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Zaher Ghaibeh

Projects in motion.

What I'm actively building and maintaining right now. Open source, in public, mostly small enough to keep honest.

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Projects museum

A chronological record of things I built, shipped, and eventually left behind. Each one taught me something that carries forward into the work I do today.

~2003–2005

Fedora Core 3 Live CD

A Fedora Core 3-based Live CD built with Linux Live scripts by Tomas Matejicek (SLAX). A Fedora Core 4 version was planned but never materialized.

Early systems work and Linux community participation under the linuxjuggler identity.

Open Source
~2010

Arab Cart

An early PHP e-commerce application. Public enough to receive CVE records (CVE-2010-0724, CVE-2010-0725).

First real product shipped to the web — and hard lessons from security exposure in production.

PHP Web Application
~2010

Msrofi

Arabic personal finance tool co-founded with Hala Deeb under Creative Web Group. Covered by The Next Web. Reached ~1,000 members in about seven months.

First startup experience — Arabic SaaS, product building, and press coverage in the Arabic web ecosystem.

Startup / SaaS
~2012–2014

Building Web Applications Using Parse REST API

Technical book on building a blog with Laravel 4 and Parse.com. Published on Leanpub, now retired.

Technical publishing and developer education — a precursor to the blog and years of writing.

Leanpub Book
~2019-2022

Domain Book

Domain expiration monitoring. Started as an Electron desktop app (macOS/Windows, sold on AppSumo), then rebuilt as a SaaS. Featured WHOIS lookup, auto-import from registrars, expiration alerts, and notes/tags. Last release v1.13.0 in May 2022. Development discontinued.

Shipping the same product in two very different forms, desktop then SaaS, and learning when to close and move on.

Desktop App then SaaS
~2018–2023

github-repos-downloader

A PHP CLI utility that pulls the full list of public repositories for any GitHub user, continuing work from the old linuxjuggler account.

A small learning project that taught GitHub API consumption and CLI design, since outpaced by everything GitHub now exposes natively.

PHP CLI utility
~2024–2025

litepress

WordPress packaged with SQLite and Composer for personal use and portability. A self-contained install you could drop anywhere without MySQL.

Experimenting with portable, Composer-managed WordPress before the current local-development story made it redundant.

WordPress distribution
~2026

ai-provider-for-openrouter

OpenRouter provider for the WordPress PHP AI Client SDK, wiring the hosted model gateway into WordPress for chat completion, function calling, and JSON output.

Extending the WordPress AI Client SDK to a commercial gateway, shipped then archived as the SDK's provider story matured.

WordPress AI provider
~2026

ai-provider-for-ollama

Self-hosted Ollama provider for the WordPress PHP AI Client SDK, bringing local language models into WordPress for chat completion, function calling, and JSON output.

Pairing the WordPress AI Client SDK with a local model runtime, archived once the integration path was proven.

WordPress AI provider
~2026

bab

MCP server on Bun that bridges MCP clients with AI CLI tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini.

Not everything should be an MCP server, some things can be achived via simple SKILL file.

MCP Server

The archive keeps growing.

Every project that doesn't ship still ships something, a lesson, a pattern, a scar. The current work lives on the blog.