Honored to be a graduate of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Center for Leadership Development @MBRCLDofficial. My deepest gratitude to the UAE for its visionary leadership and unwavering commitment to cultivating the next generation of global government leaders. A profound salute to His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and the esteemed royal family for their exceptional hospitality, wisdom, and dedication to excellence. A Heartfelt thank you to the esteemed @Govexchangeae for making this possible.
Breaking new ground in #DigitalTransformation, the KRG Department of Information Technology has launched the Digital Identity-Based Payroll Management System—designed and developed by our exceptionally talented young professionals. Powered by the government’s T3 Data Center, it unifies payroll management across the region, boosts transparency, and fosters local innovation.
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Honored to have attended an insightful and educational session focusing on Governance, Innovation, and the Future with His Excellency Khalfan Belhoul, CEO of the Dubai Future Foundation, as part of the Global Government Leaders Program by the Mohammed bin Rashid Center for Leadership Development (MBRCLD) and @Govexchangeae His visionary insights into government innovation, digital transformation, and strategic foresight were invaluable for those of us committed to advancing digital services and transformative governance. Grateful for this unique opportunity to learn from one of the region's pioneers and to apply these insights in the Kurdistan region.
#DubaiFutureFoundation #DigitalTransformation #MBRCLD
@paraschopra Your password should be something like ="AZ"&RANDBETWEEN(0,100000)
Now it has a comma to break CSVs, and has a command to generate a random password if the hacker loads the DB as an XLS
🔥 PostgreSQL 17 has been released!
Should you upgrade? Definetely! The highlighted change may not sound very important but, it is a big big improvement!
Benchmarks have shown a 20-30% speedup _WITH REAL APPLICATIONS_ for the queries used by e.g. Laravel's eager-loading.
In less than 3 years, we’ve propelled Kurdistan’s digital agenda to new heights. For the first time, digital initiatives were taken seriously, empowering @KRGDIT to function effectively. None of this would have been possible without the unwavering support and trust of Prime Minister @masrourbarzani who made it all happen. He reaffirmed that Kurdistan has never lacked the brilliant minds needed to achieve our aspirations.
Being a senior developer is being able to fix the bug in 5 minutes
But having the discipline to assign it to a team member knowing it’ll take them 4 hours
Between a concept and a finished product lies an immense amount of effort, iteration, and execution. And had it been simple, it would have long been achieved by others.
Once again, I wish to extend my profound gratitude and appreciation to my incredible teammates for their unwavering professionalism, dedication, selflessness, and loyalty. Time and again, they humble me. What they have accomplished and endured over the past five years is nothing short of heroic sacrifice. My heartfelt thanks go out to each and every one of you.
Kamal 2 is deploying a Rails app change to my hobby Hetzner box in 40s. That's building updating the container image cache, pushing it to Docker registry, pulling it on the server, and booting in a gap-less fashion. Not quite PHP-change-over-FTP fast, but close enough 😄
Kamal 2 is getting close. Huge upgrade coming. Support for multiple apps on a single server, auto-provisioning of Let's Encrypt SSL certs, better secrets, faster deploys, aliases, and much more. This is the key to unlocking amazing deployment on any VPS / bare metal box.