Several months ago, I finished reading “The Phoenix Project” by Gene Kim, George Spafford, and Kevin Behr. The book tell the story of an IT operation engineer, Bill Palmer, who get a sudden promotion and have to deal with all sorts of complications and difficulties while being under immense stress during a pivotal moment in […]
Introduction In a previous blog post, I presented a solution to use docker-compose to obtain and renew a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate and configure NGINX to use it. The solution depended on using two docker-compose files, one for the initialisation and the second for operation, as well as a cron job, and a couple of […]
RedNotebook by Jendrik Seipp is one of my favourite free open-source multi-platforms applications. It is a digital version of the good old lab notebook, that is usually red, and that is often used by scientists and researchers in labs around the world. It can be used to log experiment results, to take meeting notes, to […]
Docker and docker-compose provides an amazing way to quickly setup complicated applications that depends on several separate components running as services on a network. This is evident in the amount of time and effort docker-compose spare when deploying a certain web-app like Rocket.Chat, the open-source business communication platform that provides many features such as persistent […]
Keep the Yaml files in your project tidy is useful. Not only it improves code readability but also helps avoiding misunderstanding and bugs. Luckily there are many tools available that helps with “linting” and formatting yaml file, I will introduce two of those tools in this blog post. I cover the issue of handling long […]
Rocket.Chat is an open-source business communication platform that provides many features such as persistent chat rooms (channels) organised by topic, private groups, and direct messaging. The platform can be self-hosted. In this blog post I will detail the steps I used to quickly and reliably deploy Rocket.Chat platform on a Linux machine running Docker. Rocket.Chat […]
Introduction Docker and docker-compose provides an amazing way to quickly setup complicated applications that depends on several separate components running as services on a network. This is evident in the amount of time and effort docker-compose spare when deploying a certain web-app like Rocket.Chat or Zammad on a new host. Docker-compose allows for creating a […]
PyCharm is a leading IDE for developing python application. Among many features it has an intuitive and a very effective python debugging UX. With the PyCharm debugger, it is possible to debug any Python code. You have done that without any problem hundreds of times. Today you are writing tests (for pytest) and you want […]
Although you have done everything correctly, whenever you try to import a library or a class defined in that library, PyCharm fails to import it and fails to adding it to the code-sense, which is annoying because of the red line under the imported name, and because of the loss of the code-sense functionality which […]
Many companies and organisation uses G-Suite (now workspaces) from Google for the many apps and features the package provides to the organizations. The gmail webmail, Google drive and Documents, Meet, Calendar and other many services. However, apps suck as Slack are used for chatting within the organizations. Rocket.Chat is a great alternative for slack (and […]