Rakhim's blog

If global large-scale human communication continues to be concentrated within large social media platforms and content providers like YouTube, human languages may become sort of irrelevant in that space.

I know, I know, this sounds controversial.

Recently my partner's trusty old 5K iMac died after 8.5 years of service (Radeon gpu is fried).

This is an excellent video about modern UI/UX: "The Hidden Cost of 'Clean' Design."

There are two smartphone features that I consider sacred and believe they must never fail: phone calling and the alarm.

When I'm searching for docs, 95% of the time a single example would suffice.

Apple's first desktop operating system was Tahoe.

Some folks have gone all-in on AI-assisted coding.

In anthropology there is a notion of high-context and low-context cultures.

Unless someone wrote an article about that exact thing, a plain full-text search engine cannot answer a question like this: What animal is featured on a flag of a country where the first small British colony was established in the same year that Sweden's…

Over the past few years, Google has done a surprisingly great job of making YouTube less interesting and engaging — and in turn, less addictive.

People in tech business circles love this quote by Henry Ford: If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

Half Life and Half Life 2 are my favorite games.

I made a little puzzle game called Knight Ride.

Google is usually criticized for its relentless collection of personal data.

Sublime Merge is a fantastic Git client.

Computers are precise machines.

I've added a new feature to Exotext which converts YouTube links into embeds (when a link is on its own line and surrounded by newlines).

Sometimes you need to make a change to an SQLite table which is not possible with a simple ALTER command.

I discover and curate dozens of blogs every day while working on Minifeed.

While developing Textpod (a simple note-taking app written in Rust), I needed to automate building and publishing on Github.

I had a "woah" moment once when one programmer got genuinely baffled about the fact that a website somehow "erases" the history of requests from the Network tab of Chrome DevTools.

Lots of scientific Python libraries are often used within Jupyter notebooks.

I love science fiction in all forms, and I can't resist watching almost any sci-fi movie.

A few weeks ago I've released an extremely simple note-taking app called Textpod.

I'm not sure how I feel about webfonts.

I don't envy beginners trying to get into web development today.

I just wanted to write again.

I hate to use a smartphone.

At first I cycled up the hill with all my force trying to impress the world.

Programming, coding, and software engineering are often used interchangeably.

Remember how your parents would try to use Windows 95 or something like Norton Commander.

A few years ago, I've made a bunch of videos on YouTube about foundational topics in programming.

In the past I had spent hours asking people to recommend me some books, in both real life and on the internet.

When I was a kid, everyone around me was obsessed with something.