2025-12-17 - Got lr0.org from Amin bandali kelar.org/~bandali, used it as frontier for my already existing blog.
2025-11-26 - Started a new job.
2024-12-18 - Started job.
2024-06-25 - Graduated.
2023-12-25 - Wrote documentation nobody asked for, someone thanked me later.
2023-10-05 - Read “Let Over Lambda”.
2022-02-08 - First internship; income met responsibility, grew grateful.
2021-04-01 - Built a tool to help simulating the college physics lab. I had no idea that it was being in use, until recently (Dec 2025) a neighbor of mine who went to that college show me the program still being used there.
2020-07-25 - Wrote first concurrent program in Go. I had no idea what I’m doing, looking at it now it was actually fine.
2020-07-20 - Contributed first open-source patch; tiny diff, big smile.
2020-07-01 - Read a research paper twice and understood some of it.
2020-06-29 - Started college in computer science.
2019-09-29 - Learned that beauty, belief, and code can coexist.
2019-05-06 - Started learning Go.
2017-12-27 - Joined Arch forums.
2017-07-13 - Read SICP.
2016-12-06 - Configured .emacs for the first time.
2016-09-23 - Started learning Lisp.
2016-06-15 - Discovered emacs when I asked IRC guys about a PDF viewer that supports highlighting.
2015-11-09 - Learned vim the hard way; still haven’t exited some sessions.
2015-03-23 - Wrote first C program.
2014-04-22 - First Linux install; broke it, fixed it.
2013-11-17 - Opened a terminal; the cursor blinked back, waiting.
2013-09-29 - Learned HTML/CSS; made terrible websites with Comic Sans and pride.
2012-03-07 - Learnt recursive.
2010-06-13 - Fixed a computer by praying and reading logs.
2009-06-05 - Won a local science fair with wires held together by hope.
2008-10-31 - Learned that patience can be memorized, not just practiced.
2006-09-13 - First day of Azhar with my sister; after years at kuttāb with my father.