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title: "/now"
description: "This page is meant to be simple view into what is happening in my life right now. Inspired by @NowNowNow. and Derek Sivers."
date: 2025-01-12
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This page is meant to be simple view into what is happening in my life right now. Inspired by [@NowNowNow](https://nownownow.com/). and Derek Sivers.


Last Update 2026-04-19

* markata-go

Last Update 2025-10-29

* Silksong has my attention, it's great
* Working on new features for dropper
   * Vibe coding sucks
   * Images will soon be able to be resized and be more efficient over the network.
* Trying to branch out and add more than software to the blog.  Things like design and 3d printing.

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Last Update 2025-05-22 14:27:47

* Working on [[ninesui]]
* Working on [[krayt]]
* learning observability with grafana
* Fairly happy with <a href="/markata/" class="wikilink" data-title="markata" data-description="This post is a work in progress." data-date="2024-05-30">markata</a>, at the moment, less focus and some small fixes
* The blog is fully k8s, love the experience
* replacing Google apps with self hosted apps [[replacing-google-search-apps-with-self-hosted-web-apps]]
* Doing a second run through <a href="/hollow-knight-home-row-layout/" class="wikilink" data-title="hollow knight home row layout" data-description="I just made it past 100% in my main hollow knight run, so now I will allow myself to get silksong when it comes out. I did this with a little bit of YT..." data-date="2025-05-05">hollow knight home row layout</a>
* Also second run of animal well
* put a pause on the thps gap project <a href="/tags/thps-gaps/" class="wikilink" data-title="Posts tagged: thps-gaps" data-description="All posts with the tag &#34;thps-gaps&#34;">Posts tagged: thps-gaps</a>
* working on a split version of my keyboard

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Last update Fri Jan 31 08:43:10 PM CST 2025

* Heavy Focus in on <a href="/markata/" class="wikilink" data-title="markata" data-description="This post is a work in progress." data-date="2024-05-30">markata</a>, upcoming <a href="/markata-search/" class="wikilink" data-title="markata search" data-description="A side effect of markata-didyoumean is that we are able to implement some rudimentary search based on slug, title, tags, and description." data-date="2025-01-30">markata search</a> and <a href="/markata-didyoumean/" class="wikilink" data-title="Markata DidYouMean" data-description="Coming in Markata 0.9.1 is far better documentation. i.e. Documentation that actually exists for everything. As part of poking around I realized that I often..." data-date="2025-01-29">Markata DidYouMean</a>
* Moving from Arch to Bazzite, I'm fully here but making everything just that
  much smoother in a container based world.
* kubernetes - trying to get better
* k8s in the homelab - All of my services I run in my homelab are currently
  k8s, trying to make it all smooth and consistent
* k8s in the blog, I'm building this static site in k8s and its never been
  better.
* learning agentic workflows - I'm trying to build out a few side projects
  minimally touching the code and only instructing windsurf
* mostly-one-shot-apps - I just built <a href="/nvim-manager/" class="wikilink" data-title="nvim-manager" data-description="I recently built a cli application as a nearly-one-shot-app called nvim-manager. It manages your nvim dotfiles install." data-date="2025-01-12">nvim-manager</a> as a mostly
  one-shot-app (i.e. the app was nearly v1 out of the first prompt)
* markata plugins with chatgpt project using rag - <a href="/analytics/" class="wikilink" data-title="analytics" data-description="I&#39;ve been posting on this site since 2016, when layoffs were rolling through the company I worked for at the time. Starting a personal blog and a pile of..." data-date="2025-01-22">analytics</a> - tag aggregator
* Family focus - <a href="/we-beat-trailmakers/" class="wikilink" data-title="we beat trailmakers" data-description="Today we broke through the atmosphere in trailmakers ready for pickup from those back at mission conrol." data-date="2025-01-10">we beat trailmakers</a> <a href="/a-night-of-rounds/" class="wikilink" data-title="a night of rounds" data-description="Tonight my son and I played rounds, I pulled clips of all the final rounds of each set of rounds. We play hardly any games with guns in them, this is one of..." data-date="2025-01-16">a night of rounds</a>