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Asad Memon
Personal blog · asadmemon.com/blog · on HN as asadlionpkcareerproductivity
Asad Memon's personal blog at asadmemon.com covers career and productivity. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this post about UrduScript, a programming language with Roman-alphabet Urdu keywords. A commenter points to its 'why (kyun?)' section as a fun read for Hindi and Urdu speakers learning to code.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Asad Memon's homepage.
Most-linked posts?
- /SPHjs/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-10-17
What Hacker News says?
This actually refreshes my memory. I had to implement some metaballs myself some years back for a fluid simulation. I had to struggle with metaball rendering on canvas back then. It was so slow. Now I guess a pixel shader in webGL can do a better job. Check this out too: https://asadmemon.com/SPHjs/ source: https://github.com/asadm/SPHjs
Comment linking /SPHjs/
on “Show HN: Metaballs”Submitted Show HN: Screenshot Hero - iPhone app to make all photos text searchable as a story · 429 points
HN discussionhttps://asadmemon.com/ I am trying to restart blogging, mostly tech.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Qualifying for EB1 Green Card as a Software Engineer as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI was a skeptic, but Asad Memon's "UrduScript", although it could just as easily be called "HindiScript" due to its usage of the Roman alphabet, made me realize that this would have been a game changer in my freshman year or anyone from the Indian subcontinent just starting to program. For Hindi/Urdu speakers, the "why (kyun?)" section here - https://asadmemon.com/urduscript/ - is a fun read. Although I have always…
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on “Non-English-based programming languages”Submitted Web Flasher for Rockchip as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI recently did a side-project[1] as a chance to learn SwiftUI. Their docs were not so great and I didn't want to reverse engineer their API + document it. So I used React Native + Swift backend. Hopefully they improved/will improve the docs. https://asadmemon.com/projects/screenshothero/
Comment linking /projects/screenshothero/
on “Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 14”Submitted Deep Work (Sometimes) Pays Off as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDecade or so ago, I had made a water simulation myself in JavaScript: https://asadmemon.com/SPHjs/ I should find some time and modernize it with some more features. Code: https://github.com/asadm/SPHjs
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on “Water”Submitted How To Be Excellent at Something as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNeat. Slightly related, I did a fluid simulation many years ago in JS: https://asadmemon.com/SPHjs/ code: https://github.com/asadm/SPHjs
Comment linking /SPHjs/
on “Show HN: Box2D fluid simulation in WebGL and WASM”http://asadmemon.com/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”