Hafiz Rahman

  • Why RLM Wasn’t Enough: Fixing Arabic RTL Rendering in SwiftUI

    I’m building a Quran reading and habit building app, Steady Quran. This week, I ran into one of those bugs that looks trivial on the surface. However, it turns out to touch some genuinely interesting Unicode internals. The symptom: Arabic paragraphs in a tafsir (Quranic commentary) were rendering left-to-right. Characters were shaped correctly — the… Read.

  • Year Glance for Google Chrome is released

    Here is a quick toolbar extension that can show you the current progress of the year. It’s a smaller version of the Android app that I am in the process of publishing, but it works fully. Three different layouts, dark/light theme, and gentle messages to help you stay mindful of the time. Install it for… Read.

  • Agentic Coding in Early 2026

    The start of 2026 seems to be the year where AI-written code is getting widespread acceptance. Linus Torvalds, DHH, Robert Martin, and ESR, for example, had expressed how nowadays AI is writing their code: The code quality seems to have improved a lot, so naturally I want to test this. In the past, I have… Read.

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