/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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What's New?
Well it's high summer, hot days and cool nights. The goldenrod has grown up in our fields to about 5 ft talk and should be blooming soon! I look forward to the field of golden flowers and the bees diligently darting from flower to flower.
It's been a busy summer so far! We took a little trip to Ashville a month or so back and while there did a bit fo soul searching and were surprised to discover that we miss the city life! A lot. It's the convenience of things, currently every outing is a 2.5 hour drive for anything we need, from essentials such as food and doctor visits to makerspace meetings. Honestly we have kinda hit a wall with that and over the course of the vacation, decided a change was required. We were honestly surprised at how right and necessary the move was. And while we wil miss our mountain hideaway quite often, we will be heading into town to stay in the fall.
A few upsides from a maker angle, I'll have double the shop space and a nice quiet office. Also a huge kitchen and lots more space. It's a big change, but going to be some real life improvements overall. The rural life isn't for everyone and well... same here. Live and learn!
I love summer but, the thought of fall is starting to look tantalizing! Not that I want to rush the rest of this summer though!
What I'm Coding
- Mostly working on a private project right now so the rest of the list is in a pending mode.
- DONE! Textual Weather data app, writeup in the works!
- Adding Webmentions to this blog
- Now I'm working on an XMPP notification Bot to post alerts etc. to my XMPP account!
- 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. )
- DONE! Adding IndieWeb stuff per the Indiewebify.me Site.
- DONE! linking up my Podcast history
- DONE! Setting up a Family XMPP or Matrix server
- DONE! Updating my Identicon Generator site
- DONE! Building my own Gpodder api called UrPodder
What I'm Building
- 3D printed lantern Of my own design inspired by the other latern in the works. This one will be done first!
- 3D printed lantern from Elder Scrolls.
- A Weather Station - 3D printed and in need of assembly
- DONE! An OctoPi with a case designed by me in FreeCAD.
- NEVER-DONE! Gardening!
- DONE! A Tiny house - an A-Fame, currently awaiting finishing touches on the exterior and needing an interior.
- DONE! A number of other 3D print projects to be done including a phone holder and pegboard system.
What I'm playing
- Icarus - with my lovely wife!
- Assassins Creed: Valhalla - 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)