Michael Soliman | Learning BlogTechnical notes, tutorials, and learning experiences by Michael Soliman.https://www.michaelsoliman.com/en-usMy Personal Website Architecture: Why I Chose Astro, GitHub, and Cloudflare Pageshttps://www.michaelsoliman.com/blog/681c27-my-personal-website-architecture/https://www.michaelsoliman.com/blog/681c27-my-personal-website-architecture/Why I built my personal website as a zero-cost static site using Astro, GitHub, and Cloudflare Pages—prioritizing longevity, sub-millisecond edge delivery, and zero maintenance over complex dynamic stacks.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow I Converted a WooCommerce Catalog from U.S. Customary Units to Metric with LLM Function Callinghttps://www.michaelsoliman.com/blog/c88c3d-woocommerce-us-customary-to-metric-llm-agent/https://www.michaelsoliman.com/blog/c88c3d-woocommerce-us-customary-to-metric-llm-agent/How a hybrid architecture combining an LLM for semantic HTML parsing and Java for deterministic arithmetic automated the conversion of hundreds of e-commerce products—with state persistence and surgical compensating rollbacks.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTSequential IDs vs. UUIDs: Choosing the Right Identifier for Modern Systemshttps://www.michaelsoliman.com/blog/u7d4a1-sequential-ids-in-the-database/https://www.michaelsoliman.com/blog/u7d4a1-sequential-ids-in-the-database/An architectural analysis of sequential integer IDs versus UUIDs, the tradeoffs of UUIDv4 and UUIDv7, and how to choose the right identifier for modern database systems.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow I Discovered Apache Iceberg: Understanding Modern Lakehouseshttps://www.michaelsoliman.com/blog/a7c2e1-apache-iceberg-cloudflare-r2-data-catalog/https://www.michaelsoliman.com/blog/a7c2e1-apache-iceberg-cloudflare-r2-data-catalog/How coming across Cloudflare's R2 Data Catalog sent me down the rabbit hole of learning Apache Iceberg, table formats, and modern open lakehouses.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy I Use Jujutsu (jj) VCS: Frictionless Version Control with AI Agentshttps://www.michaelsoliman.com/blog/j6f9c4-why-i-use-jujutsu-vcs/https://www.michaelsoliman.com/blog/j6f9c4-why-i-use-jujutsu-vcs/How Jujutsu replaces the fragile git add/commit/push ritual with automatic snapshots, effortless rebasing, instant undo, and non-blocking conflicts when building with AI agents.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy I Use Scoop: The Clean Package Manager for Windows Developershttps://www.michaelsoliman.com/blog/s4d8b2-why-i-use-scoop-package-manager-on-windows/https://www.michaelsoliman.com/blog/s4d8b2-why-i-use-scoop-package-manager-on-windows/How Scoop replaced my custom scripts with user-space developer tooling, shims, version retention, and manifest-defined persistence.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT