Rida Al Barazi

Happy to share that I’ll be speaking at @confooca.bsky.social 2026 in Montreal!
Two talks this year:

• Agentic Coding: Building Features with AI Teammates
• Safe Agentic Dev Environments

If you're into AI workflows, coding agents, or dev tooling, would love to meet folks there.

20.11.2025 12:45 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Built a little tool called BranchBox. Every feature gets its own fully loaded and isolated dev environment. Worktrees, devcontainers, Docker networks, databases, ports, env vars. No clashes.

Great for humans. Even better for coding agents.

Repo: github.com/branchbox/br...

15.11.2025 01:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Current mode: 3 projects in parallel

5 Codex CLI tasks
2 Codex web tasks
3 Claude Code CLI tasks
1 Claude Code web task

Feels like speed chess! Fast moves, limited time, full focus.

Good thing I’ve got a larger context window than those agents 😏

12.11.2025 00:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Best part?

./bin/feature-teardown oauth

Cleanly removes:
- Worktree
- Container
- Database
- Tunnel

Ship aggressively. Clean up instantly.

YOLO mode with an undo button. /2

Would this change your workflow?

13.10.2025 03:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When you're juggling multiple Claude coding sessions and your local env becomes the bottleneck:

I built something for a safer YOLO mode:

./bin/feature-start oauth

→ Isolated worktree + container + DB + live URL
→ Ready for Claude/Codex
→ 10 seconds

Zero conflicts. /1

13.10.2025 03:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Building Review Apps with Kamal and GitHub Actions A deep dive into implementing preview environments for pull requests using Kamal deployment, PostgreSQL schema isolation, and GitHub Actions automation.

I missed Heroku’s magical Review Apps after moving to my own Hetzner box, so I rebuilt them with Kamal + GitHub Actions + Postgres schemas.

“/deploy” on a PR 👉 spins up an isolated env & subdomain
Closing the PR 👉 tears it all down

Full walkthrough ↓
rida.me/blog/kamal-g...

06.08.2025 11:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Introduction to Operator & Agents YouTube video by OpenAI

OpenAI released Operator and Computer Use Agent today.

I really like the "take control" feature and human-in-the-loop.
The fact that it relies solely on the screenshot with no page markup is impressive too. I needed both when building Pair Browsing.

Excited to try CUA when it comes out!

23.01.2025 19:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Long time indeed! Glad to be here. Hoping to reconnect with the community and it's so heartwarming to start with you <3

16.01.2025 14:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Inspired by browser-use (ported its code for a browser extension), DoBrowser fr the core idea, and Google’s Project Mariner.
If you’re curious, here’s the repo: github.com/rbarazi/pair....
More insights soon!

16.01.2025 14:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve been tinkering with something I’m calling Pair Browsing. Think of it like pair programming, but for the web—a little AI agent that helps you navigate day-to-day browsing. Check out the quick demo below! 🤖

16.01.2025 14:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0