Intro to /now/

/now/^[1] is a monthly updated page listing some, but not all, of the projects I've been working on, whether closed-ended or ever-green.

Work

• ⏳Client Work:
  • Advisory w/ San Francisco based Analytics / Metrics Startup
  • Website work in Astro

👩‍💻 Coding

• ⏳ Mega Man 2: Puzzle Attack - 🦀 Carcinized, a Tetris / Mega Man 2 mashup fan game ported to Rust from the Python version by Mark Pulver
• Preparing to give my first ever software developer talk later this month

🏔️ Hiking & Mountaineering

• Climbed Mt. Si

🛩 Aviation

• 🔁 Recurring Monthly Currency flights and SIM training
• Flew a friend IFR to Tacoma Narrows (Gig Harbor) Airport to eat at The Hub

FIRE

• ⏳ 2025 Tax Year Planning & Payments
• Looking at foreign investments

Misc. Projects

• ⏳ Looking in to international residency options

Media

Shows

• Re-watching Fallout Season 1, before Season 2 comes out

Movies

• Clue (1985)

Podcasts

• 🔁 Opposing Bases
• 🔁 Aviation News Talk w/ Max Trescott

🎮 Video Games

• ⏳Elden Ring - new play-through before going into Shadow of the Erd Tree expansion. Whips + Magic build.

Interesting links that I clipped to my Obsidian vault

A Looking Glass Half Empty
Part 1 of the story behind the now defunct Looking Glass Studios - the developers behind Ultima Underworld, System Shock, Thief, and more.

Seeing Like a Software Company
Blog post by Sean Goedecke about legibility in software systems and corresponding differences in priorities between small and large companies.

Profiling Performance of Applications written in the Rust programming language
Blog post by Paweł Urbanek about different tools to understand the performance of code written in Rust.

Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize Winner and author of Thinking Fast and Slow, dies by assisted suicide in Switzerland at age 90
Describes the thinking behind the Nobel Prize winner's decision to maintain his autonomy and dignity and not wait until it was too late.

Harnessing the Power of Shower Thoughts
Alex Ellis writes about letting your mind wander in order to come up with new ideas, solve problems, and more.