Hey there stranger!

The name’s Maahir. I’m a software engineer and, in attempt to have more to my personality than software engineering, here I am trying to be a writer.

Hailing from the Pearl of the Indian Ocean (that’s Sri Lanka), and currently residing in Indonesia (couldn’t find a cool title) - I…

Yeah, I’m not sure where I was going with that, but now you know something about me!

I write about software engineering and other things that I find interesting.

These are the collections I maintain at the moment:

  1. Dev - A record of my journey as a software engineer, reflections on the things I’ve learned, the projects I’m working on, and the occasional rant
  2. Muse - Personal reflections on life and other attempts at being wise (although, I’m likely to come off as a sophist instead)

Look at my now page if you’re just interested in the kind of person I am :)

6 Oct 2024

BookLens | Devlog #1

Towards a prettier Goodreads. Picking tools, building backends, and giving up on sending E-mails because I ain’t got it in me.

15 Sep 2024

A Case For (Or Perhaps Against?) Idempotency

Software is all about tradeoffs, so let’s figure out why Idempotency might be worth the effort

3 Sep 2024

DNS From Scratch

Understanding how DNS makes your website work. A nuanced overview of the parts of DNS that you should care about.

23 Aug 2024

An Inkling of Idempotency

A (long-winded yet) foundational introduction to idempotency

19 Aug 2024

Fixed Term Track | Devlog #1

(Possibly) An introduction to the project and my philosophy on these programming side-quests!