The Now Page was invented by Derek Sivers in 2021. It’s a page on your website that tells people what you’re doing right now — what you’re working on, what you’re working towards, what you’re looking forward to, and what you’re enjoying.

If you want to know more about who I am and what I do generally, take a look at my About page.

Now

Last updated on Sunday, 9 March 2025.

I’ve been back at work for a bit over a month now, alarmingly, and there’s one more month until the Easter break. There’s quite a lot to do between now and then.

Life

I’ve turned the sleep thing round, I think, but I’m still not averaging seven hours a night, which I was in 2023. I don’t feel sleep-deprived, but I know I’ll have more energy if I continue to improve.

Nothing much else to report. I’ve booked a hotel in Athens for three nights at the end of August, so my August/September trip to Greece and the UK is definitely happening.

School

This is the fourth year that the Grammar Classics Department has been teaching with Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, and so that means that the course has now reached Year 10 for the first time. By the end of the year, Year 10 will be reading authentic Latin. I look forward to seeing how the students handle the transition. I’m confident they will do well.

Podcasting

Maximum Power is just a few weeks away from finishing. It’s been fun working with the people from the UK, and it’s been fun to be a regular on a podcast where I’m not responsible for all the editing.

Next weekend, we’ll start recording Season 2 of 500 Year Diary. Hoping to release two seasons of 500 Year Diary this year while Flight Through Entirety takes a break. Season 2 is called The Second Coming, and focuses on the second time a particular villain or alien turns up on the show. We’ll start releasing the episodes in mid-April.

The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire will start up again in the middle of April, which is when the next season of Doctor Who arrives. The trailer looks promising.

And, as always, I have the pleasure of watching Star Trek with Joe every week and turning it into what I think is a pretty fun podcast.

Websites

The eleventy-plugin-podcaster plugin reached version 1.0.0 on 8 January, and it’s already up to 1.3.0. It hasn’t set the world on fire, but I didn’t really expect it to. It was fun to write and fun to learn how to set up something like this for release. And it works well for me. So well, in fact, that all eight podcast websites are now running on it — even the ones that finished some time ago. Converting the podcasts to use the plugin provided the pleasure of deleting lots of duplicate code and the chance to discover some new ways to improve the plugin.

I’m thinking of creating what Eleventy calls a starter project: a simple podcast website which demonstrates how the plugin works in practice and which can be used as a starting point by a podcaster who wants to create their own website. That would be a holiday project though.

What I’m enjoying

Series 2 of Severance has been great, opening up the world in unexpected ways. Andor Series 2 will start again in April. It’s going to be a big month.