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THS: The Holy Setup - It is series of blog posts about my computer setup. Road to the Valhalla Treat your dotfiles better Life in the Web It’s been a long time since I wrote something in the blog. A lot of things happened since my last blogpost. One of the interesting things that I’ve been into is working on my new setup. This post is the first of a series of articles about my new setup. I’ll share with you the things I added to (and removed from) my workflow, and how they benefited me. ...

It’s not about data, it’s about attention. Most people believe that facebook is selling data to advertisers, and this not true, at least not for small non-governmental advertisers. What facebook is selling is our attention not our data. Facebook uses our data to help match the us to the right products (ads), but it does not actually sell it (our data). Let’s say I use a feed blocker browser extension, will facebook still make money out of me ? No !! Because I won’t see ads, they won’t be able to ship my attention to their clients (advertisers). ...

Hello Again, Throughout the 4 previous months I got the chance to work on php applications again. This time not as a developer, but as an operator. I spent a good part of my internship trying to deploy, run and optimize php apps on my local environment and on the cloud. This post will be in many parts (3 or more). This part will be a sort of introduction to the php ecosystem. We’ll try to build a general overview on the different ways we can deploy a php application. And in the next parts we’ll dive deeper on the process and go through the different solution in the market. ...

Containers are not secure ! I am kidding ! they are pretty secure but they are dangerous and one reason why they are is because they require root privileges to run. Why ? OKey Okey let’s take a look at this: sudo docker run -v /:/hostfs ubuntu rm -rf /hostfs You figured why running docker (container runtime) as root is dangerous ? Running your container runtime as root is the most dangerous thing you can do, because escaping the container barrier (container runtime vulnerability) will make the attacker root and Slat 3enbi. ...

I spent the last week at @ABConseils (The company hosting my internshipi ✌) trying to deploy a two-tier web application (frontend/backend) inside containers. Everything was working fine except for recaptcha. For some reason I couldn’t get it to work on my local setup. I spent two days (on and off) trying to. After struggling a bit with this recaptcha problem I met with the team, and we agreed that in order to test what have been done, we will temporarily remove recaptcha from my local environement and reintegrate it later in next stages. ...

Hello everyone 👋, In this post, I’ll share with you one of the tricks I use to learn new things. Fasten your seat belts 😁. Pick a reference What I call a “reference” is any interesting material about the topic you want to learn. From my experience this material should be concise and easy to consume (read or watch) and it can be anything from a talk to an article/paper or a simple blog post. What matters the most, is that it should be relevant to the topic you want to learn, and challeging enough to be a reference (portrays challenging concepts). ...

Web browser are crucial to our lives nowdays, we use them more than anything else (more than even spoons and forks 😂). So picking our web browser(s) should no longer be arbitrary. Me myself, I am struggling to choose my main web browser and here are some of the options I do consider. My old friend firefox Although it can be a little bit slow and sometimes sluggish, I like firefox. I do most of my web browsing in it. ...