Rakhim's Blog

Why I prefer to git stage outside of the editor or the terminal

Sublime Merge is a fantastic Git client. I’ve been using it for years, even after switching from Sublime Text to VS Code. VS Code has excellent built-in Git support, but I still...

They made computers behave like annoying salesmen

Rakhim's Blog · 15mo

Computers are precise machines. You can give a computer a precise command using an inhumane language, and it should perfome the command. It's not a human, and there is no point...

YouTube picks, December 2024

Rakhim's Blog · 15mo

I've added a new feature to Exotext which converts YouTube links into embeds (when a link is on its own line and surrounded by newlines). To test things out, here are some cool...

How to make forbidden changes to SQLite tables

Rakhim's Blog · 16mo

Sometimes you need to make a change to an SQLite table which is not possible with a simple ALTER command. For example, today I realized that email_verifications table in my DB...

I wish your bespoke React-Tailwind-etc static site generator had RSS

Rakhim's Blog · 16mo

I discover and curate dozens of blogs every day while working on Minifeed. The blogging is far from dead, there are SO many blogs out there! Sadly, lots of blogs don't have RSS....

How to build and publish multi-platform Rust binaries via Github actions

Rakhim's Blog · 16mo

While developing Textpod (a simple note-taking app written in Rust), I needed to automate building and publishing on Github. This article (or the corresponding set of...

How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect.

Rakhim's Blog · 16mo

I had a "woah" moment once when one programmer got genuinely baffled about the fact that a website somehow "erases" the history of requests from the Network tab of Chrome...

Jupyter notebooks as e2e tests

Rakhim's Blog · 16mo

Lots of scientific Python libraries are often used within Jupyter notebooks. At work, we develop and maintain plenty of such libraries for quantum computing, and some more...

Lesser-known science fiction movies

Rakhim's Blog · 16mo

I love science fiction in all forms, and I can't resist watching almost any sci-fi movie. So, I watch a lot of them. It's a bit annoying how "sci-fi and fantasy" became the...

Your minimalistic app is great! Can you add these 38 features, though?

Rakhim's Blog · 17mo

A few weeks ago I've released an extremely simple note-taking app called Textpod. I just wanted a "one big-ass text file" kind of thing, but with file attachments and link...

Should I use web fonts?

Rakhim's Blog · 17mo

I'm not sure how I feel about webfonts. For now, I'm using IBM Plex serif, which looks pretty, sure. It loads pretty fast thanks to Cloudflare Fonts, which rewrites Google Fonts...

In search for a good Markdown editor for my blogging platform

Rakhim's Blog · 17mo

I don't envy beginners trying to get into web development today. I haven't been doing any frontend web development for more than a decade. Today I was trying to do a simple...

Here we go

Rakhim's Blog · 17mo

I just wanted to write again. My old blog at rakhim.org is built with Hugo, and after installing a new version of Hugo things broke. After 25 minutes of attempts to fix it I...

The mandatory smartphone

Rakhim's Blog · 5y

I hate to use a smartphone. Being able to view maps, look up info on the go and listen to music is great, but I always felt that smartphones are like plastic utensils. Very...

It's okay to walk uphill

Rakhim's Blog · 5y

At first I cycled up the hill with all my force trying to impress the world. My athletic sweat was the only thing that showed the effort. My face was trying to do the opposite,...

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