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Stories by mraza007

Who are your favorite tech youtubers
Hello, Out of curiosity, who are your favorite tech youtubers. Since I love to learn a lot from YouTube.
What’s your preferred tech stack when building side projects?
Hello, I’m curious to know what’s your preferred tech stack when it comes to building side projects and why pick those technologies Anyways here’s mine, - Flask (Mostly for backend since its much simpler) - HTML CSS and JS (FrontEnd) I haven’t really built anything using React or othe...
What’s your favorite vim shortcut/hack
I’m someone who recently started using vim and have been always trying to find new ways to do things efficiently in vim. After all using vim I have realized its really powerful and can do a lot for you with few commands which I personally find it really cool. So i would love to hear from the c...
Tools that made you productive or saved you time
I would love to hear community input on the tools that they have been using to save there time and be more productive. How a tool made you productive/saved time and what made you pick that tool.
Share your blog
This idea sparked in my head where i want to create an awesome list of blogs. Feel free to share your blog and why user should read your blog.
What are your favorite Mastodon technology/programming community servers
Hello, I’m pretty new to mastodon as I’m trying to switch away from twitter so what are your favorite mastodon technology/programming community servers
What side projects are you building currently ?
Hello Everyone, What side project are you working on? I’m currently developing my old project further such as adding new features to it. It’s a project that allows you to send sms without using any thirdparty apis it uses simple smtp and sms gateways. So I’m developing a frontend for that projec...
What are the most useful aliases in your bashrc or zshrc
What are the most useful aliases or functions etc for bash that you've collected or written? Or bash scripts. Please give explanation/usage if necessary. Ones you actually use often. Thanks!
What tools made you better programmer
As a programmer we use different tools to keep our workflow productive such as using IDEs,Personalized TextEditors with extension. What were some of the tools that made your work more efficient and helped you become a better programmer
How contributing to open source helped you become a better developer or landed you a job
I’m very curious to know how did contributing to open helped you get better at your craft or maybe helped you land a job. As a software engineer I myself find overwhelming contributing to open source but how do you navigate yourself out of that feeling and get comfortable. Would love to he...
What’s the most interesting automation you have created?
Would love to hear about the most interesting automation you have created either at work or personal automation. Also what language did you use?
Do you self host your own cloud or email ? If you do what tools and hardware do you use ?
If you are into self hosting your stuff at home then what are some tools that you use and what type of hardware do you use to host on ?
What are some good python codebases to read?
Hello, Would love to hear from community on your favorite python codebases and how can you become a better python developer. I am currently a bit rusty when it comes to writing python but I would love to further improve my skillset
What was your first contribution to an open source project?
This is a very broad question but I would like to narrow it down. So how did you begin contributing to open source and felt more comfortable contributing to large and widely used projects. I would love to hear your experience and tips. As someone who’s programming in Python and really wants to co...
What are some cool side projects you have built lately?
Hello, What are some cool side projects you have built this year? For instance I built a side project at work which allows you read sql data and then download that as csv files locally and then you can run filters on it as well. It was easy to use tool as compared to running queries.
What static site generator and theme do you use for your blog
I'm thinking about changing my blog. I'm currently using jekyll but I am going for pelican or hugo. I am also looking for minimal themes since I am not a UI guy so I would prefer if i can find a nice looking clean minimal theme that I can setup that would be great. I am looking forward to eveyone...
What are you learning nowadays?
Would love to hear from the community in terms of what skills are they learning nowadays
fzf - The Command-Line Fuzzy Finder (muhammadraza.me)
What’s your favorite go to documentation tool for building team knowledge base
Hello, What are you favorite documentation tools for building team knowledge base. It can be opensource and offer features such as full text search and can be hosted as a static site
What’s the most coolest technology you have ever worked on ?
Throughout your programming career what’s the most coolest technology you have worked on ? Such as building large scale web applications, High frequency trading systems and etc. How did it help you progress in your career
How’s your experience so far using LLMs for coding
What has been your experience using LLMs for coding. In what capacity have you been using LLMs when coding. For me it has been great tool i have been using chatgpt 4 and it has immensely helped me understanding new concepts , building scripts. and prototyping stuff
How do you keep track of things you learn/discover everyday?
Hey Guys, I would love to know how do you keep track of things you discover/learn while working on your job or sideprojects. I have currently adopted a very simple method pf writing everything in a markdown file and putting it on github. Here’s the repo: https://github.com/mraza007/til As ...
Send SMS using python (Without Twilio) (muhammadraza.me)
My Favorite Vim Oneliners For Text Manipulation (muhammadraza.me)
What are some differences between x86 and ARM processors
I'm no expert in hardware but I would love to know the differences in terms of performance as we guys saw Apple ditching intel x86 in the favor ARM and creating there own chip
How Blog/side projects helped you land a job
I would love to hear from people who a got job through their side project or got recognized through there blog. What was the experience like and how much leetcoding did you do?
I opensourced my firefox bookmarks (bookmarks-flask.herokuapp.com)
I hated firefox bookmarks manager so I tried to implement a simple solution where I saved all my bookmarks in google sheets and turn that into api and served it using flask. https://github.com/mraza007/useful-bookmarks/tree/flask. Its my first time posting on this site. There’s a bug which ne...
One Liners Python Edition (muhammadraza.me)
Share your interesting project that you wrote using Clojure
Hi Everyone, I’m myself a python programming and i have been thinking about trying functional programming lately. So i came across clojure and it really caught my attention since it was simple and easy to use. Furthermore i would love to know if you guys have written projects in Clojure and what...
How does your current dev workflow looks like
Share your favorite dev tools that helps you remain productive such as text editors,terminal,configs and etc