Journal
Thoughts, ideas and stories from the command line.
A full-day open source workshop at the Polytechnics Mauritius campus in Ébène — tracing Linux from Stallman and Minix to a Mauritian gecko on the openSUSE Leap 16.0 wallpaper, packaging FrankenPHP live on the Open Build Service, and spinning up openSUSE on Google Cloud. With Eddy Lareine and Neil Baichoo.
A Saturday morning of workshops and corridor conversations with Mauritius's developer community at SWAN HQ in Port-Louis. My own session was on Document AI and RAG for a historical newspaper archive — turning a 1955 Le Figaro into something a researcher can actually query.
On Friday 17 April 2026, I delieverd a technical workshop at the African Leadership College of Higher Education (ALCHE) in Pamplemousses. The topic: taking a Python Flask application from a developer'...
The MSCC March meetup at Klanik, IconÉbène brought 22 attendees together for two talks: Ajmal Saifudeen on Enterprise Architecture and why developers should care, and Ish Sookun on applying the 12-Factor methodology to modern PHP infrastructure with Laravel, followed by an open discussion.
Deploy a Laravel application on Google Cloud Run with PHP 8.5, connect to Cloud SQL PostgreSQL, and scale to zero when idle. A practical guide covering containerization, deployment to the africa-south1 region, and tips for handling storage, sessions, and queues in a serverless environment.
PMI Mauritius hosted an insightful session with Nadjma Rawat on professional image and personal branding. Learn how the "RAG project management framework" applies to grooming, clothing, and body language — and what your appearance says before you speak.
openSUSE Leap 16.0 is now available on Google Cloud Platform with x86_64 and Arm64 images. You can launch a Compute Engine instance by selecting openSUSE Leap 16.0 under Public images. The Cloud Observability Ops Agent is not yet supported.
The openSUSE Project is a worldwide community effort promoting the use of Linux everywhere. The openSUSE Board guides the project's direction and facilitates community collaboration. Two seats are now open as the 2025 Board Election begins — get involved by running or casting your vote in March.
Learn how to bring your AFRINIC-allocated IP addresses to Google Cloud Platform using BYOIP. This guide covers the process from ROA configuration to deploying addresses on Compute Engine, with practical insights for organizations in Mauritius and Africa using the South Africa (Johannesburg) region.
