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Jaafar Abazid

Founder, ManTek Technologies · WordPress + AWS at scale for Arabic newsrooms
Dubai, UAE mantek.io Joined July 2026
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1 day • Articles • 15 min read
An editor hits publish on a breaking story and pushes it to a million followers. The headline is sharp. The link beneath it is forty characters of %D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B0..., unreadable, often cut off by the platform, telling the reader nothing about wher...
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Nov 5 • Articles • 10 min read
A default WordPress install does a surprising amount of work every time someone uploads an image. It generates a stack of resized copies on the spot thumbnail, medium, mediumlarge, large, a couple of extra-large sizes, plus whatever the theme registe...
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Oct 30 • Articles • 6 min read
Cover photo: Mohammad Rahmanihttps://unsplash.com/@afgprogrammer on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/laptop-displaying-code-and-steaming-mug-LrxSl4ZxoRs Claude Code and Bolt made coding agents look easy. You type a sentence, and a model reads you...
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Oct 19 • Articles • 5 min read
You update WordPress on a quiet afternoon, a routine release, the kind you've installed a hundred times. The dashboard says everything went fine. Then the 404s start: not a handful, but every long-headlined article in your archive, all at once, all i...
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Oct 5 • Dev Stories • 11 min read
📝 DEV STORY
Featuring:Bryan MacLeeBryan MacLeeverified•Creator of scrml, an Open-Source Programming Language for the Web
> Real developers. Real journeys. Real ideas. > > Bryan MacLeehttps://coderlegion.com/user/Bryan+MacLee is a truck driver specialising in the oil and gas industry, but programming is much more than a hobby for him. Driven by a deep love of JavaScript...
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Sep 30 • Articles • 7 min read
The spam got through every time. The only message our spam trap ever stopped, as far as anyone can tell, was mine. For 100 days, from the day the contact form on mantek.io went live in May until the end of August, it carried a honeypot: a hidden fie...
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Sep 23 • Articles • 6 min read
> TL;DR: CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md are excellent at steering how agents write code. They were never designed to capture what the product promises to do. When agents refactor, extend, or integrate code, they need a behavior spec — not more workflow inst...
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Sep 22 • Articles • 5 min read
You update WordPress on a quiet afternoon, a routine release, the kind you've installed a hundred times. The dashboard says everything went fine. Then the 404s start: not a handful, but every long-headlined article in your archive, all at once, all i...
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Sep 22 • Articles • 2 min read
We've all been there. You need to share a .env file or an API key with a teammate. You copy it, switch to Slack or Telegram, paste it, and just hope that chat history never gets hacked. It's a massive security hole, but we do it because it's fast. ...
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Sep 22 • Articles • 2 min read
We've all been there. You need to share a .env file or an API key with a teammate. You copy it, switch to Slack or Telegram, paste it, and just hope that chat history never gets hacked. It's a massive security hole, but we do it because it's fast. ...
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Sep 21 • Articles • 2 min read
We've all been there. You need to share a .env file or an API key with a teammate. You copy it, switch to Slack or Telegram, paste it, and just hope that chat history never gets hacked. It's a massive security hole, but we do it because it's fast. ...
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Sep 21 • Articles • 6 min read
> TL;DR: CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md are excellent at steering how agents write code. They were never designed to capture what the product promises to do. When agents refactor, extend, or integrate code, they need a behavior spec — not more workflow inst...
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Posted in Open Source group
Sep 1 • Articles • 2 min read
source link1 If you have ever started a SaaS or admin dashboard project from scratch, you already know the annoying part: You do not just need one dashboard page. You need analytics cards, charts, data tables, ecommerce screens, auth flows, sett...
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Posted in Dev Stories group
Aug 24 • Articles • 11 min read
Developer Stories: Jaafar on Building Reliable Systems for Arabic Newsrooms > Developer Stories is a CoderLegion series highlighting the real journeys, challenges, lessons, and experiences of developers building software in the real world. For thi...
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Aug 17 • Articles • 6 min read
> TL;DR: CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md are excellent at steering how agents write code. They were never designed to capture what the product promises to do. When agents refactor, extend, or integrate code, they need a behavior spec — not more workflow inst...
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Aug 7 • Articles • 7 min read
The check was fine. That is the part worth sitting with. I was auditing the structured data on our own site, the sameAs block that tells search engines which other profiles belong to the same company and the same person. It is a small thing that has...
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Jul 19 • Articles • 13 min read
A user tells you they never got the password-reset email. You check: WordPress says it sent. wpmail returned true. There is nothing in the logs, because there is nothing to log. The mail left the building and vanished. This is the worst kind of bug....
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Jul 12 • Articles • 6 min read
It took a single notice. The YouTube channel that held years of a newsroom's video was gone in one action, and every video embed across the site was suddenly pointing at something that no longer existed. On a publication that runs video on most of it...
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