Ish Sookun

Systems Architect at La Sentinelle Ltd, #Mauritius. #Linux enthusiast, contributes to #openSUSE. Follows #Internet policy discussions in the #AFRINIC community.

[Ish Sookun @IshSookun]

Cold rainy night in Mauritius. En route to the openSUSE Conference 2026. 😊

[Ish Sookun @IshSookun]

Next, Koffi Eli Kponblanou & Wahid Ousman opened a discussion around “clean code” with a proposal for better software-design and maintainability. MSCC meetup sponsored by Accenture.

[Ish Sookun @IshSookun]

Renghen just delivered a fantastic talk on “understanding fundamentals to write good code” at the Mauritius Software Craftsmanship Community monthly meetup. Thanks to Accenture for sponsoring. 🙏

[Ish Sookun @IshSookun]

The Cloud Native #Mauritius & Gophers MU collaborated for a meetup today held at Kuumba in Telfair, Moka. After looking at my pictures later, this Geeko reflection on a MacBook running an #openSUSE VM is awesome! 😎 Reflection caused by @CliffordW6n's #SUSE t-shirt. 👍 @openSUSE

[Ish Sookun @IshSookun]

Last Saturday, the PMI #Mauritius Chapter held a workshop at Royal Green Wellness Resort where Frad Dahall took us through what it requires to be better at communicating and influencing.

https://t.co/YTCBNj9bKq

#ProjectManagement

[Ish Sookun @IshSookun]

A full day of open source at Polytechnics #Mauritius, Ébène — Linux history, #openSUSE governance, packaging #FrankenPHP live on the Open Build Service, and #openSUSELeap on #GoogleCloud.

@openSUSE @googlecloud @arwinneil

https://t.co/oIjkMixn0P

[Taylor Otwell @taylorotwell]

Some cool new stuff in this week's Laravel release.

Laravel’s password validation rule can now generate an HTML `passwordrules` attribute string.

Great for helping password managers like 1Password suggest valid passwords.

[MSCC @MSCraftsman]

A big thank you to https://t.co/V8YOOFTYhn for supporting DevCon26 as our Web Hosting & Lanyard Sponsor.

Your contribution is both behind the scenes and front and center throughout the event.

#MSCC #DevCon26 #Mauritius
https://t.co/BqXJyEUuKy

[MSCC @MSCraftsman]

An amazing Saturday at Build with AI by @GDGMauritius at SWAN #Mauritius!

Huge thanks to our host, SWAN Mauritius, our incredible speakers!

And thank you to everyone who attended and made the event such a success!

#BuildWithAI #GoogleDeveloperGroups

[MSCC @MSCraftsman]

Noor Yadallee at Build with AI by @GDGMauritius

Learn how to boost performance while keeping user data secure.

📅 May 9 | 📍 SWAN
Don’t miss it 👇
https://t.co/XlLNM3xgrq
#BuildWithAI #GDGMauritius #AI #EdgeAI

[Stitch by Google @stitchbygoogle]

Today, we’re open-sourcing the draft specification for DESIGN.md, so it can be used across any tool or platform. We’re also adding new capabilities.

DESIGN.md lets you easily export and import your design rules from project to project. Instead of guessing intent, agents know exactly what a color is for and can even validate their choices against WCAG accessibility rules.

Watch David East break down this shared visual language in action👇. New capabilities and links in 🧵

[Ish Sookun @IshSookun]

Vidush H. Namah speaking about "Blazor + ThreeJS ⇔ Azure SignalR" at the Azure Bootcamp hosted by the @MSCraftsman and FRCI.

[Ish Sookun @IshSookun]

Mervyn Manilall talking about "Securing Code with Azure DevOps" at the @MSCraftsman monthly meetup, hosted by FRCI.

[Ish Sookun @IshSookun]

The @MSCraftsman monthly meetup happening today in collaboration with FRCI at their premises in the Industrial Zone in Phoenix. @JKirstaetter presenting "#Microsoft Foundry: The Developer’s Guide."

[Taylor Otwell @taylorotwell]

Every day I see people building incredible things with Laravel - from solo side projects to apps serving millions.

This community never stops inspiring me. It's the best place to build your next big idea. 🚀

[Laravel @laravelphp]

Laravel 13 is here. This update focuses on AI-native workflows, stronger defaults, and more expressive developer APIs.

If you're running Laravel 12 or higher you can run /upgrade in Laravel Boost and have your agent upgrade your app for you.

[Ish Sookun @IshSookun]

I am speaking today at the monthly meetup by the Mauritius Software Craftsmanship Community. Will be talking about Modern PHP Infrastructure and we shall have an open discussion. 😎

[The PHP Foundation @ThePHPF]

For those who don't know our new Executive Director, Elizabeth Barron (@elizabethn), she's written an introductory post on The PHP Foundation Blog. She wants to hear from you! 🐘
#PHP #phpc
Read more: https://t.co/YMaPn3EhUm

[Jason Gilmore @wjgilmore]

Today we ran an experiment in which Opus 4.6 converted a 48K line NodeJS API to Laravel. Took 4 hours and when done the total LoC was reduced to ~18K. It is presently at 70% test coverage and we are shooting for 100% by EOD. New API seems to be working fine in dev environments.

[Ish Sookun @IshSookun]

Holi celebrations in #Mauritius. 🥰