about

• about me
  • my name is Ahmed Mohamed Alaa but I also go by
    • just علاء as my friends and colleagues call me
    • or بشمهندس أحمد علاء when people are being formal with me
    • or البرنس because I am برنس
  • 4bcx doesn’t mean anything. it’s just the first available && shortest && not premium domain I found that I didn’t hate
  • I think in lists and bullet-points, obvious
  • the tagline is I break stuff to figure out how they work, or to repurpose them and make other stuff
  • currently, I manage a technology lab for ITIDA
  • projects on gitlab, github and sourcehut
  • and my current cv

• socials
  I’m fighting my FOMO and slowly moving away from social media, but you can find my:
  • old rants on twitter, current rants on mastodon
  • pictures on instagram
  • few interactions with friends and family on facebook, and with coworkers on linkedin

• contact
  • email: I usually respond with many bullet-points
  • or you can download my vcard, and pgp key

• my circle
  • my awesome wife and I made those
    • Yahya
    • Yunus
  • the bro, the one and only, the most awesome, the cool uncle of my children

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