Updated October 2026

What I'm doing now

A snapshot of what has my attention right now, inspired by Derek Sivers' /now page movement.

Active projects

🧠

AI-assisted interface design

Active

Exploring where AI makes a real difference to product experience, through smarter inputs, contextual suggestions and adaptive layouts that respect user intent.

📄

OCR document pipelines v2

Active

Rebuilding document intake with better recovery paths, routing across Tesseract, Surya and Azure, and live progress updates. Goal: 99% availability and under 2 seconds median processing for standard documents.

🏠

Homelab resilience hardening

Active

Adding automated health checks, zero-downtime Docker deployments and a reliable off-site backup strategy.

💰

Product monetisation experiments

Experiment

Testing pricing models for Menu Planner and exploring ways to earn beyond consulting.

📝

Writing & knowledge sharing

Ongoing

Writing about frontend architecture, self-managed infrastructure and the connection between product thinking and engineering.

🛠️

Renovaciones 2.0 planning

Planning

Planning the next version of Renovaciones, with better calendar integration, budget tracking and contractor coordination.

What I'm reading

Newsletter

The Pragmatic Engineer

Gergely Orosz

Book

Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track

Will Larson

Book

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

About this page: This is a /now page: a short update on what I'm focused on at this stage of my life. I refresh it every few months.