Hi, I’m Emad Elsaid (Arabic: عماد السعيد, IPA: [ʕaˈmaːd ɪlˈsaʕiːd]) . Welcome to my 🌻 digital garden. It’s a public space. It includes notes, ideas, and experiments usually decorated with a photo I captured in my everyday life. Anything I’m involved in will be part of this garden.

I’m a software engineer backend focused. I mainly use #Ruby and #Go.

Social profiles ¶

• GitHub have all my sideprojects. it’s one of my hobbies.
• Twitter will have my random ideas or photographs.
• Facebook for me is more about connecting to family and the Egyptian devs community
• Youtube : includes videos about book reviews, gameplays, or even some thoughts about software engineering.
• Linkedin I keep my professional profile updated as much as possible
• Keybase can be used to send me encrypted messages if you’re seeking confidentiality.

Hobbies ¶

• ⌨️ Programming (Hardware)
• 🎮 Video Games (Hardware)
• 📖 Reading science fiction
• ⛸️ Inline Skating
• 🚲 Cycling

Projects ¶

The following are projects I’m involved in right now or in operation without development:

• Mau: a convention for building P2P Web 2 applications
• Who is popular today? : a project that collects news and people pages from Wikipedia and cross-links them together.
• Xlog: Personal knowledgebase server and it’s what generates this blog
• Golang Debugger : a GUI interface for Delve #go debugger
• Library: a simpler solution than Goodreads to manage my books
• Rubik’s Cube timer: A timer to generate permutations of Rubik’s cube and timer.
• Ruby Functions: Open source community for posting Ruby functions snippets

✅ Checklists ¶

• CodeReview
• Product Change Workflow
• Writing For Developers
• Open Source Project
• Onboarding
• Youtube Process

🇺🇸 English Notes ¶

Peer To Peer ¶

I developed an interest in decentralization technologies and #p2p solutions. these are some ideas that occupied my mind for a while:

• Distributed authority product features for future of distributed applications
• A general idea of a peer to peer social network
• Follow up on peer to peer social media network solution
• Sound approach for a p2p social network which falls back to current web
• what are we sharing

Web development ¶

• A solution for implementing Bulma navigation bar for mobile with CSS only
• Async Rendering a Page With Sinatra
• Bind Remote Server Port to Local Machine With SSH
• Bulma HTML5 Dialog
• The benefits of microservices over monolithic application

Go ¶

• Access unexported struct fields in Go Saturday 15 April 2023
• Converting Ruby sinatra project to Go Monday 17 October 2022
• Copy file Tuesday 11 October 2022
• Country code to flag emojie in Go Friday 4 November 2022
• Go FileSystem with fallback Thursday 27 October 2022
• Go function logging technique Tuesday 11 October 2022
• Go init function Saturday 12 November 2022
• Go slice that doesn't grow past capacity Tuesday 11 October 2022
• Golang Bleve Experience Wednesday 12 October 2022
• Golang Tuesday 25 April 2023
• Learning Go Monday 3 April 2023
• Mau Friday 21 October 2022
• ⌨️ Programming Thursday 24 August 2023
• Replacing Golang Regexp matching with a premitive faster solution Friday 30 December 2022
• Xlog Sunday 20 November 2022
• json Wednesday 14 December 2022

Ruby ¶

• Cloning All Your GitHub Repositories or Updating Them in One Command
• ERB Templates as Standalone Executables
• Git as Messages Queue
• Deploy rails application with docker compose and Capistrano
• Integerating Jekyll and Octopress in Emacs
• Enforcing Project Structure With Rspec
• Tracing Ruby Applications Execution in 4 Lines
• Rails Accepts_nested_attributes for polymorphic relation solution
• Projects Files Flame Graph
• Download RSS Offline

Shell ¶

• Linux named pipes
• Getting Your CPU Speed in GHz on Linux

SQL ¶

• Representing Named Entity Mention in Postgres for Fast Queries

Javascript ¶

• Implementing Hover Cards With Minimum Javascript

C++ ¶

• CPP Limit int type by max value

Opinions ¶

• Consistency Over Creativity
• Meta work is destroying actual work
• On Modern Web Applications Stability
• Don't Throw Your Question Over the Fence
• Language Compression
• Single Machine Startup Company System

Book Reviews ¶

• Fundamentals of Software Architecture

Misc ¶

• Explain all SQL statements in rails
• Exporting a Facebook Group as a Website
• 0/4 Faculty of Computer and Informatics Suez Canal University curriculums list
• Favorite Developers
• How I keep zero inbox for all my emails
• How do I prototype my ideas
• How to Find a Solution for Your Problem
• Interesting GNU Projects
• Monitor Window10 Foreground Window
• Moving from Lastpass.com to KeePassXC on Linux-Android-Windows
• Posting to Hugo Static Site From a Facebook Profile
• The Chronicles of a Left Handed in Egypt
• The quest to collect all software man pages
• Using Emacs as email client
• Why Am I Using KeePassXC
• Window10 Disconnects Reconnects Usb Bluetooth
• Working With Legacy Code
• a week with remarkable 2

Adventures ¶

• Scharbeutz Vacation
• Experiencing Heide Park Resort Rollercoasters One Day Trip

ملاحظات بالعربي 🇪🇬 ¶

قصص قصيرة ¶

• أسف مقدما
• اذكروا موتاكم
• استحواذ
• توازن جيني
• ريتروسبكتيف
• قاهرة الطاقة النووية
• قهوة سريعة
• إختراق

رأي ¶

• العصبية القبلية فى مجتمع مطورى البرمجيات
• صراع الإنسان المعاصر لإستعادة حريته فى عصر وسائل التواصل الإجتماعي
• صناعة السوفتوير للسوفتوير انجينيرز
• عن القبلية ودور الدين
• متي توقفنا عن تصور المستقبل
• نصايح أستاذي للتحضير لإمتحان الثانوية العامة
• هل من حقي الحكم على الأشخاص او الأشياء
• هل هو الماضي ام المستقبل

مراجعة كتب ¶

• مراجعة رواية The Gods Themselves

About this site ¶

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