What I’m doing now

(This is a now page, and if you have your own site, you should make one, too.)

Updated April 15th, 2026, from my cabin-in-the-woods home in New Zealand, where summer has ended and autumn has begun.

databasing my sive.rs site

Until now, this website was generated from static files on disk. No database. But now I’ve moved everything into the database to make it easier for someone to dynamically search. More on that, later.

social networks

I posse these networks, so follow me at your fave:

finished the videobook of “Useful Not True”

The very day I wrote the last word of “Useful Not True”, I went into my recording booth, and recorded the entire audiobook in one take, in 110 minutes.

But two months ago I listened to it again and realized I could do better. So I went back into the booth and turned on the camera as well, recording the audiobook while making a video at the same time.

Then I had to make subtitles, after aligning my transcript with the audio, which meant learning the Montreal Forced Aligner and the Sub Station Alpha subtitle format. Then I edited them by hand throughout to help emphasize the message of the book. The result is even better than the plain text book.

It’s available now at my store, sivers.com. If you already bought any digital format, it’s already yours.

GrapheneOS

Switched my (Google Pixel 10) phone to GrapheneOS, which is badass and easier than I expected.

66 books that reference me

More added now. New page on the site: sive.rs/ref

pausing podcasts

I’ve been on over 250 podcasts, and spent hundreds of hours editing the transcripts to make them as accurate as can be, so no one has to listen to 500+ hours of me talking. You or a computer can read, search, or query the transcripts. But I’m going to stop doing podcasts for a while so I have all new stuff to talk about.

boy thriving at his new school

My son just started his second year of high school, and is so wonderfully insightful, philosophical, talkative, and creative. We talk like 20-30 hours a week.

He switched schools to one with a uniform and tie, and is really thriving there for the first time since Dragon School.

programming

I’m enjoying a re-think and re-structure of all of my past code, doing even more inside of PostgreSQL. I’m in that phase where I do it until I fall asleep at night, then bounce of bed at 5am to get right back to it. Doing Go for my first time.

I wrote a Mustache template parser in PostgreSQL, so now I can save my HTML templates in PostgreSQL, and call a single function with the minimum variable - like an HTTP cookie - and it will return the HTTP headers and HTML body, ready to return to the browser. It’s very simple and very exciting.

public code

Finally sharing my main code, which you can see at:

Migrating it in from an old non-Git directory, so it will appear piece by piece.