Javed A. Butt
javedab.bsky.social
Javed A. Butt
@javedab.bsky.social
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WordPress user ≠ Developer

Same as:
Excel user ≠ Database engineer

One asks: "Which plugin?"
Other asks: "How do I build this?"

Different skillsets. Both valid.

#WordPress #WebDev #Programming
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
If you code, try JetBrains Mono. It's beautiful and readable. I have this weird crush on typography and spent days researching fonts for every use case. Call me crazy but letters can be stunning. #typography #coding #fonts
November 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Something I noticed in Surah Al-Baqarah: Ayah 2:44 talks about giving advice. Right after that, in 2:45, Allah gives advice Himself.

And it's the exact advice Muslims give each other everywhere today: Sabr.

#Quran #Islam #Sabr
November 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Honest question: How many times have you rejected good advice just because of WHO said it?

I struggle with this. My nafs fights it every time. #Quran #SelfReflection #Islam
November 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Zohran Mamdani won against billionaires who put politicians on their payroll and ran smear campaigns.

They lost because regular people united.

But they won't stop. New Yorkers - stay vigilant and keep making noise, InshAllah. #ZohranMamdani #PeoplePower #NewYork
November 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Norman Finkelstein on the UN rape investigation:

"This isn't absence of evidence. With 5,000 images and 50 hours of video showing nothing, this is overwhelming evidence there was no rape." #Palestine #Gaza #October7th
November 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
When you submit 4,700 pages of documentation to the International Court of Justice, you're not making a casual claim. #Gaza #ICJ #Palestine
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Advocating violent overthrow? Protected. Burning the flag? Protected.

"From the river to the sea"?

A Reagan judge ruled: also protected. Called those who arrested students "cowardly desperados acting like the KKK."

#FreeSpeech #Palestine #FreePalestine
November 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Van Jones claimed dead babies on TikTok are because Qatar and Iran control it.

Norman Finkelstein's response: Maybe because there are that many dead Gazan babies.

October 2023: 20,000+ children. More than all other war zones combined.

#Palestine #Gaza #NormanFinkelstein
November 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I was wrong about Israeli society. I thought they were different from Netanyahu. Norman Finkelstein just destroyed that illusion with hard evidence. #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide
November 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Norman Finkelstein saw Gaza as a concentration camp before the rest of the world did. Today we call it genocide. But he says something even harder to accept. #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide
November 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Norman Finkelstein wrote "I Accuse" about Gaza. 370 copies sold. He bought half of them himself. He wanted it for an ICC case. Years of trying. 2020: he gave up. Nobody cared. Makes you think: what if Gazans hadn't fought for themselves? #Palestine #Gaza #Resistance
November 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Why do I keep checking if Zohran Mamdani won?

Because people deserve leaders who actually care about them over money. I know that sounds naive. But maybe he's different. Maybe New Yorkers will InshAllah finally get a leader who serves them. #ZohranMamdani #NYC #Election
November 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
From my understanding of Surah Al-Baqarah 2:251: success built on injustice is temporary. Allah replaces corrupt powers with those who strive for justice. Otherwise corruption would dominate the earth.

#Quran #Justice #Islam
November 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
My wife asked if she'd be safe wearing burqa here. I told her honestly: I don't know.

Not just physically safe. The looks. The judgment. The flipped narrative.

Zohran Mamdani gets it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGBQwCsIhn0 #Islamophobia #NYC #Muslim
November 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Working on a Quran-related project? Found something useful to share. #MuslimDevs #OpenSource #Quran
November 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Ran a test: OpenAI's Codex CLI vs Anthropic's Claude Code for exploring GitHub code.

Claude said a feature didn't exist. Codex found it.

So Codex is better? No. One test. Different strengths.

My take: Use both if you can afford it.

#CodingTools #AI #SoftwareDevelopment
November 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
AI agents coding on their own sounds great until you watch them burn thousands of tokens refactoring the same code over and over, still missing dependencies.

I built an MCP helper that uses a language server instead. Proper tooling beats brute force token spending.

#MCP #AI
October 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
AI agents aren't calling functions. The LLM just outputs text that looks like instructions. Your code reads that text, finds the pattern, and executes the actual function. Then it feeds the result back to the LLM. That's it. MCP doesn't change this reality, it just standardizes the pattern format.
October 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Should you pick Claude Code or Codex? I've been using both together actually. They have different strengths. Codex (GPT-5) is the better thinker, Claude Code is the faster coder. What works for me: give both full context, let Codex act as the manager in thinking mode, Claude Code as the developer.
October 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The angels questioned Allah. They asked why He would place humans on earth when they might spread corruption. Allah answered them instead of silencing them.

Here's what hits me: Allah has infinite power. He could have ended that conversation instantly. But He chose to respond.

No leader in this
October 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The angels closest to Allah, when they heard about human creation (2:30), immediately raised concerns about corruption and bloodshed.

Not rituals. Not ceremonies. Justice and preventing harm.

If beings that close to Allah make justice their priority, we Muslims need to ask ourselves: is justice
October 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Sami Hamdi arrested by US ICE for speaking up for Gaza. The US could pressure the UK to silence him. But Sami can't be silenced by threats. That's why I'm genuinely concerned. These "liberal" states bomb newborns and call it justice. May Allah protect Sami. #FreeSamiHamdi

#StandWithSami #Gaza
October 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Governments that bomb newborns for three years do not get to arrest people in the name of justice.

The US ICE arrested Sami Hamdi. People everywhere see the hypocrisy clearly.

When you show no mercy to infants, you have no moral authority left.

#StandWithSami

#FreeSamiHamdi #Gaza #Genocide
October 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Sami Hamdi has been arrested by ICE.

The same Sami Hamdi who spoke about Palestine when powerful voices tried to silence him. Who met children who survived the bombings but lost body parts. Who made his case with pure rational reasoning.

If you stand for the oppressed, you get problems with the
October 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM