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Two Words Saved Me Hours Catching Up On What Agents Ship.

Two developers side by side: one clutching his head at a wall of generated text, one leaning back grinning at a three line answer An agent can touch more code in an af ...

Ahmed Waleed   in London, UK
Thu Sep 10 2026
ai llm prompting devtools
I Stopped Looking for the Perfect Laptop - and Built the Setup I Actually Needed.

ThinkPad L14 with the Crucial 64GB DDR5 RAM kit on top, London rooftops through the window I Stopped Looking for the Perfect Laptop - and Built the Setup I Actua ...

Ahmed Waleed   in London, UK
Sat Sep 05 2026
hardware linux devtools
Running a Local LLM You Can Actually Work With.

I have been using premium models for quite some time now, Claude Code, Codex, the usual suspects. And for just as long I wanted to try running an open weight model on my own machine for real work, not ...

Ahmed Waleed   in London, UK
Mon Aug 17 2026
llm llama.cpp opencode ai devtools
Boost Your API Design with These Must-Know Protobuf Types.

After using Protobuf for a few years, I’ve come across several types designed to solve specific problems. While some of these problems can be addressed without them, not knowing about these types may ...

Ahmed Waleed   in Dubai, UAE
Sun Feb 23 2025
Protobuf gRPC APIDesign Backend golang
Using SQL Views for Business Logic Separation.

A SQL Trick I Wish I Had Known Long Ago. In software development, separating business logic or domain logic from an application and other layers is a crucial architectural principle. One of the most i ...

Ahmed Waleed   in Dubai, UAE
Sat Feb 08 2025
domain-driven-design ddd sql postgres golang design
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