Aamir Abro

Beware: spends most of the time looking at code | NUST and LUMS | @careem -- All opinions expressed are my own.

[Aamir Abro @AamirAbro]

It's a pity that the guy who coined the term Pakistan and self-stylized himself as "Founder, Pakistan National Movement" and who is even considered a National Hero by some, has not found a place to rest in however tiny but Pakistan.

[Sher Khan @K4anSh3r]

We all owe lal topi wala an apology.

[ahmed el-helw @ahmedre]

wrote a short post on how to test Android Auto apps purely with emulators https://t.co/Vr2UqdHZGN #androiddev

[وزارة الدفاع |MOD UAE @modgovae]

The Ministry of Defence has announced that the UAE air force and air defence forces have so far dealt with 165 ballistic missiles, two cruise missiles and 541 Iranian drones since the start of the Iranian attack.

The ministry said that on the morning of the second day of the attack, UAE air force and air defence forces destroyed 20 ballistic missiles, while eight missiles fell into the sea. They also destroyed two cruise missiles and 311 drones. However, 21 drones struck civilian targets. The ministry affirmed the capability of the UAE air force and air defence to address various threats.

It explained that since the beginning of the Iranian attack on 28th February, 2026, 165 ballistic missiles launched from Iran towards the UAE have been detected. Of these, 152 were destroyed, while 13 fell into sea waters. Two cruise missiles were also detected and destroyed.

A total of 541 Iranian drones were detected, of which 506 were intercepted and destroyed, while 35 fell within the country, causing material damage. The incidents resulted in three fatalities of Pakistani, Nepali and Bangladeshi nationalities, and 58 minor injuries among Emirati, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Filipino, Pakistani, Iranian, Indian, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Azerbaijani, Yemeni, Ugandan, Eritrean, Lebanese and Afghan nationals.

The ministry indicated that some debris fell in various areas of the country as a result of air defence systems intercepting ballistic missiles and drones, leading to minor to moderate material damage to a number of civilian properties.

The ministry expressed its full readiness to address any threats and stressed that the safety of citizens, residents and visitors remains a top priority that cannot be compromised.

#وزارة_الدفاع
#وزارة_الدفاع_الإم��راتية
#MOD
#UAEMinistryOfDefence

[وزارة الدفاع |MOD UAE @modgovae]

UAE air defence systems successfully intercepted more Iranian mssiles, drones

The Ministry of Defence announced that UAE air defence systems intercepted and destroyed a new wave of Iranian missiles and drones launched towards the country. It noted that the operation was carried out with high efficiency and with limited material damage.

The Ministry affirmed its full readiness and preparedness to deal with any threats, stressing that all necessary measures are being taken to firmly confront any attempts to undermine the country’s security and stability. It emphasised that the safety of citizens, residents, and visitors remains a top priority that can't be compromised.

The Ministry also stated that missiles were intercepted by the UAE Air Defence system, and debris have fallen on several areas in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. No injuries have been reported.

The Ministry stressed that the targeting constitutes a blatant violation of national sovereignty and International Law, affirming the UAE’s full right to take all necessary measures to protect its territory and people, and to safeguard its sovereignty, security and stability.

The Ministry also urged the public to obtain information from official sources in the UAE and to avoid spreading rumours or unverified information.

#وزارة_الدفاع
#وزارة_الدفاع_الإماراتية
#MOD
#UAEMinistryOfDefence

[Cyber Security Council @cscgovae]

انطلاقاً من مسؤوليتنا الوطنية، وحرصاً على تعزيز الوعي والاستقرار، يدعو مجلس الأمن السيبراني الجميع إلى تحرّي الدقة واستقاء الأخبار من الجهات الرسمية المعتمدة فقط، وعدم الانسياق وراء الشائعات أو المعلومات غير الموثوقة.

الأمن السيبراني مسؤولية مشتركة… والتأكد قبل تداول المعلومات و��جب وطني.

اللهم احفظ دولة الإمارات قيادةً وشعباً، وأدم عليها نعمة الأمن والأمان والاستقرار.

#مجلس_الأمن_السيبراني
#الامارات

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Don't let Obama play the Iran card in order to start a war in order to get elected--be careful Republicans!

[Azaz Syed @AzazSyed]

اس سے زیادہ افسوسناک اور قابل مذمت بات ہو ہی نہیں سکتی کہ اس ملک میں ایک ایماندار اور پیشہ ور صحافی کو پہلے لاپتہ کیا جائے پھر جھوٹے کیس میں نامزد کرکے اس پر مقدمہ چلایا جائے اور پھر معاملے کو فرد جرم تک پہنچا دیا جائے ۔ یہ کام ن لیگ حکومت گے ماتھے پر کلنک کی طرح یاد رکھا جائے گااور یہ بھی یاد رکھا جائے گا کہ اس وقت ایک میڈیا ہاؤس کا مالک ملک کا وزیر داخلہ تھا جسکی پولیس یہ جھوٹے مقدمے قائم کرکے آزاد منش صحافیوں کو “سبق”سکھا رہی تھی۔ اس سب کے پیچھے طاقتور اسٹیبلشمنٹ ضرور ہے مگر اسکے ظاہری مہرے سب کو دکھ رہے ہیں ۔

مطیع بھائی اس سارے معاملے کا نتیجہ کچھ بھی نکلے آپ سرخر و ہونگے۔بہت دعائیں

[Matiullah Jan @Matiullahjan919]

سرکار کی طرف سے اس اعتراف کے باوجود کہ مطیع اللہ جان سے منشیات کی برآمدگی کوئی ویڈیو یا تصویری ثبوت نہیں ٹرائل کورٹ نے اس الزام کی حد تک مقدمہ خارج کرنے کی درخواست مسترد کر دی اور ہفتے یعنی کل صبح ساڑھے آٹھ بجے انسدادِ دھشت گردی کی عدالت میں فردِ جرم عائد کرنے کے لئیے سماعت مقر�� ہے۔

ٹرائل کورٹ کے اس فیصلے کے خلاف اپیل کے لئیے صرف ایک دن کا وقت دیا گیا اور اب جبکہ اپیل ہائی کورٹ میں سماعت کے لئیے مقرر بھی نہیں ہوئی تو ٹرائل کورٹ کا فردِ جرم کی طرف جانا منصفانہ ٹرائل نہیں اور اگر فردِ جرم عائد کی جاتی ہے تو ہائیُکورٹ میں دائر ہونے والی اپیل غیر مؤثر ہو جائیگی۔ کل ایڈوکیٹ علی اشفاق میری طرف سے دلائل دینگے۔

[Umar Saif @umarsaif]

My Lebanese friend in KSA just delivered the most accurate food critique over lunch: "Japanese food is for health. Mediterranean is for balance. Pakistani food is purely for taste. It's basically a vehicle for delivering spices and oil directly to your soul .. and arteries. Delicious and deadly in equal measures.”

[DHH @dhh]

Microservices is the software industry’s most successful confidence scam. It convinces small teams that they are “thinking big” while systematically destroying their ability to move at all. It flatters ambition by weaponizing insecurity: if you’re not running a constellation of services, are you even a real company? Never mind that this architecture was invented to cope with organizational dysfunction at planetary scale. Now it’s being prescribed to teams that still share a Slack channel and a lunch table.

Small teams run on shared context. That is their superpower. Everyone can reason end-to-end. Everyone can change anything. Microservices vaporize that advantage on contact. They replace shared understanding with distributed ignorance. No one owns the whole anymore. Everyone owns a shard. The system becomes something that merely happens to the team, rather than something the team actively understands. This isn’t sophistication. It’s abdication.

Then comes the operational farce. Each service demands its own pipeline, secrets, alerts, metrics, dashboards, permissions, backups, and rituals of appeasement. You don’t “deploy” anymore—you synchronize a fleet. One bug now requires a multi-service autopsy. A feature release becomes a coordination exercise across artificial borders you invented for no reason. You didn’t simplify your system. You shattered it and called the debris “architecture.”

Microservices also lock incompetence in amber. You are forced to define APIs before you understand your own business. Guesses become contracts. Bad ideas become permanent dependencies. Every early mistake metastasizes through the network. In a monolith, wrong thinking is corrected with a refactor. In microservices, wrong thinking becomes infrastructure. You don’t just regret it—you host it, version it, and monitor it.

The claim that monoliths don’t scale is one of the dumbest lies in modern engineering folklore. What doesn’t scale is chaos. What doesn’t scale is process cosplay. What doesn’t scale is pretending you’re Netflix while shipping a glorified CRUD app. Monoliths scale just fine when teams have discipline, tests, and restraint. But restraint isn’t fashionable, and boring doesn’t make conference talks.

Microservices for small teams is not a technical mistake—it is a philosophical failure. It announces, loudly, that the team does not trust itself to understand its own system. It replaces accountability with protocol and momentum with middleware. You don’t get “future proofing.” You get permanent drag. And by the time you finally earn the scale that might justify this circus, your speed, your clarity, and your product instincts will already be gone.

[Usman Gul Warraich @UsmanGul__]

@novocainerush I want French to be the official language of all malls in Pakistan

[Syed Imran Shafqat @SImranshafqat]

اگر انجینئر محمد علی مرزا صاحب جیسے عاشق رسول صلی اللہ ھو علیہ وسلم پر توہین رسالت کاالزام لگایا جاسکتا ہے تو پھر یہاں کوئی بھی محفوظ نہیں ،

[Shehzad Ghias Shaikh @Shehzad89]

#ReleaseEngineerAliMirza

[AMJAD KHAN @iAmjadKhann]

جو لوگ قسم اٹھاتے ہیں کہ ہم سیاسی سرگرمیاں نہیں کریں گے وہ تین تین گھنٹے لائیو سیاسی گفتگو فرماتے ہیں اور جو ایک سابق وزیراعظم ہے اور سیاستدان ہے وہ س��است پہ گفتگو نہیں کر سکتا یہ ایک المیہ ہے ! مطیع اللہ جان ۔۔۔

[Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir @ImaanZHazir]

It is senseless and cruel what the State of Pakistan is doing to this family.

First, two brothers (Ali and Saif) were forcibly disappeared. Then, the bank accounts of the two brothers as well as their mother were frozen/sealed, without any due process. Even after the court directed de-sealing/unfreezing of their bank accounts, not only were those directions not complied with but now Ali has been offloaded at Islamabad Airport (he has not been informed of any pending cases against him or any placement of his name on a no-fly list).

What is Ali’s crime? That he is @Ahmad_Noorani’s brother. Being Noorani sb’s relatives is the crime for which the entire family suffers.

The degree to which journalism has been criminalised in Pakistan is that your family, which has nothing to do with you or your journalism, will be relentlessly targeted for as long as they live.

[Warfare Analysis @warfareanalysis]

Journalist Anas al-Sharif won’t be around to announce the ceasefire as he did the last time,

because Israel assassinated him along with more than 260 other journalists.

[Alex Vacca @itsalexvacca]

Before AWS existed, one company ran the servers for Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook's entire app ecosystem.

They owned Node.js, invented containers 8 years before Docker, and Peter Thiel even backed them.

Then something happened...

[Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 @TulsiGabbard]

Trump says he doesn't want war with Iran, but that's exactly what he wants, because that's exactly what Saudi Arabia, Netanyahu, al-Qaeda, Bolton, Haley, and other NeoCons/NeoLibs want. That’s what he put first--not America.

[Pravin Sawhney @PravinSawhney]

I support Iran, the state of Palestine (will be created), BRICS, SCO & want India to make peace with Pakistan, normalise ties with China & strengthen ties with Russia - this is the only way for peace in Asia Pacific & South Asia!