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16 kilometers under gunfire
3–5 minutesA few weeks ago, navigating heavy personal problems, I hit a wall and couldn’t work. Then I remembered 2010: a 16-kilometer walk through a Kashmir curfew, dodging gunfire at age ten. This isn’t about 4 a.m. routines—it’s about using the hardest thing you’ve ever survived as a permanent reference point to keep going.
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Your Hotel Room Has an API. It Probably Shouldn’t.
5–7 minutesI just wanted to turn the lights off. What I found instead was every guest’s name, room number, and door override code sitting behind an API with no authorization check.
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The Curious Case of Mongolian Script for Web
3–4 minutesI’ve been learning about writing systems. Most languages today flow either left-to-right (like English) or right-to-left (like Arabic), always moving down the page. But Traditional Mongolian script? It’s a total outlier – you read it in vertical columns, moving from left to right across the page. Pretty unique, right? I got curious about where you…
