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Arash's blog (→ digital garden soon!) to share experiences, thoughts, and stories about tech as an individual and student.

Welcome to my corner of the internet! I hope to use this as a place for me to share what little I have with the world. Writing is a craft I want to continue developing further, and I believe that there is no better way to develop the skill than to write. I'm slowly finding my voice and how I approach things as I go!

I'm also interested in the concept of digital gardens. I'm still learning more about them now, and I'm hoping to implement my own version once I have it down. Feel free to reach out if you're into these kinds of things!

VS Code's remote tunneling feature

Turns out, VS Code has a pretty helpful and easy-to-use feature allowing you to code remotely through another computer.

Breaking out of prose

How do we write with emotion instead of facts, with flexibility instead of structure, especially through an environment that raises and champions rigid prose?

Perfectionism and friction in creating

Looking back at perfectionism: how has it affected my work, and how can I work on it?

Blog burnouts

Have you come across many deserted developer blogs with a countable-on-one-hand number of posts?

Project graveyards

RIP to the projects never coming to fruition.

Your intranet over the internet

Tailscale + your devices = anywhere access. Here's how I used Tailscale to access my devices from anywhere.

Building a PC, by a newbie

I got to build a PC during the semester break, how fun!

GenAI's introspection

A fun experiment with a generative AI model writing a blog post about itself. How cool.

Hack Club's Epoch: an opportunity of a lifetime

I got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have a go at helping out in a hackathon thousands of kilometres away from home. I left anxious, but returned with so much to share.

2022 in review

A reflection about the things that have happened in 2022.

A long journey to setting up Raspberry Pi

It took me several months to get my Raspberry Pi up and working; I'll share my journey from ordering it to making it accessible over the internet.

Taking part in PolyFinTech100 API Hackathon 2022

Learn more about what I've learnt from this year's iteration of the PolyFinTech100 API Hackathon.

Experiencing Dolby Atmos

A mix of an innovative spatial audio technology and the placebo effect makes me have greater appreciation for music.

Code readability

Understand my perspective on code readability and what it means to me when developing.

Coding on Windows

Discover what I've learnt about coding when switching from macOS to Windows.

Reflections from a liminal space

I've learnt a lot in the months between education stages. Read more about the reflections I've had along the way.

CodeDay Singapore 2022

Learn more about my experience taking part in CodeDay Singapore 2022.

Taking part in iNTUition v8.0

Learn more about my experience going through iNTUition v8.0, a hackathon, and my lessons through it.

Social media: a catch-22

I explore the idea of social media, being in it, and leaving it as a teenager.

Organising my website's repository

Learn more about why and how I changed how I organised my website's repository on GitHub.

My front-end tech stack

A little sharing about what I use to write front-end code and build websites circa 2022.

The importance of support

If there's anything I learned this year, it was to learn to support — support yourself, learning to reach out, and supporting others.

Building my blog

Get to know the technical details on how I built my blog from scratch using Next.js and Tailwind CSS.

Hello, world!

An introduction to function() and more about who I am and what I hope to accomplish with the blog.