Rakhim's blog

Hi, my name is Rakhim. I'm a staff engineer at IQM Quantum Computers. I'm building Exotext.com and Minifeed.net. Reach me on Bluesky or Twitter.

Examples are the best documentation

Benjamin Button Reviews macOS

AI is not another abstraction because god plays dice

Finland is a high-context society that loves defaults

AI is impressive because we’ve failed at semantic web and personal computing

Thank you Google for breaking my YouTube addiction

But what if I really want a faster horse?

How to play Half Life 1 and 2 on M-chip Macs

Knight Ride: a game about rogue (chess) knight

Don't make it "like Google"

Why I prefer to git stage outside of the editor or the terminal

They made computers behave like annoying salesmen

YouTube picks, December 2024

How to make forbidden changes to SQLite tables

I wish your bespoke React-Tailwind-etc static site generator had RSS

How to build and publish multi-platform Rust binaries via Github actions

How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect.

Jupyter notebooks as e2e tests

Lesser-known science fiction movies

Your minimalistic app is great! Can you add these 38 features, though?

Should I use web fonts?

In search for a good Markdown editor for my blogging platform

Here we go

The mandatory smartphone

It's okay to walk uphill

Programming vs. Coding vs. Software Engineering

Products aren't for people yet

Producing a video lesson

Please, recommend me a book about X

Dreaming of obsession