Software Engineer - Technical Writer
Nowshad Jawad
I build WordPress plugins and ship with Laravel, FastAPI, and Flask. Movie freak — always recommending films to friends and family. Love sharing tech finds too.
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All posts →Andrej Karpathy’s Advice for Better AI Writing Is Decades Old
An aircraft maintenance writing standard offers a useful lesson for AI: make explanations easier to understand, not longer than they need to be.AI can write a long explanation in seconds. That does not mean the explanation is easy to understand.A model can describe a simple change in five paragraphs. It can use three different names for the same component. It can also sound confident while leaving out the detail a reader needs to check its work.This creates a problem for...
Read MoreOct 22, 2026Claude Writes 90% of Its Own Code. So Who’s Reviewing It?
Anthropic says Claude now writes about 90% of Claude Code’s own code. Between June and September, merged pull requests more than doubled, while reverts fell by over 40%. Those are the company’s own numbers, so take them with a grain of salt, but the process behind them is worth studying.I watched Rob Shocks’ breakdown of Anthropic’s new code review approach and dug into the ideas behind it. Here’s what the Claude Code team actually does, what holds up, and what...
Read MoreOct 21, 2026I Shamelessly Copied a 200k-Install Plugin and Added the Feature I Actually Needed
A honest story about GPL, open source, and building QuickSwitch for WordPress plugin development, without waiting on anyone’s roadmap.I’m going to be blunt, because people reading this deserve the truth and the original author deserves the credit.There is a free, GPL-licensed WordPress plugin with over 200,000 active installs that lets you instantly switch between user accounts. It’s excellent! Battle-tested since 2009. Maintained by John Blackbourn, the same person behind Query Monitor and WP Control. Enterprise approved. Multisite-ready. WooCommerce-aware. Two-factor-auth compatible....
Read MoreAug 28, 2026My Meetings Run Through One Terminal Command Now: Courtesy of the Person Who Also Built the Andrej…
My Meetings Run Through One Terminal Command Now: Courtesy of the Person Who Also Built the Andrej Karpathy-Inspired LLM Wiki KitA look at Call Copilot, the macOS tool that records mic and system audio on your machine and hands you a transcript. No cloud, no plugin, no BlackHole.I take a lot of meeting notes. For months I split my attention between listening and typing, and I lost details every time. So I went looking for a recorder that would sit...
Read MoreAug 8, 2026A Forgotten Server Is Still Production: Security Lessons Every Engineering Team Should Learn
Infrastructure migrations are exciting. You replace aging systems, modernize your stack, improve performance, and switch traffic to the new environment. Once everything works, the migration feels complete. But many migrations aren’t actually finished, and sometimes the biggest security risk isn’t the new infrastructure at all. It’s the old one everyone stopped thinking about.Recently, WPManageNinja disclosed a supply chain security incident involving a legacy update server that stayed part of the update pipeline after an infrastructure migration. I won’t re-explain the...
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Case Studies
Selected work across AI automation, WordPress, and full-stack builds. Click a card for details.
Other Experience
Beyond the case studies above, most of my production work lives in Laravel, WordPress, and Python stacks — often simultaneously.
Laravel & PHP
- Charity platform — full org management with campaigns, zakat calculator, HRM, accounting, and CMS (Laravel + Vue.js)
- POS & inventory system with roles, permissions, stock adjustment, and reporting (Laravel + Blade)
- Immersive Brands — quotations, order flow, delivery tracking, and internal file manager
- Real estate, restaurant, and e-commerce platforms at Lilliput Digital
WordPress
- Fluent ecosystem plugins at AuthLab
- Gemini AI WordPress plugin — early admin AI integration
- Agent IDE rules for WordPress — Cursor/Claude skills for plugin dev
- REST API tooling for headless and hybrid WordPress apps
Python
- PVIS — Product Validation Intelligence System
- Jarvis — local automation agent
- FastAPI and Flask services for APIs and internal tooling
- Streamlit prototypes for quick data and ML demos
Frontend & Full-Stack
- Vue.js SPAs and dashboards — pixel-perfect Figma implementations
- Terminal portfolio experiment — command-line style site navigation
- TypeScript/React and Nuxt apps deployed on Vercel
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