Faraaz Ahmad
@faraazahmad.bsky.social
Software Engineer interested in Ruby, Elixir, distributed systems and programming language internals.
Given the sale of Windsurf to OpenAI for $3bn, will more people be building coding agents or less?
May 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Given the sale of Windsurf to OpenAI for $3bn, will more people be building coding agents or less?
Over the past couple of nights & weekends, I've been building an agentic, semantic search engine for codebases.
This is a very pre-alpha preview of it searching the svelte codebase.
LMK if you'd like to try it!
This is a very pre-alpha preview of it searching the svelte codebase.
LMK if you'd like to try it!
May 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Over the past couple of nights & weekends, I've been building an agentic, semantic search engine for codebases.
This is a very pre-alpha preview of it searching the svelte codebase.
LMK if you'd like to try it!
This is a very pre-alpha preview of it searching the svelte codebase.
LMK if you'd like to try it!
Action produces information
I understand now why people say you need to have a bias for action.
I understand now why people say you need to have a bias for action.
May 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Action produces information
I understand now why people say you need to have a bias for action.
I understand now why people say you need to have a bias for action.
IMO calling someone a genius is an insult to your own intellect, you can just do things.
April 26, 2025 at 4:41 AM
IMO calling someone a genius is an insult to your own intellect, you can just do things.
Generating code documentation using AI: Yay or nay?
(I'm seriously considering doing this)
(I'm seriously considering doing this)
April 2, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Generating code documentation using AI: Yay or nay?
(I'm seriously considering doing this)
(I'm seriously considering doing this)
Created some organic art for my blog post in mspaint
March 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Created some organic art for my blog post in mspaint
Suddenly everyone is an expert on art and copyright law
I cba man.
I cba man.
March 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Suddenly everyone is an expert on art and copyright law
I cba man.
I cba man.
Eternally struggling between becoming a better engineer and bootstrapping a micro-SaaS
March 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Eternally struggling between becoming a better engineer and bootstrapping a micro-SaaS
Hours of debugging only to realise YouTube API doesn't let you access captions of videos that aren't yours
March 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Hours of debugging only to realise YouTube API doesn't let you access captions of videos that aren't yours
It's all fun and games until you need to build distributed transactions capable of rolling back all the changes in case of a failure.
March 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
It's all fun and games until you need to build distributed transactions capable of rolling back all the changes in case of a failure.
My favourite device to use against procrastination and overthinking, just flip it and get to work!
Works surprisingly well for me.
Works surprisingly well for me.
February 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
My favourite device to use against procrastination and overthinking, just flip it and get to work!
Works surprisingly well for me.
Works surprisingly well for me.
Sunk cost fallacy will drag you into the ground
February 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Sunk cost fallacy will drag you into the ground
Just completed a 2 hour football sesh, most exhausted I've been in a while!
Can't wait to do it again tbh
Can't wait to do it again tbh
February 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Just completed a 2 hour football sesh, most exhausted I've been in a while!
Can't wait to do it again tbh
Can't wait to do it again tbh
Ok inertiajs kinda slaps
February 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Ok inertiajs kinda slaps
Not every interesting issue can get a blog post, sometimes you just need to keep shipping
February 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Not every interesting issue can get a blog post, sometimes you just need to keep shipping
In my effort to combat the brainrot, I might have stretched myself too thin.
How do you handle multiple personal projects or interests at the same time?
If I work on one project for too long, i get bored and eventually stop working on it.
If I have too many, I don't get anything substantial done in either of them.
If I work on one project for too long, i get bored and eventually stop working on it.
If I have too many, I don't get anything substantial done in either of them.
January 29, 2025 at 5:57 AM
In my effort to combat the brainrot, I might have stretched myself too thin.
How do you handle multiple personal projects or interests at the same time?
If I work on one project for too long, i get bored and eventually stop working on it.
If I have too many, I don't get anything substantial done in either of them.
If I work on one project for too long, i get bored and eventually stop working on it.
If I have too many, I don't get anything substantial done in either of them.
January 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
How do you handle multiple personal projects or interests at the same time?
If I work on one project for too long, i get bored and eventually stop working on it.
If I have too many, I don't get anything substantial done in either of them.
If I work on one project for too long, i get bored and eventually stop working on it.
If I have too many, I don't get anything substantial done in either of them.
Using LLMs to generate unit tests:
Yay or nay?
Yay or nay?
January 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Using LLMs to generate unit tests:
Yay or nay?
Yay or nay?
Elixir guard clauses are kinda fun!
January 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Elixir guard clauses are kinda fun!
Elixir/Erlang devs, what does "let it crash" code look like in production systems?
January 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Elixir/Erlang devs, what does "let it crash" code look like in production systems?
Erlang VM provides such amazing primitives for building distributed systems people have no idea!
They're missing out fr
They're missing out fr
January 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Erlang VM provides such amazing primitives for building distributed systems people have no idea!
They're missing out fr
They're missing out fr
DynamoDB is an amazing system!
I'm a big fan of how they handle versioning using "vector clocks", and node failures using Hinted Handoffs.
Paper link: www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon...
I'm a big fan of how they handle versioning using "vector clocks", and node failures using Hinted Handoffs.
Paper link: www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon...
December 22, 2024 at 8:17 PM
DynamoDB is an amazing system!
I'm a big fan of how they handle versioning using "vector clocks", and node failures using Hinted Handoffs.
Paper link: www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon...
I'm a big fan of how they handle versioning using "vector clocks", and node failures using Hinted Handoffs.
Paper link: www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon...
How important is founder-market fit?
November 22, 2024 at 2:11 PM
How important is founder-market fit?