If the Baháʼí Faith opened this series by talking about unity and continuity, Buddhism arrives with a very different but equally disarming opening line: life involves suffering. No thunder, no cosmic courtroom, no villain monologue. Just an observation, delivered calmly, and followed immediately by something refreshingly useful: a method. This episode is part of The … Read more
Before we jump in, here is the intro to the overall series, which explains why graph theory keeps showing up in interviews and real systems: https://medium.com/@DaveLumAI/what-am-i-missing-about-graph-theory-and-why-faang-keeps-bringing-it-up-e010db2aef7e If Episode 1 was about getting from point A to point B without losing your sanity, Episode 2 is about people. Or more precisely: connections between people, companies, bots, … Read more
If you have ever watched your GPS calmly reroute you around traffic like it planned this all along, congratulations: you have already trusted graph theory with your time, your fuel, and your sanity. This first episode of the mini graph theory series starts with the most familiar setting possible: maps. Streets are edges. Intersections are … Read more
If history were a long-running book series, the Baháʼí Faith would be one of the newer volumes, but it opens with an ambitious premise: humanity is one family, history has a direction, and religion is less a collection of disconnected sequels and more an unfolding narrative. The Baháʼí Faith was founded in the mid-19th century … Read more
There is a moment in every project where things are going well, everyone is smiling, the tests are green, and someone says the most dangerous sentence in software: “But what if…?” That, my friends, is where YAGNI lives. YAGNI stands for You Aren’t Gonna Need It. It is not a suggestion. It is a quiet … Read more
Edvard Munch (1863–1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker who basically looked at the human experience and said, “Wow. Bold choice. Terrifying though.” If you only know him for that scream, you are not wrong, but you are also missing the rest of his emotional catalog: grief, longing, jealousy, illness, love, dread, and that special … Read more
If you have ever built an app that has both a web UI and a mobile UI, you have probably met this situation: A Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) is the pattern that says: “Stop making one backend do interpretive dance for every client. Give each client its own friendly little backend.” Microsoft describes the pattern as creating … Read more
A dramatic interior scene rendered with elongated, elegant figures posed in subtly unnatural postures, their gestures expressive and slightly tense. The composition feels vertically stretched, with swirling architectural elements that bend perspective just enough to feel unstable. Colors are cool and luminous — soft greens, pale blues, muted pinks — contrasted by sharp highlights that give the scene a … Read more
January was one of those months that looks quiet until you actually read the numbers. Nothing exploded, nothing collapsed, and yet a lot of useful information showed up if you stop scrolling long enough to notice it. Sales stayed flat. That sounds boring, but flat during a month full of experiments is not failure. It … Read more
If you have ever looked at a drawing and thought, “Wow, that line has opinions,” congratulations: you are spiritually prepared for Egon Schiele. Schiele was an Austrian painter and draftsman who lived fast, drew faster, and made sure nobody in the room got too comfortable. Born in 1890 and gone by 1918, he managed to … Read more