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 Monday 1 January 2024.

It’s the first day of 2024, and here’s what I’m up to right now.

Life

I’ve been back from my holiday in Malaysia for just over a week. Now there’s about three or four weeks before school begins again. (I don’t want to look up exact dates right now.)

School

That means that I will have plenty of time to relax over the next few weeks. But there’s still a lot of work to do for school, particularly for the Classics Department. So I’ll be spending a few hours a day on that as well.

Podcasting

I haven’t mentioned this before, but I’m currently guesting regularly on a podcast called The Horror of Who, where we talk about the way that the horror genre is exemplified by Doctor Who. Brendan and I covered the Hartnell Era, and Peter and I will be recording some episodes on the Troughton Era this month.

Flight Through Entirety is taking a break until the middle of 2024, to reflect the fact that Doctor Who took 2016 off to sort out the transition from Moffat to Chibnall. But during that break, we will be releasing the first season of a new podcast, 500 Year Diary, which will mostly cover things we haven’t discussed on FTE over the years, as well as bringing in new people to talk about the things we have covered.

Joe and I are recording the next episode of Untitled Star Trek Project tomorrow and releasing it on Friday — it’s a Season 3 episode of Star Trek: Picard called No Win Scenario. We’ve covered just under 11% of the existing Star Trek episodes so far.

As for the rest of the podcasts I’m involved in, Startling Barbara Bain has released three episodes in the last three months, Maximum Power is nearing the end of its coverage of Series C, and The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire (2GAB for short) has watched all four of the recent Doctor Who specials and will resume when Doctor Who does (probably in May).

Websites

My shared hosting account with A2 Hosting expires in March, and I’m not going to renew it. Which means that I need to convert the Maximum Power podcast website from WordPress to Eleventy. That’s easy: I’ve already got a version of it running very well, so once Maximum Power finishes Series C and James is working on the Series D redesign, I’ll have a proper new website project on my hands. Should be fun.

I still want to create a series of articles about podcasting with Eleventy, and possibly even create a starter project for people to use. Still giving it some thought though.

Apps

I’ve gone all in on Obsidian for storing my notes. I’m not a full-on maniac about it yet, but I’m finding it helpful to have a well-organised place where I can store and retrieve my notes. If I start writing plugins for it, I’ll let you know.

Thinking of adding a /using page to this site, documenting what apps I use for different tasks. (If you’re reading this, take a look at the sidebar menu and see if it’s already there.)

What I’m enjoying

I read the fifth volume of Heartstopper last week, fully expecting it to be the last one, but it wasn’t, and there will be a new book out this year.

Nothing else springs to mind right now. I should do something about that.