2025 on Iduoad

Oct 2025

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:17:39 +0100

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:

Sept 2025

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:17:39 +0100

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:

March 2025

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 23:17:39 +0100

🌹 Work

🧠 Learning

Lately, I’ve been exploring a tool called Quadlet. It is the successor to the now-deprecated podman systemd, and it’s recommended by the Podman team themselves.

Quadlet allows you to manage Podman containers using systemd units. It acts as a bridge between systemd and Podman by introducing custom systemd unit types for Podman’s first-class entities like containers, networks, volumes, pods, and more.

Along the way, I also refreshed my knowledge of systemd. While often controversial, systemd is undeniably one of the most well-crafted pieces of software to come out of the Linux ecosystem.