Ahmed
Building, exploring, growing.
- Posts
- 141 from 7 Aug 2017 to 14 Oct 2026
- Posting
- monthly (15 in the last year)
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- personal blog
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2026 14
- Courage is the rare part
- Using AI effectively is a mindset
- The best AI is the one you never talk to
- Portfolios in the age of AI
- Still have spare tokens? Use /autoresearch
- No pause button
- Words without meaning
- 10 years of blogging
- Text always wins
- Relying on AI
- Collaborating with agents in markdown
- A to-do list keeper for others
- Using AI isn’t all about code generation
- The gap is widening
2025 6
2024 1
2023 18
- Live in bubbles
- Diving Through Time: A 70-Year-Old’s Story of Endless Exploration
- Diving to -30m (-100ft) below the water surface
- Embarking on a 3-month sabbatical
- My one and only advice for building an online presence
- Online tools and trust
- Reader or Listener?
- The moment you open Twitter…
- Deferred sharing
- Unfinished business
- Bad days count more than the good ones
- 740-30-12
- Half marathon
- How I accomplished 100 projects with simple productivity methods
- The package vs the cheapest option
- Raise your hands
- You only need these 3 tools to be productive (and they are free)
- How to structure your life: The Entrepreneur, Manager, and Technician mindset.
2022 8
2021 18
- Get That Remote Job e-book, upcoming changes (still free)
- The beauty of cheap products
- A simple idea to reduce procrastination
- Adopting the PARA system
- Moving to TickTick from Todoist
- Inactivity is not the goal. Doing what excites you is.
- Why software engineers fail at building online businesses
- Articles I read at least once a month
- My recurring Todoist tasks
- Co-working in Casablanca
- Trying new apps
- A non-growing to-do list
- The incorrect idea of hustling
- Daily manifesto
- Stupid walk
- Lockdown lesson #2: Family first
- Getting paid to write
- Lockdown lesson #1: Reducing grocery waste
2020 46
- Anything you want by Derek Sivers. Extended book resume
- Remote.ma: from a blog to a platform
- Is it bad practice to choose your own document ID in Firestore or a NoSQL database?
- Acquiring my first Internet project: okjob.io
- Show Your Work by Austin Kleon. Extended book resume
- Why developers hate Ruby on Rails
- The day I accidentally built a nudity/porn platform
- The green presence dot
- Reversible decisions and tomato purée
- The timing is never right
- On being rich
- Doing a lot of things at once
- Why CEOs wake up at 5AM
- Writing daily for a month
- How to create a public portfolio when what you do is private or proprietary?
- Imaginary problems
- My problem with book summaries
- Transforming blog visitors to subscribers
- Taking digital notes from physical books
- Is all stress bad?
- A small thing every day
- Just ask
- Segmenting audience in Mailchimp
- Automattic’s creed
- The boring stuff
- The story behind killing Creative Africa
- How to know what’s better for you: A manager role or a senior role?
- Too much information
- Learning about Tags in online marketing
- Paperback books
- Taking notes
- Why do I keep building things?
- Learning about Groups in online marketing
- The clichés are all you need to know
- People are plastic
- Who is my audience?
- Accepting the norms
- The number 52
- Automation
- Why online marketing?
- Checklists
- Learning online marketing
- Blocking time for learning
- How to be a better Software Engineer
- I will teach you how to write a perfect resume, for free
- Love yourself ❤️
2019 23
- Action and motivation
- Casting stones
- Today’s discovery: a beautiful quote
- Lessons from the Getting Real book
- The cost of convincing somebody that something is good for them
- Pause, recharge, go
- Work happens outside of work, too
- My way of reading books
- The “reading more books” fallacy
- Either you accept it or change it
- 1 year working remotely
- Reward yourself
- Choose your friends wisely
- Be unique
- Shut up
- Be interesting
- Keep your ethics
- Years are only numbers
- Know what you want to do with your career
- The news will find you
- Everyone can do it, not everyone will do it
- Snoozing
- Starting a new blog