Javed A. Butt

@javedab.bsky.social

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Your site loads. Returning visitors might be re-downloading everything on every click. The connection might still allow HTTPS-to-HTTP downgrade. Your homepage might be two domains in Google. The web server config is the last layer most static sites never touch. #Astro #Caddy #WebPerf
The gap that hides quietly: tunnel working, pactl info showing the mic, every layer fine. Voice mode still failing. alsa-utils not installed. The recording binary that reads mic bytes was missing. Installing it will inshallah close the gap. #Linux #SSH #SelfHosting
cannot find card '0'. The error on a remote server. Easy read: no hardware, nothing to do. Actual situation: audio on Linux is daemon-mediated. PipeWire exposes TCP. Remote process can reach the local mic. #Linux #PipeWire #SSH
Claude Code's voice mode needs a microphone. On a remote Linux server over SSH, there is none. Error: cannot find card '0'. ALSA scanning for hardware that isn't there. #PipeWire #SSH #Linux
Unpopular truth: assuming AI agents will 'handle it' is the fastest path to failure. Test rigorously. Find what breaks. Catch it early. The magic isn't in the agent. It's in the honest work you put in. #AIAgents #AI #Automation
Discovered something about AI agents: they're better at critiquing each other than self-editing. My workflow: 2 agents, same context. One writes, I show it to the other for feedback. They actually disagree sometimes. Find real flaws. Makes writing way less tedious. #AIagents #AI #Workflow
WordPress user ≠ Developer Same as: Excel user ≠ Database engineer One asks: "Which plugin?" Other asks: "How do I build this?" Different skillsets. Both valid. #WordPress #WebDev #Programming
If you code, try JetBrains Mono. It's beautiful and readable. I have this weird crush on typography and spent days researching fonts for every use case. Call me crazy but letters can be stunning. #typography #coding #fonts
It's like He's showing us how to give advice properly. With compassion, with acknowledgment of the struggle, with wisdom. 1400 years before this tradition spread among us. These are my thoughts. Allah knows best.
But look at how He gives it. He doesn't just say "have Sabr." He acknowledges first that seeking help through Sabr and prayer is difficult. That it's a burden except for the humble.
Something I noticed in Surah Al-Baqarah: Ayah 2:44 talks about giving advice. Right after that, in 2:45, Allah gives advice Himself. And it's the exact advice Muslims give each other everywhere today: Sabr. #Quran #Islam #Sabr
And سُبْحَانَ ٱللّٰه, this is where I see Allah's mercy in Surah Al-Baqarah 2:44. From my understanding, He's not forcing us to accept advice from hypocrites. He's telling the advice givers: Work on yourself first.
We know good advice is good advice, regardless of the messenger. But let's be real. When someone who doesn't practice what they preach tries to correct you, something inside just resists.
Honest question: How many times have you rejected good advice just because of WHO said it? I struggle with this. My nafs fights it every time. #Quran #SelfReflection #Islam
Zohran Mamdani won against billionaires who put politicians on their payroll and ran smear campaigns. They lost because regular people united. But they won't stop. New Yorkers - stay vigilant and keep making noise, InshAllah. #ZohranMamdani #PeoplePower #NewYork
Norman Finkelstein on the UN rape investigation: "This isn't absence of evidence. With 5,000 images and 50 hours of video showing nothing, this is overwhelming evidence there was no rape." #Palestine #Gaza #October7th
When you submit 4,700 pages of documentation to the International Court of Justice, you're not making a casual claim. #Gaza #ICJ #Palestine
Advocating violent overthrow? Protected. Burning the flag? Protected. "From the river to the sea"? A Reagan judge ruled: also protected. Called those who arrested students "cowardly desperados acting like the KKK." #FreeSpeech #Palestine #FreePalestine
Van Jones claimed dead babies on TikTok are because Qatar and Iran control it. Norman Finkelstein's response: Maybe because there are that many dead Gazan babies. October 2023: 20,000+ children. More than all other war zones combined. #Palestine #Gaza #NormanFinkelstein
I was wrong about Israeli society. I thought they were different from Netanyahu. Norman Finkelstein just destroyed that illusion with hard evidence. #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide
Norman Finkelstein saw Gaza as a concentration camp before the rest of the world did. Today we call it genocide. But he says something even harder to accept. #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide
Norman Finkelstein wrote "I Accuse" about Gaza. 370 copies sold. He bought half of them himself. He wanted it for an ICC case. Years of trying. 2020: he gave up. Nobody cared. Makes you think: what if Gazans hadn't fought for themselves? #Palestine #Gaza #Resistance
Why do I keep checking if Zohran Mamdani won? Because people deserve leaders who actually care about them over money. I know that sounds naive. But maybe he's different. Maybe New Yorkers will InshAllah finally get a leader who serves them. #ZohranMamdani #NYC #Election
For years, the US was the world power. Then they actively supported the bombing of around 100,000 people in Gaza. They went far beyond all limits.
From my understanding of Surah Al-Baqarah 2:251: success built on injustice is temporary. Allah replaces corrupt powers with those who strive for justice. Otherwise corruption would dominate the earth. #Quran #Justice #Islam
My wife asked if she'd be safe wearing burqa here. I told her honestly: I don't know. Not just physically safe. The looks. The judgment. The flipped narrative. Zohran Mamdani gets it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGBQwCsIhn0 #Islamophobia #NYC #Muslim
Working on a Quran-related project? Found something useful to share. #MuslimDevs #OpenSource #Quran
Ran a test: OpenAI's Codex CLI vs Anthropic's Claude Code for exploring GitHub code. Claude said a feature didn't exist. Codex found it. So Codex is better? No. One test. Different strengths. My take: Use both if you can afford it. #CodingTools #AI #SoftwareDevelopment
AI agents coding on their own sounds great until you watch them burn thousands of tokens refactoring the same code over and over, still missing dependencies. I built an MCP helper that uses a language server instead. Proper tooling beats brute force token spending. #MCP #AI
AI agents aren't calling functions. The LLM just outputs text that looks like instructions. Your code reads that text, finds the pattern, and executes the actual function. Then it feeds the result back to the LLM. That's it. MCP doesn't change this reality, it just standardizes the pattern format.
The angels questioned Allah. They asked why He would place humans on earth when they might spread corruption. Allah answered them instead of silencing them. Here's what hits me: Allah has infinite power. He could have ended that conversation instantly. But He chose to respond. No leader in this
The angels closest to Allah, when they heard about human creation (2:30), immediately raised concerns about corruption and bloodshed. Not rituals. Not ceremonies. Justice and preventing harm. If beings that close to Allah make justice their priority, we Muslims need to ask ourselves: is justice
Sami Hamdi has been arrested by ICE. The same Sami Hamdi who spoke about Palestine when powerful voices tried to silence him. Who met children who survived the bombings but lost body parts. Who made his case with pure rational reasoning. If you stand for the oppressed, you get problems with the
Allah responds. And He doesn't talk about theology or abstract concepts. He gets specific. You're not gracious to orphans. You don't encourage feeding the poor. You greedily devour the inheritance of the vulnerable. The One with absolute power speaks for those with zero power.
Reflecting on Surah Al-Fajr, ayats 15-19. These verses show something that stopped me in my tracks. Allah begins by describing how humans react to tests. Blessings? "My Lord has honored me." Hardship? "My Lord has humiliated me."
This man says he is not allowed to say the word, so he wrote it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS9xidsyxXY&ab_channel=Prof.JiangClips
Now around 2 years and 5 months have passed. Imran Khan is still not back. The military is keeping him hostage. I was and still am waiting for Imran Khan to come back as the Prime Minister. Now, thanks to Allah, probably around 95% of Pakistan is waiting too.
Which layout do you prefer? Left or right? #web #design
While I am a nobody, I still have some big goals I think this image gives a better impression of my idea for #buildspace Also, it might explain why my content looks the way it does By the way, #TikTok has stopped my video view counter - maybe they don't like what I'm saying?
just recorded the first video of the #python series to inshallah come in 3 different languages #english, #german, and indopak (mix of #urdu and #punjabi) it was a bit or quite exhausting #freepalestine #eidmubarak #eid #coding #learning #multilingual #education
retried the performance measurement (#lighthouse scores) this time it's where the actual content is displayed and mashallah, 100 from 100 by the way, there is a lot of #javascript here - just lazy loaded #freepalestine #web #frontend #coding #webdesign #optimization
alhamdulillah, finally a version of my #webpage is here, that inshallah is close to becoming online soon tested the #performance #astro people really care about performance and 99 is quite nice #freepalestine #webdevelopment #frontend #coding #webdesign #optimization
yesterday, faced a challenge: non-existent language selection needed redirection + send data to new page for notification #astro #middleware would delete initial info today, astro's new rewrite function solved it alhamdulillah #techsolutions #coding #webdevelopment #frontend
next thing ready - alhamdulillah you could use regular links however, i think these beauties are eye-catchers #webdesign #ux #frontend #coding #webdevelopment #links
i #learned it the #hard way #solidjs is known for its #performance turned out, #jsx will also use #js to create the #html components so - you need a server now i rewrote everything in regular lazy-loading js #webdevelopment #coding #frontend #webdesign
fixed #headers can enhance both style and functionality on your #webpage but internal links often bring you to the top, obscured by the header solve this with scroll-margin in #css to ensure smooth scrolling #webdesign #ux #coding #frontend #html #design
readable, pleasing, and eye-caring web text is highly important recently, i discovered that we can control the color of text selection check out this fancy way of highlighting text inshallah, it will make your web experience better #webdesign #coding #uxdesign
having a #hard time to decide between 3 design options #freepalestine #palestinewillbefree
appealing navigation bars are nice maybe this is too much, but for the moment i have a theme selector this thing under the hood has quite a bit of #html regular #css and #tailwindcss because of the complex structure at the end i used a transition to get this placement right
i was quite young when i first saw the #beautiful writing of the #quran i #loved it and was amazed by it never would i have thought that one day i would be able to use this very style of writing for my own #projects so, alhamdulillah
people who have seen the #arabic font, usually think it's gorgeous the fact that many can't read it shall be ignored if you haven't seen it, take a look at it
if #zionists were brought away from #palestine and to another state the #map shows #germany well, some part of it - i am sure you get the point #freepalestine
one kind person (#socialmedia) gave me a suggestion for the #font selection and it was a very good suggestion see the two different font options
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one lesson i learned when i created #automated #thumbnails for #socialmedia with #python when the background is removed too - the effective width and height of the image have changed get the boxing around the person and scale it - not the width and height of the untouched imag (#automated
#thumbnails #automatically created with #python with #lookinglikeawow, #sobeautiful, and #soelegant #readable, visually appealing, simple - nice automatically removing background feature enabled with one simple True/False statement
starting with alhamdulillah - it works thumbnails are #lookinglikeawow, #sobeautiful and obviously #soelegant the point is: #thumbnails can be created #automatically with #python and me #liking it
doing it the #hard way might not be wise in every case in this case, using #python and #pillow for #automating #thumbnail generation required writing own code and not using pre-given functions see, it works - at least for this simple case alhamdulillah
simple things can get complicated - i dont like vertically centering a text should be quite easy? #pillow does not offer such a function out of the box in #python i used some metrics they provided the two orange lines should be right next to the text - but they are not