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Muhammad Usman

Recursion

Recursion

It's the weekend and I didn't have much free time today so I'm covering recursion. Recursion is an important topic in programming that often gets looked over because oftentimes it's used in self-evaluating algorithms. But before I go into Opinionland, I'

Programming Paradigms

Programming Paradigms

Continuing the theme of digging deeper into topics I'm familiar with but not an expert in, today I want to focus on programming paradigms. What are programming paradigms? Programming languages can be designed to accommodate what "style" of programming you can do with them. This is

Sorting algorithms

Sorting algorithms

Today's recommendation from ChatGPT was "Algorithms"–yup, just that, in one day, master all algorithms 🤣. But as reality set in, I wanted to narrow down to some algorithms I'm familiar with and try to see if I can dig into them past the high

Fixing an issue with blocked email forwards to Fastmail from Cloudflare

I'm setting up a dev agency to do some freelance work and I wanted to route the emails to my Fastmail inbox, this will allow me to keep all my emails within one place and it's all included in the plan I have with Fastmail. I

What is the difference between a 32-bit and 64-bit computing?

What is the difference between a 32-bit and 64-bit computing?

💡This is day 1 of my 75 day challenge to learn new computer science concepts. Since this is the first day I'm learning about CS concepts in my 75 days of learning concepts, I asked chatGPT to give me a list of things I should learn. It gave

Climbing cringe mountain

Climbing cringe mountain

This is a concept I learned recently on Tiktok, in order to achieve anything out of your comfort zone or change something about yourself, you first have to "climb cringe mountain". It's a simple concept, you have to do things that to you find to be

A case for better email

A case for better email

I believe some of the best talent in our generation will go to adtech and some other to vaporware ideas. And vaporware ideas are okay, some exploit the user but others bring about new ways of doing things. But engineering better ways to serve ads will yield some technology advancements