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Muhammad Usman

Goodbye Bilo - December 2nd, 2017

Earlier today, we had to put Bilo to sleep. Bilo Star (pronounced Be-lo) was born in the first week of February in 2015. He was just a few months short of his 3rd birthday. When he was just a few weeks old, my sister had adopted him and in July

A new topic to explore

On my previous blogs and on this blog so far, I have not talked about finances. I think it's a tough topic, to write about and to talk about. I believe most people around me (Silicon Valley) like making money and talking about companies' finances but are

Building a Chrome extension using Vue.js

I have been using Vue.js for awhile now, and when I started working on the Coins extension I wanted to be able to quickly prototype and find a build process that makes it really easy for development and deployment. It was fun creating the Coins extension using the power

Starting work on a custom theme

I really like the way Medium posts look. I think the Medium team has done a great job spending time on making sure a post looks its best no matter what the content it contains. When I was setting up this blog, I looked around for any theme that was

My goal for Yelp in 2018

In the past, I’ve never written about Yelp, restaurants, and even food on my blog. But some time in 2017, I had this thought that I should write reviews for places I’ve visited. But last year, I hardly wrote any reviews. This year, I have been on a

Introducing Treefingers

When I was writing the code for the laravel version of my blog, I had created a repo, usmanity/treefingers (not available anymore), and I used it to keep track of my changes. I was really excited when I had started working on it so I decided to create a

Hello from Treefingers

Today, I'm moving away from my personal blog that was built by me using Laravel. I'm using WordPress going forward, there are a couple of reasons for this but before I get to those, I'd like to do a review of how I got