What I’m doing now

Updated May 27th, 2026, from my cabin-in-the-woods home in New Zealand, where it’s a beautiful late autumn, getting darker and colder, but wonderfully crisp.

My current tools are at /uses.

Dark Horse rowing, and sauna

Every day I do ~30 minutes a day on the rowing machine, matching my form exactly to this guy’s videos.

Every night I sit in my sauna for 21 minutes at 82°C.

databasing my sive.rs site

Until three weeks ago, 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. Along the way, I’m improving the HTML and organization.

It’s been so much work, and kind of interesting, so I should write about it soon.

nownownow.com

… is more popular than ever, adding ~5 sites per day. I still maintain this by hand, and love it. So interesting to see all these personal sites.

rats are old

My pet rats are only two years (and one month) old but for a rat, that’s elderly, so they’re arthritic, hobbling, slow. But that means they like to cuddle more than ever. I really love them.

interviews paused indefinitely

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

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 out 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:

• codeberg.org/sivers/sivers
• github.com/sivers/sivers
• or gitlab.com/sivers/sivers

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