Ahmad Alfy

Early in my career I had an idea I thought was obvious.

LLM-assisted frontend work has a particular failure mode.

There are three ways an engineer learns about Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).

A developer rant about tools built for one kind of internet Recently, I’ve been losing my mind to hardcoded timeouts.

Couple of weeks ago when I was publishing The Hidden Cost of URL Design I needed to add SQL syntax highlighting.

When we architected an e-commerce platform for one of our clients, we made what seemed like a simple, user-friendly decision: use clean, flat URLs.

A friend called me last week.

As developers, we’re constantly bombarded with the latest and greatest tools.

Or: Why being a valuable engineer means thinking beyond the technical requirements It started with a vulnerability report.

Historically, we could link to a certain part of the page only if that part had an ID.