Mohammed Ismail Ansari

Mohammed Ismail Ansari @myterminal

About: thinkpad, linux, emacs, oss, g-shocks, automobiles, tools, lists, productivity, islam

Location:
Lake Villa, IL
Joined:
Oct 8, 2017

Mohammed Ismail Ansari
articles - 22 total

What I Learned Writing My First Book

Recently, I tried my hand at writing a book. It's a super-short one based on To-Dos and personal...

Learn More 0 0Aug 3 '21

Installing a Minimal Debian system the Arch Way

If you've read my previous post about me migrating my ThinkPad from Arch to Debian, you must also be...

Learn More 1 0Aug 3 '21

Why and How I migrated my ThinkPad from Arch to Debian

This article outlines my migration from Arch Linux to Debian. The details about the migration are...

Learn More 1 0Jun 20 '21

I split my Emacs configuration and made it adaptive

This article is a transcript of a video that you can watch by clicking the below thumbnail. Hence, c...

Learn More 2 0Mar 18 '21

Setting up GUI on Linux with twiner

This article is a transcript of a video that you can watch by clicking the below thumbnail. Hence, c...

Learn More 0 0Mar 18 '21

How I automated my workstation setup

This article is a transcript of a video that you can watch by clicking the below thumbnail. Hence, c...

Learn More 5 0Mar 18 '21

What my workstation setup is to me

This article is a transcript of a video that you can watch by clicking the below thumbnail. Hence, c...

Learn More 4 0Mar 18 '21

I moved back from macOS to Linux and I'm loving it!

This article outlines my transition back from macOS to Linux with the help of references to the vide...

Learn More 1 0Mar 18 '21

5+ ways how Rust makes you a better programmer: An initial review of my new favorite programming language

[This story was originally posted on my personal blog] With my recent dive into Rust as a low-level...

Learn More 45 8Mar 9 '20

A few clean-ups to relieve stress

[This story was originally posted on my personal blog] I've always had this itch of organizing the s...

Learn More 9 0Feb 19 '20

How I manage to meet most of my deadlines and still keep myself 'mostly' motivated

[This story was originally posted on my personal blog] In this age of technology overload, to say th...

Learn More 9 0Dec 27 '19

My first decade as a professional software developer

[This story was originally posted on my personal blog] Today (at the time of this writing) I complet...

Learn More 6 0Dec 6 '19

How my life restarted as a 'New Game+'

[This story was originally posted on my personal blog] My life has always been too boring, at least...

Learn More 9 0Aug 2 '19

Given a choice, would you choose an iterative approach or a recursive one?

It's beautiful how the same problem can be solved using an iterative or a recursive algorithm, both h...

Learn More 5 3Jul 29 '19

How looking beyond defaults helped me learn about cool stuff

[This story was originally posted on my personal blog] In this current age of technology saturation,...

Learn More 9 0Jul 22 '19

What getting back on Facebook taught me

[This story was originally posted on my personal blog] My entry onto Facebook Back when I...

Learn More 4 0Jul 16 '19

How I unified my email accounts in 2019

[This story was originally posted on my personal blog] Starting from my first ever email address per...

Learn More 38 2Jul 12 '19

Recursion, Memoization, and Y-Combinator

Memoizing recursive functions

Learn More 27 1Apr 15 '19

How I keep myself digitally organized

How I keep myself digitally organized

Learn More 8 0Mar 29 '19

12 Reasons why I spend time on open-source software

12 Reasons why I spend time on open-source software

Learn More 19 0Mar 28 '19

Slide Gazer - A light-weight presentation tool in the browser

Born out of an idea and improved over time, Slide Gazer is the successor of faded-presenter. It's an online tool that can be used to present slide-shows created with plain-text markdown documents.

Learn More 5 0Feb 25 '19

The World of Emacs

A brief guide for getting into and through the world of Emacs

Learn More 8 2Oct 13 '17