RIWA HOTEIT · WORKLOG13:26:05WED 08 JUL
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Work.

07 Projects04 Writeups Now at Mistral

software engineer at mistral • former swe intern at snowflake • coding instructor

thoughts & insights

Published on Mistral

Spaces: A CLI Built for Humans and Agents

Spaces is an internal platform tool that scaffolds projects, manages dev environments, and handles deployments. I wrote about what it was like designing a CLI for both human developers and AI agents, and how building for both ended up making the whole thing better to use.

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Bridging Financial Data: How I Built a Notion-Bank Sync Tool

Ever wished your bank transactions could automatically sync to Notion? I built a small FastAPI backend that links TrueLayer and Notion to give me complete control over how my financial data is categorized and visualized.

Designing a Narrative Puzzle-Platformer: Building Worlds Through Silence and Motion

I've been working on a narrative-driven puzzle-platformer inspired by Inside, Limbo, and Fahrenheit 451. Instead of dialogue, the game tells its story through movement, puzzles, and environments. Here's how I'm building a world where silence does most of the talking.

My First Coding Project: Talking to Myself Through a Discord Bot

Before APIs, internships, or even proper side projects, there was one chaotic Discord bot. It was my very first coding project, built with Discord4J, and it taught me more about reading documentation (and patience) than anything else.

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