Building a Company Nobody Asked For
Starting Nayrix. No investors, no co-founder, no clue. Just a laptop and unreasonable confidence.
Thoughts
Notes on building software, navigating uncertainty, and the decisions that don't show up in a commit history.
UAE Changed My Default Settings
Moving to a country where 195 nationalities coexist rewires how you think about defaults, norms, and 'the way things are.'
2025: The Year I Stopped Asking Permission
Graduated. Moved countries. Started a company. None of it was planned. All of it was necessary.
Your Portfolio Is Lying to You
Your best work isn't in your portfolio. It's in the problems you solved that nobody saw.
Shipping Alone Hits Different
No standup. No Jira. No one to blame. Solo shipping is freedom wrapped in accountability.
The 3AM Clarity
The best decisions I've made happened at 3AM. Not because I was wise. Because I was too tired to overthink.
Arabic, Malayalam, and JavaScript
Three languages that read different directions. One brain that somehow compiles all of them.
Graduating Into Uncertainty
Everyone asks what's next. The honest answer: I don't know. And that's the most exciting thing I've ever said.
Robots That Code Better Than Me
AI just wrote my entire authentication system in 10 minutes. I'm not even mad, I'm impressed. Here's what I learned about working alongside our new robot overlords.
What I Got Wrong This Year
Spoiler alert: Almost everything. From thinking CSS-in-JS was the future to believing I could ship without testing. My biggest failures and what they taught me.
Why Every Icon Strategy Fails
We spend weeks debating icon libraries, only to end up with a Frankenstein's monster of SVGs, font icons, and random PNGs. The real problem isn't technical.
Breaking Things to Learn Them
The best way to understand how something works? Break it. Systematically. On purpose. Here's my guide to productive destruction in development.
Teaching Spreadsheet People to Dream
How do you convince someone who lives in Excel that they can build apps? It starts with showing them that code is just another kind of formula.
The Internet's Best Kept AI Secrets
While everyone argues about ChatGPT, there are dozens of AI tools quietly revolutionizing how we work. Here are the ones actually worth your time.
How I Built Nothing and Called It Content
Six months of 'content strategy' later, I realized I was just procrastinating with extra steps. Sometimes the best content is no content at all.
Click Here to Edit Reality
The moment I realized I could change anything on any website with developer tools was the moment I understood real power. Also, the moment I broke everything.
Why Great Feels Impossible
Good is easy. Great is terrifying. It requires admitting that everything you've built so far is just practice. Here's how I learned to embrace the terror.
Hiring Designers Who Actually Design
Too many 'designers' can't design. They can pixel-push and color-match, but ask them to solve a problem and they freeze. Here's how to spot the real ones.
From Bio Science to Bug Fixes
How studying cell mitosis prepared me for debugging React components. Plot twist: both involve things dividing when they shouldn't.
Talks That Nobody Remembers
I've given 47 presentations in my career. People remember exactly zero of them. Here's what I learned about actually connecting with an audience.
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