hello. my name is shahzeb and i like building things related to web-applications and machine learning.

My technical projects span many disciplines such as machine learning, IoT, web-development, bots, and even game development.

Frank Ocean Music App

An app which notifies you when new Frank Ocean music comes out. App grew to 20,000 users.

20,000 users

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Oasis - The ultimate IoT hub

An IoT hub which allows you to publish and subscribe to MQTT events. Honorable mention in the Amazon hackathon.

winner

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Travel insurance app

A web app for University study-abroad students to buy travel insurance. Winner of a global hackathon.

winner

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Spark Connect Messanger bot

A bot that sparks a connection with people around you by helping you discover fun things to do in your city.

bot

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Deep Learning AWS Setup

Shell scripts and tutorial on how to get started with deep learning on AWS while saving some money.

machine learning

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SoundCloud web player

Use SoundCloud's public API to play songs in the browser.

open source

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Message board

A message board built using Express, Redis, and DynamoDB.

open source

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Flipped classroom app

Flipped is a classroom platform that places lectures at home and builds the relationship between instructors and students.

hackathon

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I enjoy writing about both technical subjects and about things going on in my life. You can visit my blog to view all the posts.

Yeah, Rust is low-key goated.

Thoughts on learning Rust by making a little project and using a little WASM.

In as few lines of code, using Llama 2, Cloudflare AI workers, and our beloved deployment tool Vercel.

How I made this website twice as fast by switching from Nuxt to Astro.

An advanced React guide to adding analytics (such as Google Analytics) to your React button components.

An advanced guide on rendering React components from a string which represents the component name.

React Big Calendar went through an upgrade which introduced breaking changes and made many of the online tutorials and documentation obsolete. Hopefully my guide helps.

Track custom events on AWS CloudWatch. Really helpful for sending custom metric such as Sidekiq job timeouts.

A useful tutorial on how to integrate Contentful into a Ruby on Rails application.

A deep dive into how to use TypeScript. Also explains what the role of Webpack and Babel is.

hello. my name is shahzeb and i like building things related to web-applications and machine learning.

My technical projects span many disciplines such as machine learning, IoT, web-development, bots, and even game development.

I enjoy writing about both technical subjects and about things going on in my life. You can visit my blog to view all the posts.

Yeah, Rust is low-key goated.

Thoughts on learning Rust by making a little project and using a little WASM.

MiniGPT: Building a functional ChatGPT clone

In as few lines of code, using Llama 2, Cloudflare AI workers, and our beloved deployment tool Vercel.

Your javascript webapps don’t actually need javascript.

How I made this website twice as fast by switching from Nuxt to Astro.

Add analytics on links in React.

An advanced React guide to adding analytics (such as Google Analytics) to your React button components.

Dynamically render React components

An advanced guide on rendering React components from a string which represents the component name.

Getting react-big-calendar to work.

React Big Calendar went through an upgrade which introduced breaking changes and made many of the online tutorials and documentation obsolete. Hopefully my guide helps.

Log custom metrics to AWS CloudWatch

Track custom events on AWS CloudWatch. Really helpful for sending custom metric such as Sidekiq job timeouts.

Contentful integration for Rails

A useful tutorial on how to integrate Contentful into a Ruby on Rails application.

Demystifying Typescript + Webpack + Babel

A deep dive into how to use TypeScript. Also explains what the role of Webpack and Babel is.