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 →My 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...
Read MoreAug 7, 2026Your WordPress Site Is Invisible to AI Assistants. Here’s the Fix!
A hands-on review of Agentimus — the all-in-one AI-readiness plugin for WordPress, and an honest look at what it can and can’t do.The Problem: Built for Humans, Read by MachinesChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Googlebot don’t browse your site the way a person does. They fetch robots.txt, JSON-LD, markdown, link indexes, and stitch together an understanding of who you are and what you publish from those signals alone.Most WordPress sites weren’t built with that in mind. They’re HTML-first, and their capabilities...
Read MoreJul 4, 2026HTTP Finally Gets a Method It’s Needed for Decades: Meet QUERY
Reference: RFC 10008 — The HTTP QUERY Method, IETF, June 2026.The IETF published RFC 10008 this month, standardizing a new HTTP method called QUERY. It gives API designers a formal way to send large, structured, read-only requests without reaching for POST.The Problem It SolvesDevelopers have historically had two imperfect options.GET is safe, idempotent, and cacheable. But query parameters live in the URL, size limits vary across uncoordinated proxies, and request URIs are more likely to be logged than request bodies....
Read MoreJun 23, 2026Virtual Try-On in 2026: How CatVTON and IDM-VTON Work, What I Learned on a MacBook M1 Pro, and How…
Virtual Try-On in 2026: How CatVTON and IDM-VTON Work, What I Learned on a MacBook M1 Pro, and How You Can Use Them TooCatVTON and IDM-VTON explained for shoppers and developers, with a case study: running CatVTON on FluentCart (WordPress) and a Python inference server.Virtual try-on (VTON) shows how a garment might look on your photo. IDM-VTON chases garment fidelity with a heavier pipeline; CatVTON is lighter and easier to host. I integrated CatVTON into FluentCart with a Flask server...
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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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