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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 …
Docker in 5 minutes
I have been using Docker and Kubernetes for several years now but never really took any time to really read about it. There were a lot of gaps in my …
Json_error_ctrl_char
I was using mcrypt to encrypt json_encoded data. On other side, mycrypt was able to decrpyt data but json_decode was not working. It would throw …
Error Xcode Select Error Tool Xcodebuild Requires Xcode Active Developer Directory Command Line Tools Instance
Playing with Cordova, I was getting this error when building iOS version: Error: xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active …
Setup Outgoing Email on Lightsail Ubuntu VPS
I followed instructions here: …
hsts Neterr_cert_common_name_invalid
Without full understanding, I had enabled HSTS on amerkhalid.com with option includeSubDomains. I had a subdomain that was used as “Custom …
TypeError: require.extensions.hasOwnProperty is not a function
While playing with https://github.com/alexa/interactive-adventure-game-tool, I ran into following error: > interactive-adventure-game-tool@1.0.0 …
Troubleshooting Kubernetes Ingress
Setting up Ingress is an easy process but when it doesn’t work it gets really painful. First, make sure you have Ingress Controller setup …
WordPress to Hugo to WordPress to Hugo
I moved all my blogs back to Hugo. I have gone back and forth between Wordpress and Hugo several times. WordPress makes it really easy to write and …
My experience with Open Water Scuba certification in Dallas
This year I crossed off one of my bucket list item, got Open Water Diver certification. I had done scuba diving before at Honolulu. It is among my top …
iPad Pro as main machine after 2 years
I got my iPad Pro at the end of 2017. Before buying it, I had read many blog posts by various developers who were using iPad for programming and web …