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		<title>What Can Claude Code Do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder what Claude Code is actually doing while burning through your tokens and forcing you to watch another YouTube video while waiting? Nobody knows, so I asked it directly. It didn&#8217;t know what it was capable of, of course, but it bared its soul when I asked it to look inside (its installed plugin [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>2024</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 03:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[2024 ended up being a book-a-week, mostly fiction year. Sohaib&#39;s bookshelf: 2024 Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett tagged: 2024 Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com by Aaron Ross tagged: 2023 and 2024 Email NINJA List: Become an Expert in Email Marketing by Henry Magness [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Models, Memes, and Morals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 22:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Life is a sum of all your choices. Albert Camus It started with my weekend aixperiments that were interrupted a couple of weeks ago when a past client reached out for urgent help with a production EC2 instance. 97% of the disk was reported as filled, even though df, du, and other tools he had [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>2023</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2023 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[2023 was a better year than 2022 for my Goodreads &#8216;To Read&#8217; list, with 24 books out of an initial 12 book target read. I still have more than 300 books left in the list, so it might be time for a pruning. 2024 is also also going to be the year of revival for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>2022</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[2022 was an even busier year than 2021, so a book per month is what I could manage, as expected. Sohaib&#39;s bookshelf: 2022 The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>2021</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[2021 was a busy year, but I managed to read the 52 books that I had planned for 2021. As my new firm &#8211; Auxcube &#8211; started operations with full force in October, so 2022 looks like a year with twelve books to read. Sohaib&#39;s bookshelf: 2021 I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett A [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>2020</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2020 15:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I met my reading goal of a book each week this year as well, thanks mainly to Terry Pratchett&#8217;s punny Discworld books. I had been putting them off for a couple of decades, so 2020 was the year it had to happen. I also managed to write an actual article after many many years, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Résumé Rejection Reasons – An Illustrated Guide – Part 5 – Parting Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Part 5 &#8211; Parting Tips A few remaining aspects of résumé creation and submission that did not fit in the previous parts&#8230; Do Not Apply Everywhere The &#8216;Careers&#8217; section of a large firm&#8217;s website list dozens of job openings at any given time, as it is hiring perpetually. Do not follow the urge of applying [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Résumé Rejection Reasons – An Illustrated Guide – Part 4 – Résumé Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2020 22:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Part 4 &#8211; Résumé Design When the hiring manager opens up a résumé file, the résumé&#8217;s design is what makes the first impression, the content only comes in later. Before scanning or reading the content, the hiring manager&#8217;s brain registers the layout and assesses how easy or difficult scanning it is going to be, how [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Résumé Rejection Reasons – An Illustrated Guide – Part 3 – Résumé Content</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2020 20:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Part 3 &#8211; Résumé Content Let us take a magnifying glass and zoom in on the various faux pas in a résumé&#8217;s content that get it noticed, and not in a good way. If you can avoid these mistakes in your résumé, you make a huge leap up on the leader-board. Capitalization The rules of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Résumé Rejection Reasons – An Illustrated Guide – Part 2 – Résumé Sections</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2020 20:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Part 2 &#8211; Résumé Sections Let us take a quick and critical look at some of the common sections that a résumé is supposed to contain, in roughly the same order in which they are expected, starting with&#8230; Name Please use your complete name in your résumé header, properly capitalized and spelled the same way [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Résumé Rejection Reasons – An Illustrated Guide – Part 1 – First Impressions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2020 20:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You return home after four years of rigorous college education and a CS degree in hand. After catching up on months of lost sleep and millions of missed memes, you decide to finally begin your job search today &#8211; before the algorithms, time complexities and other topics that you expect to be asked about during [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Books I Read in 2019</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2019 21:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[2019 was one of those years in which I managed to read approximately one book per week, after a couple of decades. (This is just an excuse to revive this blog that has been dormant for six years). Sohaib&#8217;s bookshelf: 2019 Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Cab Driver from Waziristan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Abbottabad, a Suzuki Bolan is the what you get when you need a taxi &#8211; probably because of its turning radius and the ability to squeeze into the narrow lanes of the old Abbottabad. The lanes were constructed during the British Raj days and are more suited to horses than cars. I just took a cab [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Staying in Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have been asked countless times why I am wasting my life Pakistan and why haven&#8217;t I applied for immigration yet. This post has been lying in my blog drafts for many months &#8211; today seems to be an appropriate day to publish it. Happy Independence Day. A few months ago, I asked a friend [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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