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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 …
A quick script to build and deploy hugo site on VPS
I had been using GitHub and Netlify for this site but lack of some features such as access to server logs finally got too much. So I decided to move …
Past Performance Does Not Guarantee Future Results: A Reflection on Human Nature and Trading Strategies
It’s both intriguing and somewhat disheartening to observe how trading concepts often mirror human behavior. Here’s how: Follow the Trend …
Zygo: Finally listen to everything while swimming
I love swimming but it is hard to swim for more than 30 mins, not because I get tired but because it gets boring. I had been looking for headphones …
undefined method xxxxx' for #< Hash:0x00000 >
This error in our Rails application drove me crazy. The error was like this: undefined method xxxxxx' for #<Hash:0x000000001234> The problem …
How to find the other end of deck drains?
In our backyard lay a series of deck drains that perennially harbored standing water. Despite my best efforts, tracing the end of these drains proved …
Script inherits from native type 'RigidBody2D', so it can't be assigned to an object of type: 'Node2D'
Getting this error while following this tutorial in Godot v4.0.1. In my case, I had added Node2D. The fix was to right click on the problem node under …
American flag is better than Texas flag
Ayden: Baba, American flag is better than Texas flag. Me: How come? Ayden: Because it has more stars!
Everyday is a vacation
I think a lot of people would love to live their life as if they are on a permanent vacation. Before I was married, I didn’t make a lot of money …
Time to plant
Yesterday, I ordered some tissue culture and planting supplies. Indoors plants market is huge. There is a lot to learn. There are new terms, new …
Heros
Follow up to my last post, the people I admire the most are usually startup founders or business people. And then creators of open source softwares. …