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Case Studies & Teardowns

In-depth engineering reflections, multi-tenant SaaS architecture decisions, hardware micro-soldering bench notes, and scraping pipeline design.

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Web Scraping2026-10-17•7 min read

Reverse-Engineering Mobile APIs: Native App Scraping

Techniques for intercepting encrypted iOS and Android network traffic via MITM proxies to scrape undocumented REST and GraphQL endpoints.

#Reverse Engineering#Web Scraping#Mobile APIs#mitmproxy
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Archive & Technical Notes

Architecture•2026-10-10
8 min read

The Second Website Effect: Dual-Domain Architecture

Why separating technical engineering authority from local commercial acquisition across two domains dominates modern organic search in 2026.

Performance•2026-10-03
9 min read

Web Bloat Autopsy: Why 85% of Moroccan Sites Fail 4G

Empirical benchmark of 100 Moroccan websites: analyzing DOM tree bloat, 4G cellular latency, memory leaks, and our sub-800ms Next.js remedy.

Architecture•2026-10-03
11 min read

Hardening Edge Next.js Applications: A Deep-Dive Defense-in-Depth Guide (SSRF, JSON-LD Breakouts, and Timing Attacks)

A comprehensive architectural teardown of real-world defensive vulnerabilities in modern Next.js 15 applications: preventing private IP/cloud metadata SSRF at the edge, defeating script-tag JSON-LD breakout attacks, neutralizing javascript: URI scheme execution in markdown, and eliminating timing side-channels in webhook authentication.

Architecture•2026-09-15
7 min read

Architecting Maalam Pro: Multi-Tenant Next.js SaaS

System design deep-dive: building real-time workshop management on Next.js App Router and Firestore with optimistic client state updates.

Hardware Lab•2026-08-28
7 min read

Micro-Soldering Guide: Hunting Short Circuits on PCBs

Component-level hardware diagnostics at GSM Arena: isolating microscopic capacitor shorts on main power rails using thermal imaging.

Web Scraping•2026-07-20
7 min read

Resilient Web Scraping at Scale: Headless Architecture

Production scraping architecture: browser fingerprint randomization, rate limiting, anti-bot defense evasion, and fast data normalization.

Performance•2026-06-10
7 min read

Engineering TripleW: Zero-Bloat Digital Architecture

Core engineering philosophy behind triplew.ma: eliminating client JS bloat, sub-800ms mobile LCP, and edge-native server components.