Notes from the Burrow

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Muhammad Usman

Reversed ordered list

I was setting up a new repo where I’m hoping to capture a list of projects that I’ve been working on, as an on-going list. I got curious about what the simplest way to order these projects would be where the oldest project would be number 1 and

Why CUID has so many zeros in almost every generated ID

If you’ve ever used the CUID library in your JavaScript projects, you may have noticed that almost every generated ID contains a lot of zeros. This can be confusing, especially if you’re not sure what the zeros represent or why they’re there. In this post, we’ll

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