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Hisham Abuella
Muslim | Cellular Systems Engineer
Cellular systems engineer by day. In my own time I love creating UIs with Claude: I build tools, sites and books, and write build logs along the way.
Apple, San Diego. Previously Qualcomm.
Built
Things I've built with Claude, most of them started in a Claude Code session. Everything linked here is personal, not Apple's.
| project | note | stack |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud vs. local model study Opus, Sonnet, Haiku and local models built the same lecture deck with present-in-html. A preliminary study, with every deck. Read the article | study | Claude Code, Ollama, Mac Studio |
| present-in-html A Claude Code plugin for slide decks in one HTML file that opens in any browser. Source on GitHub | personal, not Apple's | Claude Code, HTML, CSS, JS |
| GenAI 101 A free course on generative AI, in English and Arabic. | my free course, not Apple's | Claude, HTML |
| Personal AI engine A home hub on local models: chat, receipts, calendars and the smart home. | in progress | FastAPI, Ollama, Draw Things |
| Shared calendar on the TV One calendar for two, on our phones and on the TV through a Raspberry Pi. | home | Raspberry Pi |
| Texting my own AI End-to-end encrypted chat with my AI from anywhere, over Matrix. | chat | Matrix |
| Local voice benchmark Local text-to-speech measured against ElevenLabs Eleven v4. | TTS | Mac Studio, Voicebox |
| Bedtime stories Six board books for my son, narrated in English and Arabic. | books | HTML, ElevenLabs, local image models |
| Islamic kids website Illustrated stories, quizzes and star rewards, narrated in English and Arabic. | website | Claude Code, JavaScript, ElevenLabs |
| WirelessHub A fast static blog for a friend's wireless engineering articles, with search and dark mode. | website | HTML, CSS, JavaScript |
How I work
| agent | Claude Code, plus skills for jobs I repeat |
| local | Mac Studio M4 Max: Ollama for models, Draw Things for images, Voicebox for voice |
| narration | articles: Fish S2-Pro locally, in my cloned voice; books: ElevenLabs Eleven v4 |
| site | Vanilla HTML, CSS and JavaScript, no build step, GitHub Pages |
Changelog
Build logs, newest first, in English and Arabic.
- + From a chat window to a home hub
- + A shared calendar on the TV
- + Texting my own AI, end to end encrypted
- + One HTML file, a whole Keynote
- + Two nails, two assistants
- + Bedtime stories for a three-month-old
- + Building Wireless 101
- + Generating voice from text using local models
- + Building a personal AI engine
- + Building an Islamic kids website
- + Building WirelessHub with Claude
Hisham AbuellaMuslim | Cellular Systems EngineerCalifornia, USA