shahid

infinite frontier ∞ I build apps in fintech and beyond

[shahid @rojakdude]

What could’ve been

[shahid @rojakdude]

using docusign? $DOCU

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Iran confirms MoU has been signed by both sides electronically

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/5IaNUtffUq

[shahid @rojakdude]

malaysians - find out what credit card gets you the most airline miles for your spend - https://t.co/pQ589NzfI9

[shahid @rojakdude]

@aaronagai @petrolprice_xyz @balajis @ns Congrats mate!! Onwards and upwards

[shahid @rojakdude]

commodities get scarcer the more you extract them.

technologies get cheaper the more you make them.

for 150 years, energy was a commodity.

it isn't anymore.

this one shift rewrites geopolitics, inflation, and who gets rich next

[shahid @rojakdude]

spent 30 mins reading benchmarks on gpt-5.5 vs opus 4.7

still no idea which $100 sub is worth it

someone who actually uses both daily - talk to me

[shahid @rojakdude]

https://t.co/DGwIuPfsF0

malaysian credit cards, ranked by miles-per-ringgit

find the best credit card for your spending pattern

[shahid @rojakdude]

https://t.co/pQ589NzfI9

[shahid @rojakdude]

@aaronagai needs mobile support!

[aaron → petrolprice.xyz 🌅 @aaronagai]

1/ i built https://t.co/pmvdO8N2zG — a simple idea that kept bothering me

why is fuel price data still so fragmented, messy, and hard to access globally?

we check prices weekly, but no one is structuring it properly

so i started building it myself 🧵

[shahid @rojakdude]

fastest way to fix KL traffic (if I were PM):

-biz tax breaks for WFH
-incentives for satellite offices
-only odd/even number plates during peak hours
-build more flyovers
-ban people who live more than 5km away from work

now watch me get impeached before the first flyover

[BFM News @NewsBFM]

Putrajaya has launched the behavioural initiative "Bangun Kuala Lumpur!" to ease KL's morning congestion.

As part of the efforts, the Federal Territories Ministry, in partnership with Zus Coffee, will offer drinks as low as RM5 at 250 outlets for commuters travelling into the city between 7am and 8am.

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[shahid @rojakdude]

@aaronagai yes, definitely! if I have more time or if anyone wants to contribute ;)

[shahid @rojakdude]

Malaysia has no public macro model you can inspect, run, or break.. so I started building one.

MaMaMo is an open-source quarterly macro model for Malaysia

https://t.co/GnEVrU19rv

[shahid @rojakdude]

why doesn’t malaysia have a public macro model?

bnm has one mof has one
you don’t.
so i rebuilt the uk obr / hm treasury model for malaysia and open-sourced it

~200 equations across the whole economy
https://t.co/JZDDS58NxY

what would you test first?

[shahid @rojakdude]

insightful read into how China has managed to diversify / conserve their energy resources

https://t.co/mju1lqJous

[shahid @rojakdude]

"you don't bomb a university when you're winning a war, you bomb a university when you've realized the real threat was never the arsenal it was the intelligence behind it and you have no idea how to stop it"

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

a nuclear scientist just got killed in an airstrike in Iran and honestly i need to talk about this because western media won't & i think most people don't understand what they're looking at

as i've been explaining for weeks now in multiple threads, Israel through Mossad has been assassinating Iranian scientists for over a decade and i genuinely think the Fakhrizadeh case is one of the most terrifying operations in modern intelligence history

this man was killed in 2020 by a remote controlled ai-powered machine gun smuggled into Iran in pieces over several months, the whole thing weighed a ton, it was mounted on a pickup truck on the side of the road and operated via satellite from a Mossad command center 1 600 km away, 15 bullets fired in under 60 seconds, the AI compensated for the satellite delay the recoil and the speed of the car in real time, that's how far they're willing to go to eliminate Iranian brainpower one by one

but here's what i find fascinating, the assassinations didn't break the ecosystem because it runs too deep, so they escalated, US just bombed Iran's university of science and technology, one of the oldest and most prestigious in the country and if you've been following me you already know why this matters

these are the same institutions that took Iran from 58th to 4th in the world in nanotechnology in 20y that produce the engineers who designed the Arvand rocket engine and the maneuverable reentry vehicles, that trained the physicists behind the MRBM to IRBM leap to 4 000 km on Diego Garcia, i've been writing about this scientific ecosystem for years and everything happening right now is the logical continuation of what i already laid out

and i think that's the part nobody wants to say out loud, this war was never about nukes or regime change, i believe it's about dismantling the only sovereign state in the Middle East and i mean the ONLY ONE

look at every other country in the region, Saudi Arabia outsources its entire defense to the Pentagon & couldn't fight a war in Yemen for 8y without American logistics and still lost, the UAE bought F-35s in exchange for normalizing with Israel, Qatar hosts the largest US air base in the region at Al Udeid, Bahrain hosts the US Fifth fleet, Kuwait, Iraq Jordan are military protectorates in everything but name none of these countries design manufacture or deploy their own weapons systems, none of them have an indigenous defense industry, their sovereignty ends where the next Lockheed Martin contract begins, if Washington calls tomorrow and says stop they stop because they literally cannot function without american hardware

Iran is the ONLY country in that entire region that built everything from scratch under 40y of total embargo because NOBODY would sell them anything and that's exactly why they're the target

they know the only way to stop this machine is to kill the people who build it…and when killing them one by one wasn't enough to crack an ecosystem too deep to break, they started bombing the universities directly and i'll say this as clearly as i can

you don't bomb a university when you're winning a war, you bomb a university when you've realized the real threat was never the arsenal it was the intelligence behind it and you have no idea how to stop it

[shahid @rojakdude]

view the scenario study here: https://t.co/43pR61X2eA

[shahid @rojakdude]

I ran a Malaysia stress test for $200 oil using MaMaMo, an open-source quarterly macro model for Malaysia.

The obvious take is: “Malaysia wins because it exports oil”.. but according to the simulation:

Peak CPI: 25.46%
Real wage growth: -23.96%
Consumption growth: -14.8%

[shahid @rojakdude]

Malaysia has no public macro model you can inspect, run, or break.. so I started building one.

MaMaMo is an open-source quarterly macro model for Malaysia

https://t.co/GnEVrU19rv