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 […]
Category Archives: General
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 […]