Abdulmumin Yaqeen

Why running one background daemon per workspace falls apart, and how we rebuilt Chump into an in-process multi-tenant control plane.

Our server evicted agents with active HTTP requests and mailbox work because it confused no connections with no work.

cloud agents can write code while you sleep. very cool. now who is checking if any of it actually works?

A short reflection on the helplessness of witnessing the people of palestine suffer while carrying on as though nothing is wrong.

Our LLM was choosing workflow order, carrying state, and deciding what ran next.

A piece about the habit of treating hard work as the full explanation for success, and what that habit leaves out.

The concupiscent craves, the irascible strikes, the rational judges.

AI made making things cheap, so now everyone is trying to package taste too.

what is really cool is that i get to use most of what i build in other stuff i build

building chump, a coding agent on top of ai-query, to dogfood the framework and create a real feedback loop for improving how stateful ai agents work

Building a local tunneling tool from scratch — how I prototyped onlocal using WebSockets and Cloudflare Durable Objects before learning how the pros do it.

i made h-to-md, a tiny html to markdown converter that is stupid fast and doesn't make you bring a browser to the party.

like if you don’t really understand how a feature should behave, how state should transition, what should never happen… the agent will decide that for you.

i fell in love with hono because it was simple, then openapi showed up and made the whole thing feel less simple very fast.

so cloudflare just had their agent week, bunch of new drops and all, but i'm limited so i can only try out those that really did fire some neurons in my brain.

To love Allah is also to love what points to Him: the natural world, noble character, family ties, children, the Prophet, and all that Allah Himself loves

Owostack makes billing decisions on the request path.

When your favorite operating system, software program, or online service gets updated, it can take some getting used to.

building drshare, a dead-simple mac-to-android file sharing tool born out of frustration with whatsapp hogging resources just to move text between devices

The real reason some people are instantly likable

how ai-query's rpc layer lets agents talk to each other cleanly, with a registry and transport abstraction that makes agent location irrelevant to the calling code

sharing robert frost's road not taken — one of those poems that quietly stays in the mind and gets recited from memory without warning

discovering paper.design, a browser-based design tool that can snapshot website components straight into its canvas and uses html as its native layer model

why billing engines turn into a mess faster than teams expect — from leap years and pro-rating to retries, dunning, and usage-based counting that never stays simple for long

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s Revenge

a personal reflection on the pattern of abandoning projects too early, and coming to terms with the gap between self-perception and the reality of impatience

why svelte feels genuinely great — opinionated but not overwhelming, with primitives that make sense and code even ai agents struggle to get wrong

explaining the quiet spell on the blog — new responsibilities, spontaneous side projects, and writing over at thirdpen print instead of here

A small note on the kind of building energy Cloudflare infrastructure seems to unlock.

python does not ship the exact same thing by default, but i keep wanting the same idea anyway for ai-query.dev

People don’t like usage-based billing because they can’t predict it.

Ask what the number is before making it go up.

what it feels like to cross the sdk and server boundary in ai-query

forking autumnpricing to build a provider-agnostic usage-based billing engine, starting with paystack support but designed to work with any provider down the line

sharing refaat alareer's haunting poem, written before his death in gaza — a message about bearing witness and telling the story when the storyteller is gone

building resumable agent streams with redis — letting clients reconnect after network blips and continue reading agent logs exactly where they left off

Building an async RPC system in Python using a queue-based architecture — clients fire requests without waiting, and results are delivered when processing completes.

exploring thenables in javascript — custom awaitable objects that let you define exactly what happens when code hits an await, inspired by python coroutines

a quick look at cloudflare's cap'n web rpc system for browsers and web servers, and the stimulating hacker news discussion that followed its release

reflecting on nigeria's independence and the primacy of individual freedom under law — that it should matter more than parties, programs, and manifestos

a small quality of life improvement for thirdpen — making the discovery and learning experience just a bit smoother for curious minds

announcing thirdpen v2, a platform built for independent thinkers to discover and explore ideas — go discover something new

Google OAUTH is fairly easy to configure, and this article will be walking you through the entire process without using any packages, wrappers or helpers.

I built an analytics tool Littlestats, and this is the story of why I built yet another analytics tool (I know, I know - but stick with me here).

We're thrilled to welcome contributions from developers of all skill levels.

Subnets are used to group networks into smaller chunks in other to make addressing and traffic flow easier and smoother.