Now
What I'm doing right now
Last updated August 1, 2026. This is a now page.
Building
This site — abdalla.blog. The interesting part isn't the articles yet, it's the platform: an MDX content pipeline with a real admin, WebSocket-driven reader signals, and enough production hardening that I'd trust it the way I'd trust something I shipped at work.
Learning
Going deeper on distributed systems fundamentals — consensus, replication, and the failure modes that only show up at scale — and how much of that theory actually needs to inform day-to-day backend work.
Exploring
How AI-assisted engineering changes the shape of a codebase over time, not just the speed of writing it. What stays a human judgment call, and what genuinely doesn't need to be anymore.