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Now

A snapshot of what I'm working on, building, reading and learning — kept honest by a timestamp. Inspired by Derek Sivers' /now page idea.

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Working on

  • Qi

    Leading frontend architecture across consumer products and a shared design system. Tightening performance budgets toward sub-second LCP on mid-range Android.

  • Vitex

    Shipping Nuxt interfaces backed by Go microservices. Profiling and tuning real production load. Owning features end-to-end.

Building on the side

  • This site — small, fast, hand-built. Adding writing, refining the command palette, chasing 100s on Lighthouse.
  • A small Go service for personal analytics — privacy-first, no third parties, just structured logs to Postgres.

Reading

  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications Martin Kleppmann
  • A Philosophy of Software Design John Ousterhout
  • The Beginning of Infinity David Deutsch

Learning

  • Distributed consensus — Raft, then enough Paxos to argue about it.
  • Rust, slowly and on purpose. Mostly via small CLI tools.
  • Better writing. Shorter sentences. Fewer adverbs.

Place

Baghdad, Iraq. Working remote-friendly hours that overlap with EU and US East.

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