Almad's Changelog

I share my experiences with technology, startups and getting through life. Capturing the gist of the time goes into the notes; my larger learnings are to be found under essays, both arbitrarily categorized.

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Notes for Week 9

Random notes for Week 9 of 2021 Read the whole article

Notes for Week 8

Random notes for Week 8 of 2021 Read the whole article

Notes for Week 7

Random notes for Week 7 of 2021: working with OAuth2 Read the whole article

Notes for Week 6

Random notes for Week 6 of 2021: E-mail delivery, MySQL clusters, Prisma and Digital Ocean Read the whole article

Notes for Week 5

Random notes for Week 5 of 2021: Terraform, AWS, Aurora and HTTPie Read the whole article

APIs Are Ontological Boundaries

APIs represent boundaries between systems and their models of reality. Unifying this representation is not a good idea. Read the whole article

Tie Guan Yin #11-25

A batch of 15 new episodes that got me closer to a useful site. Read the whole article

Technology Choices Are Bets

Choosing a technology is not a choice, it’s a bet. Read the whole article

On B Players

A-Players and B-players are used to label people unnecessarily while ignoring the influence of the environment. Read the whole article

The Ethics of a Click

We change lives with a click. The power should be used with responsibility. Read the whole article

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