What I read in 2025
My favourite books of 2025 (and others).
Sadman Hossain
Sometimes boring explorations into a world of software and beyond.
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What I watched in 2025
My favourite TV shows and movies of 2025 (and others).
Blaugust 2025 Retrospective
Bit of a bust.
It's ok to take it easy sometimes
Rest isn’t lazy. It’s part of living well.
You can just do things
The simplest truth about life that we all forget sometimes.
UofT Work Study Jobs Dashboard (2025-2026)
Another year, another custom dashboard for work study job postings.
A late start to Blaugust 2025
Getting involved in a new month-long blog challenge, with only half the month to go.
Going to the gym for the first time (again)
How I started going back to the gym for the first time in a long time.
Find joy in the boring bits of life
Embrace whimsy in your everyday.
A timeline for ECE496 at UofT
A comprehensive timeline of the UofT engineering capstone design project course (ECE496) experience from team formation to final presentation.
How to use Goodreads data in Astro
Using the Astro Content Loader API to get data from Goodreads bookshelves and dynamically build Goodreads components in Astro.
Course reviews for upper-year UofT ECE courses
What upper-year courses you should take as a UofT ECE student (and what to watch out for when planning on Magellan).
What I watched in 2024
My favourite TV shows and movies of 2024 (and others).
What I read in 2024
My favourite books of 2024 (and others).
Analyzing UofT PEY Co-op Job Postings Part 2: Building a Better Job Postings Dashboard
Taking 10 MB of UofT PEY Co-op job posting data (2000+ jobs) & displaying postings on a redesigned modern dashboard (for future students to have a better idea of what to expect).
Work Study Jobs at UofT: why to apply, what to expect, & a better way to view job postings
UofT's Work Study program is a gem for finding part-time work; here's why you should apply (and how you can use my redesigned dashboard for viewing jobs).
Recording terminal sessions using asciinema and its derivatives (Software Showcase #1)
CLI tools for recording terminal sessions locally (and to the web) as asciicast files (.cast), GIFs, and animated SVGs.
Analyzing UofT PEY Co-op Job Postings Part 1: Scraping Job Board Data
Collecting unstructured data on 2k+ job postings from UofT's PEY Co-op job board & pipelining to a single SQLite database less than 10 MB in size.
Putting 20k+ words on a 1 MB cheatsheet
The art of maximizing content on a cheatsheet while maintaining readability using the cutting-edge in type-setting technology (ala Typst).
Advice for high school freshmen
What I would’ve told myself back then if I could do so now.
A look at my (rather old) VS Code setup
Some snippets of tools I used to use back in my first year of university (and some that I still do too).
A guide to learning
Better alternatives to rote memorization (also known as cramming the night before an exam)
Why I use Trello
Everybody needs a system for making their to do list; Trello is mine.
How I deal with email
People loathe the experience of email. Here's my system of dealing with it.
Coming up with (good) ideas
Coming up with good ideas can be tough, but the real magic lies in the process, not just the outcome.
On keeping a journal
Why you should be writing if you aren't already.