Deep Work (Sometimes) Pays Off
An old passion project on multiplayer tech fueled a successful product ten years later.
Asad Memon
Asad Memon
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Everything is Optimized, Everything is Same
Everything is optimized, standardized, uniform, predictable, same. Where goes our creative expression?
Qualifying for EB1 Green Card as a Software Engineer
I recently got my US green card via an EB1-A (Alien of Extraordinary Ability) petition and many people have been asking me about this I thought I'd share my journey and my learnings.
Using GitHub Issues for Blog Comments
I wanted to add a comment system to this blog but I didn't want to make visitors suffer with something like Disqus which are tracking-heavy. So I decided to use GitHub issues.
VEON Pakistan’s Launch and What Startups Can Learn From It
Mobilink partnered with VEON; an Amsterdam-based company, to launch their equivalent of WeChat for Pakistanis. It was interesting to see an…
Trying out Facebook’s Caffe2
I was amazed by Facebook’s Realtime Style Transfer camera. Which were first seen in the popular Prisma app but that wasn’t realtime and…
Startup Funding in Pakistan (Infographic)
StartupList.pk now has a good amount of funded startups. So here is a little birds-eye view of how we are doing in terms of getting funded…
Making Azure Work
If you know anything about cloud, you will know that nothing beats AWS. Any knowledgeable engineer will always choose AWS over Azure or…
Shortest Way to Deep Learning
Google has brought deep learning a bit more mainstream. They also launched a short Udacity course, but it requires previous knowledge of…
Summer of Code
Summer of Code is a summer program to help Pakistani developers learn trending frameworks so they can write cool projects they want to…
Zong 4G Hacked?
TL;DR: Zong’s servers are compromised and are randomly serving ads to it’s internet customers. Read on!
Gamers’ Void
Remember the time when your grades were bad because everyday after school you would be gaming online with your friends. Friends you had…
Privileges
Sometimes you meet a person who appears to be less successful than you, even though they are the same age as you. Which results in you…
Arm Tracking using Pebble
I, as most other owners love my Pebble watch. It is incredible how a simple hardware device (uC + Display + BT + Sensors) strapped to your…
My Observations about Silicon Valley
So I had the chance to visit The Valley this month. These are my observations about the place in both technical and general sense as a…
High Performance Mobile Game Development in HTML5
Sometime ago, I had to make a decision on development language / framework for a cross platform mobile game. I had to at the very least…
Scrollbars: Evolution Gone Wrong
I am a smartphone user and these new touchscreen devices have changed a lot of UI Elements and brought new concepts through this ‘gestures’…
How To Be Excellent at Something
So you consider yourself useless and worth nothing OR you have nothing unique that differs you from others. You might want to re-evaluate…
Growing Startup Landscape of Pakistan
StartupList.pk now has the data of about 200+ Pakistani companies.
Are There Enough Tech Founders in Pakistan?
TL;DR: Apparently, yes. Read on!