Notes from the Burrow

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Muhammad Usman

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

Warm me up, my little heaters

It’s cold in Portland. I’m now using my pets to cuddle with me that helps me stay warm. Unlike the heater, they don’t dry out the air.

PirateShip is a helpful tool for making shipping labels

I print a few labels a month, maybe one a week. Before finding PirateShip, I was going to each of the 3 major delivery services and trying to figure out the proper label and best price. PirateShip does this for me now, it uses the UPS and USPS labels so

Saturday morning Indian news and music

When I was a kid, we would wake up on Saturday mornings and there would be a few hours worth of Indian news and music on. It was a variety of things. As we had breakfast, chai and roti we would be hanging out either in the kitchen or in

Looking at 2023

For me, 2022 was a pretty bad year. There’s a lot of things going on in my head that I have not properly digested and I think I’ve used video games and social media to soothe the pain and ennui. I think to review the year using a

BoardSearch at 1.0, switches and keycaps added, what's coming next...

Over the last few weeks, I’ve made slow and steady progress on adding features along with fixing some bugs. At this point, I’ve decided to make the latest deploy 1.0 so that I can tell myself that it’s now “launched” and public. I want to start