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@BassemDy

SWE @GitHub - De-influencer - cutting through the bullshit of maximalists | youtube.com/@glich.stream

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@BassemDy
Jan 25, 2025
I have started preparing a hybrid (pre-recorded + live sessions) course on practical system design that will be shipped on maven The course is designed for engineers with at least 3 years of experience, & these are the expected learning outcomes: TLDR; I want to teach the bulk
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@BassemDy
Feb 11, 2023
Europe is the land of the average. There’s a strong pull to the mean. There’s really no incentive for doing the extra ordinary. Regulation, paperwork, crazy tax system, peer & social pressure. That’s all OK bcz people choose to live this way, but that’s also how ambition dies
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@BassemDy
Aug 1, 2024
Replying to @andrey_akinshin
Looks like someone’s going to exceed expectations on the next performance review cycle
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@BassemDy
Aug 18, 2023
If I were to start my career as a software engineer again, here's what I would do differently
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@BassemDy
Oct 3, 2023
I went 580 days to the gym out of the 827 days I had my membership That’s on average: 70 out of 100 days 21 out of 30 days a month 5 out of 7 days a week My height is 170cm and I built myself from 52KGs to 70KGs with 16% body fat I can bench press 1.5x my body weight, squat
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@BassemDy
Aug 15, 2023
Do not make my mistake! Take your time off very seriously.
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@BassemDy
Oct 8, 2023
Replying to @hnasr and @torhamdev
It's fully described here :) the team has created Blackbird: a custom and in-house built search engine. Blackbird ingests 120,000 docs per second and the indexed data is distributed over different shards. Blackbird has a query service that takes the search query, translates it
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@BassemDy
Sep 15, 2023
Microservices: the history, the good and the bad in 15 minutes!
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@BassemDy
Jul 8, 2023
I just finished recording a 2.5 hour+ video explaining EVERYTHING about actions/actions-runner-controller It took me 7 hours to record the whole explanation + demos Shooting content in the scorching heat is not easy, my mac kept crashing and it was a nightmare, but it’s done.
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@BassemDy
Jul 26, 2024
Nothing is more true than this.
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@BassemDy
Jan 17, 2024
Back in Lebanon, I worked harder than I do in the Netherlands and achieved 1/10 of the results. Sure, career successes and growth compounds. We can obviously do more with less, the more experienced we become. However here are some critical factors that were holding me back and
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@BassemDy
Oct 13, 2023
Barbarism is also watching genocide and cheering for it or justifying it with fake news, outright manipulation and propaganda. My first encounter with death was the Qana massacre in 1996. I was 7 years old and I remember vividly the images of dead women and children being pulled
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@BassemDy
Jul 13, 2023
My free (and complete) GitHub actions course is now the top result when you search for it on Youtube 🙌 If learning Actions along with CI, CD, writing custom actions, infrastructure as code and OIDC is on your bucket list, then you most definitely need to make this course your
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@BassemDy
Jan 10, 2024
Whaaaaaat??? Today I got my LinkedIn Top Voice badge, 2024 is starting off strong!
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