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Why Consistency is the Secret to Earning as a Writer
I spent two years trying to crack the code of making money as a writer. I read every “how to go viral” article, studied successful writers’ strategies, and even tried to reverse-engineer trending posts. I was convinced there had to be some secret formula — the perfect headline, the right topic, the magic publishing time that would finally unlock my earning potential.
By noor ul amin5 months ago in Confessions
Why Python Is the Friendliest Language for New Programmers
I remember when I first decided to learn programming. The sheer number of languages out there was overwhelming — C++, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Go — where do you even start? After talking to a few developer friends and doing some research, I kept hearing the same advice: “Start with Python.”
By noor ul amin5 months ago in Futurism
The Archivist Who Remembered Tomorrow
1. The Memory Market In 2091, memories were currency. They were encoded, traded, edited like video clips, and—if you could afford it—archived forever in cryo-ceramic vaults. There were laws, of course. Memories couldn’t be stolen, couldn’t be falsified, and certainly couldn’t be sold without the host’s consent. But laws are like old books in the age of memory trading—everyone agrees they exist, but no one really reads them. Eliah Ayers worked in one of the oldest vaults in New Geneva—a crumbling art-deco skyscraper called The Hollow Tower, where memories were stored like fine wine. The world had moved on to sleek mindcloud interfaces, but The Hollow Tower catered to the elite, the paranoid, and the nostalgic. Eliah was an Archivist. Not the kind that corrected metadata or fetched memories on request—he was a Purist. He cleaned memories. Restored them. Reassembled broken timelines. He spent his days inside other people’s minds, reliving births, funerals, betrayals, orgasms, murders.
By noor ul amin5 months ago in Fiction
The Summer I Bought My First Laptop
The summer break had just begun at our med school. The campus was buzzing with students rushing to catch their buses and trains home. In the middle of all the goodbyes, I left without hugging my best friend, Umar. I don’t know why—it wasn’t intentional, but as soon as I reached home, my phone buzzed.
By noor ul amin5 months ago in Fiction
The Quiet Chapters That Shaped Me
Photo by Jon Tyson on UnsplashI've been staring at this blank page for about twenty minutes now, wondering how exactly you're supposed to tell someone who you are in a way that doesn't sound completely self-absorbed or like a job interview gone wrong.
By noor ul amin5 months ago in Humans
How to Automate Boring Tasks with Python
Look, I'm going to be honest with you. I used to spend entire afternoons renaming files. Hundreds of them. One by one. Click, type, enter. Click, type, enter. My back hurt, my eyes were tired, and I felt like I was slowly losing my mind.
By noor ul amin5 months ago in Lifehack
Why I Love You
It’s strange how life’s most important moments don’t always announce themselves. The first time I saw her, it didn’t feel like a “meeting the love of your life” moment. She wasn’t framed in sunlight or stepping out of a movie. She was sitting in the corner of a small café, scribbling into a notebook, a soft scarf wrapped around her neck. The air smelled faintly of coffee and cinnamon. She didn’t glance at her phone or tap her fingers impatiently. She was completely absorbed, lost in her own world. But I couldn’t stop looking. Something about her presence made everything else fade, like the world had quietly rearranged itself around her. I didn’t know her name. I didn’t know her story. All I knew was that I wanted to.
By noor ul amin5 months ago in Fiction
GPT-5: My Experience with AI That Actually Gets It
I still remember the first time I used ChatGPT. It was late 2022, and I was blown away that a computer could write a decent email or help debug my code. Fast forward to now, and I'm sitting here having what feels like genuine conversations with GPT-5, and honestly? It's a little mind-bending. I've been testing GPT-5 for the past few months, and I keep having these moments where I forget I'm talking to an AI. Not because it's pretending to be human, but because the conversation flows so naturally that the distinction starts to feel less important.
By noor ul amin5 months ago in Futurism
From Side Hustle to Steady Stream: How I Discovered Building Passive Income with Payhip
I'll be honest with you – I was skeptical about the whole "passive income" thing. You know how it is. Everyone online seems to be promising you can make money while you sleep, but most of the time it feels like another get-rich-quick scheme that leaves you more broke than when you started. But here's the thing – after spending months researching different platforms and trying various approaches, I stumbled across something that actually works: Payhip. And no, this isn't some magical solution that'll make you rich overnight. It takes work, but it's the kind of work that pays you back repeatedly.
By noor ul amin5 months ago in Lifehack
