Hey, I'm Mahad!

Nice to meet you! I'm a 17-year-old software engineer based in the UK.

I love making cool experiences and technology that people actually like to use.

I'm also a proud member of Hack Club and help run the Newspaper Team there! That includes building infra, working with the community to improve their time at Hack Club, and helping promote the awesome projects that people make.

When I'm not coding, I like reading, music, gaming, and Geocaching when I'm outdoors.

At the moment, it's 7:28 pm in the UK (where I live).

• Archimedes

  A helpful newspaper bot for Hack Club - handles story writing, editor approvals, and auto-generation of both Slack messages and newsletter emails
• High Seas Monitor

  Real-time inventory and price alerts for Hack Club's High Seas Shop
• Vortex Email

  Ad-free temporary email service with 10+ (sub)domains for maximum flexibility
• WakaTime for Figma

  Browser extension that brings WakaTime's time-tracking capabilities to Figma

• January 28, 2026

  The UK paid PS4.1 million for a bookmarks site

  Or, as they like to call it, the 'AI Skills Hub'. Which was built by PwC because of course it was

• January 17, 2026

  Using the M1 MacBook Air in 2026

  It's surprisingly capable more than five years later -- as long as you temper your expectations.

• December 12, 2025

  Getting Rails' ActiveStorage blob IDs from file URLs

  Learn how to extract ActiveStorage blob IDs from expiring ActiveStorage URLs.