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Muhammad Usman

Orion might be a browser worth trying

I use Firefox as my primary browser on desktop, it's pretty much the best combination of performance, UX, and plugin ecosystem. Chrome was good for a cool decade but I just didn't like the fact that it was built by an ads company. Recently, a new

Comparing the Spurcycle bell to its dupe

Recently I found out from a friend that Rockbros make a dupe for the $70 Spurcycle bell so I wanted to check it out. The Rockbros bell is listed on Amazon for about $13. With this big of a price difference, I had to try the dupe. Below is a

Reintroducing Redirector

Awhile ago, I was trying to link a Things.app list from my a Notion doc, in mobile apps this is usually referred to as deep linking. On web, most apps don't do this because you're never sure if the user is on the expected operating

On two months after leaving my full time job

On two months after leaving my full time job

It's been a full two months since I left my full time job at Block as a software engineer. The first month included days where I didn't even look at a computer screen and did what is essentially the capitalism version of "wasting time"

Dev notes from August 28th to Sept 1st, 2023

Dev notes from August 28th to Sept 1st, 2023

These are notes I've collected over the last week: Supabase notes 1. This was my first week using Supabase so I'm a complete beginner with it. 2. Supabase has dedicated places for making functions and triggers but the fields for taking the SQL or pgSQL queries

Recording set up #1

I've been really thinking about how different aspects of my life can play together. Recently, as my burnout from work has faded and I've started to recover from thoughts of "not having to work" or to be "productive" all day long, I&

Bike stats, trying out SvelteKit

Bike stats, trying out SvelteKit

Summary: I built this bikes page using SvelteKit. Below I go into details about all of it. I've been slowly getting back into writing code, mostly for fun, and not building anything serious yet. To start out with something fresh, I wanted to try SvelteKit. It's