Rakhim Davletkali

New followers, hi! My name is Rakhim, I'm a software architect at IQM Quantum Computers. We build full-stack superconducting QCs (own chips+sw) I make videos about programming www.youtube.com/@Codexpanse Also building a blog discovery/search engine minifeed.net and a blogging platform exotext.com

I'm at IEEE Quantum Week in Toronto, happy to chat, come say hi :) #IEEEQuantumWeek

How are you doing today? Be honest.

Read this over the weekend as I heard Helsinki is a quantum computing city! The book is a nice introduction, easy to read, and awakens your curiousity for more. Like the IQM Academy, which will be my next source. :)

That's some serious bullshit from Lufthansa

Making human languages irrelevant rakhim.exotext.com/making-human...

The Jetsons lied to us

Wow, creating a Gmail account after you've created a generic Google account still looks like this!

This is spot on, I feel the same way! >LLMs [...] turn a very autistic do-what-you-say, say-what-you-mean commmunication style with the machine into a neurotypical conversation talking around the issue, but never directly addressing the substance of problem mastodon.online/@EmilyEnough...

My partner just dropped a new album of hard-to-define-a-genre mix of orchestral, electronica, downtempo and techno. Check it out: music.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Or spotify open.spotify.com/album/794Mol... (other links here tashabass.com)

ikigAI

This is a WILD take, but hear me out: Related UI elements should not appear unrelated rakhim.exotext.com/related-ui-e...

Game dev is the only area of programming where bugs often create hilarious effects

Amazing high quality high definition maps by Tom Patterson shadedrelief.com

Finally added dark mode to minifeed minifeed.net

FilePilot is an amazing piece of software for Windows, and there is nothing quite like it for any other OS yet. But Forklift on macOS is pretty close.

Google Translate is fun

Windows 11 after two decades of macOS: okay, but also awful rakhim.exotext.com/windows-11-e... An attempt to use Windows 11 as the main workstation for a couple of months. The good and the bad.

Windows resizing is bad on Tahoe? Meanwhile Windows 11:

TIL about `brew bundle` docs.brew.sh/Brew-Bundle-...

Got a PC for the first time in like 2 decades, and the two most impressive things for me are 1. colors and mouse support in BIOS 2. you can alt-tab from a running game without issues

20 docker contains vs. single DB IDE RAM shortage is real

Took some pictures in Helsinki today

I like how cybersecurity stocks are crashing as more and more inherently unsecure AI products are hitting the markets. (pictured below is wisdom tree cyber security etf, which holds stuff like crowdstrike, palo alto networks, datadog, akamai, etc.)

In Windows 11 choosing 150% display scaling setting = blurry fonts, choosing "custom" and putting "150%" manually = crisp. At this point in time neither macOS nor Windows can do external displays properly. Popular Linux distros do better. This is the opposite of how it's been 15 years ago. Amazing

Modern UI is clean and invisible? Ha, I wish! rakhim.exotext.com/modern-ui-is...

@cliophate.wtf Hey Kevin, just read your latest post. I'm also tired of tech. Or rather exhausted. It's just somehow so, so exhausting.

My god... I've been living in a bubble all this time... Default system font stack in browsers looks absolutely atrocious on Windows...

Reviving my Mastodon account btw mastodon.online/@rakhim

I gotta use Windows 11 for a while. C++ and web development + 3D modeling/graphics apps + Unreal engine. Please share good apps that you recommend. So far I got: - Everything - FilePilot - Powertoys Windows Terminal is okay, but kinda sluggish. Is there something like iTerm for Windows?

16k+ page hits from bots in just a few minutes today. I'm tired of fighting this. I think I'll make Minifeed mostly private - for logged in users only. Sad.

I'm learning Unreal Engine, and gotta say: LOVING blueprints. This is the kind of visual programming I wanted my whole life. I've talked about some of these ideas in the past e.g. in this talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=edQy...

Pixel OCD game tn1ck.github.io/pixel-ocd/

Singapore bots are out of control :(

I miss good old internet forums. Some are still around, but it’s hard to get into established communities. I was thinking what if we start a new forum built on our own simple open source code? We’d have classic areas like tech, gaming, movies, hobbies. NO politics. Would you consider joining?

Found some of my old iPhone screenshots of google maps circa 2011

I really dislike how the closing elements in all programming languages provide zero info about what they're closing.

Started noticing lots of people using “anymore” as “now”, as in e.g. “gaming sucks anymore”. So weird. Also, “to” instead of “too” (“way to often!”) and “there” instead of “their”

I have never seen a good implementation of WYSIWYG combined with markdown. Gitlab's comment editor is infuriating.

Do you still read me here? Somehow it feels deserted lately...

wtf is this bs slack

My book Conscious Attention: The futile pursuit of conscious attention and mindfulness is now available on the Kindle store www.amazon.com/dp/B0G71L47FT/

Alarm is sacred, must not fail, but iOS 26 is wicked rakhim.exotext.com/alarm-is-sac...