How we took the Saudi Armed Forces off paper
An entire branch of the Saudi Armed Forces ran quality assurance on paper. The conventional estimate for digitising it was two years. We had ten weeks.





An entire branch of the Saudi Armed Forces ran quality assurance on paper. The conventional estimate for digitising it was two years. We had ten weeks.
One codebase. Three platforms. The hardest week was when the icon library renamed every export and it touched 1,684 files.
The brief was simple: take any document and turn it into something a machine can search. I have never written a brief that turned out to be as complicated as that one.
Every OAuth2 tutorial ends when the code becomes a token. I implemented it twice in three months and had to learn everything that happens after that.