/now
This page is inspired by Derek Sivers's post The /now page movement and the Now Movement. The purpose of this page is to share what I'm currently focussed on, and will be updated as things change.
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Wow fall happened!
Well here I am in late fall and wondering what happened. Fall is already a ver busy time of the year for me and this one was no exception!
I did a lot of stuff including buying a new home in the city and moving! We came to the conclusion that we are simply not compatible with rural life. Nature is great, the peace and quiet is amazing, the lack of convenance to ANYTHING is a deal breaker. Simple necessities like running to the dentist, doctor or a hair cut are 3 hour drives.. After 3 years we had to accept the fact that it wasn't going to work for us. WE are greatly enjoying the benefits of city life, a Makerspace, doing out for dinner, getting a hair cut on a lunch break. There is no fight against the clock to get things done now like there use to be and while I was really insure about this at first, I'm glad we made the move even tough I miss the country.
Making and blogging have been on the back burner as we get moved and settled so little has happened here. I did write a new application called ./backlinks which was to scratch the itch to have my own self-hosted form of the Delicious link saving app from the early 2k internet. It's nearly done and is already running on my home server. I'll be blogging about it in the near future!
On the Maker front, I'm up to a number of projects as winter sets in and unpacking is done! Currently I am working on a fun office decoration from a the video game Sunkenland. The game had a bunch of neon signs you can find to decorate your buildings and I really love the old-school Arcade Game machine with the words "Game Room" on the side of the machine all in neon tubes. So I'm recreating that sign using neon like LEDs that I'll be cutting and soldering together and placing in a 3d printed track int he shape of the sign! Can't wait to have it hanging on the wall! Yes I'll be blogging that one as well!
Other projects include setting up a nice 3D printer/Electronics workstation in my office where I'm far more likely to work on things. One thing I wanted as organization and I bought into a kickstarter to 3D print pegboard like wall organizer from threadboards.com, Hoping to some how make myself organized though in meat-space I am very bad at this... Wish me luck! Also looking to help out the local Makerspace thats just landed their first physical location, and I'm hoping to help in the setup in some ways. Pretty exciting to have a local community and know of a place with more tools than I can acquire!
What I'm Coding
- Mostly working on a private project right now so the rest of the list is in a pending mode.
- ./Backlinks - Link saving/sharing app that can be self-hosted
- Adding Webmentions to this blog
- Also make UrPodder compliant with OpenPodcast API once the spec evolves
- This Blog -
- Adding an API endpoints to provide some extra data to this static site & web mentions!
- Build /now history since that's coming next now? (Debating this)
- Ugla - (Means Owl) A Seller Listing tool for Amazon. (Somewhat on hold because I got mad at the UI I chose and need a rewrite. )
What I'm Building
- A 'neon' sign from a video game (Sunkinland) with a retro arcade look to it. It's neon leds with a 3D printer frame and some minor electronics. My new office needed a new decoration!
- 3D printed pegboard for my electronics station, provided by threadboards.com (lots of printing)
- 3D printed lantern from Elder Scrolls.
What I'm playing
- Return to Moria - with my lovely wife!
- Monomyth - an old-school frist person RPG that reminds me of Skyrim and much older games.
- Assassins Creed: Valhalla - (Does this game ever end?) Started this back when ti was released but, dropped it when I quite using windows. Now it runs on Linux!
Apps I'm using:
- OS Ubuntu 22 - I pick Linux every time.
- IDE IntelliJ, VSCode (Still Mad its MS and better than most tools out there.)
- Programming Languages Java, Groovy, Python
- Rest Test Tool Bruno
- Browser Vivaldi (Because privacy is more than feature.)
- Social Mastodon.
- PC - Self built 16core AMD with 32GB RAM running Ubuntu!
- Laptop - very old Lenovo Thinkpad x250 Also running Ubuntu so it is still a great dev machine for the road and 3D printer driver! I love this thing it has the best keyboard <3
- Gaming - Steam with Proton, because now you don't need Windowz to game!
- Git Repo - Codeberg.org ^
- 3D Modeling - FreeCAD
- Notes - Obsidian
- Phone - Pixel6 sadly running Android for now.
- Podcasting - Antenna Pod
- Mastodon App - Tusky
- Phone Browser - Vivaldi
Books I'm Still Neglecting
- 2600 Magazine since I renewed finally!
- Hacking APIs - Corey Ball
- The Assassin's Blade - Sarah Maas
- Count Zero (Audio)
- Character Limit (Audio)