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/now · derek sivers stole this format

what i’m doing, dated so you know how stale this is.

i update this when something genuinely changes. if a section says the same thing next quarter, that’s the truth — not laziness. last updated Tuesday, September 1, 2026.

doing

  • ▸shipping caduceus v1.0.x — daemon at v1.0.0, then a portable process-identity layer and a typed OCI execution contract. polish, it turns out, has versions.
  • ▸keeping signal house honest by shipping a rewrite. v2.0.0 is live — one bun process for dashboard, api, poller, sqlite. the v2 line is now polish work, not new architecture.

learning

  • ▸tokio internals in a way i can defend in a code review, not just nod at.
  • ▸how to write a "roast my code" heuristic that doesn't feel like a linter cosplaying as a person.
  • ▸that "boring tech wins" only holds if you've actually used the boring tech enough to be bored by it.

shipping

  • ▸a /now page that doesn't go stale in three weeks (challenge: it will anyway). it did lol.
  • ▸this site. v3. still has opinions.

bored of

  • ▸tailwind utility chains that read like a sentence you have to translate from finnish.
  • ▸“ai-powered” as a marketing word for a regex.
  • ▸rate-limit headers that lie about the algorithm.