Software Engineer interested in Ruby, Elixir, distributed systems and programming language internals.https://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3loimw4sxf22cGiven the sale of Windsurf to OpenAI for $3bn, will more people be building coding agents or less?06 May 2025 10:02 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3loimw4sxf22chttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3lofih26tuc27Over the past couple of nights & weekends, I've been building an agentic, semantic search engine for codebases. This is a very pre-alpha preview of it searching the svelte codebase. LMK if you'd like to try it!05 May 2025 04:04 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3lofih26tuc27https://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3lo6raq2nls2oAction produces information I understand now why people say you need to have a bias for action.02 May 2025 11:53 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo6raq2nls2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3lnowc2q7mc25IMO calling someone a genius is an insult to your own intellect, you can just do things.26 Apr 2025 04:41 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnowc2q7mc25https://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3llsp6aesik2fGenerating code documentation using AI: Yay or nay? (I'm seriously considering doing this)02 Apr 2025 05:54 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3llsp6aesik2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3lljrlxt5bs2vI built something fun: https://faraazahmad.github.io/blog/blog/knowledge-assistant-ai/29 Mar 2025 16:43 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3lljrlxt5bs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3llh4ccefms2lCreated some organic art for my blog post in mspaint28 Mar 2025 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3llh4ccefms2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3llgpw3tf7s2uSuddenly everyone is an expert on art and copyright law I cba man.28 Mar 2025 11:35 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3llgpw3tf7s2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3ll5p2mejb22aEternally struggling between becoming a better engineer and bootstrapping a micro-SaaS24 Mar 2025 21:26 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll5p2mejb22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3ljwtkekzys2cHours of debugging only to realise YouTube API doesn't let you access captions of videos that aren't yours09 Mar 2025 10:32 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljwtkekzys2chttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3ljmre5bai22oIt's all fun and games until you need to build distributed transactions capable of rolling back all the changes in case of a failure.05 Mar 2025 10:26 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljmre5bai22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3lj3qjetgfk2jMy favourite device to use against procrastination and overthinking, just flip it and get to work! Works surprisingly well for me.26 Feb 2025 15:56 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj3qjetgfk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3lj3dypajsk2cSunk cost fallacy will drag you into the ground26 Feb 2025 12:12 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj3dypajsk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3lia5jxbpnk22Just completed a 2 hour football sesh, most exhausted I've been in a while! Can't wait to do it again tbh15 Feb 2025 16:35 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3lia5jxbpnk22https://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3lhmggycmmk2aOk inertiajs kinda slaps07 Feb 2025 20:21 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhmggycmmk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3lhm6poidos2oNot every interesting issue can get a blog post, sometimes you just need to keep shipping07 Feb 2025 18:02 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhm6poidos2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3lgubyrrals2nIn my effort to combat the brainrot, I might have stretched myself too thin. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jan 2025 05:57 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgubyrrals2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3lgg25brj6s2mHow do you handle multiple personal projects or interests at the same time? If I work on one project for too long, i get bored and eventually stop working on it. If I have too many, I don't get anything substantial done in either of them.23 Jan 2025 13:59 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgg25brj6s2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3lgct4ktlpk2gUsing LLMs to generate unit tests: Yay or nay?22 Jan 2025 07:16 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgct4ktlpk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3lfoscoy3kc2mSeason Two14 Jan 2025 08:08 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfoscoy3kc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3lfijwn7wns2zElixir guard clauses are kinda fun!11 Jan 2025 20:22 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfijwn7wns2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3lf3uoczik22fElixir/Erlang devs, what does "let it crash" code look like in production systems?06 Jan 2025 19:30 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf3uoczik22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3leql3ftd7s2oErlang VM provides such amazing primitives for building distributed systems people have no idea! They're missing out fr02 Jan 2025 07:39 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3leql3ftd7s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3ldwacbfwgc2sDynamoDB is an amazing system! I'm a big fan of how they handle versioning using "vector clocks", and node failures using Hinted Handoffs. Paper link: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf22 Dec 2024 20:17 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldwacbfwgc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3lbk5u4ozxs2mHow important is founder-market fit?22 Nov 2024 14:11 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbk5u4ozxs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3lb67b5dagk2qRecovering from a long term metatarsal injury hasn't been great, but now I'm starting to run more consistently again. Invest in good footwear, folks!17 Nov 2024 20:04 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb67b5dagk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3laxt5xoqh227YOU DON'T NEED TO WRITE YOUR SQL IN UPPERCASE15 Nov 2024 07:11 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3laxt5xoqh227https://bsky.app/profile/faraazahmad.bsky.social/post/3lavknrfk7c2jProbably the nicest auth page I've ever made for app.invoicemod.com . Simple yet functional14 Nov 2024 09:34 +0000at://did:plc:hghrtssh5a5y64quhzlpu226/app.bsky.feed.post/3lavknrfk7c2j