Updating an Old Article Without Starting Over
A useful article goes stale in small ways. Fix the facts, keep the structure, and say what changed.
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Wajahat Qasim
Principal Software Engineer Islamabad, Pakistan
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I am Wajahat Qasim. I have been building for the web since 2014, first as a front-end developer and now across Angular, Flutter and .NET & know more. Along the way I started toolexe.com, a free platform with 1300+ online tools and CLASSIQ, a clothing brand made in Sialkot. I am also back in the classroom studying Data Science. This is where I write about all my trips, the projects, the experiments that work and the ones that don’t and how i handle my money about passive income from PSX and income/money market.
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