Category: General
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The internet is everywhere and it’s not
Last month, I went to Pakistan for about a week. The trip was for my dad’s 1 year death anniversary, there were some religious things that were expected to be done and I also went to support my mom and family. During this trip, I came to a realization that we are surrounded by technology…
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The hot and cold with WordPress
oof, I am writing this reluctantly and after a frustrating few minutes. I try to write once a week or so but some times when I log on to write, I get distracted by notifications like “update a theme” or “update multiple plugins” and I will forget to write about some thing that was on…
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Projects Costs & Revenue
As the weekend approaches, I have been considering setting up a simple tracker to publicly showcase my current projects, along with their associated costs and revenue (sometimes referred to as profit and loss). I am doing this as a way to publicly document my progress and overcome my fear of posting about mistakes, failures, and…
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Why CUID has so many zeros in almost every generated ID
If you’ve ever used the CUID library in your JavaScript projects, you may have noticed that almost every generated ID contains a lot of zeros. This can be confusing, especially if you’re not sure what the zeros represent or why they’re there. In this post, we’ll explore the reason behind the zeros in CUID-generated IDs…
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The no-theme theme
Today, Substack launched Notes, which might or might not be a Twitter killer. While browsing my Substack subscriptions and reading through them, I noticed a pattern. Every popular blog has a theme or topic they cover, and there’s hardly any deviation from it. For me, that’s tough. I want to try new things and write…
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BEEF
This new Netflix series is amazing! I’m 4 episodes in and I just can’t stop watching it.
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Sleepy hollow vibes
This morning in Portland the fog makes the old trees look haunted
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Consolidating one more thing into Cloudflare, analytics
I write this as a sort of marker for myself in the future to see how this will turn out. I use PanelBear analytics for some of my projects and over the weekend, I logged into check on the analytics when I saw a notice about PanelBear shutting down and joining Cronitor. I’ve been a…
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Recent small projects
In the past few months, whenever I’ve run into a new technology or platform I want to try, I try to make something using this. This started mainly with Cloudflare technologies like Workers and DNS stuff but now has turned into small projects that offer a bit of practicality and are using other platforms as…
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Warm me up, my little heaters
It’s cold in Portland. I’m now using my pets to cuddle with me that helps me stay warm. Unlike the heater, they don’t dry out the air.