I write code. Sometimes it works. When it doesn't, I consult Stack Overflow. I've googled "how to exit vim" more times than I've successfully exited vim.
Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, C++, C#, R, MATLAB, Shell
11 ways to mass-produce bugs multilingually
React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, Tailwind
Day 2,847 of trying to center a div. The div remains uncentered. I remain unhinged.
Node.js, Django, Flask, FastAPI, .NET, Express
Where "it works on my machine" becomes "it works on no machine"
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, MySQL, SQLite, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Kafka
8 different places to lose your data. Choose wisely.
Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, AWS, GCP, Azure
Orchestrating chaos like a drunk conductor. Also where company credit cards go to die.
TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn
Teaching computers to be as confused as me, but with math
NixOS
I have mass-accumulated mass-untransferable knowledge. My config is 3000 lines. I understand 12 of them. Send help.
$ pwd
/home/royyan/existential-crisis/debugging-hell
$ ls motivation/
total 0
$ git status
Changes not staged for commit:
- sanity.txt (deleted)
- work-life-balance.md (corrupted)- Working on: Something that definitely won't work in production
- Learning: Why my NixOS config is 3000 lines and I still can't explain what it does
- Mastered "it works on my machine" (the machine is NixOS, good luck reproducing)
- Can create infinite loops in any language
- Expert at turning simple tasks into complex problems (got a PhD doing this)
- Work-life balance (still in beta)
- "That can't happen."
- "That doesn't happen on my machine."
- "That shouldn't happen."
- "Why is it working now?!"
- "Ship it before it realizes it's broken"
royyan.zahir@gmail.com
# I have no idea why this works, but it does.
# If you change this code, it will break.
# If you don't change this code, it will still break.
#
# UPDATE: Past me is an idiot
# UPDATE 2: Current me is also an idiot
"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
He was clearly a software engineer.
people who accidentally stumbled into my digital disaster zone