I’m Youssef Atshan — software engineer, researcher, and student of the eternal questions.
Hikma (حكمة) is Arabic for wisdom — not the self-help kind, but the kind that comes from pressing language until it yields something true.
This blog is where I think out loud about philosophy, technology, and everything in between. Some of it comes from Islamic intellectual tradition. Some of it comes from code. Most of it comes from the gap between the two.
I’m a contributor to claudeus-wp-mcp and a researcher at Athanor Foundation, working on consciousness-aligned AI.
Reach me at joe@athanor.se