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The mysterious movie and AI art

When I was a child, I watched a movie on Egyptian TV once, and only once, I tried to remember it’s name many times but failed. The plot, the way I…

Apr 16, 2023 •

Karim Aboelela 🦒

March 2022

The Hand of God - Paolo Sorrentino

“Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die” — François Truffaut. The pioneer of…

Mar 27, 2022 •

Karim Aboelela 🦒

February 2022

Simple.css, TypeScript Cheat Sheets, and Rust for Web tooling

Simple.css Sometimes I need to start a quick project, and I need basic styling for elements like buttons and form elements, without anything advanced…

Feb 14, 2022 •

Karim Aboelela 🦒

The Story of Civilization - Our Oriental Heritage 📖

In the image above, you can see the number million or the word “many” in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and according to Wikipedia, it was pronounced as…

Feb 6, 2022 •

Karim Aboelela 🦒

January 2022

Travel Blogging - Japan & Bucharest

Solo Solo Travel is a YouTube channel for traveling around Japan using "different" types of transportation and places to stay. for example, here the…

Jan 31, 2022 •

Karim Aboelela 🦒

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami 📖

The novel 1Q84 is the longest novel I read by Haruki Murakami. Nine is pronounced like the letter Q in the Japanese language, so it’s an alternate title…

Jan 28, 2022 •

Karim Aboelela 🦒

Twitter, Newsletters and RSS Readers

For me, reading on the internet comes from different sources, like Blogs and Newsletters. On top of that, of course, comes Twitter. At one point, I…

Jan 26, 2022 •

Karim Aboelela 🦒

Microsoft acquiring Activision Blizzard 🎮

One 'little' hope for RTS games?

Jan 19, 2022 •

Karim Aboelela 🦒

Searching For Sugar Man 🎸

A friend recommended me the documentary Searching for Sugar Man and asked me to write about it if I liked it, almost two years ago 🤦🏻‍♂️. (Better late…

Jan 16, 2022 •

Karim Aboelela 🦒

Neocities, Sega Genesis, Prince of Persia and Civilization

I was surprised to find this website today > Neocities (If that reminds you of Geocities, the ‘reasons’ are obvious). The idea is similar to Geocities …

Jan 15, 2022 •

Karim Aboelela 🦒

June 2020

Facebook And Amazon: All Roads Lead To India

In the previous essay, I talked about that Facebook's primary revenue source is from online ads. Well, there is no easy way to say that, but 98% of…

Jun 29, 2020 •

Karim Aboelela 🦒

May 2020

Are Online Ads A Bubble? Seriously

It seems like after the first quarter of 2020. We had discussions about strategies and the future of businesses that didn't happen for years. That is…

May 25, 2020 •

Karim Aboelela 🦒

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