Sept 2025

Updates: The current format is hard to maintain since it requires a lot of writing. I will start including links only.

️⌨️ Tech reads

• How to Troubleshoot OOM Issues in Go Applications Running on Kubernetes: A very good article about troubleshooting OOM errors in Kubernetes.

🛠️ Power tools

• benkehoe/aws-sso-util: Very nice tool to manage AWS SSO sessions. This is the best I could find.
• mise-en-place: Very nice tool to install dev tools, manage environments and run tasks. I am experiment with it to replace distrobox, direnv and just.
• Distrobox: Distrobox is an awesome tool to create container based environments, to do anything from dev to try CLI or even GUI tools. Despite using mise to replace some of what’s I’ve been using distrobox for. I am still using distrobox for many other use cases.

️⌨️ Non tech reads

• Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton | Goodreads I’ve just finished reading Status Anxiety, it was a good book except for the second part, it was very hard to read and uninteresting.
• Economics: The User’s Guide by Ha-Joon Chang | Goodreads: I am reading this book now. I am still reading the first chapter, so far it seems good.

🎥 Movies

I’ve been watching action movies from the 90s (The peak for the Hollywood action). Here are some of the movies I watched:

• Face/Off (1997): Typical 90s action movie, the pace is so fast. I didn’t like it much.
• Enemy of the State (1998): This one has less action, but it is well written.
• Desperado (1995): So 90s too! I like the action.
• Die Hard (1988): Again very fast past. One of the best.
• The Rock (1996): I like it! It is a better movie in general. It has some good scenes.
• Con Air (1997): The plot is awesome, and the cast is mind blowing! I love it!

In addition to all these movies I watched some other movies, and I want to recommend them too:

• Wit (TV Movie 2001): One of the touching movies I watched. A human experience about a terminally dead person.
• Straume (Flow) (2024): Very beautiful animation movie.
• The Bibi Files (2024): A documentary about the B. Netenyahu corruption cases.
• How to Train Your Dragon (2025): My expectations were so low for this one. It was a good adaptation.

📹 YouTube

Podcasts

• MOUAD IDBAHA: A podcast in Tamazight. Good initiative for the Amazigh online content and for the language learners like myself.
• Pixel podcast: A podcast by Telquel about gaming. They released 2 episodes and stopped, not sure why.
• Starter: A Moroccan podcast about gaming.

Video essays

• Tobiss_fla_fran: Very good content about architecture and urban planing.
• Abdellatif Bachar: Old channel with videos essays about gaming and cinema.
• Moroccan Rap history: episode 1| تاريخ الراب المغربي: الحلقة ١: Very nice essay/documentary about Moroccan Rap history. It is 4 months and we still don’t have part 2 (hopefully soon enough).
• How to Identify a Seal: A video about how to identify a video. I love it when I find interesting random videos like these.

Misc

• 25 Questions pour Betweenatna: Very funny interview with Betweenatna.
• L’BAC/الباك: Realistic View of Studies Before and After Bac in Morocco: Funny interview by a GenZ Youtuber. He’s also kind of discontinued.
• I Ate Only 10th Century Arab (Abbasid) Food for a Week: Nice video about Abbasid food. Good channel about experiencing the past.

🎶 Good music

• Adnane MATRONE: Orchestra working on Moroccan popular music.

💎 A knowledge gem

• Kindle Modding Wiki: A wiki about jail-breaking and modding kindles.

🖊️ Writing

Personal Blog

• THS: My Note-taking framework
• All You Need to Know About UV

Other

-Twitter threads: I am maintaining a list of all my X threads. Unfortunately I can’t fetch some of the threads (I don’t know why).

🤍 A beautiful thing

• Casamémoire: Casamemoire are doing a great work highlighting how beautiful Casablanca is.

🗺️ A place to visit

I have a thing for cafes. I love all kinds of cafes especially the old ones and more specifically (القهاوي ديال الدرب). Lately I made some good discoveries in Casablanca.

• Au clair de la lune: Very nice cafe in Mohammed V street (Nice view).
• Cafes of the Tribunal: On the back of the Tribunal, there are many nice antique cafes, They are not for the regular people, but they are nice. Most of them close at 16h once the court is closed. The best is the one in the corner near AlMounia. It has a great view and stays a bit late (8pm).
• Cafe Idana: Hidden gem in the middle of Mers Sultan. A cafe from the 40s.
• The Cafes of Bousmara: Very lovely cafes in the middle of the Medina.