Five years of function()
A retrospective look at how far the blog has come and an introspective on my own experience with writing.
Arash's blog: a space for the gathering of thoughts, experiences, and reflections as an aspiring technologist, introspective human, and lifelong student.
To me, writing is an avenue to self-improvement — it allows me to think through things and form opinions, to vent, and to explore. It's something I want to remain close to, so this blog is one of several ways I'm keeping this close to heart.
I'm open to writing about anything I'm curious about, and many ideas I've written so far come from the spur of the moment. You might find in-depth technical posts talking about something that interests me just as much as you could ones reflecting on my place in the world. I hope both intrigue and engage!
Truly: thank you for stopping by, even if it's just for a bit. If there's something you're curious about here, feel free to reach out so we can have a chat about it!
Two halves, one ecosystem
I’m trying out something new to bring this and my digital garden together as sister projects that frequently interact with each other. Watch this space as I move things about and figure stuff out!
A retrospective look at how far the blog has come and an introspective on my own experience with writing.
Some thoughts and reflections about an internet proliferated with generative AI.
Here's my attempt at condensing everything I've learnt from Basic Military Training into a single post.
n8n has been on my radar for quite some time, and I'm now excited after playing around with it.
Protecting your data doesn't have to be expensive. You just have to be a bit scrappy in making sure your data's never lost.
A game about androids and humans co-existing peacefully (or at least trying to). There's a lot of lessons and things to think about in this game!
Music can sometimes take you back to a moment in time, or invoke a feeling you've felt at a moment in time. Why is that the case?
A collection of games that have some emotional impact on me, along with what I feel about games and how I explore them.
Turns out, VS Code has a pretty helpful and easy-to-use feature allowing you to code remotely through another computer.
How do we write with emotion instead of facts, with flexibility instead of structure, especially through an environment that raises and champions rigid prose?
Looking back at perfectionism: how has it affected my work, and how can I work on it?
Have you come across many deserted developer blogs with a countable-on-one-hand number of posts?
Tailscale + your devices = anywhere access. Here's how I used Tailscale to access my devices from anywhere.
A fun experiment with a generative AI model writing a blog post about itself. How cool.
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.
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.
Learn more about what I've learnt from this year's iteration of the PolyFinTech100 API Hackathon.
A mix of an innovative spatial audio technology and the placebo effect makes me have greater appreciation for music.
Understand my perspective on code readability and what it means to me when developing.
I've learnt a lot in the months between education stages. Read more about the reflections I've had along the way.
Learn more about my experience going through iNTUition v8.0, a hackathon, and my lessons through it.
Learn more about why and how I changed how I organised my website's repository on GitHub.
A little sharing about what I use to write front-end code and build websites circa 2022.
If there's anything I learned this year, it was to learn to support — support yourself, learning to reach out, and supporting others.
Social media: a catch-22
I explore the idea of social media, being in it, and leaving it as a teenager.