Hi, I'm Hussain.

A backend engineer focusing on minimal, highly-performant web architecture.

Blog

Flow Engineering: Making the Invisible Visible28-Sept-2026

A review of Flow Engineering by Steve Pereira and Andrew Davis — how collaborative mapping exercises help teams see constraints, build shared clarity, and focus on what actually matters.

Modern Software Engineering: The 2021 Book We Needed for the AI Era26-Aug-2026

A personal reflection on David Farley's Modern Software Engineering — why its principles of feedback, learning, and modular design are the essential foundation for the age of agentic coding, vibe coding, and AI software factories.

Solving Homelab Authentication: A Story of Cloudflare, Authelia, Keycloak, and Tinyauth6-Aug-2026

Installing an unauthenticated homelab tool sparked a deep dive into self-hosted authentication—exploring Cloudflare Access, Authelia, Pocket ID, Keycloak, and landing on Tinyauth with Nginx Proxy Manager.

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  • ansible-role-chezmoi

    A modern Ansible role for installing and initializing the chezmoi dotfiles manager.

  • chezmoi-dotfiles

    My personal dotfiles managed with chezmoi, featuring a modern terminal experience powered by Fish and Starship.