Amin Shah Gilani @g@mastodon.technology

My biggest peeve with @Apple's macOS is how Internet Accounts can't read U2F keys. Something I have to use with @Google's Advanced Protection Program. 😞

I guess I won't be getting Calendar notifications until someone fixes this 😞

Anyone have a workaround for this? #u2f #2fa

I just contributed to the Zcash Sapling Multi-Party Computation (MPC).

Contribute to the MPC and help make Zcash more secure (and simultaneously 1000x better than BTC)

https://blog.z.cash/sapling-mpc/

Why is my Google Home so dumb? I mean, I'm sure it's dumb for everyone, but it's *especially* dumb when running in a developing country.

After procrastinating for 5 years, I finally updated my personal site: https://amin.gilani.me/

I thought Luke Evans might be the guy that played Gomez in the old Adams family, but I just discovered that that was Raúl Juliá, who died two years after I was born.

They look like twins, but they have no relation.

Just published: How to Build an Effective Initial Deployment Pipeline ⚙

https://www.toptal.com/devops/effective-ci-cd-deployment-pipeline

Featuring a toot by @sean on this instance. 🐘

@rharter hey Ryan! These are stats from my command line, auto generated by by the `zsh_stats` script that comes bundled with oh-my-zsh. I cleaned it up a bit to fit in the message, but it's just a fun thing I found and wanted to share. 😄

1 37.71% git
2 6.16% rails
3 4.78% cd
4 4.55% heroku
5 3.14% brew
6 2.58% rm
7 2.14% docker
8 1.81% cat
9 1.43% npm
10 1.43% kubectl
11 1.26% yarn
12 1.25% docker-compose
13 1.17% ssh
14 1.10% mv
15 0.95% rvm
16 0.95% bundle
17 0.93% sudo
18 0.87% ls
19 0.86% echo
20 0.78% e

I wrote a guide on using service objects for #Ruby on #Rails developers. If you like it, please let me know 😄

https://www.toptal.com/ruby-on-rails/rails-service-objects-tutorial#contract-just-respected-software-architects

(reposting, previously the url was broken)

Does anyone out there know a reverse proxy that will let me insert a small HTML snippet after the opening body tag in the response? Anything except Nginx/OpenResty please. I've used Node-HTTP-Proxy but Harmon breaks when you try to read and write to a tag.

Hi, I'm Amin (or Gilani or G)

I'm a founder & CTO @ Nazdeeq.com, we're building a platform for international users to buy & sell on any online marketplace worldwide. We've launched with the ability for Pakistanis to buy on Amazon US, first. Something which they couldn't previously do.

I'm also an editor @, & freelance engineer via Toptal, a network of elite freelance talent. Use my referral link & I'll buy you lunch if you pass screening: topt.al/cppg

Why is GitLab.com so slow? I mean, I lose context on the whole review by the time the commits for the merge request show.

How in the world does namecheap.com stay alive if their domain search doesn't even work half the bloody time?!!

Hi, I'm Amin (or Gilani or G)

I'm a founder & CTO at Nazdeeq.com, we're building a platform for international users to buy and sell on any online marketplace worldwide. We've launched with the ability for Pakistanis to buy on Amazon US, first. Something which they couldn't previously do.

I'm also an editor at, and freelance engineer via Toptal, a network of elite freelance talent. Use my referral link and I'll buy you lunch if you pass screening: topt.al/cppg

Given this is my first mastodon instance, I'm pleasantly surprised by how conversational everyone is here. I've started coming here after I finish reading everything interesting on HN.

I just got webpack to work with a UI framework on Rails. Why do we even need the Rails Asset Pipeline anymore 🤔#rails

@ashfurrow doesn't @GodotEngineBot kinda violate instance rules?

> No bots, unless they're cute, funny, or useful. Bots should avoid posting to the public timeline.

Why is webpack so hard to learn?