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Waqar Ahmed

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Software Engineer

Joined March 2021

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Most often use technologies like PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, SQL and Linux. Portsmouth university alumnus. Like a one-line, elegant algorithm.

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Javascript, SQL, Regex

Waqar Ahmed's blogs

Waqar Ahmed's Blogwaqar.org11 posts

About

Most often use technologies like PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, SQL and Linux. Portsmouth university alumnus. Like a one-line, elegant algorithm.

Available for

Javascript, SQL, Regex

Waqar Ahmed's blogs

Waqar Ahmed's Blogwaqar.org11 posts

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Getting Started with Git

What is Git? Snapshots, Not Differences🗄 The major difference between Git and any other VCS is that Git stores snapshots, while other system store file differences. Most other versioning systems store data as changes to a base version of each file. ...

Apr 8, 2024·4 min read

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GitHub Actions Primer

GitHub Actions provides free virtual machines (runners) that we can use to automate the repetitive tasks in our project repository. For example automating code testing, integration, building app and deployment on the server. Workflow We define a set ...

Jan 25, 2024·3 min read

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9 Essential commands to unlock the power of vim

Bram Moolenaar , the creator of vim, cloned and improved vi and released it in 1991. The name vim came from "vi imitations", later changed to "Vi improved". Gradually it became the most popular text editor among Linux users. In 2019 Stackoverflow dev...

Aug 7, 2021·3 min read

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Tachyons VS Bootstrap

Compared to Tachyons, Bootstrap is higher level framework, but Bootstrap is heavy. Bootstraps btn class adds over 400 lines of CSS code to the HTML element. Customisation of Bootstrap is frustrating. To change the look and feel of Twitter, one would ...

Jun 30, 2021·2 min read

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Automate server intrusion detection and banning with Fail2ban

A Fail2Ban installation monitors server access logs and automatically bans IP addresses of bots and attacking users in iptables. Fail2Ban analyses server logs and identifies a pattern where a suspicious user or bot is trying to access restricted area...

Jun 29, 2021·5 min read