I updated my website. https://salrahman.com/

So I went back to regular CSS after using Tailwind for a while. OK, so a bunch of people complain about how Tailwind is unmaintainable. I genuinely don't understand as to what they are going on about.

Meanwhile, I'm out here teaching myself GNAP.

I could almost swear, if you're easily outraged, you're probably easy to manipulate.

I started contributing to one of @Interledger's public GitHub repos, not only because I felt like it, but I really think what Interledger is up to is really cool.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/116166337665900054 I'm not aggressively anti US big tech, but also very much a huuuge supporter of digital sovereignty. This is a win.

Some people seem to love to substitute code correctness with code style and convention.

It was a productive weekend: - drafted out a talk to pitch for the next VanJS event—it will be about JavaScript generators - explored my own hypervisor implementaton - learned about chroot even more I'm thinking of rewriting my left-leaning red-black tree implementation, perhaps in Bun […]

Build small things that work really well is my motto.

This is all you need to get started building a full-stack app, in Bun. No bundler needed. 🤯

I've been fiddling around with Docker export and chroot, and now I'm curious about Firecracker and microVM. Interesting times for me.

I don't know what I did, but after having installed TLP and TLP UI, my ThinkPad X1 Carbon began to have a more tolerable battery life.

Mastodon.bd is up and running! It's the first Bangladesh focused instance on the Fediverse. Everyone is welcome! #bangladesh #fediverse #mastodon #asia #dhaka

Forgot to share this, but I thought I'd share. I had some delicious biryani at Bahubali Biryani House, at the South Western corner of Scott Road and Nordel Way, at the Kennedy Heights Shopping Centre, South. It was delicious. If you're looking for something […] [Original post on techhub.social]

If "vibe coding" really meant that you just prompt an LLM without ever looking at a line of code, my most success came from actually thinking from first principles, and having a long-winded conversation with the chatbot.

Look, I know most people resort to JSON, but some swear by YAML, and I don't even understand why. https://www.ohyaml.wtf/

RE: https://techhub.social/@manlycoffee/116152768784039974 So re-reading this quoted post, something entirely unrelated crossed my mind: as someone who speaks 4 languages, it would have been nice had I been able to speak a 5th one: Chinook Jargon. It got killed off, unfortunately, not because […]

Me on Linux, typing the name of the new bridge that replaced the old Pattullo Bridge: Stal̕əw̓asəm Bridge #newwestminster #newwestminsterbc #newwestminsterbritishcolumbia #newwestminsterbccanada #newwestminsterbritishcolumbiacanada #bc #britishcolumbia #bccanada #britishcolumbiacanada #Canada

The comment section in this video is hilarious, lmao https://www.instagram.com/spicymoustache/reel/DVJWF7wCEEx/

There is such a thing as a dumb question.

I usually hate "predictions". On Twitter—and now X—people on there looooved the attention they got from making predictions. But right now, I can't help myself. So, for the next 6 months, we're probably going to continue hearing repeated talks of massive, headline-grabbing layoffs. Parallel […]

And old photo of my brother's cat. #Caturday

So there are devs out there that keep saying that "Frontend developers are doing easy work, and therefore are not smart". And these are the same groups of people who would likely say that "backend development takes up a lot of math". I've gone back to backend development in this most recent […]

New idea: Neobank specifically for digital sovereignty, from the app running on Linux/without SafetyNet and other nonsense to the servers running on local infrastructure

I know this is a sampling bias, but I'm noticing some signals, and it's serious. When I logged onto Bluesky, I've seen a few people claim that they are developing for ATProto because the community of users (not necessarily the devs) in the ActivityPub world are insanely hostile against certain […]

I could almost swear that the reason why the Indie Hacker and "build in public" movements have died down is because too many people try to build things fully end-to-end, and end up missing the trees for forest. Sometimes, we gotta focus on the trees. We can't get the big picture without […]

I didn't even need to see the graph in this article to know what I should feel like. I've been feeling this for a while. That the job market is pretty chill. And I've been relaxed for a while (sort of). I am brushing up on my skills, though, don't get me wrong. But at least I know that I […]

I'm seeing a some people collect ThinkPads like some people collect Pokémon cards.

Wondering what do you call this? Is there a name for this kind of navigation? Manual pagination? Slow mode? Finite scrolling? Windowed browsing? #phanpyexperiment #ux #design

Just found out about this. https://github.com/aristocratos/btop?tab=readme-ov-file

I just found out about this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Hardware_Enhanced_RISC_Instructions

So I'm attending a talk by Terry Purcell, principle architect for TiDB's query optimizer, and he's talking about query optimizers. He brought up an interesting point: he's no longer just optimizing for humans writing queries, but he's also optimizing for what queries AI agents end up sending […]

So, I'm using keyboard and mouse with my Android phone, lmao. It's actually pretty neat.

The fact that there's someone out there that became rich by buying worthless insurance contracts, and selling them at a premium during market crashes lives rent-free in my head.

RE: https://techhub.social/@manlycoffee/116124050251363866 What's really neat is that on Ubuntu, the Touch Pad actually acts like a trackpad, so you can actually control the mouse cursor with it. This is something you can't do on macOS.

The DualSense 2 controller is pretty awesome!

Snoop Dogg on LinkedIn is insanely wholesome.

Considering how so much of the things that I persist are entirely online (such as GitHub, or some other source forge), I've been practically living off of `mktemp -d`. No need to worry about organizing files.

So I've been using Slack on Ubuntu. I initially installed via Snap. Problem: when restarting my machine, I'd get logged out of all Slack workspaces when my desktop is back up. Conclusion: Snap version is bad. On Ubuntu, I recommend using the .deb version.

Love this so much. Can't wait to show this at my next LUG meeting. Couldn't get the debugger to work literally any other way in Go for some reason and with Builder it Just Works™. Wish I had a VSCode extension for Foundry ...

My greatest skill: thinking from first principles.

I really gotta learn to sell.

Look, I'm not going to deny that once the job market picks up, PhDs are really going to be incredibly valuable. But after hearing several PhDs getting turned down for "AI engineering" roles (none of which require any machine learning), I can tell you first hand: learning prompt engineering is a […]

So I've been using a ThinkPad as a daily driver for the past couple of weeks. I've heard about them for a while, just never gotten around to owning one, until recently. I can honestly say, that the quality is top-notch, and there is almost a cult following for them. I always love hearing […]

With the proliferation of OpenClaw, it's a good reminder that being the "first mover" doesn't guarantee moat. Case in point? Before OpenClaw, there was Eliza (by AI16z), which allowed you to talk to an agent via Telegram, WhatsApp, or Discord.

This is an interesting vlog by someone providing insights into what led to the layoffs at Amazon, and all the mass layoffs going on, right now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyCcgG4nm90

I think I'm getting a lot more comfortable with Vim.

[Epstein files] I read a comment that goes "Trump's been mentioned in the Epstein files more times than Jesus was mentioned in the BIble." Someone else replied "Trump's been mentioned in the Epstein files more times than Harry Potter was mentioned in the entire Harry Potter franchise."

Everyone wins! #alttext #accessibility

I keep saying that I need to blog more. I have no idea. Ironically, I have embraced the idea of "ephemerality". That is, I'm OK with posts living as long as people viewed them once, and it's over then. Like, I know people say "well, never post private stuff; someone may archive it". But […]