Tokens are payroll in disguise
Be respectful with the tokens you use; they could have been paid as salaries to people who were laid off, people who are now unable to find work, or it could be you someday.
~/mustakim
Software Engineer 🇧🇩 🇬🇧 Into Rust, Linux and .NET
Latest posts
wnumbr is back
I built wnumbr back in 2017 as a simple idea: point it at any web page, tell it which number to watch, and it tracks changes over time. Prices, stats, population counters - anything with a number on a page. ( web archive ) It ran for four years on .NET before I
git yolo 🦀, safely
You only live once. So keep smashing 🔥 code. You don't have time to decide the commit message - so git yolo ! git yolo 💡 Use at your own risk in your $dayjob Put this in your shell configuration file ( .bashrc , .zshrc or equivalent file). git config --global alias.
It's 2024, but it's odd for two reasons
Developers love it, but it won't install itself. Hello, irony! Despite technological advancements, a leading OS for developers still requires downloading and double-clicking installers or does not support a package manager natively. This outdated method disrupts workflows, wastes time, and introduces potential errors. Apps still need to
Rust-ing into Open Source: My debut with Rust-Analyzer
I've made my first open-source contribution to Rust. It's on rust-analyzer - the compiler front-end for IDEs like VS Code. The code completion list now shows constructors and builder methods first
Designing what? intensive applications
Summary of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann that teaches the pitfalls of building scalable data systems.
Liinks - minimalistic link in bio page
Introducing liinks.xyz - a site for designing minimalistic links in bio page.
Some underrated features of Rust
Opinionated post about some of the useful features of the Rust Programming language
I'm Rusted 🦀
The most difficult part of learning Rust for me isn’t ownership or slow compile time. It’s that thought in the back of my head that "I could do it much quicker if I were using C#". I could do that quicker using X So
Playing with 🦀 Rust: Building a cli app to estimate disk space usage
🦀 Rust newbie spent this weekend building a small Cli tool to estimate disk space used by a folder including all subfolders. Something like the du command that comes with GNU Coreutils
Ergodox EZ: Time to step up your engineering game
I have been using a keyboard almost all of my life. I write so much using a keyboard that I don't remember when I actually forgot writing using traditional methods like pen & paper. My handwriting using either of my hand is indistinguishable (so I can claim I
Why am I so far away from Windows 💔
I never thought I would come to this - as I am writing this blog on my Debian installation dual booted with my beloved Windows I have been using decades. It all started when I joined my current company back in January 2019, TrueLayer - which is a fastest growing fintech startup
Fix Windows Sandbox internet connectivity problem
Windows sandbox lets you run disposable Windows 10 environment to test potentially dangerous files and programs. This is a major security feature (I'd say) in recent versions of windows. If you are not sure about running an installer, you fire up Windows Sandbox, copy the file inside the
Why I am ditching Google Analytics in favour of Fathom Analytics
I am removing Google Analytics from all of my websites. This includes my website where you are reading this, as well as all of my personal projects. This has less to do with me being paranoid about my visitors being tracked but more to do with recently grown dislike about
gRPC for ASP.NET Core 3.0
Starting from ASP.NET Core 3 gRPC has first class support by the framework. Let's build a simple client-server app using gRPC for ASP.NET Core 3.