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Mahad Ahmed

@techwithmahadKenyaJoined September 2023

Follow me on my FullStack shenanigans and learn with me through the mistakes I make

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Mahad loves building mobile and web applications and is here to take you on a journey, filled with bad decisions and learning from mistakes, through this blog.

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I'm available for mentoring, consultation and part-time projects

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How to create your own email server using Main-in-a-Box

Introduction Hosting your email server is the first step to secure your privacy It saves you money if you own multiple domains What You'll Need [ ] Brand new VPS or any Linux Server (My recommended VPS provider is Linode) [ ] Ubuntu 22.04 LTS i...

Feb 20, 2025 · 5 min readblog.mahad.dev

Setup your self-hosted MySQL on AWS EC2 Ubuntu

Introduction AWS has a MySQL compatible database but it's expensive and sometimes the cost doesn't justify the convenience we get from having such a service for personal projects or projects that don't make money. The alternative solution is to have ...

Jan 25, 2025 · 4 min readblog.mahad.dev

How to deploy Next.js to EC2 Ubuntu Linux

How to Setup EC2 for Dockerized Next.js Deployment Introduction Next.js is great serve-side oriented frontend framework that makes building SEO-friendly websites easier. Deploying it is trickier than it needs to be, I understand Vercel needs to make ...

Jan 23, 2025 · 7 min readblog.mahad.dev

Package your SaaS frontend for self-hosting using Golang

Sometimes you need to allow for self-hosted subscription of your SaaS whether it's because your client has their own air-gapped system that is not connected to the internet or they want to host it in their on-premise servers. Having the option is alw...

Jan 22, 2025 · 5 min readblog.mahad.dev

How to Change Windows 11 to Dark theme from CLI?

I'm running windows 11 on a virtual machine to do few tests and I wanted to change the theme but in order to do that you need to activate your copy of Windows. I don't think it's feasible to buy a license to test few things in a virtual machine. If y...

Jan 20, 2025 · 1 min readblog.mahad.dev

Mahad Ahmed

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Mahad Ahmed's blogs

How to create your own email server using Main-in-a-Box

Setup your self-hosted MySQL on AWS EC2 Ubuntu

How to deploy Next.js to EC2 Ubuntu Linux

Package your SaaS frontend for self-hosting using Golang

How to Change Windows 11 to Dark theme from CLI?

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Mahad Ahmed

About

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Mahad Ahmed's blogs

How to create your own email server using Main-in-a-Box

Setup your self-hosted MySQL on AWS EC2 Ubuntu

How to deploy Next.js to EC2 Ubuntu Linux

Package your SaaS frontend for self-hosting using Golang

How to Change Windows 11 to Dark theme from CLI?