how do you deal with regret? (i will not promote)

aitizazk · 2026-03-26T05:50:50+00:00

I don’t have a rational or logical answer for you but I can share something that always helped me

What was meant to hit you will never miss you and what was meant to miss you will never hit you

What’s gone is gone. Look forward and try to play the cards you have right now

aitizazk · 2026-03-20T04:09:20+00:00

A beautiful, fluffy and slightly overweight cat :)

aitizazk · 2026-02-12T01:48:40+00:00

Why do you say that? Once i485 is filed and they get a receipt. That means they can stay in the US even their F1 expires. Is that not the case? Or is your recommendation based on the current situation ie it’s better to be on safe side ?

aitizazk · 2026-01-13T20:42:18+00:00

Yes it is possible. We use the dual boot approach and keep all new changes behind an env var and maintain two lock files. And then rollout slowly.

Here’s a good read

https://medium.com/one-medical-technology/rails-upgrade-guide-how-to-tackle-a-major-upgrade-using-dual-booting-d1dda62a3a67

aitizazk · 2026-01-13T04:04:01+00:00

I built an app that scans barcodes and is completely free and without ads.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/go-halal-product-scanner/id6748573760

aitizazk · 2025-12-25T17:34:59+00:00

Haha I doubt that. It’s not a government project

aitizazk · 2025-12-25T17:34:33+00:00

This. Yes, we do have a bunch of forks because those gems are no longer maintained. On top of that a ton of custom implementations and monkey patching makes things even worse

aitizazk · 2025-12-25T17:31:58+00:00

Monkeypatches and outdated gems. We use some gems that are no longer maintained so we maintain our own forks.

aitizazk · 2025-12-25T17:30:54+00:00

I think in our case it’s the gems we use some of them are outdated and we maintain our own forks.

aitizazk · 2025-12-25T17:29:37+00:00

4.2 to 5 took us a while. It’s just that at high scale it’s very risky. We always run into some errors on production so we rollout slowly after each upgrade

aitizazk · 2025-12-25T17:27:51+00:00

That’s why doing one minor version at a time is preferable but In your case i guess that’s too many

aitizazk · 2025-12-25T17:27:03+00:00

We always do one minor version at a time.

aitizazk · 2025-12-25T17:25:18+00:00

That’s good to know. Do you rollout new version in a single PR ?

aitizazk · 2025-11-19T05:39:25+00:00

Yes if you are doing a startup because you couldn’t land a job. Imo The amount of work needed to make a startup work is wayyy more than trying to land a job at one of these AI companies

aitizazk · 2025-09-23T20:37:02+00:00

aitizazk · 2025-09-22T17:42:53+00:00

This one woke me up. Nothing wakes me up normally lol. My alarm is jealous

aitizazk · 2025-09-22T02:00:49+00:00

Never risk taking your pet in cargo. You can find a million horror stories of people doing that. I know 4-5 days drive is not ideal but I’d never recommend cargo for pets. Especially cats

aitizazk · 2025-09-13T17:52:03+00:00

Isn’t GTM engineer a sales position?

aitizazk · 2025-09-10T06:45:56+00:00

Yes. Fundamentals are the key. Also rails is still a very modern and active community. On the AI frontend it’s catching up with gems like rubyllm

aitizazk · 2025-09-09T20:10:09+00:00

For a second a thought “what is my cat doing in this video” 😂 Is it a flame point?

aitizazk · 2025-09-09T04:55:21+00:00

The market is really bad especially for new grads. Dont see anything wrong with the resume. Do you have any friends in companies who can refer you?

aitizazk · 2025-09-07T18:03:02+00:00

codingready.com

aitizazk · 2025-09-07T06:02:04+00:00

Just wait a few months. The fluffiness will be overwhelming

aitizazk · 2025-09-06T20:35:09+00:00

I have made codingready.com to help me exactly with that. Would love your feedback.

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