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Muhammad Usman

Deprecating BoardSearch

Deprecating BoardSearch

Over the last 10 months, I've been working on BoardSearch, on and off. With "mild success" I have been chugging along on adding features but recently I've had to consider if working on the current implementation is the right decision? There have been less

Bathing Samson

Nostalgia is a wild and uncontrollable feeling. Today, I was bathing Samson and as I was doing this, I remembered being a little kid and my dad bathing me and my siblings. He would say if we got ready quickly we can go to the bazaar with him. The water

First bread from the sourdough starter

A few days ago, I got sourdough starter from my neighbor. I fed it for 2 days and then on the 3rd day, I added more bread flour and water. I left it at room temperature overnight and earlier today I added some dough and let it rise a bit

Homepage update, June 2023

I've been working on updating my online presence, just yesterday I moved this blog to Ghost and last night I made some changes to my homepage. I removed the recent blog posts section and updated the font. I have been feeling more enamored by fonts other than Inter

Moving from Wordpress to Ghost

Moving from Wordpress to Ghost

This is a decision I have lost sleep over due to my reluctance to accept the fact that just because something is cheaper, does not mean it's a better deal! In a previous post, I talked about how I am happy and unhappy with Wordpress depending on how

New pedals for the e-bike

Over the last few months, I’ve been enjoying riding my Tenways bike a lot. In the past few years, I’ve biked less and less. In Oakland, this was due to working from home and not having anywhere interesting to go to nearby. But since moving to Portland and

Bike fitting on the e-bike

Yesterday, I went to get a bike fitting for my e-bike. I have been having knee pain on and off and I was thinking it’s due to the posture/positions on the bike. Long story short, cycling is not causing my knee pain. My seat came out to be