Abdelrahman

@emilkowalski @adamwathan Take a look at this ui.bklit.com/docs/component…

Ranking engineers by token spend is like me ranking my marketing team by who spent the most money. We may not have hit our KPIs, but Joe spent $200k on a branded blimp that only flies over his own house, so he’s getting promoted to VP! Don't mistake a high burn rate for a high success rate.

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Dev containers were supposed to make onboarding painless at @MilkStrawAI Then we found mise, and realized they were only adding complexity Weekly debugging sessions Containers that couldn't find each other Rebuilds that ate entire mornings We replaced 360 lines of config with a single file Setup went from 5-10 minutes to 30 seconds And nobody on the team has filed a single environment issue since The thing that surprised us most wasn't the speed It was what happened after the migration btw this is our first release for Metal, our newsletter for cloud and engineering topics Full write-up on how we did it in the first comment 👇

Did we make it? @theo @MilkStrawAI

I think in the AI era, advantage belongs to what’s harder or pricier to rebuild than to simply use.

@claudeai on code review

It's time to bring Haptics to the web 🫨 Create custom tactile patterns with strengths + durations for your web interactions. Make your app feel as good as it looks ✨ → haptics.lochie.me

I built mddir dot dev over the weekend, a markdown knowledge base for humans and agents. It basically fetches web pages, stores them locally in md, and allows you (And your agent!) to search into them, and it has a built-in web UI

migrate to our Israeli network immediately

@alihfadel @roger @markahesketh This wouldn't have been possible without your guidance and supervision

@roger @markahesketh Just to give created to our gatekeeper 😇 Thanks @abderizik 👋

Rails, Inertia, React and Tailwind is my stack right now. Deployed with Kamal, backed by SQLite (+ solid trifecta), written by Claude.

We’ve done this before, does @vercel take inspiration from @MilkStrawAI 🤔

@IbraheemTuffaha @andrealbts @MilkStrawAI Organized chaos 😂

@andrealbts @abderizik @MilkStrawAI True Although not sure if @abderizik would agree on naming it "creative" 😂

Me vibe-coding weird stuff into the UI while @abderizik is trying hard to clean-up the FE code at @MilkStrawAI 😂

Our new design engineer proposed the shift from Hotwire to Inertia/Vue, and I’ll be honest: I was a skeptic at first. I was worried about moving away from the Rails default ecosystem and losing "free gifts" like Hotwire Native and the coming offline mode. I also anticipated a significant shift in our mental model. Inertia handles forms, redirects, and state differently than a traditional monolith. While they seem similar on the surface, the mechanics of client/server interaction are quite different once you get under the hood. Two months after the migration, the team is moving significantly faster in the frontend. Here is why: Our team is heavily optimized for backend architecture. While Hotwire is amazing for HTML/CSS specialists relying on the web platform, we found that Inertia provided the "guardrails" we needed. It allowed us to leverage our existing strengths while delivering a high-fidelity UI without the overhead of mastering the specific "Rails way" of frontend. We now have easier reactivity, access to a massive ecosystem of Vue-specific packages, and much better AI coding support. Our design engineer acts as the bridge, reviewing changes and transferring frontend knowledge, while the rest of the team focuses on shipping logic with less mental friction. We did trade away some of the "Rails magic," like Hotwire Native. However, we realized those features weren't on our immediate critical path. For our current stage, the increase in daily development speed outweighed those specific out-of-the-box benefits. Ultimately, it came down to Time to Market. We traded some magic for predictability. For a startup at our stage, that trade-off has already paid for itself twice over. My takeaway: If you are an HTML/CSS wizard who wants to write as little JS as possible (37signals style), Hotwire + Stimulus is a dream. But if your team is backend-heavy and wants a structured, component-based workflow to close the UI gap quickly, frontend frameworks are your best friend (except React 😂). I have more to share on the technical pros and cons, I hope to find some time soon to write a full blog post summarizing the experience!

@IbraheemTuffaha @MilkStrawAI Now I’m busy rebasing 😂

When business team cannot decide Tech team deals with the consequences

We just raised our seed round 🥛 I met @jawad_shreim & @anas_y_abdallah working on a small project and we clicked instantly. Months later we went our separate ways, but we all knew we had to build something together. Late 2023, we came back together and started @MilkStrawAI: optimize your AWS cloud in 10 minutes, save up to 50%. My AI background helped us build the recommender engine that powers our optimization. But I also taught myself Ruby on Rails and shipped our first version with the team in early 2024. As CPO, I became the glue. Translating between our business vision and technical execution, making sure we build what actually matters. We raised $600k pre-seed in 2024 to scale. And as we worked with more clients, we learned something: cloud isn't just expensive, it's hard to see. So we built observability into MilkStraw. Clients now manage all regions and resources from one tab. See more, save more. Optimization is polished. Now we're expanding. We also brought on incredible talent to help us get there: → @alihfadel, Founding Engineer → @zboon101, AI Engineer → @abderizik, Design Engineer → @Gyamm994, Founder Associate With this round, we're making MilkStraw the place you go to manage your cloud. Grateful to our investors, our customers, and to this team for believing in what we're building. Let's milk the cloud ☁️🥛

Today we're excited to announce: @MilkStrawAI just raised $2M led by @VentureSouq . 16 months. 100 startups. Zero churn. This one is for cloud engineers. The maintainers. The backbone of every company.

The quality of PR titles at @MilkStrawAI 😂 "Remove previous bugs and add new ones" Big changes coming up 🔥 Shoutout to @abderizik & @alihfadel for keeping things fun 🚀