Skip to main content
Skip to footer
I move fast &
Portfolio
My newest professional work
About
Ashraf works with optimism
Yay!
A place for fun experiments
Journal
SSDs Have Spoiled Me (and How a 22 TB Backup Drive is Teaching Me to Trim My Files)
Sun • 6/29/25
Thoughts
The Perils of Large File Transfers over Web Browsers (aka why WeTransfer is annoying me)
Sun • 6/29/25
Thoughts
WP Kontext Gen – Use Flux Kontext via Replicate Directly in your WP Dashboard
Sat • 6/28/25
Thoughts
PSA: Dropbox nukes your permissions if you use the Backup feature and macOS Tahoe Beta 1 or 2 (learn how to fix)
Wed • 6/25/25
Thoughts
Deep Research and the drive to create more private data moats
Thu • 2/27/25
Links
Not knowing what’s real anymore
Tue • 2/25/25
Links
The balance between roll-your-own and cloud infra
Thu • 2/20/25
Links
Web dev to software dev is a hell-bending minefield
Mon • 2/17/25
Links
I dream about 10Gbps Internet, impractical as it may be
Thu • 2/13/25
Thoughts
Get more context with in your AI with MCP, pronto
Tue • 2/11/25
Links