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 1 September 2024.

Just over halfway through Term III now: I’ll be on school holidays this time next month. Quite a lot going on.

Life

Some big decisions coming up, and one just recently made. You’ll have to wait to hear about the big decisions; the one I just made is to take Term III off for long service leave next year.

School

We’re in the middle of Year 11 examinations right now; after that, we’ll be saying goodbye to Year 12. It’s a busy time of year, but not as busy as it used to be.

Podcasting

Untitled Star Trek Project continues on its more-or-less weekly release schedule and is as much fun as ever. We’ve covered about 1 in 7 episodes of Star Trek now.

Flight Through Entirety starts its Series 10 coverage on 15 September. By then, we will already have seven episodes in the can. It’s been so much fun spending Sunday morning chatting to my friends about Doctor Who. Which is, of course, why we do it.

Maximum Power starts recording in just a couple of weeks, which will give me a chance to talk to more friends, including friends in England, about another ridiculous British TV show.

Websites

Finally making some progress on the eleventy-plugin-podcaster plugin, which is designed to help people who want to use Eleventy to make a podcasting website. I have seven Eleventy podcasting websites already, and so the code is all there and it all works. So the task now is making sure that it’s usable by people other than me, which means writing documentation, getting the naming right and writing tests to make sure that it does what the documentation says it does. I’m doing a little bit of work on it every week right now; I’ll spend some more time on it during the holidays. I want to make sure all my websites run on it before the end of the year.

What I’m enjoying

Only Murders in the Building is back for a fourth season. It’s so fun and happy and brilliant. That’s going to be a special treat every Tuesday for the next couple of months.

Kaos, starring Jeff Goldblum as Zeus, looks pretty compelling. Might have to wait for the holidays though. We’ll see.