Senior and lead software engineer
Abdulkader Safi, software engineer in Kuwait and Australia
Senior and lead software engineer at dsrpt, from Lebanon, working across Kuwait and Australia. Enterprise platforms during the week, open source most weekends. This is where all of it lives.
- packages published
- 5+
- plugins and extensions
- 10+
- projects shipped
- 50+
- packages and plugins downloads
- 3600+
What I ship with
- Laravel
- .NET
- Next.js
- React Native
- Appwrite
- PostgreSQL
Selected work
Things I built and shipped
All projects
AI Writing Rules
A Claude Code plugin that stops Claude writing like an AI. It loads a 270-word ruleset into every session, then runs a checker after every file write that flags the tells by line number and refuses to let the model move on. The rules come from 29 documented patterns, each researched into its own file with a measurable threshold: burstiness under 0.4 where human prose sits at 0.6 to 1.2, more than 20 em dashes per 1,000 words where humans use 3.2 to 10, more than one polished three-item list per 200 words. The checker is 17 regex rules and 3 statistical ones in Python with no dependencies. Tested against a sample with 14 planted tells, it caught all 14, stayed silent on clean prose, and found a real tricolon in the research files themselves.
Vouch
A hiring platform for Kuwait and the GCC, designed from a blank page around one promise: every job here is real, and every employer answers. 82 screens and 642 prototype links across a 15 page website at two breakpoints, an 18 screen mobile app, and 29 dashboard screens covering job seeker, employer and internal admin. The position comes from the data on ghost jobs rather than from features, and the whole system runs on four variable collections that switch theme and language.
Filament Atelier
A visual page builder for Laravel, shipped as a Filament plugin. Developers define blocks in code, clients arrange them and watch the real page update as they type.
Services
What I take on
All services-
01
Mobile Application Development
With 6+ years of hands-on mobile and full-stack development experience, I build apps that go beyond a good-looking prototype — they're engineered to perform, retain users, and grow with your business.
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02
Freelance Web Developer
Six years building production websites and web applications. You get one experienced developer, direct, and clean code you own at the end.
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03
Obsidian Plugin Development
Your team runs on Obsidian and it does almost everything you need. I build the part it's missing, and I have a plugin that passed Obsidian's public review.
Writing
Things I wrote
All writing
Moving from Vercel to Hetzner with Coolify: the guides are quoting dead prices
Almost every "move from Vercel to Hetzner with Coolify" guide was written in 2025. Hetzner raised cloud prices twice in 2026, and the exact server those guides name now costs 144% more. Here are the real numbers and the plan to pick instead.
AI made writing code cheap. Review is still expensive
Teams merged 98% more PRs this year and review time went up 91%. The bottleneck moved from writing code to approving it, and most teams haven't noticed.
I replaced Spotlight with Raycast, then replaced Raycast with look
I moved from Spotlight to Raycast to fix app launching, then moved to look because Raycast's file search kept getting in my way. Here is the honest trade.
Build diary
What changed this week
All devlogs
The homepage was last, and it found the bug that mattered
Converting home to blocks and handing `/` fully to Atelier surfaced a bug of my own making: the page whose slug is the special `home` one resolves correctly at `/`, but the URL builder used everywhere else, including the sitemap, builds `/home` instead.
Six pages into blocks, and the rule was nobody notices
Contact and five listing pages moved from Blade views and controllers to Atelier blocks. The site was already live and indexed, so the constraint wasn't building a page builder, it was making sure nobody could tell it had happened.
Installing my own plugin on my own site broke the homepage first
Atelier alone, before converting a single page, silently took over `/` and `/sitemap.xml` on a site that already had both. `route('home')` threw `RouteNotFoundException` even though the route was still sitting in `web.php`. The docs said the opposite of what actually happens.
Free
Checklists I use on real work
All resourcesFree, one email field, and I will tell you exactly what lands in your inbox.
The 17-Point Self-Hosted Security Checklist
The exact checklist I run on every server before it touches the internet. Firewall, SSH, containers, secrets, and backups, with the commands. Free PDF.
16 Moves That Make Claude Code Work in a Large Codebase
The setup order behind Claude Code deployments that stick, from CLAUDE.md files through hooks, skills, plugins and LSP to subagents, with a 19-step start-here list. Free PDF.
The 36-Point SEO, GEO and AIO Checklist
Thirty-six checks for getting found in Google and in AI answers. Each one has a plain-English line, a free way to run it, and a link to its source. Plus the eight things sold as AI SEO that do nothing. Free PDF.
About
Responsible for whether it ships. Code is the smaller part of that.
I am a senior and lead software engineer at dsrpt, an Australian company working out of Kuwait and Australia.
Outside that I ship open source: an audit engine on npm, two Obsidian plugins, a CSS library with no build step, and a training app I built because the subscription ones would not give me my data back.
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