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Here's my now page. It's a place I publicly share and prioritize what I am working on. Thanks to Derek Sivers for this idea!

Last update: July 4th, 2026

Adjust to my new role as an Architecture Principal and pass the probation period.
Play with the music team at Fellowship church.
Continue my music and guitar studies with Pablo Mendoza.
Ship the MVP for the CMMS
Exercise at least 20m daily
Continue posting at least twice a month

I started on my new role as an Architecture Principal at Inception, I'd say I'm on track to completing my probation period successfully. I contributed with 2 major ADRs for a large and complex project we are building.
A good friend asked me for help on a CMMS he is building, he is not from a technical background but he has a few companies asking him for the software. He built something with ChatGPT and people wanted to use it, but he doesn't know how to put it in shape for production, I put taleemi on hold to partner with him.
Failed miserably in exercising

Started rehearsing and training with the music team at Fellowship church
Launched latinos.ae, it's being used by a few people in the latin community here in the UAE.
Soft-launched taleemi.ae
Found a new role
Got my Sleep Apnea fixed, got a nose and uvula surgery and I'm feeling much better overall, it's amazing how much my quality of life has improved after recovery
Participated in my first project with Pablo Mendoza and other students online. You can see it below. I misunderstood the instructions and only recorded myself playing the lead parts assigned to me and not the rhythm guitar part

I had a writers block, more like "I don't feel like writing anything" kinda thing, I will explain it in a blog post.
I finished and launched ThirdParty, a side project I made open-source. Read more about it in the website.
I reorganized my online presence. I finally got some time to sit down and create a nice looking "about me" page and directed my root domain there, while keeping the blog here in blog.iffm.me. You can see it here.
I've made HUGE progress in another of my personal projects which I intend to launch in Q1/2026, let's see how it goes.
I started blog post ideas and started developing them to have posts until August 2026.
I made it to the Music team at church! I passed the audition.
I now play the guitar and study music more regularly, still need to adjust and make a better use of my time.
I came back to reading also. I am finishing my first (and only) book of 2025 as on November.
I played at the Church's latin community Christmas gathering along with other fellow Christian musicians.

I had a "writers block" and spent a bit over a month without writing or publishing anything, it turned out I was burnt out from my latest project and all the stress was coming out. I'm back into my normal rhythm but I guess I'll be less strict in the number of posts and I'll focus more on writing better ones.
In terms of growth, I can see visits are increasing but subscriptions are stuck, I need to figure out why and what additional value I can offer to drive this up
Didn't do much on my book this quarter and it's a shame, I have to catch up on this
On my music life, it looks like I won't be able to reenroll on classes with Pablo again, I caught up on the lessons though and I'm practicing more on the spare time I have, my goal for the next quarter will change to "organize my music learning" and also find people to play with.

I've been consistently posting on the blog and keeping a backlog of drafts I'm working on while scheduling the finished articles to keep a consistent pace, I think there was only one week when I failed to post twice.
I'm still working at BCGX, it's been two projects since the last update, I need to write about all that
Finished a couple of chapters about API design, I'm thinking of adding a small API project to complement the theory.
I enrolled again on guitar lessons with my all-time teacher Pablo Mendoza but had to quit for a while because of lack of time to put in the needed effort.