What I’m doing now
(This is a now page, and if you have your own site, you should make one, too.)
Updated November 4th, 2025, from my new home in a forest north of Wellington, New Zealand, where it’s spring has finally brought blue skies after months of cold, wind, and rain.
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.
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.
Bluesky sive.rs
Syndicating my tweets into a self-hosted Bluesky Personal Data Server. If you follow me at bsky.app, I’ll start posting for real, soon.
Aiming to do ActivityPub next.
done with 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 this has all taken so much time that I’m going to stop doing podcasts for a while and turn my attention back to writing.
42 books that reference me
New page on the site: sive.rs/ref
Math Academy
Learning math from MathAcademy.com, and so is my boy.
switched from Mac to Linux, and iPhone to Android
Apple is frustrating. Awesome hardware, but awful software. I did the recommended upgrade to Mac OS “Tahoe” last month, but it’s SO awful! Ridiculous extra-rounded corners make everything take up more space on the screen. It looks so bad that for the day I used it, I found I was hating my computer and resentful.
So I gave away my Mac Mini, switched back to my 12-year-old silent PC, installed Debian 13 on it last month, and I’m SO SO happy to be back on a snappy fast computer that does exactly what I want and nothing I don’t want. I also replaced MacOS on my Mac laptop with Asahi Linux, which I’ll keep using for travel.
I’ve also ditched iPhone and switched to Android. Feels great to adjust the device to my tastes, instead of adjust myself to Apple’s tastes.
best music videos
Oh please go see the best music videos I’ve seen in so long, made by clarinetist Vincent Pongrácz in Vienna, in the band Synesthetic4.
So indie. So cool. So weird. So funny — I laughed the whole time. So brilliant. My soul needed this. I’m so glad Vincent emailed me.
boy in high school
My son is in his first year of high school, and is so wonderfully insightful, philosophical, talkative, and creative. We talk talk talk like 20+ hours a week.
rats are wonderful
The pet rats are adorable little hand-warmers. I’m letting them roam free in the house more often. So now they climb up my chair and into my lap, and fall asleep on me as I work or read.