Now

What is this page?

A Now Page is a quick at-a-glance summary of what I’ve been doing recently.

The idea is to give you more of a bird’s-eye-view than you’d get from status updates and blog posts.

Last updated

Last significant update was 9 Aug 2022.

Home & Family

  • Living in Darlington, England.
  • With my girlfriend, my cat, and occasionally two small humans.
  • My dad died, 2 Aug 2023.

Work

Learning

  • Currently learning the Rust programming language.
  • Planning on getting back to learning Toki Pona.

Fitness

  • Getting back into going to the gym.
  • Planning on starting swimming regularly soon.

Writing

I wrote the 1 Dec entry to the Perl Advent last year: Silent Mite.

I’m trying to be more active on my blog.

Thoughts

Reading

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots.

The Children Act by Ian McEwan.

Films

Films I’ve enjoyed recently:

  • Barbie
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

TV

TV series I’m watching:

  • Prison Break (season 4)
  • The Good Doctor (season 4)
  • Kingdom Hospital
  • Misfits (season 2)
  • The Terminal List (season 1)
  • The Ghost & Molly McGee (season 2)

Recently finished:

  • The Haunting of Bly Manor
  • Secret Invasion

Games

Games I’m part way through:

  • Untitled Goose Game
  • Life is Strange 2
  • The Last of Us
  • It Takes Two

Games I’ve played recently:

  • Life is Strange: Before the Storm
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Until Dawn
  • The Quarry
  • Life is Strange
  • God of War Ragnarok

Music

I don’t seem to have much time to listen to music lately. 🙁

Open Source

Projects I’ve been working on lately: