As the holy month of Ramadan comes to a close, I look back on my experience these past 30-or-so days in the greater reflection on my current stage in life.
Author: Basil
Calling on US Congress to end financial aid to Israel and to call for an immediate ceasefire
I have just finished calling my US representative and my two senators demanding that they stop all support for Israel and immediately call for a ceasefire and that my vote for them depends on this action. I encourage everyone else to do the same. See the link for the script I used.
December 11, 2023 Global Strike for Gaza #strikeforgaza
Like many others today, I am participating in the Global Strike for Gaza (#StrikeForGaza) particularly in response to the United States of America’s despicable veto of a U.N. resolution demanding a humanitarian ceasefire in Israel’s war against Palestinian civilians.
Meeting humor
Have you ever been in a meeting and you made a work-related joke, and you thought to yourself, “You don’t work hard enough to make that kind of joke….”. I’ve come to realize I’m frequently that guy…😅
Seeking Director of Engineering role
I wanted to reach out and leverage my network in pursuit of my next engineering leadership role. The ideal role, and one where I feel I can contribute the most value, would be one that would allow me to leverage my 20 years of web application development in the traditional backend LAMP stack (think PHP-…
I’m still here
My first blog post in a long time, I reflect on what motivates me and how I strayed from that over the past few years.
What to do when you hit the system limit for number of file watchers
Modern web development can push a system past normal everyday limits. This is a quick fix for one you may run into…
Remember we have more than one kind of health we need to protect
While the pandemic, lockdown, and related concerns are peak on our minds, we need to also keep in mind not just our physical health, but overall as well.
A Note of Positivity for the Recently Laid-Off
Though the sting and specter of looming layoffs is still fresh for everyone, and news about the pandemic seems gloomy, I think we can all use a bit of a note of positivity.
GNU Screen Tip #1
I just wanted to share this simple thing I learned about GNU Screen and also get some of my quirkiness out this morning before starting real work. 😀
Nextcloud 18 + PHP 7.4 upgrade means you may have to reset your passwords
The mildly interesting story of upgrading to PHP 7.4 leading to a password issue with Nextcloud 18.
Laptop OEMs – make a proper high-end AMD laptop!
Laptop makers have long shortchanged AMD-based offerings. Read on to find out how they can avoid common mistakes that limit the potential of their products.
Upgrade MariaDB table row formats to DYNAMIC
The one trick Oracle doesn’t want you to know!
Missing the point of a framework
This may be one of the most frustrating things I’ve had to deal with.
Testing ActivityPub
Trying out the ActivityPub plugin for federated social media sharing.
HidayahTech
No longer a mishmash of dreams, scribbled notes, and vainglorious aspirations, I’ve finally started my own company!
Upgrading to PHP 7.3
The exciting world of self-hosted server administration brings me back upgrading my version of PHP finally!
How not to send service outage status updates
I woke up this morning to Intuit’s status alerts blowing-up my phone due to a severely large number of service outages related to their developer portal. After the 20th-or-so notice within a few minutes, I figured I should have gotten the message…
WhatsApp & Opus
Despite many sites espousing WhatsApp and its usage of Opus for audio messages, I am unable to actually send an Opus file through WhatsApp that is playable within the app itself.
It’s time to replace GIFs with AV1 video!
Over at #aomedia on FreeNode, I saw a link (above) posted to this neat blog showing the effectiveness of replacing animated GIFs with AV1 videos. While the general idea of using true video formats to replace short GIF animations has been implemented, with the industry support for AV1 and its clear superiority over other existing…