rafiq's weblog

hi! i'm rafiq (@rrvsh on various platforms), and i'm a 25 year old software engineer. i've been tinkering and coding since I was 14, and plan to never stop. this website showcases some of my work, though you can find the rest on GitHub.

my work

prose

a collection of my writing, sorted by month.

February 2026

• Month in Review - January 2026
• AKOTSK S01E03 Review
• Soft skills
• Wonder Man
• I love engineering
• Experimentation with GPT-5.2 Codex using OpenCode Part 1
• Why we all need to be friction-maxxing
• PSA: Github uses your profile name as your git commit author

January 2026

• Code Review
• Bendy and the Ink Machine - 9/10
• Bendy and the Ink Machine - 9.5/10
• New Monitor!
• Doom and Gloom
• Failure
• Four Games in a Week
• The Definition of Insanity
• Having Friends is Really Great TM
• You would think I was tired of introspection by now
• Self-flagellation in the name of learning
• Plan for the site
• Returning to the Sierra Madre
• Whatever
• Ruminations on my Past Work
• My website is finally live
• Y no modern fantasy?
• GOT S01 Review
• How to over-engineer a static site, or My Weblog's Tech Stack
• How to create an SSH public key from a private key
• .ssh directory and private key permissions
• Manually setting up a Windows EFI System Partition

October 2025

• Make Firefox's fullscreen conform to the window size instead of screen size
• git init ~/repos/cathedral
• How to Fix Flaky macOS Screen Capture on OBS

September 2025

• mise en place

February 2025

• Automating Submodule Updates with Git Hooks
• Live Syncing to a Git Repository with a VS Code Extension