The /now page

What we're paying attention to, right now.

Inspired by Derek Sivers. A monthly-ish snapshot of what the studio is shipping, reading, and thinking about. Updated by hand, archived honestly.

Last updated April 2026 · Based in Cairo, Egypt

Building

  • In productiongo-pipeline v2.5

    Adding a metrics interface that doesn't force Prometheus. Stable API, opt-in collectors, zero new deps.

  • Client workVellum — reporting module

    A second engagement with Vellum, this time on the analytics side. Go + Postgres read replicas + a small TypeScript dashboard.

  • Internalpaper-ui v1.3

    Consolidating our marketing-site components so every Taqnihub page ships from the same primitives.

Reading

  • BookA Philosophy of Software Design — John Ousterhout

    Rereading it with the team. Still the best writing on complexity we've found.

  • PaperGray Failure: The Achilles' Heel of Cloud-Scale Systems

    Relevant to a piece we're drafting about partial failure in CLIs.

  • BlogFly.io's engineering writeups

    Best technical writing on the web, and a reminder that great companies publish.

Learning

  • Deep divePostgres internals — WAL & replication

    Finally sitting down with the source. Turns out a lot of "magic" is just well-documented C.

  • LanguageArabic technical vocabulary

    Building a reference glossary so our Arabic-speaking clients can read our writeups in either language.

Shipping next

  • Blog post"Postgres row-level security, without the footguns"

    Drafting now. Should ship early May. A field guide from three production rollouts.

  • TalkGoLab 2026 — Florence, October

    Submitted a proposal on CLI ergonomics. Will update when we hear back.

  • OSSprobe-http v1.0

    Taking it out of beta. Will ship with a Terraform provider so you can declare probes alongside the services they watch.