Software is better when the person writing it has somewhere to be that isn't a screen. These are the trips, people and milestones that do that for me — newest first.
A weekend off with the Mangosteen Studio team — resort lawns, a koi pond and late games of pool in Bhawal, Gazipur.
The city I work from — the Parliament lit up at night, museum afternoons among submarines and old aircraft, and the view from the rooftop.
The big day — a jeweled turban, panjabis everywhere, and the family and friends who showed up.
The people I go home to — badminton on the field until the light goes, platform waits and slow afternoons in the village.
Three days on the water in Rangamati — engine boats, hill views and the long quiet stretches of the lake in between.
The Top Merchant 2024 meet-up, late nights packing merchant kits, and the everyday office moments in between with the Zatiq team.
Winter in tea country — dawn walks through the gardens at Srimangal and an afternoon at the Baikka Beel wetland.
Towers, night streets and city light — postcards from my first trip to China.
A day out at Mawa with the team — a boat ride under the Padma Bridge, ilish by the river and the ferry ghat in monsoon light.
The coral island with the KUET crowd — low tide over the rocks, a stacked cairn and shadows stretched long across the shore.
A couple of days on the water in Sunamganj — open sky, still wetland and hills on the horizon.
A working team taken off the island of laptops — rented cycles down the beach, coral rock at low tide and the sun going down over the Bay.
Four years at KUET — campus nights, tour t-shirts and the beach at Kuakata.
A boat trip through the world's largest mangrove forest — beached boats, big skies and sunsets over the channels.
Marigold rows and rose fields in Godkhali, Jashore — the flower capital of Bangladesh.
Where it all started — school uniforms, river swims, picnics and railway-track afternoons.