Worth Building, Then Deleting

Two weeks ago I built an Android application with voice commands while running around an athletic track in the shadow of the Olympic Stadium in London. So when I decided to try building a web app en route to a big group weekend away, it did not feel as far fetched as it once would have. The first commit went in from the Eurostar terminal, before I had boarded. I did not have a laptop, and was going to have to do the whole build with just my phone. Recent hackathons, and a few sites of my own, had taught me what works and what does not, and importantly what I could accomplish with just my phone. The build ran on the train until the channel tunnel killed the connection, and I picked it back up on the Métro in Paris. The only real time I needed to stop was to arrange the Cloudflare access the agent needed. Before walking to my hotel I sat down on the Métro platform to run through the online setup, because it was fiddly, and the Métro had been extremely hot the whole way so far. After this I could let it start building reusing methods for setup from previous projects and my existing domain to get a useable subdomain. ...

September 8, 2026 · 7 min · Kashif Nazir

Working with Kiro

The first time I used Kiro was at the AWS Summit in London earlier this year. It was a hands-on workshop, so on the rails run through to show what the tool could do. Everyone was converging on the same idea at that point, that the spec was what mattered, and it all felt a bit contrived from Kiro just formalising it. The first time I used Kiro was in a guided workshop at AWS Summit London. ...

August 24, 2026 · 7 min · Kashif Nazir
Step Out homepage introducing community opportunity matched to the visitor's situation

Step Out

July 30, 2026 · 0 min · Kashif Nazir