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2026

May 31
· 0 min read

Anthropic Academy — Six Certifications Completed

I completed six Anthropic Academy courses covering the Claude API, Model Context Protocol, subagents, agentic workflows, Claude Code, and AI fluency — each with a verified certificate from Anthropic Education.

AI / LLMs RAG Career Anthropic

2025

Apr 8
· 9 min read

A Code Review Playbook That Catches Real Bugs

The three-pass review structure I've refined over a decade — when to push back, how to write comments, and what makes reviews valuable instead of performative.

Career Architecture
Mar 14
· 10 min read

How to Actually Work Async in a Distributed Team

Six years of async-first remote work — writing self-contained messages, when to switch to a call, time-zone etiquette, and the trap of over-rotating on async.

Career
Feb 20
· 11 min read

The Honest Economics of Selling WordPress Plugins

Six years of selling on WordPress.org — conversion rates, pricing tiers, what drives installs, the support burden, and when to walk away from a plugin.

WordPress Open Source Career

2024

Apr 1
· 9 min read

Five Years of Open Source on WordPress.org — What I've Learned

Honest lessons from shipping and maintaining five plugins on WordPress.org — support burden, versioning, security reviews, and building an audience.

WordPress Open Source Career

About Career

Everything Al Amin Ahamed has written about Career — written after shipping rather than before, so what is in here is what the constraint turned out to be and what I got wrong first.