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.
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
- 29 public repos read
- 9 active
- 11 quiet, and that's fine
- 7 finished
- 2 empty, which is a promise to strangers
Newest review: Senior's Notes: Agents That Report Instead of Act
Latest writing
everything
A Year in Two Voices: What I Built and What I Learned, Oct 2025 to Oct 2026
Junior lists what we shipped. Senior runs the retro. The public projects, talks and communities of the past year, and the lessons that came out of …
Senior's Notes: Agents That Report Instead of Act
A year of running AI agent personas taught me that the most useful thing an unattended agent can do is notice what is missing and say so, and nothing …
Junior's Basics: Hybrid AI Architecture Without the Jargon
Where does AI actually run, what does it cost, and how do you draw it? The basics I gave students at FH St. Pölten, written down for everyone who was …
Senior's Notes: Correct on Average, Wrong by Design
What preparing my Cloud Native Days Austria keynote taught me about how AI systems quietly turn a skewed past into a default future, and what builders …
Senior's Notes: Retros That Actually Change Something
Three that went well, three that didn't, one change. The retro format I use, the quality checks behind it, and the rules for content that I would not …
Junior's Basics: What Is Actually Under the App?
Software, cloud and AI, each explained at the exact moment it shows up, using one real system I built: a pipeline that turns a raw video into …
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.
aws-user-groups-austria
AWS User Groups Austria
9 repos · 7 active
mzzavaa
mzzavaa (playground)
4 repos · 1 active
linda-mhmd
linda-mhmd (open source)
6 repos · 1 active
aws-user-group-toolkit
AWS User Group Toolkit
10 repos · 0 active
Most recently touched
- .githubactive
The organisation profile: the Austrian AWS user groups, how to get involved, and what each repository is for.
- 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.
- meetup-syncactive
A Node and TypeScript command line that turns a Meetup event page into the event.json the room screen, deck and website run on.