Updates: The current format is hard to maintain since it requires a lot of writing. I will start including links only.
️⌨️ Tech reads
- Open-source is where dreams go to die: A post about the bad side of being a maintainer of OSS.
- scraly/developers-conferences-agenda: If you don’t know it, developers.events is a community-driven platform listing developer/tech conferences and Calls for Papers (CFPs) worldwide with a list, a calendar and a map view. It helps organizers, speakers, sponsors & attendees.
- Understanding the AWS CUR: Very nice collection of articles about AWS cost management, especially CUR.
- Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape: Funny and impressive article about hosting a website inside a Vape.
🛠️ Nice tools
- Killercoda Interactive Environments: Since Katacoda was bought and closed by O’Reilly. Killercoda is a very nice alternative if you are learning containers or cloud native tools.
- Bytecode Alliance — Projects: A very nice list of projects under the Bytecode Alliance (WASM related).
- cider-security-research/cicd-goat: A deliberately vulnerable CI/CD environment. Learn CI/CD security through multiple challenges.
️⌨️ Non tech reads
- I finally switched from VSCode To Neovim: A video about switching to Neovim.
- Moorish History: I am no Moorish! But this is a very nice blog about Moroccan history.
- 100% Free eBooks for All Devices: A collection of free classical books.
- قصور وقصبات الجنوب الشرقي: تراث عمراني يندثر بضواحي مدينة الريصاني - دين بريس: Very nice read about the ksours of Tafilalet.
🎥 Movies
- The Disciple (2020): Very real movie! (Can be boring to some of you).
- Free Fire (2016): Very funny action movie.
- Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019): Very beautiful and artsy movie.
- Flow (2024) - IMDb: Very beautiful animation movie.
📹 YouTube
Video essays
Lately I went through my bookmarks, and found many resources about Moroccan history and culture:
- El àlamii MohameD: I love it when I find random unknown channels by one dedicated person with no production and no shiny stuff, just passion and dedication. This channels is one of these channels, and it is about the Tafilalet region.
- المغرب العريق: Again I don’t like the Moorish propaganda, but the history part of the channel is good.
- HISTORIADOR DR. AHMED TAHIRI: A history professor with a lot of content is many languages.
I also went back to watch movie essays.
- Jake Bishop: Very good essays about movies.
- glancing.: Another nice movie essays channels.
I also started reading and watching content about LLM and “AI”:
Misc
- الذاكرة المغربية: A channel with old Moroccan movies
🎶 Good music
- Najat Aatabou - Matfahemnach Ya Weld Nass / ما تفاهمناش يا ولد الناس: I am exploring old Najat Aatabou’s music.
- Abda - Album by Aïta Mon Amour: One of the best contemporary artists.
- Anthologie d’Aita: A very nice project by ANYA culture. 10 Volumes of Aita Music from all over Morocco.
💎 A knowledge gem
- hwayne/awesome-cold-showers: For when people get too hyped up about things: A nice collection of articles about hype.
- Marocopedia: One of most beautiful initiative in the history of culture in Moroccan YouTube. They have 4 channels with a very various content. Unfortunately they were discontinued in 2020. But the content is still there and is worth watching.
- Notable people Map: Interactive map showing notable people according to their Wikipedia popularity.
- BanknoteDB.com: Banknotes database with banknotes from all over the world.
🖊️ Writing
Personal Blog
- Qols | Iduoad: A collection of tips and tricks to make your journey easier and joyful as a software engineer.
- Qemu - M’Goun: I opened M’Goun: My personal knowledge base.
🤍 A beautiful thing
- GenZ212: I love how politics got shaken a little bit after the GenZ212 protests. Moroccan politics was alive after a 4 years clinical death.
🗺️ A place to visit
Some nice campings I went these last years.
- Camping Tyrolienne Tanjawi: A very nice camping near Akchour.
- Camping Amazigh: Camping Amazigh in Ougmas (Azrou).
- Camping La bleue Source: A nice camping in Meski (Errachidia).