In the past 2-3 months, I’ve been writing way more code and relatively more blog posts than I had before starting this blog. This has been mainly due to my goal of being consistent about things that interest me. I’m writing this post because I haven’t posted in about 10 days and I was getting […]
Category Archives: General
The Three-body Problem
A few months ago, a friend recommended The Three-body Problem by Liu Cixin (translated by Ken Liu from Chinese to English). I listened to it as an audiobook. This book is a different kind of science fiction! It starts out with at the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and then sets the beginning there […]
Say something nice
I love people who are helpful and caring. I think it does require effort to be nice and I think it’s important to recognize people who are nice! Thank you to everyone who is nice!
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Review
When I first started listening to audiobooks, I tried a couple of different books whose name I don’t even remember and I never got past the first few chapters. Last year, there was something different, I tried listening to the Harry Potter series. All the audiobooks in the Harry Potter series are narrated by Stephen […]
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 of 2015, I brought him […]
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 afraid or hesitant to talk about personal money/finances […]
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 of Vue.js and I wanted to share […]
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 slow but consistent flow to write reviews […]
Introducing Treefingers
When I was writing the code for the laravel version of my blog, I had created a repo, usmanity/treefingers, 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 brand for it but it never was public and so […]
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 here. Before this It's been more than 10 years now since […]