Abdellatif Abdelfattah https://blog.abdellatif.io This is my portfolio RSS feed The Next Coding Interface is a Canvas https://blog.abdellatif.io/the-next-coding-interface-is-a-canvas IDE → Terminal → Canvas I've been experimenting this week with AI-native Figma alternatives like pencil.dev and paper.design. You describe the product, and t... Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Hackable Software https://blog.abdellatif.io/hackable-software I was using one of my favorite apps the other day (Tarteel) that I helped write, it was missing a feature I wanted. Instead of messaging the developers, I en... Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Always Do a Work Trial https://blog.abdellatif.io/always-do-a-work-trial I've hired many people over the past eight years, had my share of bad matches¹. I evolved my process quite a bit. A core part of what I do today is doing a "... Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Hacker News Front Page: what 26 hours of traffic got us https://blog.abdellatif.io/hackernews-front-page-26-hours-traffic How our RAG blog post accidentally went viral on Hacker News and what 26 hours on the front page taught us. Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents https://blog.abdellatif.io/production-rag-processing-5m-documents Lessons learned from building RAG systems for Usul AI and enterprise clients, processing over 13 million pages. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT My Next Chapter https://blog.abdellatif.io/usul-and-my-next-chapter Reflecting on building an AI search engine for over 15,000 classical Islamic texts and what comes next. Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT