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Ammar Alakkad

@AmmarCodes
Muslim, Sr. Frontend Engineer @GitLab - Arabic: @AmmarXAlakkad
Istanbul
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    Ammar Alakkad
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    Apr 30
    I've been working on a searchable Arabic archive called "Damascus Chant" and just finished writing up the case study. If you're interested in things like RTL support, SSR, or map performance, you might find this useful.
    ammar.codes
    Damascus Chant | Ammar Alakkad
    A frontend engineering case study for an RTL Arabic archive with SSR, route-level SEO, a performant Leaflet map, and a searchable database of over 5,700 activities
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    Ammar Alakkad
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    Jun 25
    My 4G speed test in #Damascus is about 19Mbps speed.cloudflare.com/__preview?resu… #speedtest #cloudflare
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    Ammar Alakkad
    @AmmarCodes
    Jun 18
    With reviewing code becoming the new main role of software engineers, what are the latest/best tools to help with reviewing?
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    Ammar Alakkad
    @AmmarCodes
    May 27
    You can now add this skill to your AI coding agent to support tailwind classes and other stacks to better support RTL npx skills add AmmarCodes/rtl-web-development-skill ammar.codes/posts/teaching…
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    Ammar Alakkad
    @AmmarCodes
    May 25
    ~400 million people read Arabic, Persian, or Urdu. Most of the web wasn't built for them. The fix's been in Tailwind for years — ms-4 instead of ml-4, text-start instead of text-left. They auto-flip when dir="rtl" is set. But nothing enforces it, so nobody writes them
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    Ammar Alakkad
    @AmmarCodes
    May 25
    معظم تطبيقات الويب المولدة بالذكاء الصناعي تستخدم مكتبة Tailwind، لكن هذه التطبيقات المولدة أو حتى اليدوية عادة لا تستخدم طرق التصميم التي تدعم اتجاهين RTL/LTR. لا تظهر هذه المشاكل إلا عند التحويل بين اللغات (عادة في مراحل متقدمة من التطوير). يمكن لهذه الإضافة على eslint من
    @AmmarCodes
    Ammar Alakkad
    @AmmarCodes
    May 25
    ~400 million people read Arabic, Persian, or Urdu. Most of the web wasn't built for them. The fix's been in Tailwind for years — ms-4 instead of ml-4, text-start instead of text-left. They auto-flip when dir="rtl" is set. But nothing enforces it, so nobody writes them
    Image
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