Many companies and organisation uses Google Workspace as the provider of their productivity and collaboration apps. The Gmail webmail service, Google drive, Google Documents, Google Meet, The calendar and many other apps are simple great tools for small and medium-sized organisations. Odoo is an open-source suite of business applications that assists companies in managing various […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]