Notes on software, systems, and building things.https://blog.yassineafaila.net/https://blog.yassineafaila.net/blog/zip-is-not-compression/https://blog.yassineafaila.net/blog/zip-is-not-compression/I was watching a podcast of Lex Fridman. He interviewed Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya. Kempf is the lead developer of VLC and president of Video…Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.yassineafaila.net/blog/i-love-neovim/https://blog.yassineafaila.net/blog/i-love-neovim/I Love Neovim !!!Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.yassineafaila.net/blog/rachel-was-right-it-s-not-about-who-you-are-underneath/https://blog.yassineafaila.net/blog/rachel-was-right-it-s-not-about-who-you-are-underneath/I watched "Batman Begins" like four times, and one quote got stuck in my brain, which is: "It's not who you are underneath, it's what you do that define…Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.yassineafaila.net/blog/database-containers-what-happens-when-you-ignore-the-details/https://blog.yassineafaila.net/blog/database-containers-what-happens-when-you-ignore-the-details/When I check my personal blog website, I found 500 error page, and a 500 error means internal server error, but last time I checked everything was worki…Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.yassineafaila.net/blog/how-to-use-multiple-github-accounts/https://blog.yassineafaila.net/blog/how-to-use-multiple-github-accounts/Why do I need to use multiple GitHub accounts? I'm using only one for everything. Well if you did ask you're self this question, you let me think that y…Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.yassineafaila.net/blog/how-i-built-an-ai-tool-that-writes-product-manuals-as-pdfs/https://blog.yassineafaila.net/blog/how-i-built-an-ai-tool-that-writes-product-manuals-as-pdfs/For this project, I decided to use my new go-to language Go (Golang).You might wonder why I didnt use my main language, PHP. Well, I just wanted to try…Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.yassineafaila.net/blog/why-my-websocket-service-was-timing-out-and-how-i-fixed-it/https://blog.yassineafaila.net/blog/why-my-websocket-service-was-timing-out-and-how-i-fixed-it/We have several projects, and we moved all our domain names to Cloudflare, which uses proxying by default. As a result, the actual IP addresses of our s…Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.yassineafaila.net/blog/building-ai-search-product/https://blog.yassineafaila.net/blog/building-ai-search-product/First, when I came back to the project, I didn't know how to run migrations. Then what I did was use the SQL query:Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT