What I'm doing now
Updated: 2026-09-26, from a jam packed coffee shop called OUD Coffee & Cafe in River North, Chicago
Some things I've been interested in lately
- Exploring the world of lagers. I discovered my preferred type of beer is lagers, Tecate has remained my favorite.
- Using Strava has been really fun!
- My new Coros Pace 4
- Reading my first thousand pager The Count of Monte Cristo and so far it's got me in a choke hold.
- Fully adopted Obsidian as my digital note taking app and it's been a great alternative to Apple Notes
- Finally saw a Red Bull Spin Off in person and it was as awesome as I thought it would be. Next thing to do is to be a participant. I need to acquire a tandem bike.
- Participating in my official race it's just a 5k but I do want to build up to an official marathon by next year.
DRW
I received/ accepted a fulltime job offer from this amazing company and now I've moved across the country! It all feels like a dream. This wasn't what I expected to happen when I enrolled in a coding bootcamp. I just wanted to learn to code for fun and to have the ability to build my own projects but it led here and I love the work that I'm doing for this job. For all of this to happen within less than a year is absolutely absurd to me. This outcome just proves to me that following fun and genuine curiosity can lead to amazing places you'd never predict yourself to be in.
Observability
I've enjoyed using goatcounter for this websites observability but I crave more! I began setting up metrics for an app I manage at work and I love this field of software. I figured I'd apply what I'm learning to my personal life. I've yet to implement anything on this site but Prometheus + Grafana will be my weapons of choice. My hope is to better understand who or what demographic I'm appealing and use that data to guide my decisions on what to spend my time working on. I have many interests in life and find it hard to focus on one or a few of them but if I discover other's are interested in a particular thing I'm doing then I could focus on that more knowing there is an audience for it.
Exercise
Running. Currently I'm obsessed with running, the community, the data, improving, the fashion, the health benefits. Everything about it. I'm definitely being influenced by this instagram account and I'm totally ok with that. I've doubled my milage since the obsession took a hold of me. From 9 to 18+ miles per week.
Abandoning hledger
I tried to adopt hledger as a new more complex financial tracking system but it has been 4+ months and I have yet to adopt it and remain tracking with pen and paper. I figured as my income increases then the way I track my finances should change but I guess I'm a sucker for simplicity or I'm stubborn and refuse to change my ways. Either way I will remain with analog and will attempt to digitize my tracking system instead. With AI by my side I'm excited to build a custom solution that should feel identical to my current setup
This "Now" page
Because I made this exact page and put it up on the internet I'm eligible to take part of a project that a role model of mine created and I think it's pretty cool. The name is nownownow.com, created by Derek Sivers and it's a collection of sites that have a “what I'm doing now” page. Go take a peak! I'm currently under the US: Illinois section but that could change in the future.