https://omid.dev/Recent content in Home on Omid Farhanghttps://omid.dev/images/bio-photo-150x150.jpghttps://omid.dev/images/bio-photo-150x150.jpgHugo -- 0.165.0en-US2026 Omid Farhang | All rights reserved.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0330https://omid.dev/2026/10/20/per-user-cloud-oauth-on-one-host/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0330https://omid.dev/2026/10/20/per-user-cloud-oauth-on-one-host/App credentials are site-wide, but refresh tokens are not shared in .env. Each user connects their own Dropbox or Drive account, and CLI maps to one user.https://omid.dev/2026/10/18/webauthn-and-totp-in-frameworkless-php/Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0330https://omid.dev/2026/10/18/webauthn-and-totp-in-frameworkless-php/Passkeys and authenticator apps in plain PHP: relying-party identity, session ceremonies, trusted-device cookies, recovery codes, and an explicit CLI exception.https://omid.dev/2026/10/16/operating-yt-dlp-on-a-self-hosted-box/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0330https://omid.dev/2026/10/16/operating-yt-dlp-on-a-self-hosted-box/The hard part of hosting yt-dlp is not the CLI call—it is Deno in the image, cookie handling, path confinement, and owning the operational risk.https://omid.dev/2026/10/14/background-jobs-without-a-queue-php-apache/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0330https://omid.dev/2026/10/14/background-jobs-without-a-queue-php-apache/On Apache, background exec() children often die with the request. A small private host can still run long work with post-response PHP, durable job rows, and retry on the next hit.https://omid.dev/2026/10/12/how-to-evaluate-a-supplement-or-medicine/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0330https://omid.dev/2026/10/12/how-to-evaluate-a-supplement-or-medicine/A reusable method for checking a product's purpose, evidence, dose, quality, interactions, and duplicate ingredients before deciding whether to use it.https://omid.dev/2026/10/11/how-i-decide-what-to-do-when-im-sick/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0330https://omid.dev/2026/10/11/how-i-decide-what-to-do-when-im-sick/A practical way to choose between monitoring, supportive care, medication, and medical help—and to know when the plan should change.https://omid.dev/2026/10/10/treat-the-illness-not-the-habit/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0330https://omid.dev/2026/10/10/treat-the-illness-not-the-habit/A practical framework for evaluating treatment decisions, based on what I got wrong about colds, antibiotics, probiotics, and familiar remedies.https://omid.dev/tools/update-cursor/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:30:00 +0330https://omid.dev/tools/update-cursor/Install or update Cursor IDE from the official stable AppImage API on Linux — skip download when already current, force reinstall, or uninstall cleanly.https://omid.dev/tools/update-nvm/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:30:00 +0330https://omid.dev/tools/update-nvm/Update every installed Node major via nvm, refresh global npm packages, upgrade npm, and enable corepack.https://omid.dev/playground/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:43:51 +0330https://omid.dev/playground/Live companion demos and interactive labs for omid.dev articles — open a working example in the browser, then read the post for the full walkthrough.https://omid.dev/2026/09/29/coding-agents-are-ci-workers-sandbox-them/Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:30:00 +0330https://omid.dev/2026/09/29/coding-agents-are-ci-workers-sandbox-them/The real developer-AI upgrade isn't a smarter model. It's a sandbox, short-lived credentials, telemetry, and a kill switch. A layered guide with copy-paste examples.https://omid.dev/2026/09/23/after-generation-where-the-product-lives/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0330https://omid.dev/2026/09/23/after-generation-where-the-product-lives/Cheap generation gets you a demo. Pick the easy host to build on — a platform your users already use, a small box you run, or a runtime you rent.https://omid.dev/2026/09/22/angular-router-resources-route-data-as-a-graph/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:40:00 +0330https://omid.dev/2026/09/22/angular-router-resources-route-data-as-a-graph/Router Resources (Angular 22.2, developer preview) load independent route data as a parallel resource graph. Blocking routes hand over finished values; non-blocking routes hand over Resource inputs the template can render.https://omid.dev/2026/09/22/obsidian-on-a-git-research-vault/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 02:00:00 +0330https://omid.dev/2026/09/22/obsidian-on-a-git-research-vault/Open the research repo as an Obsidian vault if you want links and a graph. Git still holds the Markdown. If a note matters, it must still read in a terminal, an editor, and a diff.https://omid.dev/2026/09/14/essential-skills-when-generation-is-cheap/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:40:00 +0330https://omid.dev/2026/09/14/essential-skills-when-generation-is-cheap/The skill list did not get a new bubble called AI. The senior job changed: you own output you did not type, you review at a higher altitude, and you decide where generation does not belong.https://omid.dev/2026/09/10/linux-vxlan-and-why-cni/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0330https://omid.dev/2026/09/10/linux-vxlan-and-why-cni/Ethernet does not stretch across hosts by itself. VXLAN is one overlay; CNI is the contract that plugs a pod into whatever network the cluster actually uses.https://omid.dev/2026/09/09/i-interview-frontend-hires-for-other-companies/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 03:00:00 +0330https://omid.dev/2026/09/09/i-interview-frontend-hires-for-other-companies/How I interview frontend candidates for a team that is not mine — intake with their lead, choosing the real level, and why I now weigh architecture, ownership, and AI judgment over syntax recall.https://omid.dev/2026/09/04/linux-network-namespaces-and-virtual-links/Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:00:00 +0330https://omid.dev/2026/09/04/linux-network-namespaces-and-virtual-links/Isolate network stacks with netns, connect them with veth, and choose bridge vs macvlan vs ipvlan — the kernel primitives containers reuse.https://omid.dev/2026/09/01/linux-as-a-router/Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:00:00 +0330https://omid.dev/2026/09/01/linux-as-a-router/Linux leaves the bridge domain: IP forwarding, policy routing for two uplinks, and nftables input vs forward.https://omid.dev/2026/08/29/one-ai-chat-is-not-a-research-workspace/Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:25:01 +0330https://omid.dev/2026/08/29/one-ai-chat-is-not-a-research-workspace/Long-form research does not fit in one ChatGPT conversation. A Git repo of messy Markdown — inbox, concepts, counterarguments — lets ideas stay contradictory until you are ready to write.