Thoughts

Essays, technical notes and shorter observations on architecture, leadership, AI and building products.

13 October 2026Essay

How this site is built — and what I left out

A personal website is a small system with the same questions as a big one: where content lives, who can change it, how it is cached and what happens when something fails.

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12 October 2026Note

Try PostgreSQL search before adding a search engine

A generated tsvector column, a GIN index and a prefix query cover a surprising amount of ground — in two languages.

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11 October 2026Note

Designing for two directions

Arabic is not a translation layer. A few rules that make a bilingual interface feel native in both directions.

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