About me

Who am I?

I am Muhammed Shan, a curious polymath who is eager to know how certain things works as it is. I know react and Flutter, but mostly I prefer optimizing messy codes. Besides that, I love fine arts that hooks with my eyes, music that touches my soul, philosophy that fuels my overthinking.

I know Flutter very deeply than react. For Flutter, I use BLoC, then try to write it mostly without any StatefulWidget. For react, I use Next.js only when necessary and prefer Vite usually. But if it's a very small project, I recommend myself to use a small framework like Waku. I prefer speed of the application rather than speed of the development.

Since my childhood, I have been mesmerized by the world of hackers and hobbyists, and what they did with things that people thought were obsolete. I love the world of custom ROMs, Linux distros, Hackintosh, FOSS, etc. You can probably guess that I'm more into software than hardware.

Leisure

I'm the kind of guy who gets bored easily. But whenever that happens, I always find a way to spike my dopamine back. I love listening to music, watching great films, reading books, and drinking a huge amount of tea and coffee. I often consume a lot of philosophical bites, whether from books, blogs, or even YouTube. After philosophy, I prefer reading non-fiction, like science, history, politics, self-help. I also enjoy fiction, including classics, sci-fi, and rom-coms.

I watch almost all types of films despite the genre. I usually look at the story and directors/writers instead of the genre. Same goes for music too, I usally looks into the artist and the lyrics/vocals. When it comes to games, nothing spikes my dopamine like Minecraft and Chess does. But mostly you'll see me in front of my PC or inside a book.

I also love arts. Fine arts. Not just the sculptures and paintings, but anything with refined design. Yep, I call it art. I see unique designs in cars, products, websites and apps as the examples for 'When craftmanship meets Art'. I adore unique designs, both digital and physical.

Website

This site is built using the 11ty site generator. Now you must be wondering, why did i go for a static site, especially when there are tons of over-engineered JS frameworks releasing each year and even when there is a blog section in it - which can be stored in a DB and then can be fetched and.... whatever. Trust me, this static approach is better for this kinds of simple project. Also this is my personal portfolio, a reflection of me, which I never want to be bloated and slow.

You can check it yourself, this site is as fast as possible (scoring 100 in desktop and 99 in mobile view - with lighthouse) and also tiny in size (only under ~300kb when I wrote this).