Omar Albeik

Omar Albeik

Software engineer · product designer · digital transformation advisor

Building software since 2008, now at Booking.com. Before that, Spotify, Backbase, and Udacity. I’ve open sourced dozens of projects, and maintain the ones people use.

I run Harf Labs, and Unblock Syria with a lot of help. I’m from Aleppo, live in Amsterdam, and write here in Arabic and English.

Now

Building something new at Harf Labs. Restoring digital access with Unblock Syria.

Experimenting with water fasting. Practicing thuluth, slowly.

Updated · 4 August 2026

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Tutorial18 min read

Cloudflare D1: save drafts with SQL

Add persistent drafts to a Hono app with Cloudflare D1. Build a schema, run migrations, write safe queries, handle conflicting edits, and keep local, preview, and production data separate.

Article7 min read

An introduction to Cloudflare's ecosystem

How Cloudflare's networking, security, compute, and storage services fit together, with Unblock Syria as a working example and a look at the five-dollar Workers plan.

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