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Programming 78

An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt
Conventional Commits considered harmful
On Object-Oriented Programming and Clean Code

55,740 words · ~278 min read

Modus Vivendi 57

I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me
On Depression
Email Guide

25,875 words · ~129 min read

Cinema 33

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Kierkegaard 31

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Politics 23

The Eghbariah's case, democracy and irresponsibility
The limits on the (allowed) freedom of speech
Aids, Sanctions and United States' Nations

19,702 words · ~98 min read

Scala 20

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Noam Chomsky 16

Bibliography
On Media and 'Neo-Democracy'
Aids, Sanctions and United States' Nations

24,369 words · ~121 min read

Friedrich Nietzsche 16

I can also paint

9,483 words · ~47 min read

United States 15

The limits on the (allowed) freedom of speech
Pervez Hoodbhoy's Islam and Science
On Media and 'Neo-Democracy'

26,708 words · ~133 min read

The Go Programming Language 14

Concurrency and Parallelism in Go
Effective Go: A Conclusion
The Go language

24,216 words · ~121 min read

LLM 14

Reading leaked Claude Code source code
I'm not consulting an LLM
Re: Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

6,623 words · ~33 min read

Linux 12

Identifying issues and newcomers to Linux

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Philosophy 12

8,759 words · ~43 min read

Java 11

On Object-Oriented Programming and Clean Code
The Go language
Identifying issues and newcomers to Linux

30,923 words · ~154 min read

Propaganda 11

On Media and 'Neo-Democracy'

10,975 words · ~54 min read

Emacs 10

2,934 words · ~14 min read

Lisp 10

Legacy Commentary
Lisp Programming Language
Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

15,553 words · ~77 min read

Clarice Lispector 9

2,683 words · ~13 min read

Literature 9

Humiliated and Insulted by Fyodor Dostoevsky

1,264 words · ~6 min read

MacOS 9

Make macOS 26 consistently bad (unironically)
I can also paint
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8,272 words · ~41 min read

Leo Tolstoy 9

Humiliated and Insulted by Fyodor Dostoevsky
What is it to be done?

5,545 words · ~27 min read

Israel 8

The limits on the (allowed) freedom of speech

3,523 words · ~17 min read

Mathematics 8

Introduction to Computational Geometry
Representations and Implementations of Graphs
Proof Mapping is Injection iff Direct Image Mapping is Injection

17,446 words · ~87 min read

Gaza 7

The Eghbariah's case, democracy and irresponsibility
The limits on the (allowed) freedom of speech
Reading List

9,471 words · ~47 min read

Palestine 7

The Eghbariah's case, democracy and irresponsibility
The limits on the (allowed) freedom of speech
I'm not consulting an LLM

10,318 words · ~51 min read

Poetry 7

816 words · ~4 min read

History 6

An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt
What Yahoo killed when it bought Maktoob

10,105 words · ~50 min read

المتنبي 6

1,735 words · ~8 min read

Academia 4

YouTube Channels

1,315 words · ~6 min read

The Brothers Karamazov 4

Bibliography
Reading List (for others)

9,418 words · ~47 min read

Capitalism 4

3,453 words · ~17 min read

Chess 4

3,675 words · ~18 min read

Democracy Criticism 4

The Eghbariah's case, democracy and irresponsibility
On Media and 'Neo-Democracy'

10,003 words · ~50 min read

GNU 4

2,424 words · ~12 min read

Iran 4

The limits on the (allowed) freedom of speech
Aids, Sanctions and United States' Nations

2,817 words · ~14 min read

Media Control 4

On Media and 'Neo-Democracy'
Reading List (for others)

5,993 words · ~29 min read

Moscow 4

13,763 words · ~68 min read

OOP 4

On Object-Oriented Programming and Clean Code

8,767 words · ~43 min read

Python 4

On Object-Oriented Programming and Clean Code
Introduction to Computational Geometry
Identifying issues and newcomers to Linux

19,178 words · ~95 min read

Bertrand Russell 4

Reading List (for others)

4,375 words · ~21 min read

Abbass Braham 3

2,672 words · ~13 min read

Postmodern Abyss: Black Mirror 3

The age of commodity

2,857 words · ~14 min read

Conversation 3

Pervez Hoodbhoy's Islam and Science

5,366 words · ~26 min read

Doom Emacs 3

Conventional Commits considered harmful

1,978 words · ~9 min read

Egypt 3

1,375 words · ~6 min read

Philosophy of Ethics 3

5,512 words · ~27 min read

Norman Finkelstein 3

The Eghbariah's case, democracy and irresponsibility
The limits on the (allowed) freedom of speech
Reading List

6,997 words · ~34 min read

Michel Foucault 3

On Depression
Reading List

6,191 words · ~30 min read

Islam 3

Pervez Hoodbhoy's Islam and Science

6,647 words · ~33 min read

Leonardo da Vinci 3

Bibliography

9,057 words · ~45 min read

John Mearsheimer 3

The Eghbariah's case, democracy and irresponsibility
The limits on the (allowed) freedom of speech
Reading List

6,997 words · ~34 min read

REPL 3

Lisp Programming Language

9,351 words · ~46 min read

RSS 3

1,480 words · ~7 min read

Ukraine 3

I can also paint

2,461 words · ~12 min read

Amor Fati 2

595 words · ~2 min read

Clojure Notes 2

237 words · ~1 min read

Concurrency 2

Concurrency and Parallelism in Go
The Go language

18,773 words · ~93 min read

Crocker's Rules 2

I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me
Email Guide

1,738 words · ~8 min read

Fyodor Dostoevsky 2

Humiliated and Insulted by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Reading List (for others)

2,338 words · ~11 min read

Economics 2

3,682 words · ~18 min read

Either / Or 2

444 words · ~2 min read

Sigmund Freud 2

Reading List (for others)

2,244 words · ~11 min read

Ibn Sina 2

Pervez Hoodbhoy's Islam and Science

7,242 words · ~36 min read

Istanbul 2

Pervez Hoodbhoy's Islam and Science

8,441 words · ~42 min read

The Julia Programming Language 2

2,354 words · ~11 min read

Karl Marx 2

The age of commodity

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Mythology 2

4,210 words · ~21 min read

Paris 2

Reading List

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Karl Popper 2

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Rome 2

Reading List

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Saudi Arabia 2

Pervez Hoodbhoy's Islam and Science

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Tchaikovsky 2

I can also paint

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Howard Zinn 2

Reading List
Reading List (for others)

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Jamal al-Din al-Afghani 1

Pervez Hoodbhoy's Islam and Science

4,499 words · ~22 min read

Algeria 1

3,942 words · ~19 min read

Anthropic 1

Reading leaked Claude Code source code

1,878 words · ~9 min read

Hannah Arendt 1

3,275 words · ~16 min read

Anton Chekhov 1

168 words · ~0 min read

China 1

573 words · ~2 min read

Emil Cioran 1

Reading List

4,243 words · ~21 min read

Clean Code 1

On Object-Oriented Programming and Clean Code

6,306 words · ~31 min read

Cordoba 1

Pervez Hoodbhoy's Islam and Science

4,499 words · ~22 min read

Crime and Punishment 1

Reading List (for others)

1,676 words · ~8 min read

Crimea 1

3,942 words · ~19 min read

Mahmoud Darwish 1

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entertainment 1

Bibliography

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Julius Evola 1

Reading List

4,243 words · ~21 min read

Al-Ghazali 1

On Depression

1,120 words · ~5 min read

GOTO 1

2,143 words · ~10 min read

Pervez Hoodbhoy 1

Pervez Hoodbhoy's Islam and Science

4,499 words · ~22 min read

Ibn Khaldun 1

Pervez Hoodbhoy's Islam and Science

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Averroes 1

Pervez Hoodbhoy's Islam and Science

4,499 words · ~22 min read

Intelligence Science 1

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Judaism 1

13 words · ~0 min read

Al-Kindi 1

Pervez Hoodbhoy's Islam and Science

4,499 words · ~22 min read

La Rochefoucauld 1

1,137 words · ~5 min read

Linguistics 1

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Naguib Mahfouz 1

Reading List (for others)

1,676 words · ~8 min read

Andrei Sakharov 1

4,524 words · ~22 min read

Science 1

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Ali Shariati 1

Reading List (for others)

1,676 words · ~8 min read

Shostakovich 1

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Vim 1

Reading leaked Claude Code source code

1,878 words · ~9 min read

aesthetic 0

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Zygmunt Bauman 0

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The Bible 0

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Maurice Blanchot 0

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Étienne de la Boétie 0

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Jorge Luis Borges 0

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Italo Calvino 0

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Controversy 0

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Databases 0

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Goethe 0

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Intellectual Humility 0

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Islamic Heritage 0

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Ghassan Kanafani 0

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Lebanon 0

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Linear Algebra 0

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Gabriel García Márquez 0

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Fatima Mernissi 0

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OpenAI 0

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The Quran 0

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Russia 0

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W. G. Sebald 0

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Tennessee Williams 0

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Yugoslavia 0

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