❯hi, I'm
Software engineer.
Code, coffee, video games & music. My whole life in a nutshell :)
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❯ whoami
Majid Abarghooei // software engineer
❯ ls ~/projects
gamebeeper/geekspulse/speclift/archsim/
❯ git log --oneline -3 posts/
34f6b8d A seemingly simple question: What are de…
f9fee3b How to Make Your Reviewer Cry Using Java…
1f8725c Sluggish Spring Boot Tests Riddle
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01open source
4 live · free, fast, and nothing tracking you.
video game news aggregator
Gaming news, minus the noise.
One fast, clean feed of video game news from 34 trusted sources: PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, PC, indie, reviews and trailers. No ads, no trackers, no paywalls.
developer news aggregator
Developer news, minus the noise.
Your daily dev briefing from 51 hand-picked feeds: Hacker News, security, AI, Java, Rust, Go, DevOps and architecture, in one fast reader with no ads and no paywalls.
Swagger → OpenAPI converter
Swagger's conversion rules, minus Swagger's bugs.
Convert Swagger 2.0 specs to OpenAPI 3 entirely in your browser. Your API spec never leaves your machine, and the output stays valid where Swagger's converter breaks.
distributed systems simulator
Crash-test your architecture before your users do.
A flight simulator for distributed systems. Draw your stack with real technologies, throw traffic and failures at it, and get a straight yes or no, with the bottleneck, the breaking point and the monthly bill.
Nothing watches you read, convert, browse or simulate.
Read the code, fork it, send a PR.
No accounts, no paywalls. Open it and use it.
Your data stays on your own device.
02writing
Long-form deep dives, written to save you an hour of confusion.
Before debating whether design patterns are dead or alive, we should first agree on what they actually are. Spoiler: the answer is broader than the GoF book.
Four common Java Optional pitfalls I keep seeing in code reviews — from old-fashioned isPresent/get patterns to the philosophical crime of orElse(null).
How a nagging belief that integration tests are inherently slow turned out to be fixable — cutting our build time from 10 minutes to 4.
03about
I've worn a few hats over the years: developer, chapter lead, and the person who asks "but why are we doing it this way?" in design meetings. I care about how systems are structured, why patterns exist, and what makes a codebase a pleasure to work in.
