Notes from the Burrow

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Muhammad Usman

The no-theme theme

Today, Substack launched Notes, which might or might not be a Twitter killer. While browsing my Substack subscriptions and reading through them, I noticed a pattern. Every popular blog has a theme or topic they cover, and there’s hardly any deviation from it. For me, that’s tough. I

BEEF

This new Netflix series is amazing! I’m 4 episodes in and I just can’t stop watching it.

Sleepy hollow vibes

This morning in Portland the fog makes the old trees look haunted

Consolidating one more thing into Cloudflare, analytics

I write this as a sort of marker for myself in the future to see how this will turn out. I use PanelBear analytics for some of my projects and over the weekend, I logged into check on the analytics when I saw a notice about PanelBear shutting down and

Recent small projects

In the past few months, whenever I’ve run into a new technology or platform I want to try, I try to make something using this. This started mainly with Cloudflare technologies like Workers and DNS stuff but now has turned into small projects that offer a bit of practicality

Importing 25 million books into Bookends

I’m currently spending a few hours on the weekends working on Bookends, the project has been moving along slowly. The past few days, I’ve had thing looming thought on my mind about how to import the millions of books available through OpenLibrary that I will use as the

Snow in Portland

Last Wednesday night and into Thursday, we got a bunch snow in Portland. Some measurements on the news said it was around 10-11 inches of snow. Around my house, it looked to be about 5-7 inches and outside our house, all the roads were covered in white. It was a