Progressive frustration
Just as usual, I wanted to work on a weekend project. I came up with a name. I registered a domain.I started with a new devbox because I like a clean install like that without requiring to run a whole...
Beware the Global Const
It is common wisdom in the programming world to discourage the use of global variables.1
It is bug-prone due to shared mutability across modules.
It introduces implicit dependencies within interfaces ...
The Birth of Shala: Creating an AI Mental Health Companion for Digital Wellness
Note: This blog post is our capstone project for Kaggle's 5-Day Gen AI Intensive Course with GoogleTable of contents:
Let's Time Travel
Why the name Shala?
From Chatting to Prototyping
Making Shala hu...
Lessons from the Trenches: Indexing a 200M Row Table in MySQL [MySQL part 2]
TL;DR
Slow queries? Check your indexes first.
Use EXPLAIN and the slow query log to guide indexing decisions.
Composite indexes only help if you use leading columns.
Covering indexes = 🔥 for per...
Supercharging My VS Code AI Agent with Local RAG
My AI Agent Needed a Better Memory
Working with AI assistants directly in my IDE (like Cline or Roo Code in VS Code) has become a core part of my workflow, especially for personal reflection ...
How I Built a Personalized Email Generator in Python (as a Beginner)
How I Built a Personalized Email Generator in Python (as a Beginner)
I’m learning Python as part of my transition into technical writing, and I wanted to build something small but useful. A...
Why Everyone Wants to Sell You a Shovel in the Digital Gold Rush
Have you noticed how everyone online is trying to sell you something? A course, a shortcut, a guaranteed way to make money? The internet isn’t just an innovation hub and more like a never-ending inf...
What Palindromes Taught Me About Writing Cleaner Python
What Palindromes Taught Me About Writing Cleaner Python
As someone transitioning from linguistics and writing tutoring into technical writing, I often find myself drawing connections between ...
A Decade of SolidJS
As of today, it has been 7 years since I open-sourced SolidJS. It wasn't for noble reasons. I wasn't trying to show people the way. I wasn't trying to change the world. I just had one of those itches ...
From the Market Stalls of Morocco to Building Tech Solutions for Europe
I was born in Errachidia and raised in Nador, two small towns in Morocco, in a family deeply rooted in B2B distribution ; food, meat, and agricultural products through our family business, 2MP DIP Err...