Now

What I'm up to, what I'm focusing on, or what's important to me right now.

Building

I've rediscovered a passion for homelabbing and self hosting. Reducing my reliance on subscription services and having fun with secondhand hardware from 2019 is an absolute win. See my network section on /uses.

Investing time in my local community and nature, getting to know my neighbours, and being present for new and old friends.
Putting in the work in therapy to not be so anxious all the time.
Engaging with music more intentionally (buying, curating, sharing) instead of pressing play to fill silence with noise while I do something else.

Figuring out how to maintain a productive balance between life and work through positive purpose and boundaries as a full-time WFH engineer.
Leaning hard into agentic software engineering. Our jobs are changing, we can't be complacent with these new tools.
Using all this extra AI capacity to build out all my abandoned side-project ideas:
- A kitchen inventory manager with barcode scanner that isn't as complicated as Grocy
- A Home Assistant → Bueno Analytics data exporter
- An Up bank → Actual Budget data importer
- Plenty more...