in features such an ad-blocker, a private search engine, an integrated VPN, and Tor support.

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how to create and manage snippets in vim with ultisnips

How to create and manage snippets in Vim with Ultisnips

Snippets are small fragments of reusable code which, in all the major text editors, can be defined, organized and associated to key shortcuts. Although in Vim it is possible to create snippets without using any plugin, Ultisnips provide us extra features and write snippets using a clean and well documented syntax.

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How to manage tlp graphically with tlpui

Introduction to Tlpui, a GTK frontend for Tlp

Tlp is a command line utility we can use to optimize power consumption on Linux. It provides reasonable defaults, and, at the same time, an easy to understand text-based configuration file we can use to create our own setup. An external project provides a user-friendly GTK frontend to Tlp written in Python: Tlpui.

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How to self host an Ntfy server on Linux

How to install and self host an Ntfy server on Linux

Ntfy is a free and open source notification service written in Go which lets us easily send and receive push notifications on smartphones or desktop computers via simple POST or PUT requests. The basic online service is publicly available free of charge and, on Linux, it is also possible to self-host an Ntfy instance.

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How to backup your git repositories with gickup

How to backup your git repositories with gickup

Git is by far the most used version control system out there. Originally created by Linus Torvalds, it is free and open source software, released under the GPLv2 license. Many online platforms such as Github or Gitlab allow developers to easily store and track changes in their code in public or private repositories using git as a backend.

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How to bind an ssh public key to a specific command

How to bind an SSH public key to a specific command

In the client-server architecture used by the SSH protocol, a client can authenticate by providing a tunneled clear text password or by using a public/private key pair: this is called public key authentication. A user who logs in via a public key on a remote machine has complete access to the command line; in certain situations, however, it may be useful to associate a public key to a single specific command, for security reasons.

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Creating a Bootable USB for Windows 10 and 11 on Linux

Creating a bootable USB drive is often necessary when you want to install or repair an operating system. This guide provides detailed steps on how to create a bootable USB drive for Windows 10 or 11 using Linux (both Debian and RPM-based distributions).

Our handy script does all the heavy lifting, making this task a breeze. The script operates by formatting the USB drive, and then copying the ISO file to the USB drive.

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Introduction to pandas

Introduction to pandas

Pandas is a free and open source Python library released under the BSD license. Originally developed by Wes McKinney in 2008, and supported by companies like Intel and Nvidia, it is targeted at data analysis and manipulation. It can be easily used to read and write data from a variety of sources such as Excel spreadsheets, Comma-separated Values (CSV) files, and many more.

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