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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]