https://husseinkaraki.dev/writing Senior software engineer with 6+ years shipping production web platforms end-to-end — React/Next.js front ends, .NET/Node/NestJS/Python back ends. AI-automation native (Claude Code, agents) with deep product and UX judgment. en https://husseinkaraki.dev/writing/agent-skills-negative-space https://husseinkaraki.dev/writing/agent-skills-negative-space Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT NVIDIA now ships a security scanner for Markdown agent skills. After building my own, I think the lesson is the opposite of what everyone writes: a good skill is mostly the constraints, not the instructions. https://husseinkaraki.dev/writing/the-dx-tax https://husseinkaraki.dev/writing/the-dx-tax Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Internal tooling is infrastructure. Treat it like a product with users, feedback loops, and SLOs — or watch your best engineers quietly drown in friction. https://husseinkaraki.dev/writing/why-i-stopped-building-microservices https://husseinkaraki.dev/writing/why-i-stopped-building-microservices Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Microservices solve organizational scaling problems — not technical ones. Here's why a modular monolith shipped faster, cost less, and let us defer complexity until we actually needed it.