I write what I build.
Build in public, AI tutorials, honest takes on iOS dev and freelance life.
Sara's Story, or Building a Daily Quran Habit Without Guilt
Sara is a composite character. Her story explains why I built QuranWay as a gentle Quran app, centered on a verse of the day and the right to miss a day without losing everything.
Why Privacy Matters in a Quran App (and What We Actually Do at QuranWay)
A faith app knows what you read, what you memorize and where you pray. Here is how QuranWay treats that data: no account, explicit consent, zero resale to brokers.
What's the Best Quran App in 2026? An Honest Comparison (from Someone Who Built One)
Quran.com, Muslim Pro, Tarteel AI, Quran Majeed, QuranWay: a no-nonsense comparison, written by a developer who built one of them. Biased, sure, but with the real criteria you need to choose.
I Built a Game Where Everything Is Generated by Code
Sprites, music, sound, a boss: zero assets, all computed in a single 28 KB file. And it's exactly how Mario and Zelda were built.
AI Literacy Is the Cheapest Leverage Nobody's Pricing In
Everyone has access to the same AI. Almost nobody knows how to operate it like a team. That gap is the whole game — and how to in-source almost any function.
The Tool I'd Reach For to Make Sense of the Week Got Switched Off
A first trillionaire, a ceasefire framework, a video-game date, and an unplugged AI — all in one week. A note on judgment when everything spikes at once.
You Put Money Into AI and Now You're Not Sure. Here's a Saner Way to Think About It.
Two questions get tangled into one: is there a financial bubble, and is the technology real? Pull them apart and the panic shrinks. (Not financial advice.)
When a Government Can Switch Off a Frontier Model: Inside the Fable 5 Ban
On June 9, Anthropic shipped its most powerful public model. 72 hours later, a US export directive switched it off for everyone. What it reveals about AI governance.
Native Swift vs Cross-Platform in 2026: When Each One Actually Wins
A freelance dev who ships in both worlds breaks down when native Swift beats cross-platform for real, when React Native is the smart call, and how to decide.
Wiring AI Into Your Product: Tool Use, RAG, and MCP
How to integrate an LLM into an existing product without breaking it, burning your token budget, or hallucinating in a client demo. Tool use, RAG, MCP, agents.
How to Launch a SaaS Solo: My 2026 Stack and Method
My real 2026 stack and method for launching a SaaS solo: Next.js, Stripe, RevenueCat, Trigger.dev. Ship fast, measure, iterate, and skip the over-engineering.
Freelance Developer in Toulouse: SaaS, iOS Apps, and AI
Andy Garcia, freelance developer in Toulouse with 7 years of experience. I build SaaS, native iOS apps, and AI integrations. Ship fast, no over-engineering.
How I Made 4 Cinematic Ads for My Muslim App in 3 Hours (AI Video + React)
Zero budget, 5 Veo Lite credits, one Remotion project, three creative pivots. The full playbook I used to launch QuranWay's first UGC campaign in an afternoon.
React Native vs Swift in 2026: My Honest Take
After shipping apps with both, here is when each approach really makes sense — and when it quietly costs you a fortune.
I Built an AI Wallpaper App in One Night
From idea to App Store deployment in a single night: architecture, gpt-image-1 pipeline, credit gating, and the moderation traps nobody warns you about.
My Freelance Automation Pipeline
Prospecting, proposals, content: how I orchestrate AI agents to keep the freelance business running while I write code.
BidForge: An AI Agent for Public Procurement
A side-project post-mortem: automatically matching public tenders, what worked, and why I ended up archiving it.
Side Quests
Beyond the code: astronomy, science, cinema — the stuff that fascinates me, explained and illustrated.
How Shazam Names a Song Without Ever Listening to It
In a noisy bar, Shazam names a song in five seconds — not by hearing the melody, but by turning sound into a map of stars and hunting for one perfect diagonal across millions of fingerprints.
Catatumbo Lightning: The Everlasting Storm That Sailors Steered By
Over Lake Maracaibo, a storm switches on almost every night — up to 40 flashes a minute, 260 nights a year. The highest lightning density on Earth, and a natural lighthouse that once trapped a pirate.
Pando: The Forest That Is a Single Tree
In Utah, 47,000 aspen trunks are a single 6,000-tonne organism at least 14,000 years old — and it's dying because deer keep eating its children.
The Snow on Your Old TV Was an Echo of the Big Bang
About 1% of the snow on a dead TV channel was the oldest light in the universe — the cosmic microwave background, found by accident in 1965 and first blamed on pigeon droppings.