Hi, I'm Hussain.

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

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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.

The hidden trap in Terraform's S3 backend (and why Cloudflare breaks it)3-Aug-2026

Why terraform init threw SignatureDoesNotMatch through Cloudflare Tunnels, and what AWS SDK v2 is doing behind the scenes.

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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.