Building an Android App by Hand, One Layer at a Time
Starting from a bare .class hello world and working up through packages, Gradle, and the Android Gradle Plugin to see how an .apk actually gets made.
Rifqi M Fahmi
Software Engineer // Android by day, lifelong learner with a notes app full of “billion-dollar ideas.”
Articles
Switching to Neovim as My Main Text Editor
How a headless server forced me into Neovim, and how it became my main text editor.
My Hello World for AI Agents
How building a simple todo app taught me the real shape of an agentic system, and why you can't debug an agent you can't see.
Building My Homelab: A Self-Hosting Journey
How I set up a homelab to self-host everything, hardware, Docker, monitoring, backups, and more.
Funimation with Framer Motion
Interactive demos covering the basics of Framer Motion in React.
Writing Elsewhere
Projects
AI Cost Explorer
An interactive dashboard for visualizing and comparing AI model pricing across different providers.
Nope AI
A sassy disagreement AI, just for fun. Simple multi-agent turn implementation with LangGraph and observability with Phoenix OTel.
This or That Telegram Bot Game
Settle silly debates and see where you stand! Pick between two options and discover what others prefer. Quick, fun, and totally addictive!