Sufian Rhazi's webloghttps://abstract.properties/2025-04-21T00:00:00.000Zhttps://abstract.properties/antisocial-intelligence.html2025-04-21T00:00:00.000Z

If AI is good, why does it make me feel bad?

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/gooey-graph-internals.html2025-03-27T00:00:00.000Z

An upcoming change to Gooey's dependency graph

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/gooey-keyless-lists.html2025-03-17T00:00:00.000Z

The key prop isn't necessary for rendering lists in frontend frameworks

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/the-shadow-dom-is-in-the-front.html2024-11-21T00:00:00.000Z

It'd be easier to understand if it was the "Front Facade DOM"

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/operational-burden-is-a-choice.html2024-11-06T00:00:00.000Z

Being oncall 24/7 is a technical choice, does it need to be that way?

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/devlog-dependency-graph-as-architecture.html2024-10-29T00:00:00.000Z

How Gooey works as an architecture for applications

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/devlog-a-sketch-of-this-application.html2024-10-22T00:00:00.000Z

A rough idea of what I'm building

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/devlog-what-is-a-module.html2024-10-14T00:00:00.000Z

A module is a bit like a function, could both be manipulated in the same way?

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/explicit-resource-management-is-great.html2024-10-11T00:00:00.000Z

Disposing of things is about to get much easier

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/devlog-week-one.html2024-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

Let's start with regular updates on my project

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/practice-and-smoothing.html2024-10-01T00:00:00.000Z

Thoughts on what practice is and what practice means for programming

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/fall-2024.html2024-09-16T00:00:00.000Z

Starting the season of change with new software

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/why-are-the-rules-of-hooks-rules.html2024-08-05T00:00:00.000Z

An exploration about why React hooks are awkward

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/how-this-website-is-put-together.html2024-04-30T00:00:00.000Z

An overview of abstract.properties

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/fools-gold.html2024-03-17T00:00:00.000Z

Reflecting on a career in tech

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/gpt.py.html2024-02-03T00:00:00.000Z

gpt.py is a minimal commandline application to query OpenAI

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/subclassing-function-in-js.html2023-01-14T00:00:00.000Z

How to subclass a function in JavaScript and TypeScript

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/typescripts-usedefineforclassfields-is-slow.html2022-10-20T00:00:00.000Z

A surprising performance regression for polyfilling spec-compliant field access

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/introducing-gooey.html2022-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

Gooey is a new, experimental web UI framework

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/typescript-compile-assertions.html2018-05-10T00:00:00.000Z

Using TypeScript 2.8 features to perform compile-time type inference assertions

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/interviewing-in-2018.html2018-05-09T00:00:00.000Z

Reflecting on interviewing for senior IC/management positions

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/management-philosophy-and-expectations.html2017-06-02T00:00:00.000Z

What should you expect from me, and what should I expect from you?

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/management-what-is-it-anyway.html2017-06-01T00:00:00.000Z

What does a software engineering manager really do?

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/incentives-and-web-browsers.html2017-03-04T00:00:00.000Z

What is funding the browsers we use?

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/ten-years-in-software--the-value-of-a-test.html2016-12-15T00:00:00.000Z

Reflections on the past ten years of my career: things I've learned. This lesson is about automated tests.

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/ten-years-in-software--fear-is-the-mind-killer.html2016-10-31T00:00:00.000Z

Reflections on the past ten years of my career: things I've learned. This lesson is advice against fear.

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/ten-years-in-software--burnout-is-self-inflicted.html2016-10-23T00:00:00.000Z

Reflections on the past ten years of my career: things I've learned. Here, I talk about my burnout.

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/ten-years-in-software--study-other-peoples-code.html2016-06-15T00:00:00.000Z

Reflections on the past ten years of my career: learn by studying other people's code

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/ten-years-in-software--how-to-solve-problems.html2016-03-05T00:00:00.000Z

Reflections on the past ten years of my career: things I've learned. The first lesson was profound: a method to solve any problem.

Sufian Rhazihttps://abstract.properties/exciting-es2015-features.html2016-01-14T00:00:00.000Z

A dive into exciting features that aren't often talked about in ES2015.

Sufian RhaziDaniel EspesetDan Nahttps://abstract.properties/generators-and-tasks.html2015-09-15T00:00:00.000Z

How asynchronous programming can be written in a synchronous style using generators.

Sufian Rhazi