✍️ Raed Diab's Blog
Welcome to my notebook. Here I write about experimental physics insights, hardware-level programming, optical anomalies, and ongoing open-source scientific software design.
The Strategic Pivot: Why It’s OK to Give Up on Some Goals
Published on July 16, 2026
I truly think it’s OK to give up on some dreams and goals. For me, there is nothing extremely unique about any of them. If the circumstances are too tough, or it requires too many resources, finding a new dream might be achievable faster. I can always make the best out of my life, regardless of the decisions or the circumstances.
Read More »Defeating the Blank Page: My 5-Step System for Tackling Complex Tasks
Published on June 22, 2026
Starting a new position as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute brought entirely new tools and challenges. Here is the 5-step framework I use to bypass execution paralysis, establish safe baseline data, and learn complex tasks efficiently.
Read More »Diving into the Deep End: Building a 67 Gbps FPGA Data Acquisition System from Scratch
Published on June 22, 2026
How I went from only knowing the acronym "FPGA" to engineering a fully operational ultra-high-speed AMD Xilinx pipeline data streaming suite at the Max Planck Institute within 6 months.
Read More »First Post: The Journey in Experimental Physics
Published on August 31, 2025
A brief introduction to my research background, what excites me about physics and optics, and what I plan to write about here.
Read More »An Introduction to Pygator: The Open-Source Project
Published on July 15, 2025
Explore the open-source project Pygator, how it was created, its core functionalities, and why it's a valuable tool for scientific computing.
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