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  • Pakistan Taxpayer Data

    Between 2013 and 2018, the Pakistan Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) published a directory of all taxpayers. Naturally, these are shared as PDFs that look something like:

    2018 taxpayer directory 35k page PDF (may crash preview)
    2018 taxpayer directory 35k page PDF (may crash preview)

    Why is the FBR exposing everyone’s name, CNIC, and how much income tax they’ve paid? On the foreward of the same PDF:

  • selfhosted website

    local.hashirsafdar.com now points to this website, but hosted locally instead of Cloudflare Pages.

    it is running on an Intel N100 NUC running Proxmox. for deployment, a local hugo build and rsync to an LXC that serves it with Caddy.

    excited to see the traffic that ends up here!

    edit 2025-11-20: root domain is now switched to the local with with cloudflare at cloudflare.hashirsafdar.com.

  • threejs

    made with claude code

  • grow a plant

    make number go up

    woah

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    made with claude code

  • new website

    hashir

    welcome!

    my name is hashir safdar, i assemble software

    i have decided to move past my old website to the new world of hugo

    the header .gif was made with imagemagick

    styling on this website was inspired by no-style-please

  • favorite games

    Halo

    Guild Wars 2

    Minecraft

    DragonFable / Club Penguin

    Portal

    Half-Life 2

    TWD Ep 5

    The Elder Scrolls

    FEZ

    Papers, Please

    Undertale