What is Rootconf? Rootconf is the conference on sysadmins, DevOps, SRE, Network engineers. Rootconf started its journey in 2012 in Bangalore, 2019 was the 7th edition of Rootconf [https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2018/]. In these years, through all the Rootconfs, there is a community that has developed around Rootconf. Now…
Introduction Coding in/with hardware has become my biggest stress buster for me ever since I have been introduced to it in PyCon Pune 2017 by John [@warty9]. Coding with hardware provides a real-life interaction with the code you write. It flourishes creativity. I can do all of this while…
A week before Software Freedom Conservancy [https://sfconservancy.org/] had announced the CopyleftConf 2020 [https://2020.copyleftconf.org/]. The conference is going to take place on 3 February 2020, Monday, in Brussels, Belgium. The first edition of CopyleftConf took place in February 2019 [https://2019.copyleftconf.org/]. One can have…
Today, 5th February is the safer internet day [https://www.saferinternetday.org/]. The primary aim of this day is to advance the safe and positive use of digital technology for children and young people. Moreover, it promotes the conversation over this issue. So let us discuss a few ideas.The…
I have been maintaining my blog [http://anweshadas.in/setting-up-my-own-server/]. It is a self hosted Ghost [https://ghost.org/] blog, where I have my theme as Casper [https://github.com/TryGhost/Casper], the Ghost default. In the recent past, September 2018, Ghost has updated its version to 2.0. Now…
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…
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…
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…