Ali Ibrahim Blog

This week’s update covers calendar week 42 of 2026 (October 12–18).

Title

I was deciding between three different titles: a planning week, a slower week, or a foundation week. Eventually, I decided to go with a planning week.

Summary

I didn’t feel that this was a very productive week. I did some planning for my side project, started with the foundation, and...

This week’s update covers calendar week 41 of 2026 (October 5–11).

Title

I was searching for a title of the week, and eventually I came up with the one that suits the week best, a brainstorming week, as I spent the majority of the week brainstorming ideas with ChatGPT and Perplexity, until I came up with an idea that I liked best.

Summary

The week started ...

Motivation

While I was attending a lecture in the digital communications course, our teacher was explaining signal quantization. Basically, after you sample the analog signal, you need to map values to a finite set of values. For example, a value of 1.39 would be mapped to 1.375. This set of finite values would then be decoded and sent.

One colleague asked, but would...

I am starting weekly updates to share what I learn, read, build, and ship. Alongside technical articles, these posts will include books, personal projects, and reflections on work and everyday life.

Why Start Weekly Blog Updates?

I shared my first blog in December 2019. Back then, the intention was only to share posts about technical topics, and I’ve shared a couple ...

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