Ingredients:

• 2 oz Gin
• 5 oz Tonic water
• 1 Lime
• a Couple of Olives
• A fuck ton of ice

Ingredients:

• 50mL Gin (1.7 oz)
• 150mL Tonic water (5 oz)
• 1 Lime

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Irish whiskey
• 2 oz Simple syrup
• 2 Lemons

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Irish whiskey
• 1/2 oz maple syrup
• Dash of cinnamon
• Ice!

I had a table reservation at 8 PM on Saturday at Arlo in Salt Lake City. It’s very close to the Utah State Capitol (Google Maps), and it’s a bit hidden, though still quite busy.

They have both indoor and outdoor seating, but it was too cold for me to sit outside. The indoor environment is beautiful and cozy, and the view of the quiet street on a Saturday was actually quite nice.

For the first time, I decided to cook a turkey for 2024 Thanksgiving! I’d never done it before, and I wasn’t sure what I needed, but I knew one thing for sure: I needed a turkey!

I went to Costco and chose the smallest turkey they had, which was just over 10 pounds (sorry, little fella). They had turkeys over 20 pounds, but I went with the smaller size because it is just me (lol). The turkey was priced at $0.99 per pound. It was snowing in Salt Lake City when I went on Tuesday, November 26th. I grabbed my turkey, along with a couple of random seasonings, although I ended up not using them.

I went to the STK steakhouse on Saturday, November 23rd, 2024. I had a table reservation for 8:30 PM. They offered me the choice of a dining table or a seat at the bar. I chose a dining table in the corner.

At that time, the restaurant was fully packed with people dining. There was live music, and the lighting was dim. The server at my table brought me water and handed me the menu. They have a variety of foods and drinks to choose from, and, let’s be honest, they were pricey. Take a look at the menu:

I have this effect where I scare people away. Like they ran away. I think each time I try to act cool or think I am also included, I should rethink and remind myself of my past and everything else, this humbles me and reminds me that I don’t deserve anything.

When I think I might have a future with someone and try to get to know her better, and she rejects/ghosts/ignores me -all the time- I buy her gift(s) they might like. Gifts I never give.

I have many plants -mostly- and other things now at my place which are not mine. It hurts sometimes to look at them, sometimes not. Some of them are old, some new.

Here’s a video of me cycling in Liberty Park, Salt Lake City, on Friday, November 29th, 2024.

I used a GoPro 10 mounted on my bicycle handlebar. For this recording, I turned off both the stabilizer and GPS. I used two batteries to record just under two hours of video.

I ride a Trek Marlin 5 Gen 2, which I’ve had for almost two years. I really like it, it just works!

The gym was almost empty today (Nov 30th, 2024), it felt like heaven. I even warmed up on the chest press machine. I took proper rest between sets and completed six exercises. Overall, it was a good workout today. The gym had been closed for two days for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Afterward, I went for some cardio and ran/walked a little over 5K on the treadmill in over 60 minutes. While running, I watched Season 6, Episode 2 (the “black shirt” episode) of Peaky Blinders. The only reason I resubscribed to Netflix for $6.99 a month was to catch up on this show. Even so, I still have to endure ads with their basic plan. I take out my AirPods during ad breaks. And no, I’m not upgrading to their “better” plan lol.

A book written by Christopher Myers and Trevor Noah. You might have heard about him from The Daily Show. I think he’s doing stand-up comedy now (please don’t fact-check me).

It’s a picture book that tells a story about a boy who goes on an adventure—one might say a rebellion—to explore and understand.

It’s well-written and well-illustrated. I read it on the day of my birthday at Weller Book Works in Salt Lake City. I didn’t buy it because I think I can probably buy a used version later for a cheaper price just to have it.

The book covers a portion of problems, solutions, mistakes, and some solutions to personal life happenings. It is more on the side of motivational speech rather than giving you a roadmap. Of course, if you are looking for a well-thought solution, this book might not suit your will. It is more of a written YouTube motivational video that showcases quotes from well-known people and tries to hype you up.

It gives solutions like you should give up your bad habits, build good habits instead of it, or you need to change your subconscious without any further details on how one should accomplish such goals. Until the last chapter of the book, where the author introduces his website and claims you need a coach to develop such traits in yourself, which leaves you wondering that you were reading a marketing book all along for his website and advertising his personal development programs.

An article by Sanne Kruikemeier from Amsterdam School of Communication Research ASCoR that has been published on Elsevier Journal 2014. View Article

Goal

The paper aims to find out how much using a social platform; in this case, Twitter would affect a politician preferential votes. Their presence on Twitter includes interacting with their potential voters and sharing their private persona. Further, it investigates the effect of candidates’ personalized communication on the number of preferential votes they receive.

The book is a very fragmented, a shortened version of papers. I have to say the book seems very like a how to be a perfect flattering person in your career. If you really believe you want to spend the rest of your life in a hierarchical organization. You just want to get promotion and earn money, this book can be your hidden gem but comes at the cost of literally giving up yourself to satisfy your boss(es) and colleague; this is far away from having an ego.

An outstanding book by Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger which clearly explains how to go from a ordinary UI to outstanding, modern and accessible one. It would teach you what to see in a UI and what matters while keeping things simple and easy for end-users.

This book can be used as a reference while designing a page or component of your web or mobile application and quickly checking and evaluating your design choices as each section is short and clearly explained.

Introduction

In this post, We would try to develop and publish a visual studio code extension using VSCode samples, APIs, and TypeScript. The extension we will make is called Oops and is currently available at the VSCode Marketplace and GitHub if you want to check it out for yourself.

This extension will be a simple and straightforward one as the functionalities are limited to these four items:

1. Install essential packages:

Sources: https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher/issues/144#issuecomment-152839748
https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher/issues/144#issuecomment-48008579

2. Install Mailcatcher

How to consume APIs inside Laravel?

If you want to fetch, save, crawl, or fire a one-time request to a remote server that exposes API, there are a variety of options for Laravel. An example use-case would be updating the IMDB rating for a batch of movies and series for your film listing web application.

The popular ones are:

Things to keep in mind…

Heads Up! if the API you are going to consume in your application is well-known and complex, there is a high chance that someone else has already developed a library to just work with that API, like this Laravel package by Mustapha Alaouy that specifically calls YouTube API.

I just created a simple Vue.js spinner using SVG and CSS animation to iterate along with the different colors.

The default spinner comes from Glenn McComb post, where he created a spinning SVG circle using CSS animation. I have slightly adjusted it to put in a Vue.js template.

The HTML part is straight forward; we have a circle in 100 by 100 view box, centered at 50 with a radius of 45.

1. SSH into your server (Vagrant, Whatever)

2. Follow the following instruction:

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35793216/installing-mailparse-php7-mbstring-error __

Although I ended up adding manually (last step) maybe this can be a future reference for myself or any other developer.

1. Install Certbot

more: https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/ubuntubionic-nginx

2. Make cloudflare.ini

Get your API key from: https://dash.cloudflare.com/profile

Secure cloudflare.ini file:

more: https://certbot-dns-cloudflare.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#credentials

3. Install Cloudflare plugin

code: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/tree/master/certbot-dns-cloudflare_
more:_ https://certbot.eff.org/docs/using.html#plugins

4. Activate SSL

Change amirmasoud.me and www.amirmasoud.me to your domains:

more: https://certbot-dns-cloudflare.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#examples

A solo bird flytin high

Beans, lots of beans

A white flower on black background

A purple flower on black background

Two pink flowers on black background

Onions!

Lights

Patterns

A plant and night

Two cactuses