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.
Writing on software design, company building, and the multiple industries.
All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
One codebase, three platforms: what we learned building Boxhouse
One codebase. Three platforms. The hardest week was when the icon library renamed every export and it touched 1,684 files.
Shipping a document intelligence API with Gemini and FastAPI
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.
OAuth2 from scratch in Python: what the tutorials don't cover
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.
How I learned to ship in codebases I didn't write
My first week at Enigma I was handed a Python codebase I had never seen, in a framework I had never used, with a feature request and a deadline. There was no onboarding document.