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A personal observatory

Nasser
Al Busaidi.

I build software, ride bikes, and get curious about the details.

Senior software engineer. This is my personal home for side projects and life outside work.

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Home baseMuscat, OmanThis site as a solar system. Planet, ring, and sun textures by Solar System Scope, CC BY 4.0, based on NASA imagery.

Earth · Projects

Things I have built

All 11 projects
Software × everyday lifeShipped

Rihla

For the plans you make together.

Groups, events, and shared expenses in one app. Built to work offline, and to settle up with fewer transfers.

Rihla demo: a group trip ledger with shared expenses and balances.Rihla demo: settling the group's balances with three transfers.
Rihla · Demo screens
App Store Google Play
Flutter · DartSource
Einstein’s Travel Bureau: a vintage travel desk with a star map and destinations across spacetime.
Einstein’s Travel Bureau · The travel desk

An experiment in physics

Einstein's Travel Bureau

Plan a trip near the speed of light and see how differently time passes.

React · TypeScriptTry the demo

Mars · Races

Swim, bike, run

All races
Latest result

Muscat 70.3

6:19:13 Half-distance triathlon

Swim
43:35
Bike
2:58:55
Run
2:20:32

6 finishes so far.

Before that

  1. Athiba Triathlon2:39:25
  2. OMSwim59:12
  3. Qurum Aquathlon52:14
  4. Al Bustan Sprint Triathlon1:46:43

Asteroid belt · Notes

Small things, written down

All notes

Saturn · Reading

On the shelf

Reading list

What I’m reading now, then the most recent finishes.

Finished in 2026
15
Finished, all time
34
Most read
James S. A. Corey 12 books
By ear
59%

Synced from HardcoverUpdated

Cover images via Open Library, authors, and publishers. Editions may differ.

Worlds I’m in

The long series on my shelf, book by book.

All series
  • The Expanse
    6 of 9 finished, reading book 7
  • Bobiverse
    5 of 6 finished
  • A Song of Ice and Fire
    5 of 5 finished
  • Dune
    2 of 6 finished
The core of the Milky Way rising above a scrub-covered ridge on Jabal Al Sarah, with a tree silhouetted on the left

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Milky Way over Jabal Al Sarah Stacked 13 s frames · f/2 · ISO 2500 · 14 mm All photos