
Shahid Kamal Ahmad
👾Videogames | 💻 coding | 📖 writing | 🎸 music | 🕋 Islam | ⚽️ Liverpool FC | “A punk coder, alive to his mortality, standing in wonder at the world”
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Feb 5, 2025 |
dancingmonkeys.substack.com | Shahid Kamal Ahmad
I am never unhappy, nor am I happy. I am not my feelings. My feelings or emotions are an amalgam of chemicals in my bloodstream generated by my body. My body generates these chemicals in response to internal and external stimuli. The I that is not my brain or emotions "feels" the emotions, that is, it interprets the chemicals, sometimes correctly, sometimes not, but always automatically. This automatic response can be trained through mindfulness and other practices.
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Apr 8, 2024 |
open.substack.com | Shahid Kamal Ahmad
Dancing MonkeysStories for developers and others from my long life in and out of video games. I wrote Code is Just, but also Chimera, sometimes to remember, sometimes to forget. No thanks
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Feb 22, 2024 |
open.substack.com | Shahid Kamal Ahmad
Dancing MonkeysStories for developers and others from my long life in and out of video games. I wrote Code is Just, but also Chimera, sometimes to remember, sometimes to forget. No thanks
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Feb 22, 2024 |
open.substack.com | Shahid Kamal Ahmad
What’s the thing you love to do the most that you are not doing because of <insert reason>? The thing that makes your soul sing? Don’t tell me. Just ask yourself why you’re not carving out at least half an hour a day to do it. Please find a way. I’m here to tell you at 58 that one day you’ll deeply regret your reason or excuse for not doing it. Our time here is finite. Find time for yourself in this life of demands from others and from your own inner critic.
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Feb 19, 2024 |
open.substack.com | Shahid Kamal Ahmad
Dancing MonkeysStories for developers and others from my long life in and out of video games. I wrote Code is Just, but also Chimera, sometimes to remember, sometimes to forget. No thanks
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Sadly, what was likely my best work ever, Code is Just, has been trashed by @X. The threading has been removed, and so it's impossible to follow even the revised version. It's the second time X has trashed it, and yet another reason why I barely come here anymore.

How To Slow Down Time https://t.co/33TxFb7INc

Dear Merlin, by @shahidkamal https://t.co/n1uIxsMw82