Previously...
This page shows previous iterations of my /now page - ie, what I’ve done.
I tend to do things in “releases” of 3 different themes - admin, creative/hobby and learning (my latest scheme which helps me both finish things and keep a healthy balance in the stuff I do). The idea is to not move on to something new until all three themes are finished. It can be at times infuriating, but for me it’s been the only thing that has resulted in success.
January 2025 - June 2025 Link to heading
I didn’t do much of note between these months. Work was kicking my ass so I didn’t have much energy for projects.
- Trying to build a DIY drone (failed)
- Reading the Culture Series
- Running, snowboarding, chilling
December 2024 - January 2025 Link to heading
- Admin: Building a small webapp to make learning German less painful
- Creative: Designing a vaguely-christmas-themed DND campaign
- Learning: Reading What’s Our Problem? By Tim Urban
October 2024 - December 2024 Link to heading
- Admin: Migrating my homelab off the cloud and back on prem
- Creative: Attempting to make landscape dioramas out of clay
- turned out pretty well I think!
- Learning: Reading Range by David Epstein
October 2024 - October 2024 Link to heading
- Having a well-overdue holiday in Athens and Crete
September 2024 - October 2024 Link to heading
- Admin: Writing a chatbot named Polly for my personal Matrix server, integrated into my custom home management system
- Hobbies: Investigating the feasibility of making a website for people in Zurich…
- wasn’t feasible
- Learning: Learning how to learn more effectively
August 2024 - September 2024 Link to heading
- Admin: Implemented a basic home management project with FastHTML
- Hobby: Tried some app design
- Learning: Read 4000 weeks
- (Bonus: also read The Pragmatic Programmer)
July - August 2024 Link to heading
- Admin: Made a German flash-cards generator
- Creative: Reassembled my old DIY drone
- Learning: Read Basic Economics
June - July 2024 Link to heading
- Admin: Updated my budgeting system
- Creative-ish: Collated all of our recipes together into mealie
- Learning: recapped basic principles of accounting
May - June 2024 Link to heading
- Admin: Built a website for Amelia
- Creative: Wrote about my experiences of living in Switzerland vs NZ for the last year
- Learning: Finally read Neuromancer
- loved it, didn’t follow shit
April - May 2024 Link to heading
- Admin: Redid my website
- Creative: Learnt unity and made a wii-party like pc game for my family using Airconsole
- Learning: Read Atomic Habits