For a lot of people in the IT sphere, especially those who program for fun, Open Source is seen as this awesome concept - software built for the people by the people; and a lot of people really want to contribute to open source projects but don't know where to…
When I started becoming part of the IT community here in Mauritius, I decided to try my best not to be political on social media. The main "hub" of IT people in the community are on Twitter, and that's where I have an account. In my bio, for the longest…
In your deployments locally or through Docker, you will most definitely be using a .env file for all your secrets - API keys, database credentials, and the like. In the world of Kubernetes, nothing is as simple as just a .env file. In fact, configuration of your deployments will be…
Quick blogpost on why you should totally join the Fediverse! The Fediverse itself is a large decentralised social media of "stuff". What can this "stuff" be? Well, pretty much anything. Mastodon (probably the most popular one) essentially became a Twitter clone in the Fediverse. Pixelfed then became an Instagram clone…
I have the great luck of having a fairly large tech following on Twitter. However, there are maybe a few people over there who aren't of the tech world. And while I'm flattered that they follow me despite my tweets containing some of the most complex tech jargon imaginable, I…