Mohamed Elashri

I am currently in the job market, so I receive some recruiter emails.

I recently read Fighting Illiteracy With Typography about Nasri Khattar's attempt to redesign printed Arabic.

A recent CERN announcement caught my attention.

I recently discovered the abogen audio generation tool that is using Kokoro TTS model to generate audio from text.

A few months ago, I thought finding my first industry job after a PhD would mostly be a translation problem.

Yesterday I re-subscribed to Kagi after a couple of months of trying out other search engines.

Yesterday I attended a talk by Bjarne Stroustrup on modern C++ at CERN (slides and recording are available).

On shared machines, clusters, or restricted servers, I often do not have root access.

I have an open source project called snipo which is a snippet manager for developers (and researchers).

Since the first I learned about DNS.

Allen is the LHCb HLT1 Trigger Software Framework.

Early this year, CERN IT department announced the availability of a pilot CERN VPN service, which allows users to securely access CERN resources from outside the CERN network.

I wrote about stripping metadata before sharing them and how it can be a privacy risk.

Padding on a GPU is easy to misunderstand because the word is used for several different mechanisms.

One of the most common privacy mistakes when sharing photos online is forgetting to remove hidden metadata.

Before sharing a link, look at the URL.

There is a recurring claim around Julia that it is the natural answer to the two-language problem in scientific computing.

If you are doing LHCb Run 2 analysis right now (in 2026, say), you will at some point need to run an old DaVinci version (v42r*, v45r*, etc.) through the current Ganga 8.x installation on lxplus.

I have a strange pattern with browser extensions.

I wanted to read a new book that was translated into Arabic recently.

There is a certain kind of security model that only works when you are single.