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35 Posts · ~765 min total reading time
February 2026
6 Posts
The Topography of Trauma: Mahmud of Ghazni's Ideological Rupture and the Chola Response in Amish Tripathi's The Chola Tigers
A look at Amish Tripathi's 2025 epic, focusing on how it handles the history of Mahmud of Ghazni and the Chola response.
The Gangster in the Garden: A Review of Mother Mary Comes to Me
A forensic accounting of Arundhati Roy's first memoir. We explore how Mary Roy - the 'shelter and the storm' - shaped the writer who would go on to win the Booker Prize and challenge the Indian state.
Build Your Own HTTP Server
Learn protocol engineering by building an HTTP/1.1 server from scratch in Python. Sockets, headers, and concurrency explained simply.
Build Your Own HTTP/3 Server
A massive guide to building a modern HTTP/3 and QUIC server from the ground up using Python. We move beyond the limits of TCP into the world of UDP-based protocols.
Algorithmic Dysfluency: Why AI Cannot Hear the Stammering Subject
Why AI speech recognition fails people who stammer. Interrogating Whisper through the lens of Berardi and Fanon to argue that the stammer is a form of political refusal.
My Secure AI Agent Setup: Building a Better Playground with Nix
Don't let AI agents have access to your whole system. Here's how I built a secure sandbox using Nix and Bubblewrap to keep my coding agents in check.
January 2026
11 Posts
Goodbye reCAPTCHA, Hello Turnstile: Why I Switched (Next.js Guide)
Struggling with reCAPTCHA's impact on user experience and privacy? This guide walks you through migrating to Cloudflare Turnstile in Next.js—improving speed, security, and mobile UX in under 15 minutes.
EKS Networking Deep Dive: Why Your Pods Can't Talk
Kubernetes networking is notoriously hard. Here is a guide to AWS EKS networking, VPC CNI, and how to debug DNS issues in your cluster.
Observability 101: Why Logs Are Not Enough
Monitoring tells you something is broken; observability tells you why. A look at Metrics, Logs, Traces, and how to handle cardinality explosions.
Breaking Production on Purpose: A Guide to Chaos Engineering
Why would you crash your own server? Because someone else will eventually. Learn how to use AWS FIS for Game Days and build more resilient systems.
Disaster Recovery: The Art of Sleeping at Night
RTO and RPO aren't just acronyms—they're the difference between keeping your job and losing it. A guide to surviving AWS outages and ransomware.
FinOps 101: How to Stop AWS From Bankrupting You
The cloud isn't free. Here's my survival guide for AWS cost optimization—Spot instances, Savings Plans, and how to avoid the NAT Gateway trap.
The Docker Diet: How to Slim Down Your Fat Containers
Stop shipping 1GB images for a 5MB app. Learn how to slim down your Docker containers using multi-stage builds and distroless images.
The Perfect Pipeline: How to Ship Code Without Crashing Production
Shipping code shouldn't be stressful. A look at Blue/Green deployments, Canary releases, and how to build a CI/CD pipeline that lets you sleep at night.
Bash for Cloud Engineers: The Lost Art of Text Processing
Why click when you can script? Learn how to use sed, awk, and grep to parse logs and automate deployments like a pro.
Git Under the Hood: The DevOps Engineer's 'Undo' Button
Stop memorizing commands and start understanding the graph. Learn how Git actually works under the hood—blobs, trees, and how to fix a detached HEAD without panicking.
Terraform State Surgery: The Senior Engineer's Guide to Moving Resources Without Downtime
Learn how to move resources in Terraform without breaking production. A guide to using 'state mv', 'rm', and 'import' for refactoring infrastructure safely.
December 2025
11 Posts
Glitch Poetics: The Political Ontology of the Refused Body
A rigorous computational and theoretical analysis of the 'Glitch' as a site of political refusal. Utilizing High-Dimensional Semantic Analysis (BERT), T-SNE visualization, and post-colonial theory, this research article mathematically proves the semantic identity between 'Glitch Aesthetics' and 'Disability Politics'.
The Theology of Code: Algorithmic Ijtihad in the Age of Artificial Gnosis
A theological auditing of Artificial Intelligence. By applying Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem to Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh), this study argues that AI is incapable of 'Ijtihad' (Reasoning). It is a machine of 'Taqlid' (Blind Imitation) that threatens to freeze the Islamic tradition in a stasis of historical data.
The Physics of Trauma: Network Latency and the Crip Chronotope
A rigorous physical and computational analysis of Trauma as a temporal anomaly. Integrating Einstein's Special Relativity (Time Dilation) with Network Engineering (Buffer Bloat), this study proves that Post-Traumatic Stress is not a psychological disorder but a 'Synchronization Failure' between the somatic clock and the colonial clock.
Halal Sex: Redefining Intimacy and Faith in North America - A Review
A comprehensive review of Sheima Benembarek's 'Halal Sex', exploring the complex intersection of faith, intimacy, and female identity for Muslims in North America. This essay examines historical context, personal narratives, and the challenges of reconciling tradition with modern desires.
Fatima Mernissi: The Godmother of Islamic Feminism and the Unveiling of History
A tribute to Fatima Mernissi, the sociologist who dared to question the Prophetic tradition. This essay explores her forensic investigation of the 'Male Elite', her deconstruction of the 'Harem' psychology, and her timeless argument that Islam's message of equality was hijacked by political expediency.
Homosexuality in Islam: Scott Kugle and the Hermeneutics of Justice
An in-depth exploration of Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle's seminal work 'Homosexuality in Islam'. This essay deconstructs the traditional interpretation of the Story of Lut, examines the theological validity of same-sex unions through the lens of 'Fitrah', and challenges the legal reliability of Hadith used to condemn queer Muslims.
Sexual Ethics and Islam: A Feminist Reflection on Kecia Ali's Magnum Opus
Exploring the tension between classical fiqh and modern feminist ethics in Kecia Ali's 'Sexual Ethics and Islam'. This essay dissects concepts like 'Milk al-Nikah' (ownership of the marriage tie), the legality of consent, and the urgent need for a new Islamic jurisprudence of intimacy.
From Zero to Cloud: My Personal Journey into AWS (2026) - A path I am following
My personal field notes from learning Amazon Web Services. I dug deep into the kernel, mastered 'sed', and broke production with Terraform so you don't have to. This is the path I took from 'absolute beginner' to AWS Community Builder.
KodeKloud 100 Days of Cloud: Essential Linux Security Guide (Days 1-3)
A practical guide to the first three tasks of the KodeKloud 100 Days of Cloud challenge. meaningful detailed tutorials on configuring non-interactive shells, managing temporary users, and securing SSH root access for production server.
The Ultimate Handbook: Hosting a Dynamic Portfolio on AWS (S3, Lambda, API Gateway)
Build a serverless dynamic portfolio from scratch using AWS S3, Lambda, and API Gateway. Complete beginner-friendly guide with step-by-step deployment instructions.
The Silent Killer in Your AWS IAM Policies: Escalating Privileges via PassRole
A deep dive into one of the most dangerous and overlooked AWS misconfigurations: the iam:PassRole permission. Learn how we discovered a silent privilege escalation path in our CI/CD pipeline that could have compromised our entire production environment, and the comprehensive, architectural fix we implemented using Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) and SCPs.
November 2025
2 Posts
JavaScript Has a Flair for Drama: 6 Concepts That Break Minds and this
Master JavaScript's toughest concepts: async flow, closures, 'this' keyword, prototypes, type coercion, and the event loop. Explained with wit, clarity, and real examples.
AI Prompting: Essential Foundation Techniques
Master prompt engineering with role-based prompting, system message optimization, and structured frameworks. Learn advanced techniques for ChatGPT and LLMs with practical examples.
October 2025
2 Posts
My First Month as a Site Reliability Engineer at Airbnb
A comprehensive deep-dive into my first 30 days as an SRE at Airbnb: automating monitoring for 50+ microservices, building Redis observability tooling, implementing SLO enforcement in CI/CD, conducting chaos engineering experiments, and streamlining incident management using Go, JavaScript, and Kubernetes.
No One to Catch Me: But I Never Quit
A story for anyone who feels alone in the fight. For those who keep going not because someone's watching, but because quitting was never an option. Motivation for developers.