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  • Barjeel — Checking UAE Property Prices Against What Actually Sold

    I was looking at property to invest in and couldn't tell a good asking price from a hopeful one. So I built a tool that pulls listings, compares them with government-recorded sales, and scores every deal from 0 to 100. Here's how it works and what it found.

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  • Home Lab '22 — A Small Server That Holds the Whole Family's Photos

    In 2022 I built a home server for about AED 4,300: three 6 TB drives in RAID 5, Proxmox for isolation, and the services my family actually uses. Here's the hardware, the reasoning, and what I'd tell myself before starting.

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  • One Chat to Run It All — How My AI Assistant Is Put Together

    I wanted one interface for everything — email, memory, research, reminders, my job search — and that interface had to be a chat. Here's the architecture behind it, the decisions that held up, and the ones I had to undo.

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  • Building a Personal AI Chief of Staff — Notes From a Real Engagement

    I run a self-hosted AI chief-of-staff for myself. A friend who runs deal-flow at a family office asked for one. Here's the architecture, the build plan, and the design decisions that actually matter.

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  • Owning Your Social Graph Without Scraping

    I linked my Instagram followers and following to my personal CRM, classified 900 accounts into topical buckets, and built an unfollow workflow — using only official data exports. No scraping, no API abuse, no account risk.

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