Kashif

Last Friday lykhari made it first sale. I am beyond belief it happened. I am happier about the fact that the first sale came from a stranger than family and friends.

Just like being fit is a lifestyle decision, thinking better is also a lifestyle decision. It's hard work but gets easy over time. The good news is that the returns are exponential, not linear.

Non-cookie cutter, non-duct taping advice to beat procrastination that will take years of work but will certainly make you a better, content being.

My side projects just crossed $1000/month. 95% passive. 95% profit.

How to build side projects, find ideas worth building, and make money off of them.

Get rid of the imaginary punisher who is supposedly standing behind your shoulders watching all that you do and whipping you for each mistake made.

From my experience and by observing other companies, I've concluded that the companies who do estimates and set deadlines regularly move slowly as compared to those who don't.

Memories are made in hindsight and memories pick themselves for us. We don't get to pick them. It's beautiful.

Before you mark your PR ready for review, always test it manually as well. It is not the QA’s job. QA's job is to assure quality. Not to test your code. It is the developer’s job to test their code and make sure it’s functional.

We should define a software engineer as someone who does rock-solid code reviews and writes code in their spare time. Not the other way around.

Think of release as a train that features/PRs/developers have to catch. Not as a tool to ship a fix or features. Set a cadence and release. Do not wait for that one last PR to get merged in the trunk to release.

A local gym membership management system has very different security requirements than Twitter. Analyze the game you are playing and act accordingly.

Most deadlines aren’t deadlines because a lot of them are breached and no one dies.

With only a job, the probability of making it big is equivalent to the inverse of DynamoDB's uptime.

If you ever feel like wanting to get a promotion, rethink your priorities until you no longer feel like that.

A developer in a startup would have a hard time clearing interviews in a big organization and fitting in and vice versa is equally true.

As Naval Ravikant said, 10000 iterations, not 10000 hours.

There is a difference in the following: Making games because you like playing games. Making games to make money. Making games for a professional career. Making games for fun. In your career, understand your skin in the game and what game you are playing. Work accordingly.

Doing DevOps will make you a better engineer. Period.

Understand the basics and no matter how much I stress this, someone is still going to get an AWS Associate Architect certificate and be completely clueless about how to convert a computer into a server that securely hosts an API to serve/receive data.

After all the effort in studying the pros and cons and viability of a solution, if you are still stuck on deciding between two techs, flip a coin. Decisiveness goes a long way. Ditto for life choices.

Be willing to help others especially when they are blocked. Unblock others first. They will like you and be willing to return the favors. Be reliable, trustworthy, and avoid gossiping. Give direct and honest feedback when solicited.

A note of caution here is that if your manager is a project manager, do not ever aspire to take that seat. In good software companies, I believe that role would disappear in near future. It’s as redundant as “ueue” in Queue.

Ideally, you or your organization should hire people no one has to manage.

If a candidate’s interview feedback is not a “HELL YES!!!”, err on the side of rejecting a good resource than hiring an average one.

You should have the ability to work according to the environment and expectations. A professional software engineer in a startup vs a corporate world can have very different and quite often contrasting skill sets.

Be a good writer and you will become a good human being and certainly a superior professional.

In organizations, when talking, especially asynchronously, always give proper context about what you are talking about and the entire background to minimize back and forth.

Art is abundant and scarce at the same time. Abundant that it is everywhere. It manifests for the keen wherever they want it.

Disclaimer: It hasn't made me a million yet.

Strong intuition is a superpower and a curse at the same time.

For any advice put forth by anyone in public, I believe, there should be polar opposite advice put forth as well.

It started with the idea of improving humanity's standards by making people more open and honest when relaying feedback.

My mom said to me, "You shouldn't be that self-reliant".

Wordpress is bloated and a clunky piece of software. It is ridiculously popular and serves so much of the internet but it's all over the place.

Somewhere in 2017, I decided to wave goodbye to my game development journey and move on. I am glad it happened.

In March of twenty twenty, this world and its happenings got me excited.

Intuitive leap is a unique Viridian Jewel that allows passives within its range to be allocated without being connected to the tree.

May God protect us from ourselves. Satan comes second. We beat him. lelz!

Who understands the Prophet’s clue aright Sees infidelity concealed in fear.

So skillful of hands, so rich in mind, these people, alas, or pure breed O God, your justice, so long delayed, must come at last as a retribution

I tell my stories as the reed plucked from its native wild Murmurs; oh Rose, listen! I tell the grief of hearts exiled.

Ah! The hope of my Love was never fulfilled This instrument was never hit by the plectrum

Love does not die by the beloved’s death It stays in the soul as grief but does not die

Like the halls of the dawn, may your grave be radiant! May your dusty sleeping chamber be filled with light!

I returned home from work earlier tonight. Which is 2:20 AM...

The whole idea of game design is a simulation of life of an ordinary folk in an epic medieval tale.

It’s a love-hate thing. The most thriving of the sorts.

On the bigger picture, think ahead of time. At least think about pushing for ideas that would make sense 50 or 100 years from now. Pushing century-old ideas will give them dangerous inertia.

Polarity is important between genders and in my opinion, it will stay for a very long time, if not forever.

It's May Thirteenth of Year Two Thousand and Eighteen. The continuum continues.

It's Four in the morning. Sixth of May Two Thousand and Eighteen.

I have always preferred games over movies. Open-ended. Creative. Permissive. Infinite. Games.

A blasphemous murder.

Human brain is an amazing construct. It manifests realities out of thin air.

Heart is just a metaphor for activities of the brain that people didn't understand. Archaic literature is responsible for its bleeding into modern times.

and I've got no time for this post.

Never ever blame anyone or anything in the world

You know what? I did get some bad comments that couldn't be deleted. However, they could have been undone ;D

Town is looking pretty nice now. Next to make it better I need some more variations in walls and windows. Fix unwrapping issues at some places. Make nice streets, paint terrain. Put more props, etc, etc...

Today is Wednesday and I am waiting for a friend. We will leave for Islamabad soon.