Daniel AwdeSeptember 30, 2026
Budget Tracker: An Immutable-Ledger Design
Budget Tracker is an open-source, bilingual budget app on Postgres and React. How its immutable ledger, loans and USD-to-LBP exchange are designed.
Notes from practice.
Engineering, leadership, and things I’m figuring out.
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September 30, 2026
TopTimer: A Local-First macOS Menu-Bar Timer
TopTimer is a free, open-source macOS menu-bar timer that runs offline. How it parses commands, handles DST and recurrence, and what it leaves out.
September 30, 2026
Requirements for an AI Automation: Template
A requirements template for AI automations: target rate, confidence threshold, human review, failure handling and a definition of done, with a worked example.
September 30, 2026
Acceptance Criteria for Arabic RTL Features
A per-direction acceptance-criteria checklist for Arabic RTL features: layout, names, validation, sort, dates, exports and the evidence to ask for.
August 7, 2026
Why Your Team’s Estimates Are Wrong (It Is Not the Estimating)
Estimates drift because requirements are ambiguous, not because the estimation ritual is wrong. Notes on acceptance conditions, multilingual delivery, and why AI work makes vague requirements more expensive.