Daily analysis
Short original articles about products that got it right — what they do and why they win and my expert verdict. In English and Persian.
Oct 13, 2026
5Your social profile is rented land
The algorithm changes and the rules change and the account can get restricted — none of it asks for your opinion. I built my own house at mehrdad.ir and treat LinkedIn as the storefront facing the street.
Read the analysis4 rules for AI-drafted posts that do not read like AI
This week I fully reviewed an open-source toolkit for writing LinkedIn posts built on 2026 data. Four rules survived as the most usable: statement openings and number-first lines and links in the first comment and a real AI-tell scrub.
Read the analysisOne short sentence reshaped the Social Studio roadmap
My AI content tool ships a wizard that currently generates Persian only. The feedback that arrived was one line — choose the language and the network inside the wizard — and the second version of that path clearly wins.
Read the analysisThe driving-license exam app is live on Cafe Bazaar
My driving-license exam app is now live on Cafe Bazaar. What shipped is a version whose core fully works — one honest choice included: Cafe Bazaar only for now because that is where the real users are.
Read the analysisDependency security pass: 16 alerts and closing 15 of them
16 security alerts were sitting on my website repository. 15 are closed as of today with the smallest possible version changes — and the one without an upstream fix is documented and watched, not hidden.
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