Fábio Rehm's Blog

Comparing text files requires time, effort, a large monitor and a good amount of patience, or simply just the right tools to do it without any of the aforementioned. If you are an editor that has to deal with multiple versions of a text file, or a developer that wants to check the various code revisions of a file, then the following tutorial is for you.

A few weeks ago, I felt inspired by articles from Jeff Kreeftmeijer and Armin Ronacher. I took some time to configure and fine-tune my Vim environment. A lot of new stuff made it into my .vimrc file and my .vim directory. This blog post is a summary describing what I’ve added and how I use it in my daily work.

Gooey - Turn (almost) any Python command line program into a full GUI application with one line.

The ability to customize tools to suit your needs is one of the great advantages of many Linux utilities. However, when you find yourself working on a new server, there is the issue of getting the settings you are comfortable with working in a new env.

Like for every thing, there are plenty of commands to check information about the hardware of your linux system. Some commands report only specific hardware components like cpu or memory while the rest cover multiple hardware units.

This post takes a quick look at some of the most commonly used commands to check information and configuration details about various hardware peripherals and devices. The list includes lscpu, hwinfo, lshw, dmidecode, lspci etc.

Zathura is a highly customizable and functional document viewer. It provides a minimalistic and space saving interface as well as an easy usage that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction.

Plugin based document file visualizer (PDF, DejaVu, PS); strongly key-based control.

Through the years, I have settled on maintaining my sensitive data in plain-text files that I then encrypt asymmetrically.

Open source downloads galore: arcade, board, puzzle, shooter, adventure, simulator and role-playing games -- something for everyone.

Autojump utility learns from user and helps in easy and faster directory navigation from Linux command line, as compared to traditional 'cd' command.

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we will look at 34 outstanding open source backup tools that you can use on Linux servers or systems. There will be something of interest for anyone who attaches any importance to their hard work.

PeaZip is a free and open-source archiver tool, that supports more than 182+ file extensions and native archive format known as PEA archive.

A helper script to manage duplicity backups.

The "Internet of Things," or IoT, has the potential to change the way we interact with the devices and objects in our homes and lives. The IoT is the idea that all of the devices and gadgets that you interact with could be connected to the internet.

Audio processing plugins implemented as LV2.