Fahim Farook

@fahim.farook.org

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Coder, writer, and wannabe artist. I talk about #Coding, #Movies, #TV, #Writing, #Art, #Language, and #Technology. https://www.amazon.com/author/fahimfarook https://books.farook.org Lived in: 🇱🇰🇸🇦🇺🇸🇳🇿🇸🇬🇲🇾🇦🇪🇫🇷🇪🇸🇵🇹🇶🇦🇨🇦

A long, vertical screenshot of a direct message conversation between a user and a potential scammer posing as a fellow author. The scammer uses vague, generic praise and eventually pressures the user to "implement a sales funnel" to gain visibility. The user responds with humorous, sci-fi-themed "baiting," claiming they use funnels to transport "green men from Mars." The conversation ends with the user jokingly asking for funding for their interplanetary project, to which the scammer declines with a laughing emoji and saying: "I’ll cheer from Earth for now my investment portfolio doesn’t currently cover interplanetary funnels 😄" The user responds with: "So you're only interested in funnels for sending money from other people's pockets to yours? 😛"
A painting of an alien landscape with orange sands and a purple sky where a green planet with a golden ring around it hangs on one side of the sky. The landscape is dotted with mounds or stones on which glowing red plants appear. There's a green semi-transparent creature looking down on a yellow-golden plant with glowing branches.
A painting of a furry dog standing in front of a stone archway in a stone wall, possibly that of a castle, with mountains and a river behind him. The dog is standing on two feet and is holding a piece of paper in one hand and has the other hand raised, as if perhaps reading a poem?
A screenshot of a web app showing a list of images in pinterest style with a top menu of options that say - Explore, Collections, Favourites, Shared, and Search
A painting of a tall building with a spire and a mountain covered with vegetation stands in the background while a cat with a red fascia around its midriff stands on two feet with raised hands.
A painting of a mouse wearing a belt and a sash with a sheath and wearing a feathered hat holding a glowing sword up. Behind the mouse there's a big mountain range from which a waterfall comes down and turns into a steam.
An image with a yellow background where a big blue letter "B" has an orangutan hanging from it with one hand. With its other hand the orangutan is holding on to the letters "ook"
A web-based bug tracker showing a list of project cards where each card shows the name of the project, total issues, active issues and a few other details.
A web-based bug tracker showing a list of project cards where each card shows the name of the project, total issues, active issues and a few other details.
A web-based library interface showing a book listing with large covers, the title of the book, the author, genres, and series information.
A screenshot from a reading app showing the book reading progress for the month of November. Its shows "Best reading streak 112 days" at the bottom and has the covers for multiple books in the calendar for November. The books in the calendar are - "Long Past Dues" by James J. Butcher, "The Fifth Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack", "Rivers of London" by Ben Aaronovitch, "A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking" by T. Kingfisher, "Just One Damned Thing After Another" by Jodi Taylor, "Clean Sweep" by Ilona Andrews, and "Dungeon Crawler Carl" by Matt Dinniman
I have a lot of notes scattered across multiple apps - OneNote, Affine, Apple Notes, Obsidian etc. So I decided to combine all of them in one place 🙂 Getting everything into Obsidian was easy enough since Obsidian has a bunch of useful importers. So that was done, but then I needed to be able to sync the notes across the local network to other machines and with my wife. Sure, Obsydian has their sync functionality but that's a paid subscription. Then there is at least one open-source sync solution but it seemed a bit heavy for my needs. So, as one does when one is a developer, I decided to write my own 😛 I wanted something which only syncs over the local network, is easy to deploy and install and is light-weight. I think have all those boxes ticked. It's a tiny Go server for the server-side and an Obsidian plugin for handling the client side. And in case anybody is interested in using it (or testing it, or contributing to it), I decided to make it open-source. You can find it on GitHub here: https://github.com/FahimF/GoSync
Two cartoons by different people about somebody exercising saying: "Here's how you can get a body like this ..." and the resulting thought about where they keep the body, or how they get the body
A screenshot from a reader app showing a calendar wit the books read for the month of November 2025. There are books displayed from the 1st to the 22nd and the books are "Long Past Dues", "The Fifth Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack", "The Rivers of London", "A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking", "Just One Damned Thing After Another", and "Clean Sweep". At the bottom it says "Best reading streak 101 days"
Two cartoons by two different people where somebody asks a cassava chip seller about the spices they use. They say "chillie" and each cartoon is about the play upon the word to misinterpret it.
A calendar view showing reading history for the month of November. Shows the covers for four different books from the beginning of November to the 15 - "Long Past Dues" by James J. Butcher, "The Fifth Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack", "Rivers of London" by Ben Aaronovitch, and "A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking" by T. Kingfisher
Two cartoons by two different people about tourists/foreigners thinking that the Sri Lankan hoppers are called opus.
Two cartoons by two different people where each cartoon shows people wondering how to pronounce the name of the Sri Lankan city of "Galle" and how hard it is...
Two cartoons drawn by different people where somebody at a fabric store says "It's a very nice fabric. Very breathable..." and one cartoon has the other person thinking "Why does the fabric need to breathe? Is it alive?" The other cartoon has the other person thinking "Why would I want to breathe fabric? Is this like sniffing glue?"
Screenshot from an app showing a calendar with covers of books read and the text "Best reading streak 85 days so far this year"
Image of a city skyline with a sky full of dark clouds. In the foreground, you can see coconut palms and other trees and a quiet suburban neighbourhood.
Screenshot of fake LinkedIn account showing how they managed to make their follower count look huge
An image of a game screen showing various fruit and the combined numerical value for a row of fruits. You have to figure out what the value of a particular fruit is based on the provided information.
A rough sketch for a book cover showing a wide-open landscape, an enormous tree in the center with a door in the trunk and three people standing before the treee.
A promotional image for Smashwords Read an Ebook Week with the text "My Books are 25% off" and the link "smashwords.com/shelves/promos"
A promotional image for Smashwords Read an Ebook Week with the text "My Books are 25% off" and the link "smashwords.com/shelves/promos"
A promotional image for Smashwords Read an Ebook Week with the text "My Books are 25% off" and the link "smashwords.com/shelves/promos"
A screenshot of a web app which allows you to track submissions of stories to magazines and other sources. The app dashboard shows the counts for sources, works/stories, submissions, and genres. The dashboard also shows any pending submissions. It also has links to screens for sources, works, submissions and genres.
A book cover with the title "Sir Lanka Files" showing a dark and brooding city
The basic UI of LibreOffice Writer
A screenshot of an iOS app surrrounded by text items which say: "No Subscriptions! (Pay once and all updates are free till next Major Release)", "Working Bookmarks!", "Mute reposts and replies on a per-user basis", "Custom App Colours! Select your colour scheme", "Alerts for new notifications", "Threaded posts - never run out of characters", "Light and dark themes", "Better image display with larger images", "Auto-refreshing of main timeline".
A drawing of a space yatch traversign the currents of space
A drawing of a yellow/orange snake with patterns on its body.
A digital painting based on the following words: It was the night they came for us. The flame hair trees wafted gently in the non-existent breeze, perfectly framing Mount Coinjar like a criminal mastermind in peak-Machiavelli mode. I could almost feel the bramble bugs, their tiny pinprick eyes peering out of their black blob bodies, waiting, waiting, waiting for an unwary target to come by.
Screenshot showing all the accounts followed by one of the new ML-generated bot Instagram accounts.
Screenshot of a macOS Bluesky client showing the bookmarks screen
A book cover with the title "Honest, the Martian Ate Your Dog" showing a cracked road running through a hilly terrain. There's a hovercar parked by the side of the road and two men are standing in front of the hovercar. One man has his hands up and the other is holding a gun.
A book cover with the title "Honest, the Martian Ate Your Dog" showing a cracked road running through a hilly terrain. There's a hovercar parked by the side of the road and two men are standing in front of the hovercar. One man has his hands up and the other is holding a gun.
Screenshot of a macOS Bluesky client showing the main timeline with some posts
Screenshot from a Bluesky client app showing a tooltip showing the ALT text for the image/post when you hover over the ALT tag.
A screenshot of a macOS Bluesky app showing the default timeline with a couple of posts
A cover for a science fiction novel showing a busy street with shops/buildings on both sides and a sky covered in floating aliens or buildings. The title of the book is "Honest, the Martian Ate Your Dog" and it says it is "A Fifty Galaxies Novel"
A book cover titled "Sir Lanka Files" showing a city street at night with brightly lit commercial buildings and two groups of people facing each other at the forefront of the image. At the background you can see a mix of old ruined buildings and newer buildings.
A book cover titled "Sir Lanka Files" showing a city street at night with brightly lit commercial buildings and two groups of people facing each other at the forefront of the image. At the background you can see a mix of old ruined buildings and newer buildings.
Two 4 star reviews saying: "Entertaining for sure. Looking forward to continuing stories" and "Just what it claims to be. A wacky story riddled with word-play and with snarky asides from the author. There are some inside jokes in there, too, but you don't need to understand them to enjoy the story. Who knew that a post-apocalyptic world could be this much fun? I couldn't give the book five stars, though, because the editing got sloppy toward the end. The last third of the book contained typos, misspellings (even allowing for the British English), missing letters, missing words, and the repeated use of the apostrophe when forming plurals. I also didn't think that the denouement worked very well, but it's just a denouement so not critical to the story."
Book review which says: The title is funny, nothing else is. I managed to read the first 10 chapters, 20%, before giving up. It is like reading a bad early Robert Rankin book, the style is similar and the jokes are same, this feels tired and lazy. The author uses little pieces of "explanatory" continuously to inject humour, but none of them are funny. I don't think | have ever read anything so predictable, I genuinely found my self sighing out loud as he trotted out yet another obvious and unfunny comment. It takes more than a funny name and amusing idea to make a funny book but that is all this has. Definitely one to avoid.
Screenshot from macOS app showing the calendar view which displays TV shows that you are following (on Trakt) for the past few days, today, and for the next week and a bit.
Screenshot from macOS app showing the list of shows that I'm watching at the moment and detailed information for the currently selected show.
A macOS SwiftUI app which shows a list of movie and TV shows to be watched. Allows you to mark shows as watched and also allows you to see watched shows and shows which have become available based on the current date.
A tab in the Obsidian app showing cards for individual movies from a list of movies to be watched. Each card shows the movie poster, title, year, the director(s), the IMDB rating for the movie, the language(s), and the release date for the movie.
A tab in the Obsidian app showing cards for individual movies from a list of movies to be watched. Each card shows the movie poster, title, year, the director(s), the IMDB rating for the movie, the language(s), and the release date for the movie.
Screenshot of a macOS app which allows you to set up different backup tasks and to monitor the status of those tasks individually.
AnyType showing a list of movies with poster images as well as actor and other movie info, as well as customized views by language and movie watched status.
A screenshot of a macOS app for managing 2FA keys with the details of the keys blurred out except for a few OTP codes.
A screenshot from "King's Quest I" VGA remake from Sierra played in DOSBox-X
A screenshot showing a scene from King's Quest 1 VGA in the DOSBox-X emulator