There are plenty of stories about fraudulent USB flash drives floating around. This isn’t one of those, I bought a 128 GB USB 3.0 Type C & A SanDisk Flash Drive, and it works great. If you want to buy the drive, click here. …

After an intense day of inquiring, I submitted my application. This is the procedure to get a Police Character Certificate in Lahore. EDIT JUNE 2020: The process has substantially changed, someone else wrote a new article here. EDIT AUG 2019: This procedure is now outdated. The forms have been combined…

Lahore High Court appealed to constitute Federal Information Commission and ensure petitioner application is dealt with according to law. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, Oct 17, 2018 Contact: Amin Shah Gilani press@gilani.me Update Oct 17, 2018: The Hon. Justice Shahid Karim has postponed the hearing for December 3, 2018. Lahore, Pakistan…

The Ruby case statement is simple enough to master: case a when 'A', 'B' puts 'A or B' when 'C' puts 'A or B' else puts 'Not A, B, or C' end When using regex (via documentation): case "12345" when /^1/ puts "the string starts with one" else puts "I…

Whenever I tell my friends that I work remotely for a client I’ve never met, they ask me: is it secure for you to work remotely? My answer is a resounding “Yes… but, it depends on how well you create your remote worker security policy.” I live in Pakistan where…

I have a secret that saves my clients a ton of money, keeps their website secure, and has built-in backups. The secret: I make their website static. Then, I store and host it with GitHub, and use Cloudflare to serve it over HTTPS, and make it fast. …

I began working with the back-end with Node, back in the Node v0.10.x days when the React vs. Angular debate was very new and very, very hot. I was getting very tired of copying boilerplate code when someone introduced me to Ruby on Rails 4, and the idea of convention…

I’ve seen a lot of examples of this online, and it took a while for me to get it right, so I decided to document it. The two cases I’ve used this for: Vanity URLs, e.g. trying to open a user’s profile at /u/amingilani Obfuscated URLs, e.g. trying to make…

Don’t use Chrome’s built in Password manager, it syncs to your Google Account where passwords are viewable in plaintext. Have you ever saved a password in Chrome, even accidentally? Go to passwords.google.com Ever given your Google password because you couldn’t access your email? They can wire your savings to themselves. …