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Muhammad Usman

TIL: null is an object in Javascript

I’ve been in a lull about learning concepts related to programming and web development the past few months so yesterday when I got an email about Just Javascript, I signed up for the course to check out how it will be. So far, I’m running into pleasant surprises

Is the Keychron Q1 a GMMK Pro dupe?

So I finished building my GMMK Pro last week (a writeup is in my drafts for that). I got an email from Keychron the same week I got my GMMK Pro shipped. I waited about 6 months after reserving the board to be able to buy the GMMK Pro so

TIL: polling rates for keyboards

I was setting up my GMMK Pro keyboard over the weekend and I ran into an interesting feature in the Glorious Core software, “polling rate” which is the first time I’ve seen this feature. I went looking around and from reddit I got linked to this Geekhack thread: Keyboard

An alternative icon for iTerm2

I created a simple icon for iTerm2 which I wanted to share below: You can download it on macos icons or directly here

Fields of Coral by Vangelis

I was recently reading Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis and in my mind, I could hear this song playing in the background as the ethereal world of Malacandra was described. I want to share it with you, maybe for sci-fi reading.

Line art practice

I’ve been practicing in the Procreate app:

Local .vimrc for neovim settings and differences

For directory-specific vim settings, you can use .vimrc but when using neovim, you’ll need to use .nvimrc instead. To get it all working, add the following to your init.nvim file: set exrc set secure Using set secure will disable/disallow using autocmd settings In the directory with vim