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Nish Tahir

Principal Software Engineer. I write about engineering and fun projects I work on.

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Effective Resume Tips - Showcasing your value

I frequently receive requests for resume advice from a diverse range of job seekers, including recent college graduates, boot camp attendees, and seasoned developers. While I often share tips verbally, I've recently realized that I haven't documented these insights. While there is no shortage of resume

It's 2023. Your API should have a schema

Here's a story you might find relatable. We kicked off a new integration project that started 3 months later than everyone wanted. APIs just shipped after a bunch of delays. We were handed API docs and a test environment and started work building out the new feature. The

On AI-assisted Software Development

It is not every day we get new tools that have the potential to change the very nature of our jobs. If you haven't been following advancements in the AI scene, new Large Language Models (LLM), most notably GitHub's Copilot, Codex, and ChatGPT are beginning to

What is a Staff Engineer?

"I've worked with a couple of Staff Engineers on different teams in the past and I've seen them do different things, but I've not been able to pin down exactly what they do." I get this question quite frequently. Sometimes from engineers

How to enable SSH Key Verification with Git and GitHub

With the right know-how, it's incredibly easy to impersonate anyone when making commits. This is a potential attack vector that gives the false impression that code can be trusted and attributed to the named author when in fact it cannot. Unverified Commits: Are You Unknowingly Trusting Attackers’ Code?

A (mostly) free FPGA Development workflow for macOS

For better or worse I'm a macOS user. I enjoy its Unix likeness and thoughtful user experience. However, one area it lacks is FPGA development. Major vendors simply have no support for it, forcing users to rely on virtual machine environments or migrate to a different supported platform.

Running Sigrok PulseView on an M1 Arm Mac

As of the time of writing, PulseView[1] has not been cross compiled for arm64 macOS. Installing PulseView with Homebrew and attempting to run it causes the app to crash on startup with the following error (viewable in the console app). Termination Reason: Namespace DYLD, Code 1 Library missing Library

Automating form input with Selenium IDE

A form is the most common means of collecting user information on the internet. When implemented well, they can be simple to use particularly when the requested data is short and easy to enter. More complex data is usually better collected through other means such as structured file imports. However,

How to create a macOS Monterey Installation ISO image

The macOS ecosystem loves *.dmg volumes as its main container format. However, *.iso can sometimes be the easiest to work with if you are exploring virtualization. Having a macOS installation image can be pretty handy to have in your toolbox. There are some images floating around on the internet, however,

The dangers of pretty much done

Shipping products at scale is complicated. Work items frequently change hands often across different teams and levels of an organization. Status updates travel up and down the chain of management via a classic game of telephone presenting a lot of opportunities for miscommunication and misalignment. One particular area of misalignment