https://khaledwaleed.com/writing Khaled Waleed — a senior software engineer in Baghdad, Iraq, building quiet, well-made software for the web in SvelteKit and Go. en Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT On Friedrich, Shakespeare, Swan Lake, and what a culture loses when it decides sadness is a bug to be fixed. https://khaledwaleed.com/writing/in-defense-of-melancholy https://khaledwaleed.com/writing/in-defense-of-melancholy Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT art philosophy culture The small, private, unglamorous habit of being slightly uncomfortable every day — and what it buys you when the involuntary discomforts arrive. https://khaledwaleed.com/writing/sitting-in-discomfort-on-purpose https://khaledwaleed.com/writing/sitting-in-discomfort-on-purpose Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT discipline body philosophy Camus is read badly more often than he is read well. A short defense of the harder reading — the one that asks you to keep pushing the rock. https://khaledwaleed.com/writing/absurdism-without-nihilism https://khaledwaleed.com/writing/absurdism-without-nihilism Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT philosophy camus meaning