Which is expected when typing text: a. Enter to submit, shift enter for new line. or b. Shift enter to submit, enter for new line.

It feels like everything on the internet these days are just people selling ... How many Youtube tutorial are there of people genuinely want to share knowledge, and not selling a particular tools, online courses, or doing it for personal brand ...

I have been going back and forth with Claude on this idea I had. It's something I had never done before and have my doubts if I could do it. Claude has been very supportive, so ... Bismillah,

The modern internet is no longer designed to inform you. It's designed to dissolve your ability to think clearly. It is not the lack of discipline that makes you distracted, you are in the machine that is optimised for brainrot. New Code & Codex dispatch: View article →

The internet tore down the wall of propaganda. So they built a new one — made of algorithms. You can't see it. But it's shaping everything you believe. Latest Code & Codex essay 👇 View article →

The internet tore down the wall of propaganda. So they built a new one — made of algorithms. You can't see it. But it's shaping everything you believe. Latest Code & Codex essay 👇 View article →

Get off your screen, Get back to your deen, Stop with the dopamine, Stick to Sirat al-Mustaqim, The path that keeps you clean.

“The strong do what they can. The weak suffer what they must.” Thucydides wrote this 2,500 years ago. Has anything changed? Taking a look at the Melian dialogue in the modern context.

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The Melian Dialogue

Does justice exist only between equals in power?

Crypto will put everyone in chains, errr I mean on-chain, I meant to say on-chain.

AI is a bubble. AI right now is loud. “AI powered” this, “AI powered” that. AI is a buzz word, a marketing hype, a shiny sticker slapped onto products to sell. The ‘bubble’ is not the technology itself, it is the attention economy around it. Databases were once exciting, now boring. Search engines were once magical, now assumed. Cloud computing were once exotic, now is invisible until it breaks the internet. AI will stop being a bubble, when AI is invisible, when AI is taken for granted, when AI is boring. View article →

Alternatives are not always better, but it is always better to have alternatives. I’ve been putting together http://altweb.space, a small collection of alternatives. Not really aiming to “replace everything”, more like “here are other things out there, if you’re curious.”

Code & Codex started as a Substack newsletter. It went quiet for a while. I’m restarting it with a different publishing strategy. Substack is no longer the center, it’s just one distribution point. Dispatches are archived at jshamsul.com, mirrored on-chain via Paragraph, and relayed across Nostr. For Nostr specifically: essays are published here as long-form notes. I’m also reposting older dispatches so they live in the relay network. Just an experiment in permanence, redundancy, and open distribution.

Opening a browser tab and forgetting what you want to look up, is like entering a room and forgetting what is it you were supposed to look for. 👨‍🦳

Not sure why the text formatting is a bit off in this one.

Soon there’s going to be a cultural pushback against AI-generated code. Suddenly it’ll be “cool” again to write things the old way,.. not vibing, but the classic LSP-autocomplete way. Before that moment arrives, I’d like to propose a new label: “Bespoke, Handcrafted, Artisanal, Human-Made Software”™ 😎

CypherPunks are the Sufis of tech.

Start every game with GLHF, and end it with GGWP.