rafikhan's microblog

Thu 8 May 2025

• The point of competition isn't to win, its to let ...
• The point of writing isn't always to produce conte...
• Software is a means to managing complexity.
• Agile optimizes for predictability that something ...
• It would be prudent to consider the role of the hu...
• There's this idea that writing obscure code on pur...

Wed 7 May 2025

• Reading for Scale Up the Circular Economy - Great ...

Tue 6 May 2025

• types can be useful for communication
• footnotes plugin for wordpress
• The Humanistic Computation Project
• Competition in software products can be harnessed ...
• Rough notes on building a serverless application r...

Mon 5 May 2025

• Software requires maintenance, much like a bespoke...

Sun 4 May 2025

• Take time to be quiet
• Why Software Is So Bad
• What went wrong with wireless USB

Sat 3 May 2025

• I'm more interested in how we got here and where w...

Fri 2 May 2025

• Types don't scale
• Let's distribute the future

Thu 1 May 2025

• Musings on milestones for the space company
• Struggles with monetization of non-scarce resource...

Tue 29 Apr 2025

• ddh - Don't make Google sell Chrome

Mon 28 Apr 2025

• A certain amount of tolerance goes a long way.

Sun 27 Apr 2025

• The greatest enemy of truth is certainty.
• Ideas are sharp. They can be very dangerous.
• I want to clean up the html code generation by try...
• Adding search would also be nice.

Sat 26 Apr 2025

• If you had 100 days left

Fri 25 Apr 2025

• Dhh on merchants of complexity (eg k8s)
• One of the things that makes programming fun is th...
• Massively reducing complexity is important for emp...
• If you want to make the world a better place, desi...
• It's important for people to have a purpose to str...
• Feeling haunted as an entrepreneur
• Ramblings on software complexity

Thu 24 Apr 2025

• How do we make programming fun again?
• I hate the lag that permeates all interactions wit...

Wed 23 Apr 2025

• User interfaces need to be open source because tha...

Sun 20 Apr 2025

• Vscode is in the extinguish phase of EEE

Sat 19 Apr 2025

• Farabi test demo

Fri 18 Apr 2025

• We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain...

Wed 16 Apr 2025

• Better to listen than speak when you're faced with...

Tue 15 Apr 2025

• True power is in restraint and responsibility, not...
• "You cannot have our user's data"
• To achieve mastery it's not 10000 hours, but 10000...

Sat 12 Apr 2025

• You have to treat yourself like you are responsibl...

Fri 11 Apr 2025

• Servo on LLMs for contributions.
• I've started to appreciate no pain no gain.

Thu 10 Apr 2025

• "the hardest problems often need a completely new ...
• My failures are my achievements.

Wed 9 Apr 2025

• A core function of entrepreneurship is telling sto...
• The best quality you can develop is being unstoppa...
• I think it is very important we get comfortable be...
• You need to share your ideas and your work. Its no...
• Reading from next station life.
• Eclipse Open VSX: A Free Marketplace for VS Code E...

Tue 8 Apr 2025

• Focus is saying no to all the other great ideas.
• The Best Programmers I Know
• Have Patience
• "We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pai...

Mon 7 Apr 2025

• sorry, I accidentally killed the reverse proxy tha...

Sun 6 Apr 2025

• "The reason that they think the old code is a mess...

Tue 1 Apr 2025

• Chasing happiness becomes difficult because we suc...

Mon 31 Mar 2025

• What you're not changing your choosing.

Sun 30 Mar 2025

• Leaders over bosses.
• I'm a very reciprocal person.
• You have to believe the dots will connect looking ...

Sat 29 Mar 2025

• My word is my bond :)

Tue 25 Mar 2025

• Phase transitions

Sun 23 Mar 2025

• We need reasonable means to owning digital content...
• One of the most important skills I'm working to de...
• Your most valuable ip is not what you do but how y...
• Maybe you can't do everything, but you can do a lo...

Sat 22 Mar 2025

• If you're validating a new idea, which is the fund...

Fri 21 Mar 2025

• I've been catching up on quantum mechanics, casual...

Thu 20 Mar 2025

• Lessons on rust, c, linux and context.
• Deliberate Practice for Developers

Sun 16 Mar 2025

• "Despite the challenging conditions, I wasn't phys...
• Sometimes i forget, under the stress and pressure ...
• Silence says plenty.

Thu 13 Mar 2025

• There are seven days in the week, someday isn't on...
• If you're tired, keep going.
• Discipline beats talent every time.
• Stewardship over ownership

Wed 12 Mar 2025

• Build within yourself an engine for growth and jus...

Tue 11 Mar 2025

• No broken windows! Especially not in software wher...

Mon 10 Mar 2025

• It's crucial to know the difference between what y...

Thu 6 Mar 2025

• Beans and vibes in even measure
• Slowly learning to reduce expectations.
• If you want to understand why I never give up and ...
• Before you can show someone a path. You have to fi...
• Part of the reason we have poor quality software i...

Wed 5 Mar 2025

• Forget story points.
• Focus is dangerous.
• https://duncancragg.substack.com/p/the-data-first-...

Tue 4 Mar 2025

• How to ask smart questions

Mon 3 Mar 2025

• My mind is different :)
• "The cost of being different is highest when you'r...
• don't try to work when you're tired.
• the surface rusts, look for depth, look for substa...

Sat 1 Mar 2025

• We need to reverse the brain drain.
• Best practices should be renamed appropriate pract...

Fri 28 Feb 2025

• http://semiconductormuseum.com/Museum_Index.htm

Thu 27 Feb 2025

• "Have you ever been so hungry it's kept you awake?...

Wed 26 Feb 2025

• I ran into some personal obstacles recently, which...
• I saw what I mean and I mean what I say :)

Tue 25 Feb 2025

• What would happen if we didn't use TCP or UDP?

Mon 24 Feb 2025

• Rafi Khan's 1st law

Sun 23 Feb 2025

• Mark Twain once said, “When you find yourself on t...

Fri 21 Feb 2025

• If you get this error.
• i love my plants :) they keep me company hehe
• "You don't have to stay in your lane. You do need ...
• "The second you stop defending yourself is the sec...

Thu 20 Feb 2025

• People need to be able to actually own their names...
• https://jprx.io/cve-2025-24118/
• https://blog.apnic.net/2024/10/22/the-ipv6-transit...
• "In most markets, including the Internet, future r...
• IESG Deliberations on Routing and Addressing
• demand should be 1000x capacity. Until that is tr...
• https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8669
• Talk less do more.

Tue 18 Feb 2025

• it's more effective to redirect the river than it ...

Fri 14 Feb 2025

• Focus for maximum effectiveness.
• Always be happy
• Action > words.

Thu 13 Feb 2025

• Stormy ottawa this morning

Wed 12 Feb 2025

• Some of these execs have spent so much time lernin...
• If you're a Saas company who doesn't have their ow...
• what got you here won't get you there

Tue 11 Feb 2025

• Next time your manager says the code doesn't matte...
• selena songs for inspiration.
• perfect is the enemy of good enough.
• steve jobs told us that when he was busy at next, ...

Mon 10 Feb 2025

• zero expectations on others.

Sun 9 Feb 2025

• Victory is life
• Learning to be problem focused rather than solutio...

Sat 8 Feb 2025

• Information desires to be free.

Fri 7 Feb 2025

• Im results focused.
• Push systems are intrusive. They add stress where ...
• I vibrate at a different frequency :)
• My aim is to be the number one at execution.
• I do joke, sometimes.
• One way to find things you enjoy.
• https://lobste.rs/s/etdzwd/ai_haters_build_tarpits...

Thu 6 Feb 2025

• The best way to learn about someone is to study th...
• It's important to learn from other people, but nev...
• 80% errors 20% mistakes.

Wed 5 Feb 2025

• Knowing who you are, what your mission is and who ...
• Abp.
• Induction combined with deduction.
• i've been convinced.
• Form informs function

Tue 4 Feb 2025

• It can be hard to change the world on a salary.......
• test publish from x1y.
• effectiveness > efficiency.
• Kill them with kindness :)
• learning iup for lua https://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.b...
• Most people doubt me because theyre insecure becau...
• I've noticed i don't really worry about if I'll su...
• A side effect of computing is bloat.

Mon 3 Feb 2025

• we can think a lot faster than we can execute, thi...
• Xkcd automation chart
• Let's build lickliders intergalactic network :)

Sun 2 Feb 2025

• We're on a mission. People are depending on us. So...
• Agile was supposed to be called adaptive.
• delegate problems not solutions
• Increasing polarization is a distraction.
• Leaders eat last.
• Distributed > decentralized > centralized.
• I don't think capitalism has to only be about mone...

Sat 1 Feb 2025

• The root of a lot of pain in the world;
• Nothing is truly impossible.
• Short update of this week.
• A good profile to follow for software posts.
• It's okay to expect things of people as long as yo...
• I kind of realized you don't need to check on your...
• I write therefore I think?

Fri 31 Jan 2025

• protocols > implementations
• Context:
• "if we wake from our stupor that we're not a count...
• One of my absolute favorite quotes.
• Something i learned from a linked in post from Jef...
• There are 2 annoying problems in computer science:...
• ego bad. Self respect good.

Thu 30 Jan 2025

• You want to push yourself. But not force yourself....
• A society grows great when the old plant trees in ...
• https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/s/IeScVjwLYT

Tue 28 Jan 2025

• Pride gets in the way.
• Trying to organize information is a losing game. ...
• Free speech is more important than democracy.
• The threat of powerful machines is less the machin...
• Freedom without accountability is a ticking time b...
• In software development, Linus's law is the assert...
• I think we’re all the same. Scientists at heart.
• Seven things I know after 25 years of development ...

Mon 27 Jan 2025

• I had to leave home to find myself. But now I'm ba...
• If you need a scrum master or project manager you'...
• Features aren't important.

Sun 26 Jan 2025

• The computer revolution hasn't happened yet (keyno...

Sat 25 Jan 2025

• pull is more scalable than push
• If you don't make any "enemies" you probably don't...
• wtf is the eu thinking with gdpr regulating the in...
• Wealth is a mindset. Not a bank balance.
• Being smart doesn't give you a pass for being an a...
• I'll keep repeating this until it sinks in.

Fri 24 Jan 2025

• I don't care how much money you offer.
• I physically can't get ahead by pushing others dow...
• don't explain yourself or try too hard to fix thin...
• be happy, laugh, smile joke.
• never be so polite you forget your power.
• the world influencer kind of bothers me... I guess...
• I was faced with a tough decision last night.
• I take it back, chatgpt isnt codegen, or autocompl...

Thu 23 Jan 2025

• in the face of critcism
• you don't need to claim ownership of your work.
• learning to work with toxic people, its a challeng...
• it baffles me that we seem to think we can't trust...

Wed 22 Jan 2025

• https://indamatrix.com/

Tue 21 Jan 2025

• Truth, love and freedom are the trinity of the uni...

Mon 20 Jan 2025

• isolation is a dream killer.
• if you want to go fast go alone

Sun 19 Jan 2025

• ai writing code will affect a lot of tech and tec...
• gotta love spotify's auto offline Playlist backup....
• Your image is everything.
• Sorry for the late post! Got distracted hacking aw...

Wed 15 Jan 2025

• Internally Erlang has no character data type. Stri...

Tue 14 Jan 2025

• idea for z, allow author app to be a pwa so it can...
• Gnu linux distro with integrated ai

Mon 13 Jan 2025

• Db hosting is unnecessarily expensive and cloud pr...
• Bug

Sun 12 Jan 2025

• hello world
• Test publish from s24
• The source code for this app.
• Some goals for the mvp:
• Bugs
• Bug
• I think I'll hold off on making any updates to thi...
• A micro app that would be really useful.
• I wonder if we would have less war/ conflict if sp...
• Ai agent idea
• Can't tell if this makes any or no sense but, sql ...