Notes from the Burrow

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Muhammad Usman

I got an e-bike

Kristen has gifted me an e-bike for Christmas this year! It’s a huge thing since I was going to wait another year or so before saving enough to buy an e-bike myself. When I was in Europe, I tried e-bikes and I was super curious about them. I looking

Building something is hard, getting someone to use what you built is even harder

I’ve been making steady progress on BoardSearch but it seems like at this point, I am having a hard time getting users to use the website. I think it’s mainly due to this website mainly being for myself to scratch my own itch. I’m not even sure

Add more whitespace

Recently, while working on BoardSearch and also while building anything related to my personal projects, the design trick I’ve been employing is adding more whitespace, be it margins, padding, or overall gaps around a component. It’s not something I came up with, I learned it a lot through

Recent renders from Dall-E, Nov 2022

Twenty twenty-three theme from Wordpress is the first sane theme from WP in a few years

The first-party themes from WordPress are always intriguing because they come with the latest new features they are introducing in the wordpress engine. For the 2023 version, it has style options and a completely templatized theme that can be updated using the Block editor. The only thing I was surprised

Introducing BoardSearch, a single place to find and track keyboards

Earlier this year, I was jumping between a bunch of projects and I finally decided to hunker down and focus on one project. I approached this project for two main reasons, one to scratch my own itch of not being able to find a keyboard with exactly the specs I’

Cornershop’s Norwegian Wood is the one of my weirdest discoveries so far

I randomly stumbled on this in a Spotify playlist. It hurts my head a little to listen to it and then when I hear the words, I like it a lot too.