<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Jawy | Writing by Mohammed Jawad</title><description>Articles on building systems and digital business in Iraq, written by Mohammed Jawad (Jawy) from Basra.</description><link>https://jawy.dev/en/</link><language>en</language><atom:link href="https://jawy.dev/en/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Before you commission a system: questions that come before any quote</title><link>https://jawy.dev/en/writing/before-you-order-a-system/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jawy.dev/en/writing/before-you-order-a-system/</guid><description>The questions I ask a business owner before I write a single line of code, and why the answers change a system’s cost and timeline more than any feature list.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Business &amp; investment</category><category>commissioning a system</category><category>project management</category><category>company systems</category><category>planning</category><author>mohammed@jawy.dev (Mohammed Jawad)</author></item><item><title>Managing developers and AI agents: what changed in cost and speed</title><link>https://jawy.dev/en/writing/ai-and-teams/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jawy.dev/en/writing/ai-and-teams/</guid><description>How I split work between developers and AI agents, where cost and speed really changed, and what stayed the same. Examples from systems I built in Iraq.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>AI</category><category>agents</category><category>team management</category><category>building systems</category><author>mohammed@jawy.dev (Mohammed Jawad)</author></item><item><title>Instagram and WhatsApp sellers in Iraq: what they need to grow</title><link>https://jawy.dev/en/writing/madar-instagram-sellers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jawy.dev/en/writing/madar-instagram-sellers/</guid><description>Chat is the Iraqi merchant’s shop today. What gets lost in it, what a merchant needs to grow, and how that shaped the design of the Madar platform.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Business &amp; investment</category><category>e-commerce</category><category>Instagram</category><category>WhatsApp</category><category>Madar</category><author>mohammed@jawy.dev (Mohammed Jawad)</author></item><item><title>The Iraqi company website: five jobs beyond a name and an address</title><link>https://jawy.dev/en/writing/company-website/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jawy.dev/en/writing/company-website/</guid><description>What your company website has to do: show up on Google and Maps, earn trust, speak two languages and stay editable. 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How I design a live-scores system that holds when everyone opens the app at once, from my work on 90Plus.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Building systems</category><category>live scores</category><category>90Plus</category><category>notifications</category><category>performance</category><category>football</category><author>mohammed@jawy.dev (Mohammed Jawad)</author></item><item><title>A digital menu is not a PDF: what actually changes in the restaurant</title><link>https://jawy.dev/en/writing/digital-menu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jawy.dev/en/writing/digital-menu/</guid><description>A digital menu changes how you edit the menu, how fast it opens on a guest’s phone and whether you hear from the guest. 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What I learned developing Fast Order and rebuilding its two apps without stopping the live system.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Building systems</category><category>delivery apps</category><category>Fast Order</category><category>Al-Suwaira</category><category>live systems</category><category>delivery pricing</category><author>mohammed@jawy.dev (Mohammed Jawad)</author></item><item><title>Systems that work when the internet drops: why I build offline first</title><link>https://jawy.dev/en/writing/offline-first/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jawy.dev/en/writing/offline-first/</guid><description>The internet in Iraq drops and lags, and work does not wait. How field inspection, entry gates and point-of-sale run without a connection, and when you need it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Building systems</category><category>offline first</category><category>synchronisation</category><category>field apps</category><category>CMC</category><category>IQDEX</category><author>mohammed@jawy.dev (Mohammed Jawad)</author></item><item><title>The tech job market in Iraq: what employers actually look for</title><link>https://jawy.dev/en/writing/tech-jobs-iraq/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jawy.dev/en/writing/tech-jobs-iraq/</guid><description>Before you write your CV or post a job: what settles the decision for an employer, and how building a hiring platform changed the way I see tech recruitment.</description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>The Iraqi market</category><category>hiring</category><category>tech jobs</category><category>Taeen</category><category>CV</category><category>Iraq</category><author>mohammed@jawy.dev (Mohammed Jawad)</author></item><item><title>Office, home or flexible: why I prefer flexible work</title><link>https://jawy.dev/en/writing/office-remote-hybrid/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jawy.dev/en/writing/office-remote-hybrid/</guid><description>Remote work, a full day in the office, and flexible work compared. Why I prefer full flexibility based on need, not a week split into fixed days.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Teams &amp; ways of working</category><category>tech teams</category><category>remote work</category><category>flexible work</category><category>team management</category><author>mohammed@jawy.dev (Mohammed Jawad)</author></item><item><title>Learning to code in Iraq: the path I would take if I started today</title><link>https://jawy.dev/en/writing/learn-programming/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jawy.dev/en/writing/learn-programming/</guid><description>If I were starting today I would not begin with a framework or a long course. 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