Now Update - 2025-12-20
This is a now page. It's a short summary of what I am currently up to. To see all the past and present entries, visit the then page.
… It’s been a few months since the last update. I’ve meant to do one several times, but kept tweaking various parts of the website first (which I wrote about in my latest post). Even prior to starting this draft I went in and tweaked my config to get the /now page functioning as a redirect like I wanted (so hopefully this won’t bust people’s RSS feeds… fingers crossed). Anyway, let’s get to some updates.
Learning & Projects
Since wrapping up features for Perspective Pixels, I’ve moved on to some other coding projects. I’ve started work on a simple app, but I’m taking my time to truly learn and understand both the code and philosophies behind what I’m doing. I’m making the core (and CLI tooling) in Clojure, and I have loved getting back into functional programming with a LISP language. I’m finally getting to the rewarding point of my code actually building something … tangible.
On the tech front, I’ve doubled down on nixOS by experimenting with using it on portable hardware to essentially make a better iPad+Keyboard setup for my needs. It’s gone very well and I’ve actually sold my old MinisForum HX99g to help purchase a GPD Pocket 4. It’s been great and not only functions as a tiny convertible computer, but is powerful enough to plug into my dock and use as a legitimate Linux device. So now I’m at least partially back on desktop Linux, and loving it.
Home
Let’s start with the garden updates: Yes, it all died off by now XD. Not much else to report.
As I noted in the last post, the end of the year has been busy, but fun. We’ve attended a smattering of shows, concerts (including a toddler rave), and even my brother’s wedding. Each week was filled with swimming + soccer lessons, and a slew of other activities held together by intermittent colds and allergies.
We’re preparing for a few days in PA to see family for the holidays, which should be nice. Assuming we don’t bring back any form of ‘cold’, that is.
Books
One of the website updates I completed was adding a /reading page to the site. I’ve been keeping my reading list in an org note (of course), and have a script to generate the website page from the current state of that note. So I’m thinking I might retire this section of my /now updates.
But as an update from last time anyway, I basically started and spent that entire time reading Wicked by Gregory Maguire, along with an audio book or two. I’m currently working through the Shadowdark RPG Book, as well as some Clojure books (The Joy of Clojure, 2nd edition and Elements of Clojure).