Off duty · no calculators past this point

Hard hat off

Weekends in Halifax with the family, a few places I keep going back to, and a habit of building AI agents when the house goes quiet. The serious work lives on the other pages.

Ali with family by a lake at sunset in autumn
Autumn evening by the water
Ali with family in front of a bandstand lit in blue at night
Winter lights
Selfie of Ali and family laughing
Saturday, no plans
Side-by-side selfies of Ali and family wearing the same face filter
Sunday morning
Side-by-side selfies of Ali and family with a purple pig face filter
Same snout
Side-by-side selfies, family pulling a face and Ali in a turkey costume filter
Thanksgiving, apparently
Ali and family picking a Christmas tree at a tree lot strung with lights
Picking the tree

Three things about me

01A place

Baalbek to Halifax

I grew up in Baalbek, in the shadow of Roman columns older than most countries. Passing the entrance exam for the Lebanese University Faculty of Engineering in Beirut was the first dream I ever chased down, and the five years that followed were nothing but circuits, calculations and very little sleep. The work took me to Jeddah, then to Doha for an airport, a waterfront district and oil and gas, and finally across the Atlantic to Halifax. The accent moved with me. So did the drive.

02A habit

Agents after dark

My evenings and weekends disappear into building AI agents. Small ones, each with one job, most of them useless on the first try. I fix them, then start the next one. The calculators on this site are what happens when that habit meets an engineer who could not stop.

03An opinion

Nobody is lazy

Most people are not lazy. They are managed badly. Give someone a clear goal and leave them alone, and you will see what they are actually capable of. I have watched this happen on job sites in three countries, and I have never seen it fail.

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