Ahmed essyad

The problem nobody wants to look at

The bugs that don't crash

The door that was never locked

Notes from the Refactor — what we find when founders hand us their working product.

Vibe Coding Is Fine. Just Know When to Call Us.

Your Test Suite Is Lying to You

Rift: The Architecture of a Zero-Config Dev Runner

A deep dive into every decision, trade-off, and data flow behind a CLI tool that wants to kill your multi-terminal workflow.

The Human Context Layer

Why the most critical part of your codebase lives in people, not files.

Spent Hours Fighting Mermaid SVG → PNG Export (Missing Text Nightmare)

AI Code Assistants: The Art of Lazy Engineering

Why Your AI Just Slapped `any` on Everything and Called It a Day*

RAG vs Fine-Tuning: Just Write a Prompt First

The Angel Batista Philosophy

The AI Code Quality Study Nobody Wants to Talk About

Document Once, Let AI Do the Rest

how I approach most of my work today.

Well. Vercel Got Got.

A threat actor linked to the ShinyHunters syndicate claims to have exfiltrated Vercel's internal systems — source code, API keys, GitHub tokens, and more. Here's everything we know.

Why Your Node Tests Are Failing (And It's Not Your Code)

Getting 'Unable to deserialize cloned data' errors in Node tests? Here's why storing Mongoose documents at suite level breaks serialization—and the simple fix that saved my New Year's.