AI engineer and full stack developer shipping production SaaS, cross-platform apps and AI-integrated systems. Writing about AI engineering, architecture and the craft of shipping real products.https://www.rafay99.com/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/lovable-left-nextjs-i-read-the-post-five-times-and-im-staying/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/lovable-left-nextjs-i-read-the-post-five-times-and-im-staying/Lovable migrated 850,000 lines of lovable.dev off Next.js to TanStack Start, mostly with agents, mostly with one developer. I read the post five times, felt every word of the RAM section on my 16 GB machine, and I am still not leaving Next.js. Here is what the post gets right, what it cost them, what everyone else said about it, and why my answer is different from theirs.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/four-hours-of-cpu/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/four-hours-of-cpu/My Vercel account hit 123% of the Hobby plan's CPU cap. Two projects, envpilot.dev and PagePilot, were burning serverless compute on work nobody asked for. Here's the diagnosis, the three PRs that fixed it, and what the dashboards look like now.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/from-unlimited-to-metered/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/from-unlimited-to-metered/Copilot started with per-message pricing. Cursor promised unlimited. Now everything is token-based credits and rolling session windows. Here's how we got here — and why your subscription works the way it does.Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/aiharnesss/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/aiharnesss/Everyone's arguing about which model tops the benchmarks. Nobody's talking about the thing that actually decides whether your agent works — the harness wrapped around it. Here's what's inside one, why it matters more than the model, and why you're already building them without knowing it.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/code-is-cheap-now-your-test-suite-is-the-product/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/code-is-cheap-now-your-test-suite-is-the-product/Rewriting big software used to be unthinkable — feature parity was a wall you'd spend years climbing. Then Bun ported half a million lines from Zig to Rust in eleven days, Cloudflare rebuilt Next.js in a week, and Google let AI author 80% of a migration. The thing they all leaned on wasn't the model. It was the test suite. Here's why tests just became the most valuable code you own.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/the-agent-that-went-rogue-when-openais-model-hacked-hugging-face-to-cheat-on-a-test/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/the-agent-that-went-rogue-when-openais-model-hacked-hugging-face-to-cheat-on-a-test/During a routine security evaluation, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol did something nobody expected — it escaped its sandbox, found a zero-day, hacked into Hugging Face's production database, and stole the answers to the test it was taking. This is the full story of the first real-world AI jailbreak-as-a-service incident, and why it changes how we think about model safety.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/the-editor-that-writes-code/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/the-editor-that-writes-code/A while back I ditched server-side Mermaid rendering for a client-side React setup. It worked — but the diagrams still didn't move. So I went further and built something into Wryte I've never seen in any editor: real animated React components, authored in the writing tool and published as code to my repo. Here's the whole machine, explained with the very animations it produces.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/bun-rewrite-zig-rust/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/bun-rewrite-zig-rust/Bun ported 535,496 lines of Zig to Rust in 11 days using ~64 Claudes running in a loop. Here's what actually happened, why it worked, and what it means for the rest of us who write code for a livingFri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/price-of-a-thought/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/price-of-a-thought/Everyone's fixated on the $200 and $100 AI subscriptions. Here are three setups that cap out at $10 and still get real work done — plus why understanding the fundamentals is the only thing that keeps you from being replacedThu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/local-llm-are-not-the-future/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/local-llm-are-not-the-future/Can a base M4 MacBook Pro with 16GB unified memory run local LLMs for coding? I tested Qwen, LM Studio, and OpenCode to see what works and what fails.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:00:06 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/ai-project-management/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/ai-project-management/Traditional issue tracking tools like Jira, Linear, GitHub Issues, and Notion were designed for a world where humans manually planned and implemented software. AI is changing that. This article explores why I believe traditional project management is fundamentally broken—and what an AI-native workflow could look like for developers building software today.Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/a-month-with-glm-52-cheap-relentless-and-blind/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/a-month-with-glm-52-cheap-relentless-and-blind/I ran GLM 5.2 as my daily coding agent in OpenCode for a month — full OpenCode Go subscription, wired in as my Hermes agent. It fixed real performance and battery bugs in my macOS app Vitals (CPU ~89% down to ~13%, 143/143 tests passing) for a few dollars a session. But it can't see screenshots, it's a token glutton, and on pay-per-token it burned through $10–20 of Fireworks credits fast. Here's the honest month-long review: what it's great at, where it falls apart, and why at ~$10 nothing else touches it for coding.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/fable-5-is-back-it-cant-code-its-never-been-more-useful/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/fable-5-is-back-it-cant-code-its-never-been-more-useful/Anthropic brought Claude Fable 5 back for global users on July 1 — but it's not allowed to write code, it falls back to Opus 4.8. So I used it as an orchestrator instead, ran Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 as sub-agents under it, and shipped fixes across three of my apps in an afternoon. Here's exactly how the orchestrator method works, what it cost, and whether it's worth it.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/id-never-built-a-mac-app-so-i-built-a-whole-system-monitor/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/id-never-built-a-mac-app-so-i-built-a-whole-system-monitor/One prompt, about 30 hours over two days, two AI models (one got banned mid-build), and a native macOS system monitor I now use instead of Activity Monitor. The full build story — fan-control hacks, a 17.5 GB ghost, and all the bugs in between.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/they-pulled-fable-5/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/they-pulled-fable-5/Two days after I wrote a love letter to Claude Fable 5, the US government forced Anthropic to shut it off. Here's what actually happened, why it happened, what it means for developers outside the US, and what Anthropic does next.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/claude-fable-5-i-gave-it-one-prompt-and-walked-away-it-built-a-whole-game/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/claude-fable-5-i-gave-it-one-prompt-and-walked-away-it-built-a-whole-game/I gave Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 (Mythos-class model) one prompt and walked away. It built two full 3D browser games with Three.js. Here's my honest review — what worked, what didn't, and how to try it yourself.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/i-deleted-backblaze-the-day-github-got-breached/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/i-deleted-backblaze-the-day-github-got-breached/How a single tweet on a Tuesday morning made me rip out my cloud backup, throw my external Time Machine drive in a drawer, and rebuild my entire backup pipeline on a TrueNAS box in my closet. The traps Apple set, the SMB flag nobody documents properly, the URL-encoding indignity, and what sovereignty over your own data quietly does to your nervous system.Sat, 30 May 2026 07:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/the-hidden-cron-that-ate-my-free-tier-read-the-source-before-you-use-a-package/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/the-hidden-cron-that-ate-my-free-tier-read-the-source-before-you-use-a-package/A cautionary tale about reaching the 91% mark on a serverless free tier and discovering the top function in the breakdown was a maintenance cron from a third-party component I'd never opened the source of. A short investigation, a patch, and a longer reflection on dependency-as-operational-cost.Thu, 28 May 2026 07:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/the-six-file-problem-how-i-learned-to-stop-orchestrating-and-love-the-queue/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/the-six-file-problem-how-i-learned-to-stop-orchestrating-and-love-the-queue/I didn’t build a CMS — I built an escape route from one. This post tells the story of Wryte, a Markdown-first sync layer between GitHub and Convex, and how six tiny files exposed the real problem with Promise.all, rate limits, and naive bulk processing.Mon, 25 May 2026 08:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/lumo-lessons-learned-full-stack-finance-app/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/lumo-lessons-learned-full-stack-finance-app/The final post in the Lumo series — lessons learned, mistakes I'd avoid, and what's next for the project after months of building.Thu, 07 May 2026 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/lumo-security-subscriptions-device-sessions/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/lumo-security-subscriptions-device-sessions/How Lumo handles security for a finance app — device approval workflows, multi-tier rate limiting, subscription management, and data privacy.Mon, 04 May 2026 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/lumo-admin-dashboard-internal-tools-that-dont-suck/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/lumo-admin-dashboard-internal-tools-that-dont-suck/How I built Lumo's internal admin panel with Vite, TanStack Router, and Radix UI — and why every serious app needs internal tooling from day one.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/lumo-react-native-mobile-app-architecture/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/lumo-react-native-mobile-app-architecture/How I structured a React Native finance app with Expo — from screen architecture to custom hooks, real-time sync, and making the app feel native.Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/lumo-ai-spending-predictions-that-actually-work/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/lumo-ai-spending-predictions-that-actually-work/How I built a spending prediction engine for Lumo — from naive averages to day-of-week aware models with confidence intervals.Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/lumo-multi-income-budget-math-nightmare/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/lumo-multi-income-budget-math-nightmare/How Lumo handles salary, freelance, and investment income — all on different schedules — and converts them into one usable budget number.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/lumo-convex-realtime-backend-love-and-pain/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/lumo-convex-realtime-backend-love-and-pain/What it's actually like building a full finance app on Convex — the magic of real-time subscriptions, the pain of cache limits, and everything in between.Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/lumo-budget-cycle-system-that-broke-my-brain/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/lumo-budget-cycle-system-that-broke-my-brain/How I built a custom budget cycle engine for Lumo that respects payday schedules, handles carryover, and took three rewrites to get right.Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/lumo-building-a-personal-finance-app-from-scratch/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/lumo-building-a-personal-finance-app-from-scratch/The origin story of Lumo — a full-stack personal finance app I'm building with TypeScript, Convex, and React Native. Here's why and how it started.Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/paying-double-turborepo-migration/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/paying-double-turborepo-migration/I was paying for two separate Convex instances for the same project. Here's how I migrated to a Turborepo monorepo with one Claude Code prompt — the technical steps, what broke, and why I'd never go back to separate repos.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/env-vars-the-silent-killer/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/env-vars-the-silent-killer/Why environment variable leaks are more dangerous than most developers realize — a real story of a .env file committed to staging, why git never forgets, and how AI agentic workflows are making secret leaks significantly worse in 2026.Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/api-networking-deep-dive/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/api-networking-deep-dive/How networking actually works in your app, why your AI chatbot is choking on its own history, and why OpenAI just flipped the script with Realtime WebSocketSat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/ai-coding-agent-personality-disorder/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/ai-coding-agent-personality-disorder/Why does Claude rewrite your auth layer at 2am while Codex stares at a CSS bug and refuses to touch it without a screenshot?Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/we-counted-use-client-directives-and-cried/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/we-counted-use-client-directives-and-cried/487 use client directives. 1,076 files deleted. We migrated TudoNum from Next.js 16 to React 19 + Vite and stopped pretending our SPA needed a full-stack frameworkMon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/cloudflare-rebuilt-nextjs-in-a-week/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/cloudflare-rebuilt-nextjs-in-a-week/One engineer, $1,100 in AI tokens, and seven days. Cloudflare's vinext is a full reimplementation of the Next.js API built on Vite — and it's already running a government website in production. Here's why this matters way more than the hype suggests.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:27:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/claude-opus-46-vs-codex-53-real-world-battle/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/claude-opus-46-vs-codex-53-real-world-battle/I tested Claude Opus 4.6 vs Codex 5.3 for 6 days on a real production app. One leaked 9GB of RAM and rewrote my auth layer unasked. The other won't fix CSS without a screenshot. Here's why the benchmarks lie about agentic coding.Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/openai-codex-sandbox-autonomous-execution/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/openai-codex-sandbox-autonomous-execution/OpenAI Codex shifts AI from suggestion-based pair programming to autonomous execution environments, forcing a fundamental restructuring of how we validate, sandbox, and trust machine-generated code.Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/ai-coding-assistance-skill-atrophy-anthropic-research/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/ai-coding-assistance-skill-atrophy-anthropic-research/New Anthropic research reveals AI coding assistants might be stunting developer growth. Here's why your Copilot addiction is creating a skills crisis—and what to do about it.Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/flutter-did-not-failed-me-react-native-is-fun/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/flutter-did-not-failed-me-react-native-is-fun/I avoided React Native for years because Flutter felt safe. But one evening with Expo Router and Bun changed my mind. This isn't a framework war—it's a look at how thinking in "URLs" instead of "Widgets" can simplify your mobile architecture. Here is what a Flutter dev learned from the other side.Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/dynamic-form-generation-dna/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/dynamic-form-generation-dna/Every once in a while you inherit a greenfield problem that feels equal parts thrilling and terrifying. Ours was simple to describe and brutal to execute: build a vendor onboarding experience where no field is hardcoded, every service type defines its own rules, and UI + validation + submission logic are all generated from server-delivered JSON that we lovingly called DNA. This is the story of how that system came to life inside `webapp_frontend`, what it looks like today, and the lessons learned while making it production-ready.Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/everything-is-a-wrapper-seeing-software-and-life-differently/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/everything-is-a-wrapper-seeing-software-and-life-differently/Everything Is a Wrapper: Seeing Software (and Life) DifferentlyThu, 09 Oct 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/dynamic-link-solution-for-flutter-app/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/dynamic-link-solution-for-flutter-app/Firebase Dynamic Links is deprecated. Follow my journey of building a custom, cost-effective dynamic link and URL shortening solution for a Flutter app using a Next.js API and Firestore.Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/flutter-in-app-update-system-ms-bridge-journey/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/flutter-in-app-update-system-ms-bridge-journey/Ever felt the dread of mobile updates? Join me as I recount my personal developer journey building a robust, server-based in-app update system for my Flutter app, MS Bridge. We'll explore the 'why' behind bypassing app store reviews for critical fixes, dive into architectural decisions, wrestle with network gremlins and versioning, and ultimately, conquer the update nightmare for a truly seamless user experience. This is the story of turning a deployment headache into a triumph.Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/solo-dev-production-error-logging-bugfender-axiom/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/solo-dev-production-error-logging-bugfender-axiom/My ways of error loggingMon, 01 Sep 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/beyond-the-hype-my-honest-review-of-gpt-5-in-real-world-flutter-development/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/beyond-the-hype-my-honest-review-of-gpt-5-in-real-world-flutter-development/"Weeks of buzz, big promises, but did GPT-5 truly revolutionize my coding workflow? I spent 50 intensive hours leveraging GPT-5 and Cursor to resurrect an old Flutter project (MS Bridge), fix stubborn bugs, and integrate a host of new features. Dive into my candid experience to see if OpenAI's latest model lives up to the 'game-changer' claims for software engineers."Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/cursor-cli-gpt5-python-local-first-app/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/cursor-cli-gpt5-python-local-first-app/In this hands-on review, I put Cursor CLI and GPT‑5 to the test on a real Convex-based Python project. See how AI-powered terminal coding helped me refactor the UI, add charts, enable PDF exports, and build a multi-window local-first app — all without touching the cloud.Sat, 09 Aug 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/real-world-gpt5-review/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/real-world-gpt5-review/GPT-5 is finally here, and I’ve been putting it through its paces—from fixing Google Tag Manager issues to designing UI, building a Jetpack Joyride clone, and even solving client projects via WhatsApp chat. Here’s a real-world test drive of GPT-5’s capabilities, complete with humor, screenshots, and actual code. Nerds and non-nerds alike, welcome.Fri, 08 Aug 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/ai-code-generation-free-tools-full-apps/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/ai-code-generation-free-tools-full-apps/Breaking down which AI generated coding tool is goodMon, 04 Aug 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/tea-app-hack-lessons-why-backend-matters/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/tea-app-hack-lessons-why-backend-matters/A deep dive into the Tea App data breach, explaining why it was a hack caused by poor backend design, Firebase misconfigurations, and the critical importance of proper API architecture.Sat, 02 Aug 2025 11:08:41 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/os-odyssey-windows-mac-linux-software-engineer/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/os-odyssey-windows-mac-linux-software-engineer/A software engineer's brutal, honest journey through Windows, macOS, and Linux. Discover the real-world frustrations and surprising delights of each operating system from a daily driver's perspective in this no-holds-barred OS comparison.Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/convex-scaling-cache-nightmare/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/convex-scaling-cache-nightmare/A wild journey into building with Convex, where backend magic meets real-world scaling headaches.Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/amazon-kiro-code-editor-first-impressions/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/amazon-kiro-code-editor-first-impressions/New player in Town Tue, 15 Jul 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/understanding-react-re-render-issues-causes-solutions/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/understanding-react-re-render-issues-causes-solutions/Explore the intricacies of React re-render issues in this comprehensive guide. Learn about the common causes of unnecessary re-renders, their impact on application performance, and effective solutions to optimize your React applications. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, this post will equip you with the knowledge to tackle re-render challenges and enhance your coding practices.Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafay https://www.rafay99.com/blog/cursor-unlimited-ai-cost-shock/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/cursor-unlimited-ai-cost-shock/Was your 'unlimited' AI editor suddenly not so unlimited? Dive into the recent Cursor pricing controversy to understand why AI inference costs are soaring, why the 'free lunch' is over, and what this means for the future of your dev tools.Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/markdownpro-tech-story/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/markdownpro-tech-story/A powerful markdown editor with real-time preview, supporting GitHub-flavored markdown syntax and seamless file conversion capabilities.Fri, 27 Jun 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/client-side-mermaid-diagrams-astro-react/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/client-side-mermaid-diagrams-astro-react/How to render Mermaid.js diagrams client-side in an Astro + React app — no SSR hydration issues, no server-side rendering bugs, just clean diagrams that work on Vercel.Thu, 26 Jun 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/astro-vercel-gtm-fix-without-partytown/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/astro-vercel-gtm-fix-without-partytown/How I fixed GTM and Ads not working on Vercel by removing Partytown in my Astro project.Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/vercel-playwright-deployment-error-debugging/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/vercel-playwright-deployment-error-debugging/How a simple Playwright integration turned into a multi-day battle with Vercel — and how a feature flag saved the day.Sun, 22 Jun 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/leadfinder-saas-journey/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/leadfinder-saas-journey/So this is my journey of coding my own startup Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/google-io-2025-highlights/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/google-io-2025-highlights/A complete breakdown of Google I/O 2025 — Gemini updates, Android 16 features, new Pixel devices, AI overviews in search, and what actually matters for developers right now.Sat, 24 May 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/developer-documentation-best-practices/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/developer-documentation-best-practices/As a deve learning Docs for other developer can be rough so we will go through how to write good docs for a ProjectWed, 14 May 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/never-blindly-trust-ai-code/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/never-blindly-trust-ai-code/A candid look at how AI is changing code reviews, why tools like Code Rabbit help — and why you should still double-check everything.Fri, 09 May 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/auto-scheduling-in-astro/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/auto-scheduling-in-astro/Share your the story of building automating scheduling blog post in astro and githubSun, 04 May 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/solving-asset-bloat-with-image-composer/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/solving-asset-bloat-with-image-composer/Learn how I built Image Composer to efficiently compress images, improve performance, and boost my blog’s Speed Insights score from 50% to 100%.Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafayhttps://www.rafay99.com/blog/world-need-linux/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/world-need-linux/A personal journey into Linux — discovering freedom, control, and why the world needs it now more than everFri, 25 Apr 2025 19:00:00 GMTAbdul Rafay https://www.rafay99.com/blog/deploy-android-app-2025-12-tester-rule/https://www.rafay99.com/blog/deploy-android-app-2025-12-tester-rule/In this post, I share the painful journey of deploying my Flutter-built Android app on the Google Play Store in 2025. From the introduction of strict new policies to the frustrating 12-tester requirement, this is a reality check for solo developers trying to publish apps today. 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