Independent software workshop
Tools I wished existed, built to be used every day: translated subtitles on the sites you already watch, incident response kept alive on current Grafana, and Kubernetes platforms that police themselves. Open source, no tracking, your data stays on your device.
Projects
Everything here runs today, in public, under an open license: Nimanou's own tools, and the tools I depend on, rebuilt with what they were missing. The source is on GitHub, the details are in each README.
Watch anything, in your language.
A Chrome extension that overlays translated subtitles on YouTube, Netflix, Prime Video, ZDF, DW and Udemy. Lines are translated ahead of the playhead, synced to the millisecond and cached, so every rewatch is free. It can also speak the video aloud in your language, live.
Grafana OnCall, kept alive.
Grafana Labs archived OnCall OSS in March 2026. Mansoor OnCall is the maintained fork: it runs on Grafana 12 and 13, ships its own container images and releases, and keeps the full test suite green on every push, from unit tests to end-to-end.
Helm that explains its failures.
Three additions to the Helm CLI, tested and on the fork's main branch: --show-logs-on-failure prints the failing pods' logs and events when an install or upgrade fails, --recover-pending clears a release stuck in pending so upgrade and rollback can proceed, and rollback --to-last-deployed targets the last healthy revision instead of a number.
Persian, Arabic and Hebrew in the terminal, done right.
Right-to-left text in iTerm2 the way macOS renders it: correct reordering and mirrored brackets, selection and copy that follow the visual order, RTL that survives scrolling in full-screen tools and wrapped lines in scrollback, Latin words as left-to-right islands, and a paste option that strips zero-width marks. Built and maintained as the Nimanou build of iTerm2.
About
Nimanou is the workshop of Novid, a software engineer in Germany with a long background in infrastructure, Kubernetes and open source. The projects range from a browser extension to incident-response tooling and platform engineering, and every one of them is built the same way.
Small scope, finished properly. Privacy by construction rather than by policy. Public code, so that trust can be checked instead of asked for.
The face in the mark is Agha Mansoor, who taught me to stay curious and gave me the room to discover.
SubVibe has no servers and no accounts. Translations are cached locally, and the only thing that leaves the browser is caption text, sent to the AI provider you chose.
Every project on this page is public on GitHub under MIT or AGPL. Read the code before you trust it.
When Grafana archived OnCall, the fork picked it up within months and ships releases of its own. Software that shipped gets maintained.
Contact
For collaboration, a question about a project, or a bug report, write an email or open an issue on GitHub. Replies come from a person, not a ticket system.