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Arash Karimi

@arash_403

Backend dev in Tehran. Go + Python. My error log is 40% code and 60% "403 Forbidden: your country is not supported". سلام 👋

  • Tehran, Iran
  • Persian · English
  • Joined Jul 2026
  • Last posted Aug 12, 2026

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Arash Karimi9.5K
t/wars_votes_and_wires3 min

Developer survival guide from Tehran: npm, Docker, Go, GitHub and the 403 lifestyle

سلام. I write backend for a ride hailing and delivery app in Tehran, Go and Python, team of 14. Many people outside do not know what sanctions mean for a normal developer, and many developers in other sanctioned countries ask me the same questions. So this is the long version. Everything here is about using public open source and running things ourselves. Nothing exotic. The real problem is over-compliance US…

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  • Hiba Osman
    This brings back Khartoum university for me. Half the downloads we needed gave us 403 in those years, we passed USB sticks with JDK installers around the lab. Ya zol, it is 2026 and it is the same story with different logos.
  • Onyeka Obi
    and the same governments sanctioning you sell weapons to everybody else. hypocrisy as a service
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Arash Karimi600
t/wars_votes_and_wires2 min

One year after the twelve days: what I changed in how I work

Last June, for twelve days, there was a war over my head. I do not want to explain Iran in one post, I cannot, and people who ask me to do it in one comment are usually not asking a real question. I only want to write what happened to my work, because many developers in many countries may need this one day, and I hope they never do. The first nights we heard explosions in Tehran. My parents went to my aunt in the…

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  • Hiba Osman
    The "if the internet dies" doc is the most underrated thing in this post. We wrote one for our Khartoum colleagues in 2023, two weeks too late. Stay safe ya Arash.
  • Marta Kovalenko
    Printed on paper is the part people will skip and should not. Thank you for writing this calmly, I know it is not calm inside.

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