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An Elegant way to use docker-compose to obtain and renew a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate with Certbot and configure the NGINX service to use it

9 April 202220 March 2024 oussamaComments are off for this post.

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 single […]

How to fix the issue: Debugging pytest is not working with PyCharm

15 May 20219 April 2022 oussamaComments are off for this post.

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 […]

Dealing with Unresolved References when everything else is working on PyCharm

15 May 20219 April 2022 oussamaComments are off for this post.

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 […]

Setting up SAML for Rocker.Chat with Google Workspa

13 March 202131 July 2023 oussamaNo Comments

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 […]

Installing MicroK8s on Mac OS X

18 February 202118 February 2021 oussamaComments are off for this post.

According to the official website https://microk8s.io/, MicroK8s is a low-ops, minimal production Kubernetes for dev, cloud, cluster, workstations, Edge, and IoT. It is according to the documentation the smallest, fastest, fully-conformant Kubernetes that tracks upstream releases and makes clustering trivial. It is maintained by Canonical the company behind Ubuntu. Installing microk8s on Mac OS X […]

Dumping unique passwords from a KeePass file

19 December 20202 April 2023 oussamaComments are off for this post.

Recently, I was asked by a customer to help recovering a password of a VeraCrypt encrypted volume they lost access to. I did not wanted to fire a password cracking software like JohnTheRipper or HashCat with brute force attack because that should always be the last resort. The recommended approach for this particular case is […]

السلطة في سوريا وإلقاء اللوم

17 June 20201 August 2022 oussamaComments are off for this post.

تلقي السلطة السورية اللّوم في انهيار سعر صرف الليرة والتضخم على العقوبات أحادية الجانب. الحقيقة هي أن السلطة السورية تعاملت مع احتجاجات عام 2011 بشكل غير حكيم وقصير النظر كلّف الاقتصاد السوري أكثر من طاقته وكلّف رصيد سوريا من العلاقات الدولية أكثر مما تطيق. يدفع السوريون والسوريات ثمن أخطاء السلطة وسياساتها قصيرة النظر منذ 9 سنوات. 6 […]

Taking COVID-19 Seriously

8 March 20209 March 2020 oussamaComments are off for this post.

The COVID-19 disease is one of the most serious epidemic outbreaks in modern history. Unless drastic measures are taken, by governments, organisations and individuals, it is going to be a global pandemic with serious consequences on people, economy and societies around the world. We should all take COVID-19 seriously.

Reviewing Caveats of Homebrew packages

8 January 20208 January 2020 oussamaComments are off for this post.

Have you ran into problems after Homebrew upgrade? If you are a Homebrew user on Mac OS X, you might have faced problems after starting a Homebrew upgrade. If you could review the upgrade log, you might find what went wrong and which configuration and commands you still need to do to get everything working […]

قصيدة «نَيْرون» لخليل مطران

31 May 20195 March 2024 oussamaNo Comments

“نيرون” قصيدة من قصائدي المفضلّة للشاعر والكاتب خليل مطران، شاعر القطرين الذي ولد في لبنان عام1872 وغادرها إلى باريس ليدرس الأدب الغربي ثم عاد إلى مصر حيث قضى معظم سنوات عمره مبدعا أدبا وشعرا وفكرا. دعا مطران وعدد من معاصريه من الأدباء للتجديد في أغراض اللغة والأدب والشعر لإخراجها من أغراضها التقليدية لكي لتناسب مع […]