Muhammad Usman

The past few months have been a mix of productive and lazy days. Some days, I got up and was focused for most hours, got some work done and also some personal tasks done and others were a wash. But overall, I think the pandemic’s languishing feelings are starting

I’ve been trying to learn some typescript and as part of building something with it, I’ve also started using next.js for easier react set up. I ran into an issue where styled-components were not loading in the browser but they were not throwing an error in my

I’ve been putting off writing this post for a long time. One reason is that I wanted to use the keyboard for awhile before writing about it. Official page for the GMMK Pro -> So today, I sat down and wanted to write this post. Background on the

“Looking for bliss in a blah day” — Adam Grant

Yesterday’s work was mostly focused on routing, getting the app set up, and making sure my environment is working. Today’s goal was to get the URL shortening working and that was pretty easy. I used basic crypto hashing to generate the short URL and then chopped it off.

This morning, I started working on a simple weekend project in which the goal is a deployed API server that does one simple thing. The business logic and the API behavior isn’t too important to me because the focus of this project is actually learning more about deployment. So