I’m Maavuz. I build software, wrangle servers, and dream about moving to a mountain valley someday, inshaAllah. This site is my workshop — a place for thoughts, experiments, and whatever I’m currently obsessed with.
Software engineer, fifteen years in. Generalist, jack of all trades, master of many, which is either a temperament or a diagnosis depending on the day. Currently running CodeFreaks and leading engineering at Advergic.
I’m not a blogger and I’m not building an audience. I’m just someone who makes things and occasionally has ideas worth writing down.
for a brief period i taught web development to young students — not formally, just someone who’d figured out enough to point others in a direction. one of them asked me once: sir, i love programming, but i suck at it. what should i do?
when i first wrote html, i used notepad. saved the file, tried to open it in a browser, it opened in notepad again. tried again. same thing. i couldn’t figure out what was happening. eventually i gave up for a few weeks until a different tutorial mentioned, almost as an aside, that you have to save it as .html and not .txt. that was it. that was the whole problem.
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