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
February 2025
- 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