oh hey, it's owais

I'm an open source developer regularly posting updates about what I'm working on and learning about. https://github.com/desertthunder

nonsense

Dev Log 53: 2026-05-13

May 13, 2026

always be shipping

Dev Log 52: 2026-05-08

always be shipping

May 09, 2026

Lazurite's Auth Implementation

Dev Log 51: 2026-05-05

May 05, 2026

What I did while distracted

Dev Log 50: 2026-04-15

April 16, 2026

Into the Mic

Dev Log 49: 2026-04-14

Into the Mic

April 14, 2026

On being a cover band (& more)

Dev Log 48: 2026-04-11

April 12, 2026

Rebranding*

Dev Log 47: 2026-03-26

Rebranding*

March 26, 2026

Software as Fan-Art

Dev Log 46: 2026-03-07

Software as Fan-Art

March 07, 2026

Robots! Pictures! Documents!

Dev Log 45: 2026-01-27

January 27, 2026

Not So Secret Agent

Dev Log 44: 2026-01-23

January 23, 2026

Cosplaying as a mobile developer

Dev Log 43: 2026-01-09

January 09, 2026

Here We Go

Dev Log 42: 2026-01-05

January 05, 2026

Catching Up

Dev Log 41: 2025-12-31

January 01, 2026

"Small" Web Apps

Dev Log 40: 2025-12-25

December 25, 2025

Data and Sketching

Dev Log 39: 2025-12-23

December 23, 2025

Community

Dev Log 38: 2025-12-18

December 18, 2025

Parsing and Lexing in F#

For the F# advent calendar this year, I wrote a KDL parser.

December 17, 2025

SQL, Math, and Baseball

Dev Log 37: 2025-12-16

December 16, 2025

Being a Two-Way Baseball Fan

Dev Log 36: 2025-12-14

December 14, 2025

Funtitled

Dev Log 35: 2025-12-09

December 10, 2025

Consistently Inconsistent

Dev Log 34: 2025-12-08

December 08, 2025

Overextending

Dev Log 33: 2025-12-07

December 07, 2025

Extensions

Dev Log 32: 2025-12-04

December 04, 2025

Alignment

Dev Log 31: 2025-12-03

December 03, 2025

The Application of Knowledge to Application Development

Dev Log 30: 2025-12-02

December 02, 2025

Advent of Dev Logs

Dev Log 29: 2025-12-01

December 01, 2025

Dev Log 28: 2025-11-30

I'm sticking to this name (for now). It's better than the description of it, which is essentially .NET/ML-style LogSeq.

December 01, 2025

Dev Log 27: 2025-11-29

🚀

November 29, 2025

Dev Log 26: 2025-11-27

🦃

November 27, 2025

Dev Log 25: 2025-11-26

Owais gets a little emotional at the end

November 26, 2025

Dev Log 24: 2025-11-25

Late

November 25, 2025

Dev Log 23: 2025-11-22

my arch nemesis is the act of release planning

November 22, 2025

Dev Log 22: 2025-11-21

procrastinating productively & v0.4.0 of beacon!

November 21, 2025

Dev Log 21: 2025-11-20

More pictures in this one!

November 20, 2025

Dev Log 20: 2025-11-19

Released v0.3.0 of Beacon

November 19, 2025

Dev Log 19: 2025-11-18

Feedback is a gift

November 18, 2025

Dev Log 18: 2025-11-17

In a funk

November 17, 2025

Dev Log 17: 2025-11-15

Easing my own expectations of myself with better planning

November 15, 2025

Dev Log 16: 2025-11-13

BLARGH

November 13, 2025

Dev Log 15: 2025-11-12

I need more eyes on my code

November 12, 2025

Dev Log 14: 2025-11-11

A little delayed, and a little short today.

November 11, 2025

Dev Log 13: 2025-11-09

Is my life just walking along abstract syntax trees now?

November 09, 2025

Dev Log 12: 2025-11-08

In which I try to write more

November 08, 2025

Sample Article for Testing II

This is another sample article for testing the publication CLI commands.

November 07, 2025

Dev Log 11: 2025-11-07

It's all CLIs & TUIs

November 07, 2025

Dev Log 10: 2025-11-06

Don't you just love sharing your work with folks?

November 06, 2025

Dev Log 9: 2025-11-05

Word of the day: READING

November 05, 2025

Dev Log 8: 2025-11-04

It's possible I'm logging my insanity

November 04, 2025

Dev Log 7: 2025-11-03

feeling awk-ward

November 03, 2025

Dev Log 6: 2025-11-01

Yesterday I wrapped up v0.5.1 and deployed it to npm. Upon reading its doc site, I think I need to fix the automated API doc generator and also create an IIFE build for easy prototyping.

November 01, 2025

Dev Log 5: 2025-10-31

Happy Halloween!

October 31, 2025

Dev Log 4: 2025-10-29

Is it actually possible for me to plan anything?

October 29, 2025

Dev Log 3: 2025-10-28

So far today in SkyPanel, I've worked on a couple of more advanced "fun" features. The first one was marking posts are read based on scrolling past (Intersection Observer).

October 28, 2025

Dev Log 2: 2025-10-27

Electric boogaloo; diving in to atproto

October 27, 2025

Dev Log 1: 2025-10-26

More LSP adventures

October 26, 2025

Dev Log 0: 2025-10-25

My day in a nutshell

October 25, 2025

oh hey, it's owais