What I’m doing now
(This is a now page, and if you have your own site, you should make one, too.)
Updated April 29th, 2026, from my cabin-in-the-woods home in New Zealand, where it’s a beautiful autumn, getting darker and colder.
databasing my sive.rs site
Until two weeks ago, this website was generated from static files on disk. No database.
But now I’ve moved everything into the database to make it easier for someone to dynamically search. Along the way, I’m improving the HTML and organization.
It’s been so much work, and kind of interesting, so I should write about it soon.
nownownow.com
… is more popular than ever, adding ~5 sites per day. I still maintain this by hand, and love it. So interesting to see all these personal sites.
listening
… to Joni Mitchell Court and Spark too much. Also Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan. I put those albums’ MP3s on my phone a few weeks ago, so I just keep re-playing them.
reading
Putting aside time to read every day, and post my notes here.
rats are old
My pet rats are only two years (and one month) old but for a rat, that’s elderly, so they’re arthritic, hobbling, slow. But that means they like to cuddle more than ever. I really love them.
interviews paused
I’ve been on over 250 podcasts, and spent hundreds of hours editing the transcripts to make them as accurate as can be, so no one has to listen to 500+ hours of me talking. You or a computer can read, search, or query the transcripts. But I’m going to stop doing podcasts for a while so I have all new stuff to talk about.
boy thriving at his new school
My son just started his second year of high school, and is so wonderfully insightful, philosophical, talkative, and creative. We talk like 20-30 hours a week.
He switched schools to one with a uniform and tie, and is really thriving there for the first time since Dragon School.
programming
I’m enjoying a re-think and re-structure of all of my past code, doing even more inside of PostgreSQL. I’m in that phase where I do it until I fall asleep at night, then bounce of bed at 5am to get right back to it. Doing Go for my first time.
I wrote a Mustache template parser in PostgreSQL, so now I can save my HTML templates in PostgreSQL, and call a single function with the minimum variable - like an HTTP cookie - and it will return the HTTP headers and HTML body, ready to return to the browser. It’s very simple and very exciting.
public code
Finally sharing my main code, which you can see at:
Migrating it in from an old non-Git directory, so it will appear piece by piece.