Now (June 30, 2025)

June 30, 2025

Last updated: 2025-06-30

Hi, welcome to my now page! You can see previous versions of this page here.

Now

Currently on a long holiday in Italy!
I've been successful at replacing all my phone time with reading rather than social media or playing games. I still do it sort of like an escape, but it's much better than what I was doing before.
Creative writing practice has stalled a bit. Not because I don't want to, but I just don't seem to find the time to do it! Maybe I have some time in the evenings, but I'm usually quite tired by then. It's fine though.
Been rediscovering my love for haiku recently! It's a great form to capture thoughts and feelings in a sort of snapshot way.
I've been trying to distance myself from Amazon and the Kindle environment. To this end, I've been toying with KOReader, and its excellent set of plugins. There's even one that automatically uploads your status and quotes to Hardcover! It's truly what I've always wanted Kindle + Goodreads to be, but better.
Depression has been acting up a bit. Mostly as lack of energy.
I've also been enjoying my time on status.cafe. It's probably the social media I've used the most. Though to be honest my use is constrained to posting random thoughts or haiku every now and then. It's fun.

(you can also find me on Hardcover)

After being having it recommended multiple times I've finally given in and started watching Naruto. It takes a bit to get going, but so far I'm enjoying it!
- Though my watching is currently on pause. Probably until I get back from my vacation.

I'm working on a silly side project, which is a Discord bot that posts images to both Bluesky and my GoToSocial instance. It takes care of image conversion, compression, and using LMM to extract a caption (which is not always accurate but 💁‍♂️). It's aptly named image-poster.
I've been thinking of adding something to my site that pulls data books I'm currently reading from Hardcover and displays it here with my reading progress. Though I likely won't have time to do it until I'm back home.
- Maybe even add a list of recently finished ones? Or a sortable table of ratings and whatnot?