On Getting Started

On getting over coder's block, starting new projects, and AI
2024/08/02

On Secure By Default Frameworks

Learn about writing secure by default frameworks and why they are important
2024/01/11

Dead simple site monitoring with Akita

How I set up monitoring for my side project in under 5 minutes
2023/01/05

Job Hunting in 2022

My experience hunting for a job in late 2022, and advice for other job seekers
2023/01/03

On delegation

Improve your delegation skills so you can get more done and help others.
2022/09/22

Leaving Meta

Thoughts and reflections upon leaving Meta
2022/09/20

On giving feedback

Improve your feedback giving skills so it lands more effectively.
2022/09/06

On engineering career growth: from junior to senior and beyond

On setting up a sustainable career growth journey for yourself
2022/08/24

How to SSH into WSL2

How I set up SSH into WSL2 on my desktop and saved money on a new machine with this one weird trick.
2022/08/18

On being a staff engineer

On career growth, what it means to be a staff engineer, and how to get there.
2022/08/08

Setting up secure personal developer infrastructure for/and side projects using tailscale, drone, gitea, and nginx

Learn how I manage my side project infrastructure, which also powers this blog!
2022/06/20

Migrating from rocket 0.4 to 0.5

Learn how to migrate your code to the new rocket version
2022/06/14

Software maintenance is annoyingly complex: a rant

Why is software maintenance so hard?
2022/06/07

Project management for tech leads

On managing projects for success
2022/05/15

7 habits of highly effective (tech) leads

On being effective as a lead, whether in tech or not
2022/04/30

Impact through Influence

On creating impact indirectly through others as a tech lead.
2022/04/27

Tech Lead Academy

Notes from a course on becoming a tech lead at Facebook
2022/04/27

On management vs engineering (and my career story so far)

A look into my career story so far, and thoughts on being an engineer vs a manager
2022/04/19

Pakistan Trip Report (Lahore Lahore aye!)

Thoughts on the Pakistani developer and startup ecosystem.
2019/05/05

How to write a novella in just 5 easy steps

How I self published a novella.
2018/09/18

Reader's Corner: Behind the Scenes

How to get all the posts out of a Facebook account and on to a blog.
2014/03/07

Getting Charm running on Android

Guide to getting the Charm crypto library working on Android.
2012/05/08

Tupper's Self Referential Formula

Tupper's self referential formula is a cool mathematical tidbit.
2011/02/23

Working with ZIP Files in Python

Learn about the zipfile module.
2011/02/13

AdSense Category Filters Fail

AdSense Category filters are pretty useless. Let's see why.
2011/01/30

Classes, Introspection, and the Power of Dynamic Languages

Dynamically modifying objects in Python.
2011/01/25

Reading Excel Files in Python

Learn about the xlrd module.
2011/01/18

Decorators and Timing your code

Learn how to use decorators to measure your code's performance.
2011/01/15

Article Series - Bulk Tag Generation in Python

Series of articles on how to generate image tags in Python.
2011/01/12

Hidden Charges when using Amazon AWS' Free Tier

Amazon charged me 1 cent. Let's find out why
2011/01/05

Google to the Rescue - The Translate API

Using the google Translate API from Python.
2010/12/27

Backups and Saving Regularly

The importance of backing up files regularly.
2010/12/25

Walking Directories in Python

Tutorial on how to use Python to walk a directory tree.
2010/12/23