Asif Iqbal
Engineer who solves problems across the stack. I move between layers depending on what the problem asks for.
Comfortable building services, infrastructure, and tooling. Right now I'm focused on systems that need to stay correct and observable under pressure, whether that's backend services, cloud infrastructure, or LLM routing.
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All posts →Why I Switched from i3 to Sway: Following Wayland into the Future
The reasons I migrated from i3 (Xorg) to Sway (Wayland), what broke, what got better, and whether the switch was worth the migration cost.
Tmux: The Invisible Multiplexer That Holds Everything Together
Why tmux became the glue layer between your terminal and your projects—persisting sessions, enabling parallel work, and removing the switching tax.
WSL to Native Linux: Why I Ditched the Subsystem for i3 and a Real Environment
How I graduated from WSL on Windows to native Linux with i3, Alacritty, Rofi, and learned what a real Unix environment feels like.