Mohamed Gado

Now.

Last updated September 2026·From Tanta, Egypt

A snapshot of what's holding my attention this month — what I'm building, learning, and reading. Inspired by nownownow.com.

Building

  • Rafiq — live on both stores

    v1.45 of the offline-first Islamic companion app: a full Hijri calendar tab, month jumping, and sunset-aware date turnover.

  • Nafis — live on both stores

    Multi-asset price and portfolio tracking is public: local صاغة gold pricing, a fused buy/hold/wait Compass, zakat, and a ~30-tool box — offline-first, Arabic right-to-left, no backend.

  • Masareef — live on both stores

    The offline-first spending tracker is public: v1.62, Android-first, global and multi-currency, with a full Arabic right-to-left layout — now with synced trips, price-creep tracking, and a bank-capture engine that keeps running while the app is closed.

  • Reely — Next.js 16 rebuild (opens in a new tab)

    The streaming guide moved to React 19 on Cloudflare Workers via OpenNext, with shared filter, genre, and metadata layers underneath.

  • Freeby — invoicing for freelancers

    Timer → invoice → paid in one flow. Latest work is instant UX: optimistic updates that revert on error, plus retry toasts.

Learning

  • React Native scroll performance

    Chasing jank down to its cause — SVG repaints, list virtualisation, and how to actually measure a frame instead of guessing.

  • Play Store release engineering

    Three apps on staged rollouts at once: versionCodes, closed vs alpha tracks, permission audits, and partial-failure recovery.

  • React 19 on the edge

    Running Next.js 16 on Cloudflare Workers through OpenNext, and what Server Actions cost once there is no Node runtime.

Reading

  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications

    Slowly working through the replication chapters.

Updated manually — no autogeneration. Part of the /now movement (opens in a new tab).