rozumem's weblog

Someone recently told me 'You think too much'.

I'm reading a book called _The Coaching Habit_ so I can coach my team better and specifically make my 1:1s with them more productive.

I finished reading *SPQR* by Mary Beard a few months back.

I recently learned about the Doorman Fallacy and couldn't help but connect it to an experience I had last weekend.

I recently got suckered into subscribing to NYTimes because I wanted to read an article behind a paywall and I couldn't find an easy and quick alternative.

Rental car insurance is broken in Dubai.

On Feb 24, 2026 we started to see a rise in user complaints saying they're not receiving our emails.

In early March, due to the unexpected war in the ME, I was contemplating my next move.

Shipping new features for users and watching them gobble it up is the greatest Joy of being a coder.

This title may seem tongue-in-cheek in a world where seldom a day goes by without hearing a friend, colleague, or a viral post touting how AI saved them *hours*, if not *days*, of engineering work.

There's a cafe I go to for my daily midday tea breaks.

Nothing like a Cloudflare outage to inspire another blog post.

Anyone who is remotely tech savvy doesn't need Google to tell them 'Phishing is one of the top ways bad actors intrude and steal data.'

I recently had to make some performance optimizations.

I recently moved into a one bedroom apartment in Marsa Dubai (a.k.a.

On August 21, 2025 PagerDuty alerted me that my Node server is taking way too long to respond.

Recently, I decided to move to Dubai under their Virtual Work visa scheme.

I'm working on something which is not interesting nor time critical.