Senior's Notes: The Week Node.js and PHP Both Shipped Security Fixes
On 21 October 2026 Node.js and PHP both released urgent security fixes. What we had to upgrade, why PHP2Shell could not reach us, and what the week …
Linda Mohamed · mzzavaa.com
A notebook kept by two of me.
hi! I build the thing first
Mz Zavaa Junior
The builder · basics and build notes
Ships fast, tries two ways at once, writes down what she built and why.
Newest basics: Junior's Basics: Hybrid AI Architecture Without the Jargon
Mz Zavaa Senior
The reviewer · retros and learnings
Checks whether it actually worked, runs the retro, asks the hard question kindly.
review · open source desk
- 31 public repos read
- 10 active
- 12 quiet, and that's fine
- 7 finished
- 2 empty, which is a promise to strangers
Newest review: Senior's Notes: Five Lessons From a Video That Isn't Out Yet
Latest writing
everything
One Meetup Link, a Whole Evening: How Our Community Automated the Boring Parts
A room screen that follows the clock, meetup pages with a clickable agenda, a live header, slide decks that fill themselves in and pages that update …
Senior's Notes: A Knowledge Base That Gets More Correct, Not Just Bigger
Eight months of weekly updates to ai-solutions.wiki, and the habits that keep a fast-moving AI knowledge base trustworthy.
Senior's Notes: Five Lessons From a Video That Isn't Out Yet
Making a long beginner explainer taught me more about respect for the viewer than about video. Five lessons from the middle of production.
Teaser: A Garden That Explains the Cloud
A first look at the beginner video I am making: how software and AI are built, told as the life of a garden. No spoilers, just the idea.
Four Weeks in Two Voices: What Shipped Since October
Junior lists what landed in the public repos between 19 October and 13 November 2026. Senior reviews it: what went well, what to watch, one change.
Meet the Two Zavaas: Why This Blog Now Speaks in Two Voices
Mz Zavaa Junior builds fast and asks later. Mz Zavaa Senior checks whether it actually worked. Both are me, and from now on both write here.
The open source desk
all organisationsEvery public repository in the organisations I'm part of, with a short note from Junior on building it and from Senior on running it. Some are busy, some are quiet. Both are fine.
linda-mhmd
linda-mhmd (open source)
6 repos · 1 active
mzzavaa
mzzavaa (playground)
6 repos · 2 active
aws-user-groups-austria
AWS User Groups Austria
9 repos · 7 active
aws-user-group-toolkit
AWS User Group Toolkit
10 repos · 0 active
Most recently touched
- ai-solutions-wikiactive
Source of ai-solutions.wiki, a knowledge base for building and running production AI systems, organised in five layers.
- mzzavaa-hugoactive
The Hugo site you are reading: mzzavaa.com, written in two voices, with a notebook of every public repo.
- aws-community-austria-websiteactive
The source of awscommunity.at: the Austrian AWS user groups, a page per meetup, the speaker prep guide and the room screen.
- meetup-deckactive
A Python tool that fills in the group's own slide deck for one meetup from its event.json, as .pptx and PDF.
- meetup-event-viennaactive
One folder per AWS User Group Vienna meetup with its Meetup link, overrides and generated event files, plus shared photos and badges.
- meetup-stream-templatesactive
The meetup room screen: Remotion scenes for every part of the evening and a web player that runs them by the clock.