Vahid Dejwakh

In his May 2026 encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas”, Pope Leo XIV brings global attention and leadership to the urgent need for placing guardrails on the use of artificial intelligence (AI).

On the surface, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners (2025) is just a decent vampire movie with a pretty sweet first half.

Many have written or talked about how Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” has impacted their life, for the better.

Yes, it is time for another translation of a Mohsen Namjoo song.

Every now and then, you read about someone’s life and are touched in a profound way that transcends reason.

Here’s yet another translated song of Mohsen Namjoo – this time, it’s Tche Bashad (What if).

If you began your programming journey learning either Java, C#, C++, Python, Ruby, Go, or even JavaScript, this post is here to give you a taste of C, and perhaps interest you in exploring C further.

The system design interview is one of the funnest types of interviews you could get, if you know how to tackle it.

Some friends and I have decided to read retired Oxford professor Alan Ryan’s magnum opus, On Politics.

Over the past couple months, I met some new folks and got to spend more time with family than I normally do.

From the time I started applying to software engineering positions to the time I accepted an offer, I experienced a month and a half of intense growth.

For those who enjoy playing board games, here’s a randomizer that lets you randomize starting places for each player from a pool of options.

Namjoo’s song Toranj (“Bergamot”) includes some couplets from Khajavi Kermani, a fourteenth century Sufi mystic and poet of Iran.

Many of you know that my team and I have been working hard for the last couple months on a new open source framework to enable client-side streaming from Kafka.

My team and I are building the Fjord Framework, an open-source framework that deploys an API Proxy to enable client-side streaming from Kafka.

I’ve written before about my appreciation for the work of Mohsen Namjoo in putting Persian poetry to music.

Another pair of terms that are easy to confuse are parallelism and concurrency.

The terms scalability and performance are sometimes used interchangeably, but they actually mean two entirely different things.

As an application attracts more users, the ability to scale becomes paramount.

I’ve been making a career transition to software engineering for about a year and a half, starting first in a –gasp!

One of the most basic and fundamental models for application architecture is the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

The JavaScript engine is only one of several tools browsers use to deliver a user interface that is both dynamic and able to asynchronously interact with multiple databases and events.

Sometimes, we need to display the same basic HTML, but with some customized data interspersed here and there.

Probably the least understood aspect of JavaScript, the prototypal inheritance model is also coincidentally its most salient and powerful feature.

One of my all-time favorite artists is Mohsen Namjoo.

Let’s figure out how we can create an interactive interface that converts a Gregorian Month and Day to a Persian Month and Day, and vice versa.

The Journal of John Woolman offers an introspective look into the life of a Quaker itinerant preacher, mystic, abolitionist, and lover of humankind.

In Part II, we learned how an HTTP request travels across the Internet to the correct destination server, through several layers, and returns with a response.

What exactly happens when you enter a URL in your browser?

ISPs, routers, gateways, LANs, HTTP, the cloud, the web… the Internet is so complex that we could spend days, months, and even years studying this stuff, and we still wouldn’t be done.

Written as a memoir to his son William, who at the time was the governor of New Jersey, Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography offers several valuable insights into the life of one of the most remarkable men of the 18th century.

I recently purchased a set of books too numerous for my own good. 71 volumes, to be exact.

Gradually going through and exploring the 71-volume Harvard Classics, and writing reviews and reflections.

Did you know that Ruby was good for the environment?

I have a confession to make.

Deepening my understanding of object-oriented programming and honing my software engineering skills through the comprehensive and meticulous Launch School Core curriculum.

The technical interview is a critical part of becoming a software engineer.

Sometimes, forms are too long and can be intimidating to complete.

Sorting an array is one of the most common things we have to do as software engineers.

What’s a framework?

Integers, floats, strings, arrays, objects, functions, loops, scope?

The brain has evolved to be excellent at remembering visual cues, but not as good at remembering abstract concepts like numbers.

I’ve been working with Javascript for a while now, and have gotten fairly comfortable with its syntax.

Let’s say your React application has a smart component (i.e. the component has its own state), and you want a child component to be able to not only access, but actually modify that parent component’s state.

I recently completed Dr.

In my last semester of law school, I took the opportunity to write the paper I had been wanting to write ever since taking Contracts and Business Associations courses.

Pulsating rhythmical beats from a cage where meet Ephemeral feet and eternal feats, My soul took flight on that solitary night When Siddhartha’s story by Herman Hesse I came across, while on the wings—of an albatross Never before had I questioned more What

Thanktime is a tool to encourage thankfulness.

I first built Briefcat back in 2014 to help law school students study for their courses.

Parfois, les chemins de la vie chanceuse Me mênent dans des ruelles chaleureuses, Remplies de joie et d’ambiance, Comme les souvenirs lointains de mon enfance Ceux ne sont pas nécessairement des mirages, Vous voyez– Il y existe quand même des paysages Dans