Karim Hamidou

I’ve spent a lot of time biking in SF and there’s been a few intersections where clearly the traffic engineer responsible went to town with a crazy design.

In his 1984 Turing Award lecture, Ken Thompson inserted a backdoor into the C compiler that was undetectable.

A few years back (4 years already!)

Writing a job post feels like pulling teeth, which is why most job posts end up reading like an ambitious mission statement (“We want to disrupt the pizza delivery market!”)

The other day I randomly came across one of Larry Wall’s keynotes, Perl, the first postmodern language.

Every social media website, from the big ones to the smaller ones (i.e: Pocket) have some sort of infinite feed that you can keep scrolling, basically forever.

My biggest shock when moving to San Francisco was seeing the heartbreaking number of people living in the streets.

Palantir is well known for its grueling interview process.

The other day I stumbled upon a fascinating sub-subculture – people making and wearing parody shirts of popular brands.

A couple months ago I started noticing that my habit of checking reddit in small moments of downtime – like while waiting for a build – was pretty disruptive.

There’s an interesting post about rate-limiting making the rounds on social media.

TCPDump is a super useful tool with a ton of options.

There’s a lot of blog posts about scaling distributed systems to hundreds of thousands users, but not many are about the basics mistakes you’ll make when trying to build one.

I work at Nylas as an engineer on the API team.

Ah the life of the beginning freelancer.

Let’s try something a little different.

This tip courtesy of my colleague Dwayne Litzenberger.

Ever since I went back to Javascript, I’ve been missing C#’s async/await system.

I’m using Jekyll to generate this blog.

I spent most of last week working on implementing auth.

I haven’t written a status report for a long long time.

Call me weird but I’ve always loved reading longform sales pages.

A friend of mine always talks about leaving his cushy job at $BIGCORP to go work fulltime on his indie game venture.

For the longest time, I’ve wondered if Humble Bundles and Steam sales were hurting or helping the video games industry.

My uncle is a teacher.

I spent the past afternoon wrestling with fabric, Apache, Virtualenv and PostgreSQL.

I’m learning rails at the moment.

I’m just noting this in case I forget.

Just a quick thought.

I recently discovered the practice of price anchoring, which is based on a cognitive bias we all have called… anchoring.

I just realized that my last status report was exactly one month ago.

I get a lot of emails asking about my progress on kite, so from now on I’ll regularly share a quick status report.

I recently tried redshift, a program to adjust the screen temperature (the proportion of red and blues) according to the hour of the day.

I’m working on a couple django apps which use separate virtualenvs and I very often have to source the virtualenv activation script.

Last week I had to add support for i18n to a django application.

I’ve recently started to use the excellent Zurb Foundation CSS framework, and I like it a lot.

I recently had to implement a django filter.