In 2016, Almossawi announced that his second book Bad Choices, an introduction to computer science, had been acquired by Penguin Random House and was to be published the following year.

Internet pioneer Vint Cerf described the book as "one of the more clever ways of introducing computational thinking to the general public" and MIT Media Lab professor and physicist Cesar Hidalgo described it as "perfect for anyone wanting to understand the basics of Computer Science.

The Firefox Hardware Report, which he codeveloped while at Mozilla, was covered by Engadget and SD Times.

[13][14] His visualization of the Big Five US publishers and their imprints was featured on Tor and shared over 5,000 times on Facebook.

[16][17] In 2015, Almossawi gave his only recorded talk on the practice of data visualization at Google's San Francisco office.