Mohammed Ismail Ansari

5+ ways how Rust makes you a better programmer: An initial review of my new favorite programming language

Mar 9, 2020

[This story was originally posted on my personal blog] With my recent dive into Rust as a low-level programming language and brief experience in its eco-system, it managed to impress the programmer in me. Through balancing powerful technical capacit...

A few clean-ups to relieve stress

Feb 19, 2020

[This story was originally posted on my personal blog] I've always had this itch of organizing the stuff that I come across every day, sometimes to an extent that it's over-organized for me to access later. It's partly because my mind keeps on shifti...

How I manage to meet most of my deadlines and still keep myself 'mostly' motivated

Dec 27, 2019

[This story was originally posted on my personal blog] In this age of technology overload, to say that it's difficult to keep up with life would be quite an understatement. In fact, it's very easy to miss things going around you. You can imagine thos...

My first decade as a professional software developer

Dec 6, 2019

[This story was originally posted on my personal blog] Today (at the time of this writing) I completed my first decade of being a professional software developer. Though I usually hate using the term 'journey' for things unrelated to travel, I'll mak...

How my life restarted as a 'New Game+'

Aug 2, 2019

[This story was originally posted on my personal blog] My life has always been too boring, at least that's what my friends, family and other people tell me. Spending most part of my life in a learning frenzy where regardless of the direction I run, e...

How looking beyond defaults helped me learn about cool stuff

Jul 22, 2019

[This story was originally posted on my personal blog] In this current age of technology saturation, almost every task can be performed with close to an infinite number of ways with hundreds of tools to select from. In the last few years, I've develo...