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Eid Mubarak… Last night was feeling very low. Got my bike and went out. Didn’t expect to find this much peace and serenity all around. Couldn’t capture even a tiny fraction of the therapeutic solitude. The rhythms of lights and shadows. The whisper of the bugs. Smell of the soil just after rain. ...

“For routine jobs, you need clerks; for battles, soldiers; and for wars, generals. But for a Revolution, my friend, you need common men and women, millions of them, with a common dream.” — Tarif Haque More than Hundred Killed & Thousands Injured, Curfew Declared Right now, my country, Bangladesh, is undergoing a long awaited revolution. It started as a very simple demonestration by some students for fair and logical reform of the quota system for government jobs. For the first few days it was mostly peaceful and government also didn’t show it’s iron fist. ...

Last week I visited my hometown, Kurigram. For the first time, by a train. It is one of the most remote parts of Bangladesh. The journey was relatively smooth and took around nine hours. I booked quad seats for my family. Train Quad-Seats: Two seats facing each other, with a small table between The quad seats made me feel like writing something… If I had no kids with me, I would have written something on the table in my writing pad or played chess, I was thinking. ...

Wanted to work with Jekyll but Configuring Ruby on Mac Was Very Frustrating and how I nailed it Hello, It’s Tarif Haque a noob dev. I love simplicity. Maybe you do that as well. Whatever! The idea of modern static websites always intrigued me. But I never had the opportunity to dig deeper. Suddenly, I came across GitHub pages. Simply put, it’s a free hosting service for static pages by GitHub. Again, you can get an awesome .github.io Subdomain for free. ...

Let’s face it. We, the non-engineering background people, usually see the world of codes with fearful reverence. Nonetheless, we want to learn it with all our hearts (at least a few of us genuinely do). And we believe in some myths like, “You need to be super-good at maths to be a programmer,” etc. Now I’m a business grad. And I have been in this phase. But thankfully, I have been working in a software company for a few years now. ...