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
tools
epub reader - a browser-local reader with progress and bookmarks.
prose
a collection of my writing, sorted by month.
September 2026
August 2026
July 2026
- How to enable per-flake binary caches with nixConfig
- How to look up the value of an option in a NixOS configuration
June 2026
- pi-coding-agent-nix-flake-nightly-final-final-v2
- My Strange Addiction
- 5 things I dislike about Golang
- Thank you Microslop!
May 2026
April 2026
- Take That!
- My First Day in London PART TWO
- My First Day in London
- A Panacea for My Inattention
- My ImageMagick Attempt to Post an Instagram Story
- Beware the familiar
- An Albino Emperor
March 2026
- Waking up at 5am to fix my sleep
- HTMX vs Playwright Hell in a Cell No Holds Barred
- Ideal Breakfast Metrics
- LPCAMM2; a new, repairable memory standard for laptops
- Who the fuck is Aristotle
February 2026
- How to complete a browser flow over SSH
- PSA: Github uses your profile name as your git commit author
- Why we all need to be friction-maxxing
- Experimentation with GPT-5.2 Codex using OpenCode Part 1
- I love engineering
- Wonder Man
- Soft skills
- AKOTSK S01E03 Review
- Month in Review - January 2026
January 2026
- Manually setting up a Windows EFI System Partition
- .ssh directory and private key permissions
- How to create an SSH public key from a private key
- How to over-engineer a static site, or My Weblog's Tech Stack
- GOT S01 Review
- Y no modern fantasy?
- My website is finally live
- Ruminations on my Past Work
- Whatever
- Returning to the Sierra Madre
- Plan for the site
- Self-flagellation in the name of learning
- You would think I was tired of introspection by now
- Having Friends is Really Great TM
- The Definition of Insanity
- Four Games in a Week
- Failure
- Doom and Gloom
- New Monitor!
- Bendy and the Ink Machine - 9.5/10
- Bendy and the Ink Machine - 9/10
- Code Review
October 2025
- How to Fix Flaky macOS Screen Capture on OBS
- git init ~/repos/cathedral
- Make Firefox's fullscreen conform to the window size instead of screen size