# Hassan Habib

> Author of The Standard — a unified engineering standard for building distributed systems — and founder of a global open-source community dedicated to free education, free healthcare, and better software for everyone.

Personal website of Hassan Habib — engineer, author of The Standard,
founder of PeerLLM (decentralized AI network), and open-source advocate.
2,055,580 NuGet downloads across 32 packages,
585K YouTube subscribers, 29K LinkedIn followers.

## Machine-readable data

- [Site index (JSON)](https://www.hassanhabib.com/terminal-index.json): bio, all posts, books, projects, quotes, and stats in one document
- [MCP server](https://www.hassanhabib.com/api/mcp): Model Context Protocol endpoint (streamable HTTP, no auth) with tools for searching posts, stats, quotes, and projects
- [RSS feed](https://www.hassanhabib.com/rss.xml)
- [Sitemap](https://www.hassanhabib.com/sitemap-index.xml)

## Key pages

- [Blog](https://www.hassanhabib.com/blog): 61 essays on engineering, AI, and purpose
- [Projects](https://www.hassanhabib.com/projects): PeerLLM, The Standard, The Standard for AI Agents
- [Open Source](https://www.hassanhabib.com/open-source): all NuGet packages with live counters
- [Books](https://www.hassanhabib.com/books): The Standard (free on GitHub), Lessons Learned, C# From Scratch
- [Podcast](https://www.hassanhabib.com/podcast): Pretty Code, Standup with Hassan, guest appearances

## Books

- The Standard: The ultimate guide to building enterprise-level systems from idea to product.
- Lessons Learned in the Software Industry: A collection of articles from 20 years of experiences in the software industry — on engineering, teams, leadership, and the craft of building things that last.
- C#: From Scratch: Learn C# from the ground up — a from-first-principles introduction to the language for engineers starting their journey.

## Featured projects

- [PeerLLM](https://www.peerllm.com/): A decentralized AI network — people-powered LLM hosting where anyone can run open-source models on their own hardware, serve real inference to the world, and earn from it.
- [The Standard](https://github.com/hassanhabib/The-Standard): A unified standard for engineering distributed systems — covering brokers, services, exposers, and everything in between.
- [The Standard for AI Agents](https://github.com/hassanhabib/The-Standard-Agent): The Standard, applied to agents: Agent = Orchestration(Data, Decision, Direction).

## Recent posts

- [Software Engineering 2.0](https://www.hassanhabib.com/blog/software-engineering-2-0): Software engineering did not just gain a new tool. It gained a whole stack, from silicon to the decision that software s
- [Robots & Monkeys](https://www.hassanhabib.com/blog/robots-monkeys): The title is intentionally provocative.When I say Robots & Monkeys, I am not talking about robots taking over the world 
- [Double Agent](https://www.hassanhabib.com/blog/double-agent): Agentic coding assistants are becoming the double agents of software engineering.On one side, they are loyal allies. The
- [Purpose in the Age of Intelligence](https://www.hassanhabib.com/blog/purpose-in-the-age-of-intelligence): AI is a sharp knife. It can be used for harm, or it can be used for benefit. That is the nature of all tools. They may i
- [Mastering the Art of Code Reviews: A Veteran’s Guide](https://www.hassanhabib.com/blog/mastering-the-art-of-code-reviews-a-veterans-guide): Whether you’re an engineering lead, a mid-level developer, or just starting out code reviews are a constant companion in
- [Engineering Business 101](https://www.hassanhabib.com/blog/engineering-business-101): Few days ago I had an interesting conversation with The Standard Community about evolution of engineering. We discussed 
- [Modern Strategies in Systems Modernization](https://www.hassanhabib.com/blog/modern-strategies-in-systems-modernization): Every so often I get asked the question of modernization and standardization. Especially from passionate engineers who j
- [Jobs, Careers and Crafts](https://www.hassanhabib.com/blog/jobs-careers-and-crafts): Every action we take in our daily lives goes towards either our survival, evolution, or fulfillment. Sometimes it’s the 
- [Maximum Engineering](https://www.hassanhabib.com/blog/maximum-engineering): Our time on this earth is limited. We experience this time on earth through spiritual, mental, and physical aspects. Eve
- [Principles, Patterns and Tools](https://www.hassanhabib.com/blog/principles-patterns-and-tools): In the engineering industry, there are three things that govern the engineering process for every product everywhere. Wh
- [Brief Thoughts on Social Media](https://www.hassanhabib.com/blog/brief-thoughts-on-social-media): Social media plays a big role in our lives today. We use social media to connect with friends, family, and colleagues, w
- [Engineering Time](https://www.hassanhabib.com/blog/engineering-time): Every so often, I get asked the question of how I can accomplish so many different things every day. People ask me how I
- [Stages of Growth for Software Engineers](https://www.hassanhabib.com/blog/stages-of-growth-for-software-engineers): As a mentor for several engineers out there – I always get the question about growth. Growth is something engineers chas
- [The Junior Engineer](https://www.hassanhabib.com/blog/the-junior-engineer): You can determine the state and longevity of any industry based on several factors. Some economical, and some cultural —
- [Brief History of The Future of Mixed Reality](https://www.hassanhabib.com/blog/brief-history-of-the-future-of-mixed-reality): The tech industry has been growing in exponential rates since its beginning somewhere around the 18th century. Computati