Ahmed Hamza WritingTechnical notes, project retrospectives, and practical engineering writing.https://hamza.my.id/Why Chrome extension UI automation becomes whack-a-molehttps://hamza.my.id/writing/why-chrome-extension-ui-automation-is-whack-a-mole/https://hamza.my.id/writing/why-chrome-extension-ui-automation-is-whack-a-mole/Notes from building AI Studio Prompt Library: scoped MV3 messaging, layered DOM selectors, Angular form events, and user-controlled selector fallbacks.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy long-form TTS needs a queue, not repeated paste-and-generatehttps://hamza.my.id/writing/voxinfinity-browser-session-tts-queue/https://hamza.my.id/writing/voxinfinity-browser-session-tts-queue/How VoxInfinity turns Inworld AI's homepage TTS widget into a browser-session queue for books, articles, long notes, direct requests, and playback.Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy Naive RAG Fails for Coding Agents (And building AST-aware retrieval instead)https://hamza.my.id/writing/why-naive-rag-fails-for-coding-agents/https://hamza.my.id/writing/why-naive-rag-fails-for-coding-agents/Standard text splitting destroys code context. Notes on building Satori, moving past naive RAG, and enforcing deterministic tool contracts for MCP agents.Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy PromptReady needed an offline Markdown baseline firsthttps://hamza.my.id/writing/building-promptready-offline-first-markdown-capture/https://hamza.my.id/writing/building-promptready-offline-first-markdown-capture/How PromptReady moved past generic page cleanup by making local Markdown capture, source metadata, fallback selection, and AI cleanup boundaries explicit.Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhen local capture failed: empty shells, lazy pages, and fixture testshttps://hamza.my.id/writing/when-local-capture-failed-empty-shells-and-fixture-corpus/https://hamza.my.id/writing/when-local-capture-failed-empty-shells-and-fixture-corpus/Notes on turning PromptReady's weak page captures into explicit deep-capture policy, rendered fixtures, diagnostics, and repeatable no-network tests.Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy AI cleanup should not be the extraction enginehttps://hamza.my.id/writing/why-ai-cleanup-needed-an-offline-baseline/https://hamza.my.id/writing/why-ai-cleanup-needed-an-offline-baseline/How PromptReady changed AI cleanup from raw HTML rewriting into a quality-gated pass over a local Markdown baseline.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy semantic code search is not enough for coding agentshttps://hamza.my.id/writing/building-satori-agent-safe-code-retrieval/https://hamza.my.id/writing/building-satori-agent-safe-code-retrieval/Notes on building Satori around deterministic MCP workflows, exact reads, stale-index warnings, and bounded retrieval contracts.Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhen index cleanup lies, agents make unsafe decisionshttps://hamza.my.id/writing/debugging-satori-index-lifecycle/https://hamza.my.id/writing/debugging-satori-index-lifecycle/A practical note on debugging Satori's clear/reindex path by treating remote vector state as an explicit lifecycle contract.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy MCP CLIs fail when stdout is treated like logshttps://hamza.my.id/writing/mcp-stdio-contracts-and-satori-cli/https://hamza.my.id/writing/mcp-stdio-contracts-and-satori-cli/Notes on turning Satori's shell CLI into a disciplined MCP wrapper with stdout safety, dynamic bootstrap, and deterministic exit behavior.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy this portfolio is a public engineering notebookhttps://hamza.my.id/writing/why-im-building-hamza-my-id/https://hamza.my.id/writing/why-im-building-hamza-my-id/A practical note on making hamza.my.id useful through project evidence, technical notes, and restrained design instead of generic portfolio polish.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy frontend-heavy engineers need backend contract disciplinehttps://hamza.my.id/writing/backend-notes-from-a-frontend-heavy-engineer/https://hamza.my.id/writing/backend-notes-from-a-frontend-heavy-engineer/Notes on moving deeper into backend work by treating APIs, validation, schema design, and failure states as product contracts.Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy "full-stack" is only useful when the product path is clearhttps://hamza.my.id/writing/from-frontend-heavy-to-full-stack/https://hamza.my.id/writing/from-frontend-heavy-to-full-stack/A practical framing of moving from frontend depth into full-stack product engineering without pretending every layer has equal depth.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy a 1500+ article migration needed a workflow, not just Puppeteerhttps://hamza.my.id/writing/puppeteer-nodejs-content-migration/https://hamza.my.id/writing/puppeteer-nodejs-content-migration/Notes from turning a large WordPress migration into a resumable Node.js automation pipeline with logs, checkpoints, and browser boundaries.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy state-heavy interfaces fail without named eventshttps://hamza.my.id/writing/what-angular-and-ngrx-taught-me-about-state-management/https://hamza.my.id/writing/what-angular-and-ngrx-taught-me-about-state-management/Practical lessons from Angular and NgRx on making product behavior visible through actions, reducers, selectors, and predictable UI states.Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT