Ali Raza

Every serious AI coding setup has a hidden layer underneath the model.

I spent two years prompting LLMs before I found DSPy.

There’s a moment every developer has felt.

I wrote about phntm.sh a few weeks ago.

A few months ago I wrote that we gave up file ownership without noticing.

I’ve been vibe coding for the better part of a year.

I built a multi-agent system because I could.

There was a time when we controlled our data.

Sometimes I hate the fact that I was born in Pakistan… well, not sometimes, just whenever my visa gets rejected for no clear reason.

Ever watched someone solve a tough problem while pacing, scribbling half-sentences, muttering “carry the two…” under their breath?

I’ve launched All Things Devcast, my new podcast diving deep into the world of artificial intelligence and software development.

One of the coolest things I learned in 2024 was DSPy 1.

Writing Python code is easy, but writing Pythonic code?

Recently, I was presented with an intriguing challenge by a client.

I have a deep love for Markdown .It’s the magical tool that turns plain text into beautifully formatted documents.

I’ve been quietly working on a personal challenge: 100 days of AI.

The Inspiration Spark Picture this: I’m on a flight to Karachi, a megacity I’ve always felt a connection to, when it hits me.

I recently launched Zenpad, inspired by my search for a distraction-free writing tool that’s straightforward yet powerful.

Like a RKO out of nowwhere, OpenAI has unveiled Sora, a AI model designed to transform text instructions into realistic and imaginative video scenes.

I found out about crew ai some time ago.

A long time ago I was part of a competition where people were presenting and building some great ideas.

While experimenting with building my own GPTs, I stumbled upon a fascinating idea.

This year marked the 10th anniversary of the Code for All, a premier gathering for civic tech enthusiasts worldwide.

Recently, I had a small argument with a colleague who suggested that one of our developers should determine whether a request failed or succeeded based on the returned string—specifically, whether it was empty or not.

In the grand tradition of friendly banter among developers, I embarked on a journey to create a tool that could generate light-hearted, non-offensive insults for programmers.

If you are like me and need a quick way to spin up a PostgreSQL instance with PG admin, here is a docker compose file that you can use to do that. version: '3' services: db: image: postgres:15 restart: always env_file: - .env port…

I recently tweeted a thread about this but just in case adding them all here as well.

I have worked with docker for over 7 years now and I still get confused about the difference between environment variables and arguments.

Rediscovering iOS Development: From Objective-C to SwiftUI I ws a iOS developer in a past life who started his career more than eight years ago, I have seen firsthand the remarkable evolution of the iOS ecosystem.

I am working on something very cool these days.

Vue 3 has some cool new features, including “inject” and “provide”, which allow you to share data between parent and child components without having to pass it down as props.

Position: Mean Stack Developer (Full-time) Experience : 2+ years Location : Islamabad, Pakistan (Remote) Job Description A flexible, proactive attitude to work and must have an Agile mindset.

I came across this really interesting experiment by A.E Studio.

I have loved the ethereum ecosystem ever since its inception.

Docker is a containerization platform that allows us to deploy our applications inside a container and then we can easily ship that container anywhere.

Pakistan has been hit by the worst flood ever this year.

Photo by CDC on Unsplash

Happy 2020 Too!

You just built your uber cool jekyll site.

I am planning to make a fund to help engineers like me who can afford an Xbox but are not being allowed to buy one.

While searching for something entirely different we came across a discussion on quora that prompted us to think, why can’t any of us remember our national anthem?

So Recently at Code for Pakistan our VP Tech. made it abundantly clear that we ought to watch Uncle Bob’s clean code video lectures.

Have you ever wondered what you can do more for your city?

Some unique and exciting circumstances require us to redeploy gov.uk for a government stakeholder.

I’ve been getting into time-series databases over the past few months.