Posts tagged "Career"
Essays, field notes, and engineering write-ups by Al Amin Ahamed covering Career — practical patterns, gotchas from production code, and lessons learned shipping real systems. Topics include architecture decisions, performance tuning, debugging stories, and integration notes you can apply directly to your own Career work.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.