Rizwana Akmal Khan
@rizwanakhan.com
🧠 a bucket of poetry/design/code | Senior Support Engineer @ ▲ | Running @batchbunch.dev
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Rizwana Akmal Khan
@rizwanakhan.com
· Jan 2
batchbunch.dev is LIVE
Meet Nottingham's newest, in-person tech meetup. Come along to build your side-projects in a community of ambitious, like-minded folks.
⌨️🖱️🌐😌☕
Ran by: @rizwanakhan.com and @www.jvt.me.web.brid.gy
Meet Nottingham's newest, in-person tech meetup. Come along to build your side-projects in a community of ambitious, like-minded folks.
⌨️🖱️🌐😌☕
Ran by: @rizwanakhan.com and @www.jvt.me.web.brid.gy
This started out with a random thought and, then, very quickly, a solid conviction. I'm excited, again, to be wearing many hats (designer; dev; vibes curator; social media yapper etc. 😜) with @www.jvt.me.web.brid.gy in making BB—with your support—a lasting success for Nottingham 💛
...the next @batchbunch.dev event will be "12-month anniversary special" 💛 i'm already planning BB#0012 with so, so much elation!
BATCH BUNCH #0011 is complete.
An evening filled with riveting side-projects and conversations involving (yes, more of..) AI, code templates, open-source, accountability, and more!
See you next time?
🖱️⌨️😌🌐☕️
An evening filled with riveting side-projects and conversations involving (yes, more of..) AI, code templates, open-source, accountability, and more!
See you next time?
🖱️⌨️😌🌐☕️
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
...the next @batchbunch.dev event will be "12-month anniversary special" 💛 i'm already planning BB#0012 with so, so much elation!
nottingham's coziest tech meetup is back 😌
📅 Mark your calendar: batchbunch.dev/events
BATCH BUNCH #0011 is happening on Tuesday, November 11th. Our penultimate event before our 1-year anniversary 💫 Come along for fun chatter & productive hacking on your side-projects!
Help us spread the word & tell a friend 📢 👉👈
BATCH BUNCH #0011 is happening on Tuesday, November 11th. Our penultimate event before our 1-year anniversary 💫 Come along for fun chatter & productive hacking on your side-projects!
Help us spread the word & tell a friend 📢 👉👈
November 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
nottingham's coziest tech meetup is back 😌
Reposted by Rizwana Akmal Khan
Don't forget to join us on Wednesday morning for some wisdom from @rizwanakhan.com, some chat, networking and free breakfast! Come kickstart your day with us :)
www.meetup.com/notts-techfa...
www.meetup.com/notts-techfa...
making my debut speaking at an early morning meetup ☕️ i'm very much looking forward to meeting more folks in the nottingham tech community 💛
1 week today, Techfast returns with a talk from @rizwanakhan.com, who comes to talk about The Ripples From Pebbles
Join us at 7:30am for a before-work talk, chat and breakfast event right in the heart of Nottingham at the CGI offices.
www.meetup.com/notts-techfa...
Join us at 7:30am for a before-work talk, chat and breakfast event right in the heart of Nottingham at the CGI offices.
www.meetup.com/notts-techfa...
October 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Don't forget to join us on Wednesday morning for some wisdom from @rizwanakhan.com, some chat, networking and free breakfast! Come kickstart your day with us :)
www.meetup.com/notts-techfa...
www.meetup.com/notts-techfa...
making my debut speaking at an early morning meetup ☕️ i'm very much looking forward to meeting more folks in the nottingham tech community 💛
1 week today, Techfast returns with a talk from @rizwanakhan.com, who comes to talk about The Ripples From Pebbles
Join us at 7:30am for a before-work talk, chat and breakfast event right in the heart of Nottingham at the CGI offices.
www.meetup.com/notts-techfa...
Join us at 7:30am for a before-work talk, chat and breakfast event right in the heart of Nottingham at the CGI offices.
www.meetup.com/notts-techfa...
The Ripples From Pebbles, Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 7:30 AM | Meetup
**Techfast October is here**
Again a week later than our usual 3rd Wednesday, we are back on Wednesday 22nd October with an early morning '*before work'* shot of talk and
www.meetup.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:40 AM
making my debut speaking at an early morning meetup ☕️ i'm very much looking forward to meeting more folks in the nottingham tech community 💛
Reposted by Rizwana Akmal Khan
BATCH BUNCH #0010 is complete.
A buzzing evening featuring riveting convos on code, art, AI, and podcasts. It was awesome to connect over monthly October-driven projects, too, like Inktober.
See you next time?
🖱️⌨️😌🌐☕️
A buzzing evening featuring riveting convos on code, art, AI, and podcasts. It was awesome to connect over monthly October-driven projects, too, like Inktober.
See you next time?
🖱️⌨️😌🌐☕️
October 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
BATCH BUNCH #0010 is complete.
A buzzing evening featuring riveting convos on code, art, AI, and podcasts. It was awesome to connect over monthly October-driven projects, too, like Inktober.
See you next time?
🖱️⌨️😌🌐☕️
A buzzing evening featuring riveting convos on code, art, AI, and podcasts. It was awesome to connect over monthly October-driven projects, too, like Inktober.
See you next time?
🖱️⌨️😌🌐☕️
Reposted by Rizwana Akmal Khan
BATCH BUNCH #0010 is today.
Come along for an evening of code, chatter, coffee, and community 😌 Equal parts productive and fun.
🗺️ Details: luma.com/exz6bw3y
Come along for an evening of code, chatter, coffee, and community 😌 Equal parts productive and fun.
🗺️ Details: luma.com/exz6bw3y
October 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
BATCH BUNCH #0010 is today.
Come along for an evening of code, chatter, coffee, and community 😌 Equal parts productive and fun.
🗺️ Details: luma.com/exz6bw3y
Come along for an evening of code, chatter, coffee, and community 😌 Equal parts productive and fun.
🗺️ Details: luma.com/exz6bw3y
nottingham's coziest tech meetup is BACK. join us? 🤠
📅 Mark your calendar: batchbunch.dev/events
BATCH BUNCH #0010 is happening on Tuesday, October 14th. If you've been searching for some time to make progress on your side-projects, this is your sign to sign up! 😉
Help us spread the word & tell a friend 📢 👉👈
BATCH BUNCH #0010 is happening on Tuesday, October 14th. If you've been searching for some time to make progress on your side-projects, this is your sign to sign up! 😉
Help us spread the word & tell a friend 📢 👉👈
October 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
nottingham's coziest tech meetup is BACK. join us? 🤠
new poem × 2
(grateful to be writing again 🥺)
(grateful to be writing again 🥺)
September 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
new poem × 2
(grateful to be writing again 🥺)
(grateful to be writing again 🥺)
Reposted by Rizwana Akmal Khan
i think it’s what phaedrus meant by quality being the knife-edge of experience. it feels so good because you get to disappear for a moment
September 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
i think it’s what phaedrus meant by quality being the knife-edge of experience. it feels so good because you get to disappear for a moment
Reposted by Rizwana Akmal Khan
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Reposted by Rizwana Akmal Khan
There isn't really a secret trick to identifying AI writing. It does things because they appear in the training data; real writers use em dashes, so the AI does as well.
But blending that writing and extruding it back out as homogeneous sludge eliminates any passion or joy. The dashes are zombies.
But blending that writing and extruding it back out as homogeneous sludge eliminates any passion or joy. The dashes are zombies.
August 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
There isn't really a secret trick to identifying AI writing. It does things because they appear in the training data; real writers use em dashes, so the AI does as well.
But blending that writing and extruding it back out as homogeneous sludge eliminates any passion or joy. The dashes are zombies.
But blending that writing and extruding it back out as homogeneous sludge eliminates any passion or joy. The dashes are zombies.
making memories while making stuff 💛
BATCH BUNCH #0008 is complete.
We came back after a break with new + familiar chats around AI, careers, and (..yes, even) veggie nuggets! Then, project work included wonderful knitting, serious (human in the loop!) vibe coding, and much more 🖤
See you next time?
🖱️⌨️😌🌐☕️
We came back after a break with new + familiar chats around AI, careers, and (..yes, even) veggie nuggets! Then, project work included wonderful knitting, serious (human in the loop!) vibe coding, and much more 🖤
See you next time?
🖱️⌨️😌🌐☕️
August 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
making memories while making stuff 💛
biased but notts folks (+beyond!) deserve to attend at least ONCE. best part? everyone's welcoming, kind, curious. the hustle is "organic" because the env promotes attendees to work on a thing that excites them, a thing they're curious about or even a thing they've been avoiding for weeks/months 😌
BATCH BUNCH #0008 is today.
Make progress on your side-projects all in cool, air-conditioned premises 😎 Don't have a project or idea? Don't worry. Feel inspired by what others are building!
🗺️ details: lu.ma/rbfhylx1
Make progress on your side-projects all in cool, air-conditioned premises 😎 Don't have a project or idea? Don't worry. Feel inspired by what others are building!
🗺️ details: lu.ma/rbfhylx1
August 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
biased but notts folks (+beyond!) deserve to attend at least ONCE. best part? everyone's welcoming, kind, curious. the hustle is "organic" because the env promotes attendees to work on a thing that excites them, a thing they're curious about or even a thing they've been avoiding for weeks/months 😌
AI anxiety? pfffft what AI anxiety 🫨
August 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
AI anxiety? pfffft what AI anxiety 🫨
BB RETURNS 🫡
We are so back! 📅 Mark your calendar: batchbunch.dev/events
BATCH BUNCH #0008 is coming up on Monday, August 11th. Come along for a productive (yet, fun, obviously 😎) co-working session.
Help us spread the word 📢
BATCH BUNCH #0008 is coming up on Monday, August 11th. Come along for a productive (yet, fun, obviously 😎) co-working session.
Help us spread the word 📢
August 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
BB RETURNS 🫡
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Algis Valiunas in his review of Richard Holmes’s The Age of Wonder (2008): “Poetry needs science, which lifts the veil from nature, and science needs poetry, which elaborates for public appreciation the beauty of the secrets that have been unveiled.”
July 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Algis Valiunas in his review of Richard Holmes’s The Age of Wonder (2008): “Poetry needs science, which lifts the veil from nature, and science needs poetry, which elaborates for public appreciation the beauty of the secrets that have been unveiled.”
Reposted by Rizwana Akmal Khan
Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006.
She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.”
With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy.
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...
She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.”
With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy.
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...
July 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006.
She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.”
With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy.
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...
She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.”
With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy.
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...
Reposted by Rizwana Akmal Khan
✍️ i turned 27 and, yes, the birthday blog post ritual still continues
www.rizwanakhan.com/prose/oh-27
www.rizwanakhan.com/prose/oh-27
Oh, 27.
A rizbizkits (birthday) reflection
www.rizwanakhan.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
✍️ i turned 27 and, yes, the birthday blog post ritual still continues
www.rizwanakhan.com/prose/oh-27
www.rizwanakhan.com/prose/oh-27
✍️ i turned 27 and, yes, the birthday blog post ritual still continues
www.rizwanakhan.com/prose/oh-27
www.rizwanakhan.com/prose/oh-27
Oh, 27.
A rizbizkits (birthday) reflection
www.rizwanakhan.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
✍️ i turned 27 and, yes, the birthday blog post ritual still continues
www.rizwanakhan.com/prose/oh-27
www.rizwanakhan.com/prose/oh-27
(if you permit me to toot my own horn for a min 😅)
i am so, so proud of myself for pulling this off. the idea of "omg, we need cake" was simple in my mind but executing it with BB-level finesse (& trusting myself to find a sponsor) was much harder 💛
community is the brand ✔️
i am so, so proud of myself for pulling this off. the idea of "omg, we need cake" was simple in my mind but executing it with BB-level finesse (& trusting myself to find a sponsor) was much harder 💛
community is the brand ✔️
BATCH BUNCH #0006 (cupcake version) is complete.
Our most-attended session yet! We celebrated 6 months of BB with beautiful cupcakes kindly sponsored by Cronofy whom we are grateful for for making it possible; special thank you to @gshutler.com.
Long may BB thrive for all of Nottingham 🖤
🖱️⌨️🌐😌☕️
Our most-attended session yet! We celebrated 6 months of BB with beautiful cupcakes kindly sponsored by Cronofy whom we are grateful for for making it possible; special thank you to @gshutler.com.
Long may BB thrive for all of Nottingham 🖤
🖱️⌨️🌐😌☕️
June 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM
(if you permit me to toot my own horn for a min 😅)
i am so, so proud of myself for pulling this off. the idea of "omg, we need cake" was simple in my mind but executing it with BB-level finesse (& trusting myself to find a sponsor) was much harder 💛
community is the brand ✔️
i am so, so proud of myself for pulling this off. the idea of "omg, we need cake" was simple in my mind but executing it with BB-level finesse (& trusting myself to find a sponsor) was much harder 💛
community is the brand ✔️
THE CUPCAKES HAVE LANDED 🚨
June 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
THE CUPCAKES HAVE LANDED 🚨
moments from eid 💛. wishing your eid had moments, too, of worship, gratitude, love (& eidi).
June 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
moments from eid 💛. wishing your eid had moments, too, of worship, gratitude, love (& eidi).
Reposted by Rizwana Akmal Khan
Kicking off a series on how AI is changing the Web: how it's built, how it's consumed, and how the economics work— agenticweb.substack.com/p/ai-future-...
IE6, AI, and the future of browsing the Web
Google is pulling back from Chrome and web standards as AI threatens its ad-based business model. Here's how the shift to 'magical answer boxes' will reshape the web for creators and users alike.
agenticweb.substack.com
June 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Kicking off a series on how AI is changing the Web: how it's built, how it's consumed, and how the economics work— agenticweb.substack.com/p/ai-future-...