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I'm currently building my own interpreted programming language with Go. This is the start of many dev logs.

This month, our attendance management system hit 900,000 attendance events only 1 year after its inception. While we bask in our accomplishment it’s easy to forget the rough start the founder…

The script (which is around ~200 lines) has three main functions: getting the HTML of the Medium post, turning it into a proper DOM, and traversing the DOM, changing elements of it into Markdown. So…

On November 4th, 2019 we created a digital assistant for Meddy to just send notifications when certain events triggered. We called him Bandar. One year later and Bandar is now doing all sorts of…

Engineers do not focus on the bigger picture. They want to develop perfect solutions for controlled environments when reality is a lot more gritty.

Meddy was founded in 2016 and has since had a lot of success thanks to the scale it hit. In 2019 we celebrated our 100,000th bookings and 3 millionth user served, on top of a Series A funding ⚡🔌️…

I got the chance to set up Meddy’s new blog Hakeem (🔌🔌) which is a multilingual blog that exists in Arabic as well as English. Though there have been multiple posts about setting up a multilingual…

Earlier I wrote about why you should set up your own VPN server. It comes down to three reasons: speed, security and price. If you’re convinced that you should set up your own VPN, here’s how. Follow…

Hello there 👋! I usually write more technically detailed blog posts, but I wanted to write one that can be read by just about anyone. I decided to make my own VPN and I think you should too. I’ve…

Software Entomology is a series of posts dedicated to dissecting several nasty bugs encountered by yours truly. This is parallel to a real entomologist dissecting real life bugs with the exception of…

I wrote a post previously about using SCSS to help you manage code for Arabic web pages. I’ve ran into a couple problems that I was able to solve with absolute elegance. If anyone reading this post…

When building a product that is constantly growing in terms of usage and features, it is sometimes tough to stop and optimize your code to take up less queries/memory/processing power/magic. Here at…

I study in a university full of brilliant people that have the ability to create a plethora of incredibly astonishing things. I was at liberty to work in many small companies that had very inspiring…

In the summer of 2015, my friends and I came up with BuzzCast, a revolutionary new way of discovering events online (you have absolutely no idea how many times I’ve said that). Simply put, BuzzCast…

Note: I wrote another post with a better method for translating your front end to Arabic, you might want to check it out. Whilst working in Meddy, I had the privilege to be part of transforming the…

Hi, my name is Yasser El-Sayed and I’ve been interning as a Software Engineer at Meddy since mid May of this year. When I first came to Meddy I was pretty impressed with the amount of users they…

As an introverted child that grew up in Qatar, I spent most of my time on the internet browsing creative online content mainly on Reddit and YouTube. For a movie loving child that head to the cinema…