Cobbled together, powered by ice cream, on July 9, 2024, from a balcony in Jönköping.

🏖️ Sanna continues her sabbatical, and I’m still tagging along on her adventures. Since February, we went to Gothenburg to catch Dina ögon; laughed out loud to PetrINA; arranged a movie night for my nieces; took a day trip to Bruket i Wiared; had a very nice evening listening to GERD; made that trip to Copenhagen; attended an intimate, beautiful wedding; took the ferry to Gotland and spent way more quality time with family than we usually do when we’re both working. Good times!

On the windy deck of the ferry, I gave Sanna a kiss on the cheek.

👔 All this adventuring with Sanna naturally means less time for work. What’s been really weird for me this year, though, is that I’ve found myself spending an absurd number of hours working in Keynote and Numbers rather than Nova (the code editor), and that definitely says … something? Am I turning into a suit?! 😱

Other than a cybersecurity talk I presented to the lovely folks at Smålands Turism back in April, it’s been mostly meetings and meta work. Oh, and yeah, for a short while I was pondering taking a deal for an office space with a stunning view, but ultimately turned it down.

Three modern geometric high-rise buildings towering over a traditional red brick building.

🤖 I mentioned in the previous version of this now page that I find the smaller, more niche, and locally run generative models the most interesting. And that hasn’t changed, so among the major actors, I believe Apple has the most promising strategy. Their engineers definitely put some thought into the Private Cloud Compute system as well. Apple is still an asshat in other ways, though. 🙄

🚧 Time away from work often results in my brain’s background process spending more time on hobby projects. And, as usual, there’s no lack of ideas: I want to produce a zine, my website and Micro.blog plug-ins crave some tender love and care, and it’s been far too long since I last wrote code for the Game Boy. And I would like to set up a Gopher server, and implement a tiny Forth, and play with my AxiDraw, and figure out if I can get that old Pong console running, and … you see my problem. 😅

📚 I’m still on a reading spree, and I’ve picked up some actual book books. You know, the physical variety that takes up room in meat space. Pyongyang, Cryptid Club, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Kissa by Kissa: How to Walk Japan, Alltid fucka upp, and I Who Have Never Known Men are a sampling of my recent reads. It’s been a treat to let my eyeballs rest on paper for a change. Next up is Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness.

Overhead view of a book, a coffee mug, and an ice cream on a wooden table, with grass visible in the background. The book cover of I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman features a silhouette of a woman with an orange, circular shape partially covering her face.

(This page is inspired by Derek Sivers’s now page idea. You should make one, too.)