Updated: June 20, 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

Doing ok. Just returned from a week down the shore with my sister and a few other family. Getting out of the house and spending time with the family was good for me. It can get isolating living and working from home, and I need to prioritize socializing a bit more than I do by default.

Work

My part-time maintenance contract is now part-part time (about 30 hours a month), so I am pushing 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 can, in turn, fuel some publishing).

Side Projects

Have been keeping up with some maintenance work for Flick. May use that project to test some observability things in the near future but we will see.

Kicked off my LocalCents project, which is still very early days but currently has some proof of concept things working together (macOS build, Rust-Elixir interop).

Currently Playing

I am currently in the endgame of a Red Dead 2 playthrough (just got John off the farm).

I also have an endgame Stardew Valley farm I jump into on occasion.

Currently Reading

Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy – it is so-so in parts but still working through it.

Started the second edition of Observability Engineering.

Started Art and Fear.

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

Currently Watching

Mostly just Phillies baseball and various YouTube things. Will likely grab a Netflix subscription for the All-Star game and so might binge some shows there soon™.

Upcoming Events

Nothing on the horizon. I should try to plan some day trips.