Yassin Eldeebhttps://yassineldeeb.net/Senior Software Engineer at Lindy. I build developer tools and products: GraphQL infrastructure, Rust and TypeScript tooling, AI agents. You Don’t Have to Follow Life’s Tutorialhttps://yassineldeeb.net/writing/you-dont-have-to-follow-lifes-tutorial/https://yassineldeeb.net/writing/you-dont-have-to-follow-lifes-tutorial/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTOn skipping the 18-year tutorial, owning your time, and being ready to walk away. Why Engineering Timelines Collapse the Moment You Question Themhttps://yassineldeeb.net/writing/engineering-timelines/https://yassineldeeb.net/writing/engineering-timelines/Tue, 30 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMTFive weeks became five days. Lessons from my first time managing engineers, on tradeoffs, politeness and understanding the work. The Identity Taxhttps://yassineldeeb.net/writing/identity-tax/https://yassineldeeb.net/writing/identity-tax/Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMTHow trying to be fully myself made me forget how to be myself. I Built a Career and Forgot to Build a Lifehttps://yassineldeeb.net/writing/built-a-career-forgot-a-life/https://yassineldeeb.net/writing/built-a-career-forgot-a-life/Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMTHow programming went from being my escape to something I needed to escape from. The FIRE Frameworkhttps://yassineldeeb.net/writing/fire-framework/https://yassineldeeb.net/writing/fire-framework/Fri, 08 Mar 2024 12:00:00 GMTA practical guide to earning, saving, investing, and owning your time. I Bought GitHub Stars for €28https://yassineldeeb.net/writing/i-bought-github-stars/https://yassineldeeb.net/writing/i-bought-github-stars/Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:00:00 GMTI wanted to see how easily you could fake an open-source project’s popularity. So I bought 125 stars, tested whether they looked legitimate, and discovered something ridiculous. One Line of Rust Made My Thread Pool 4x Fasterhttps://yassineldeeb.net/writing/rust-mutex-thread-pool/https://yassineldeeb.net/writing/rust-mutex-thread-pool/Tue, 22 Feb 2022 12:00:00 GMTTwo nearly identical implementations. A 4x performance difference. The culprit? A MutexGuard that lived longer than I expected. I Built a CLI to Create Prisma Generatorshttps://yassineldeeb.net/writing/create-prisma-generator/https://yassineldeeb.net/writing/create-prisma-generator/Sat, 25 Dec 2021 12:00:00 GMTI built a tool to make Prisma generators easier to create. A few weeks later, Prisma invited me onto their official livestream to share it. I Got Tired of Typing process.env, So I Built a VS Code Extensionhttps://yassineldeeb.net/writing/ts-env-typings/https://yassineldeeb.net/writing/ts-env-typings/Sun, 05 Dec 2021 12:00:00 GMTI built a VS Code extension that automatically generates TypeScript definitions for environment variables, with autocomplete, type hints, and support for predefined values.