I'm Ali and I have a patent on blowing minds with epic design.

I started my journey when I was 8 years old with FrontPage. Moved on to Dreamweaver a few years later and finally learnt how to code. Over the last 20 years or so, I've played with dozens of technologies and programming languages before finally settling on the JavaScript ecosystem focusing on Node, and React Native.

During my career, I've worked with large enterprises, government organizations, Academy and Emmy award-winning filmmakers, e-sports teams, student groups, and everything in between, to help realize their ideas.

Are you looking for help building your next epic idea or product? Reach out and see if we can work together.

My writings

Going ham with Next.js

How far can you push Next.js? What can you build with it? Let's find out.

Dec 22, 2020

Geo queries with Prisma

Prisma doesn't support a lot of native types yet. So what's the workaround for PostGIS queries?

Oct 30, 2020

ESLint for new projects

A reference store of my ESLint configurations for new projects.

Oct 14, 2020

Corona times

It's been a long time since I posted anything. Time for a catch-up.

Jun 24, 2020

Prodo

Prodo is a name I used for an SMS API I built years ago. But that never panned out, so I repurposed it when I built a snippet manager last weekend.

Sep 29, 2019

PlanBear

I first built PlanBear with Ember and Cordova during a Hackathon. It's like Meetup for smaller and more spontaneous plans.

Sep 18, 2019

Building a website with Stitch and Next

I'm always trying to rebuild my blog with different tech to see what works best. This approach uses Stitch, Next.js, and React.

Sep 16, 2019

Surviving Azure Functions

My year with Azure Functions and how I survived.

Jul 3, 2019

Bijli

The past, present, and future of one of my oldest ideas.

May 19, 2019

Last two months

What I've been up to for the last two months and why I've abandoned all my goals.

May 17, 2019

Mittens

Mittens brings you push notifications from GitHub.

Mar 10, 2019

Getting started with React Native

Setting up React Native projects with CocoaPods can be tricky. Here are some of my tricks so you can avoid Xcode hell.

Mar 2, 2019

Goodbye, Metro

I shut down my first app ever. A story of being outdone.

Feb 6, 2019

Building WoWdb

WoWdb is a mobile World of Warcraft database. It's built with React, React Native, Fastify, MongoDB, and hosted on Render.

Jan 17, 2019

Picking a location with React Native

A performance-oriented approach to let users pick their location on a map.

Jan 7, 2019

Building a website with Prismic

How I rebuilt my website using Prismic, a headless CMS, and React.

Jan 6, 2019

My works

Acorn

Acorn is a mobile app to browse Reddit with a focus on speed and simplicity

Built with Expo

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Workcraft

Workcraft uses AI to speed up your recruitment efforts. It helps you create a job specification, evaluate candidates, schedule interviews, and more to shave valuable hours

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