What I’m building, breaking, learning and exploring across software, AI and development. New articles are written here first; other platforms get a copy that points back.
FeaturedPart 17 · The Engineering Logs
Scammers now clone voices, hackers now use AI, and a single breach costs millions. Here is what is really happening online in 2026, and what you can do about it.
Series · 23 parts
Architecture, debugging, databases and the calls behind each build: my series on what shipping real software actually teaches you.
Series · 6 parts
I put AI coding tools against real engineering problems to see where they help, where they break, and what still needs a human engineer.
Series · 5 parts
PHP vs Node, React vs HTMX, Java vs C#: languages and frameworks compared on speed, upkeep and where each one actually fits.
01Wikipedia can work with no internet at all. A plain-language story of how offline Wikipedia reaches schools and clinics, why choosing the articles is the hard part, and what building OfflineShelf taught me about lists, change and giving credit.
6 minThe Engineering Logs
02How I built OfflineShelf on my own: a Flask and React app that helps schools, libraries and clinics without reliable internet choose which Wikipedia articles to carry offline, keep that choice up to date, and export it for a USB stick or the Kiwix apps.
11 minThe Engineering Logs
03A plain-language story about testing a university admissions website with fourteen imaginary people, from a careless applicant to a would-be hacker, and the real bugs they found that I never would have.
7 minThe Engineering Logs
04How I turned what I learned in my XCL Technologies internship into Ahmer Institute of Technology: a university website with applicant, student, teacher, staff and admin portals, safe file uploads, Docker, and 58 end-to-end tests that found real bugs.
8 minThe Engineering Logs
05When you buy a share, you don't own it the moment you click. A plain-language story of trade settlement, T+1 and T+2, why holidays in two countries can push a payment back a day, and what building MarketClock taught me about dates that have a history.
4 minThe Engineering Logs
06How I built MarketClock on my own: a Flask and Next.js app that tells traders and back offices whether 30 stock exchanges are open, when they close early and when a trade settles, and that links every fact it stores to the page it came from.
9 minThe Engineering Logs
07Why 'is this a working day?' breaks so much software: weekends that differ by country and change over time, holidays that follow the moon, time zones that disagree about today, and the habits that kept my own date logic honest while building HolidayOps.
5 minThe Engineering Logs
08How I built HolidayOps on my own: a Django and React platform that tells payroll, HR and logistics teams whether any date is a working day in any country, with company calendars, iCal feeds, signed webhooks and a public site that needs no JavaScript.
9 minThe Engineering Logs
