Hasan Ahmed  /  Field Manual  /  Vol. 01
§05 — Now
Last revised 2026-04-19 14:22 ICT
Copenhagen  —  Entry § 05  —  A snapshot of the current quarter
§ 05 — Now  

What I'm working on this quarter — mostly coursework at DTU now. Revised every few months.

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Availability
Not taking on new work.
Full-time MSc coursework is the priority this term. Might reconsider something narrow and remote once the first term settles.
Current engagement
MSc, Computer Science & Engineering — DTU.
Full-time coursework, with a thesis topic still taking shape. The Apple / Softzino contract closed in August 2026 ahead of the move.
Response time
Usually within 48h, CET/CEST hours.
Email is the reliable channel. I don't live on Slack, Discord, or LinkedIn DMs.
§ 05.1Focus

One big thread this term — the MSc — with a couple of smaller ones alongside.

What I'm actually spending hours on. If something isn't on this list, I'm not working on it — regardless of what an older page might say.

  1. 01 First-term coursework at DTU. Core Computer Science & Engineering modules this term, plus getting oriented to how the department runs projects and grading. Early days — the syllabus is still the main source of truth. Coursework
  2. 02 Scoping a thesis direction. Early conversations about where a thesis could sit — likely somewhere between the frontend/systems work of the last few years and the computer-vision research from the IJEECS paper. Nothing committed yet. Research
  3. 03 Closing out the Apple / Softzino contract. Handoff notes and documentation for the DMS, component library, and AI chat widget, wrapped up ahead of the move. The contract concluded August 2026. Wind-down
  4. 04 Settling into Copenhagen. Housing, registration, the unglamorous logistics of relocating for a degree. Not interesting work, but it has to happen before anything else does. Life
§ 05.2Side

Smaller things, kept light while coursework is the priority.

Light-touch only. Full attention is on the MSc this term.

  1. 01 Starting out with Go. Working through the official Tour and writing throwaway scripts to get a feel for goroutines, interfaces, and the tooling, in the gaps between coursework. Next step, eventually: a small CLI to have something to point at. Learning
  2. 02 Website management system for the Bangladesh Embassy in Minnesota. Small surface, high stakes on content stability; maintenance-only for now. Client
  3. 03 HRMS for AccTech LLC. Adjacent to the payroll platform — employee records, leave, attendance. Same underlying domain model, different surface. Maintenance-only for now. Client
§ 05.3Reading

Bangladesh — 1971 and what came after.

Off the screen, the current reading is political and historical. Titles below are in Bangla; transliterated for the page.

I.
Nobboi er Nagorik Burjeya Ovvutthan O Onnano Prosongo Bodruddin Umar
● Now reading
II.
Amar Dekha Rajnitir Pochish Bochor Abul Mansur Ahmad
In rotation
III.
Parbatya Chattagram — Shantibahini, Zia Hotta, Manzur Khun Mohiuddin Ahmad
In rotation
IV.
Muldhara '71 Moidul Hasan
Queued
§ 05.4Workbench

The short list of tools that actually get used every day.

Not an inventory — a shortlist. Anything not here either gets swapped around too often to list, or isn't load-bearing.

Editor
WebStorm
Refactors across a big Vue / Nuxt monorepo without fighting the tool.
Browser
Chrome
DevTools protocol + Lighthouse still set the baseline for perf work.
Package mgr.
pnpm
Content-addressable store and strict hoisting. Matches how I think about deps.
AI pair
Claude Code
For the boring 80%. Reviews are mine.
Note This page drifts. Refreshed every few months. If the date at the top is stale, the work below probably is too — ask before assuming.

⁴ Convention borrowed from nownownow.com and Derek Sivers' /now page. The value of the format is its honesty: a public page that has to be accurate, or taken down.