Updated: April 29, 2026

What is a Now page?

I like to think of a Now page as the things I’d share if you were an old friend and we saw each other and were asking, what’s going on? What are you working on? What are you excited about?

You can find more info here too: https://nownownow.com/about

Personal

Finally starting to shake off the doldrums of winter. Enjoying the warmer weather and getting to open my windows. Trying to soak in the little things, like eating lunch outside. Need to reboot my morning walks.

Work

My part-time maintenance contract is starting to wind down, so I need to push efforts to find more work. Given how bad the job market is right now, I am a bit stressed out.

While I’ll engage the platforms like LinkedIn, my general (and historic) pattern here is to reach out to old peers and just try to publish more. The other half of that effort needs to include some self-improvement / educational tasks (which itself can fuel some publishing).

Side Projects

Started an update branch for Flick, but not much really. Have some ideas I may work on in the next few weeks.

Currently Playing

Enjoying MLB: The Show, though this year’s release has been a buggy mess.

Started a new Stardew Farm a few weeks ago. Still going strong, about to finish up Year 2. Time to decorate while waiting for that wine to process.

Currently Reading

Read about half of Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir (with the book club). It is interesting, but it is not holding me, and I’m likely to put it down.

Read the first two chapters of Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy. No strong feelings yet.

I bought the second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications and am curious to read it (the first edition was very good), but I may favor the second edition of Observability Engineering.

If you use GoodReads, you can follow me at: https://www.goodreads.com/zorn711

Currently Watching

• The Boys (Season 2) – kind of meh writing, but Antony Starr as Homelander is fun to watch.
• Project Hail Mary – got to see this in IMAX and it was great. Looking forward to watching it again at home when it releases.

Upcoming Events

Not much. Will go to the shore with my sister in June. Did one Phillies game a week or so ago. Maybe try to do some day trips otherwise.