Setting up Qubes OS mirror at dgplug.org

By Anwesha Das in Ansible on

I am trying to work on my sys-admin skills for a some time now. I was already maintaining my own blog, I was pondering to learn Ansible [https://ansible.com]. DGPLUG [https://dgplug.org] was planning to create a new Qubes OS mirror. So I took the opportunity to learn…

Twitter from command line

By Anwesha Das in Open Source on

Since the time I have started writing code, the toughest job for me is to be in peace with the black and green screen, the terminal. As it is being “The Thing” which keeps my lovely husband (ah ha, really?) from me. So as an initiative of my “peace making…

How to use Let’s Encrypt with nginx and docker

By Anwesha Das in EFF on

In my last blog post, I shared the story on how did I set my server up. I mentioned that I’d be writing about getting SSL certificates, so here you go. When I started working on a remote server somewhere out there in the globe and letting that come…

Is PyCon 2018 your first PyCon?

By Anwesha Das in Conference on

Is PyCon 2018 [https://twitter.com/pycon] your first PyCon? Then you must have had a sleepless night. You must be thinking “I will be lost in the gathering of 3500 people.” There should be a lot of mixed emotions and anticipation. Are you the only one who is thinking…

PyLadies at PyCon

By Anwesha Das in Conference on

In 2013, I was going through PyCon photos. The album was full of pictures of very serious looking geeks engrossed in their favorite back and green screen. Suddenly I saw the photos of people laughing, enjoying and joking . Many of them were women. Dazzled by the beautiful ladies, I asked…

Setting up my own server

By Anwesha Das in Python on

A long, long time ago a mortgage lawyer started to write her blog, just to get familiar with several crazy newfangled things called computers and the internet by using them to do something she liked, writing. So she started writing a blog using something called Wordpress [https://wordpress.com]. The…