Yousef Akbar's posts

A few months ago, my Apple Watch strap broke and I stopped using it for a while.

For the two people out there who still manage their mail offline in the terminal with tools like mbsync and notmuch, this is a useful tip to make your synchronization with IMAP servers more seamless and efficient, without needing to poll and pull so frequ…

This is a write-up of a weekend project, vitald, I made after buying a Google Fitbit Air (I’m slowly transitioning out of the Apple ecosystem).

For the longest time I’ve been struggling with image display in terminals.

“The important thing is not your process, the important thing is your process for improving your process.” — Henrik Kniberg, on the continuous nature of self-improvement.

Changelog: (2025-08-30): Published initial version (2025-12-14): Fixed for loop missing in keyword Here is a compendium of reference information regarding bash (also applies to zsh) for syntatic sugar that I keep finding myself googling.

As of today, I’m officially moving away from X (formerly Twitter) and joining Bluesky instead.

This is the self learning phase notes of the SQL database management system language.

Today marks the kick off of the SAP Multi-Dimensional Engineer Program (MDEP) where engineers who passed the selection process are onboarded to the program.

hash is a useful built-in shell command used for caching commands/executables from your $PATH variable.