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
MD Kanban
A kanban board where every card is a markdown file on your disk, built so you can watch what an AI coding agent is doing without asking it. Each connected folder is a project, each subfolder groups work, and each task is one `.md` file whose YAML frontmatter holds status, priority, assignee, due date and labels. Dragging a card between columns rewrites the file, and the agent edits the same files from its side. That is the whole design: Jira and Linear keep state behind an API, so an agent needs credentials and a connector before it can move a card, while a folder is something it can already write to. The repo ships the contract twice, as `AGENTS.md` for any agent and as a Claude skill, and tracks its own remaining build as task files inside itself. Vue 3, Vite, TypeScript and Tailwind v4 over the browser File System Access API, about 1,800 lines, MIT.
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.
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
Flatmark: query your markdown files like a database
Flatmark is a Node library that indexes a folder of markdown files and gives you a chainable query API over the frontmatter. Here's what it does, where it beats Velite and Astro content collections, and the four things I'd want fixed before shipping it.
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.
Build diary
What changed this week
All devlogs
Reload wiped the board, so the board keeps a snapshot
Reloading wiped all tasks because lapsed folder permission made the scan return nothing, and the board saved that nothing. Snapshots plus a reconnect banner fixed it.
electron-vite caps at Vite 7, so the shell got wired by hand
electron-vite caps at Vite 7 and the project runs Vite 8, so the Electron shell got wired by hand. Then came the white window, unsigned packaging, and an icon from the navbar glyph.
The theme preset was a packed integer
A shadcn-vue preset code turned out to be eleven bit-packed parameters. Decoding it by hand gave the exact theme, which forced the Tailwind v4 migration.
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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