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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
After running brew update; brew upgrade, brew updated python to version 3.7.x.x. When my code stopped working, I noticed that some of the 3rd party packages i use are not compatible Python 3.7.x.x yet. So i decided to revert to Python 3.6.5_1 the version that i am certain i will not have any troubles with. […]
If you are running an VPN-server to circumvent censorship, or browse securely while connected to a public wifi network, you will have at some point to consider server VPN on port 443, the standard port for HTTPS, which is very unlikely to be blocked by ISPs. But what if you wanted to server a secure […]