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Starting a Portrait Photography Business
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get my photography side hustle off the ground. My initial assumption was simple: people are always …
Photography vs Programming: a Minimalist Perspective
As I build my photography side hustle while working full-time as a software engineer, I keep returning to one idea: minimalism. Both fields pull me in …
What Would You Do When You Retire?
We’ve all heard the classic question: “What would you do if you won a million dollars?” It’s a fun daydream, but let’s be honest, most of us know …
LLMs and an old dev
A lot of developers seem to be afraid of generative AI and LLMs because it may replace their jobs. But as an older developer who sometimes have a hard …
Photography in the age of Generative AI
Generative AI has made my job as a software engineer much easier, but it’s also a bit scary. The question everyone is asking is whether AI will …
Parenting is hard
Only when you have wrong expectations. It is so easy to know what is right action but sometimes so hard to do it. Ayden is having rough morning. Well …
Filter Some Keys in Multi Dimensional Arrays in Php
/** * Cleans up multi-dimensional arrays. * 1st dimension is a simple index * 2nd dimension includes the desired keys * * @param mixed $array * @param …
Simba
2011 San Francisco
One of my earliest trips with a camera. San Francisco was the kind of city that made me want to photograph everything: the Golden Gate Bridge, City …
4 Hour Body by Tim Ferris
Slow Motion Workout The technical term is 5/5 Cadence (5 seconds up, 5 seconds down). I tried this for the first time on Sunday, it is really intense. …
MySQL Update If Exist Else Insert Procedure
Are you tired of checking data in your code before inserting? Well MySQL procedures are here to rescue. This simple procedure shows how you can do …
Codeigniter Creates a New Session With Each Page Load
Just spent 3 hours debugging a session bug in my webapp. CodeIginter was creating a brand new session with each page load. The issue was a …
Codeigniter Out of Memory Error
Query Saving is a feature of CI’s database class that stores the results of every query in memory until the controller is finished executing. …
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
I tried to login to my server tonight but kept getting following error message: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host The fix …
Useful Sar Sysstat Examples for Unix Linux Performance Monitoring
Using sar, you can also collect all performance data on an on-going basis, store them, and do historical analysis to identify bottlenecks. via 10 …
Aleph
A creative photography project exploring themes of reading, thoughts, and nature.