/now
Updated Jan 14, 2026
What I'm doing right now.
A snapshot of where my attention goes this month — inspired by the /now movement.
Context
Location
Where
Based in Nairobi, Kenya. Remote most of the week, office when it helps.
Day job
Work
Full-time software engineer. Evenings and weekends go to side projects and the homelab.
9-6
SWE
Life
At home
My wife and I are raising a baby boy. New dad life.
Making
Building
Side projects
- This blog — MDX, dark mode, knowledge-graph visualisations.
- Exploring AI-assisted development with Claude Code.
- My homelab — 3-node k8s on Talos, 15+ self-hosted services, GitOps end-to-end.
Next.js
Claude
k8s
Learning
Digging in
- Deep-diving React Server Components and the App Router.
- Vertical scaling the homelab — 4TB SSDs, Longhorn backups, an old Dell added for Jellyfin transcoding.
RSC
Homelab
Consuming
Reading
On the nightstand
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications — Martin Kleppmann
- The Pragmatic Programmer — David Thomas & Andrew Hunt
Listening
In the ears
Lots of Spotify while coding, and David Wafula for political analysis.
Tinkering
Hobbies
- Learning to maintain my old 1998 Lancer.
- Cruising on the Dominar 400 when the weather co-operates.