Now

The main news right now is that Abby is going to be starting a chemotherapy drug in the next few months that will hopefully shrink some of her tumors. She'll be on it for at least 18 months and there's a lot of potential side effects, so I have a lot of anxiety, but also hope.

Currently, I'm still living in San Francisco, in the same apartment I've lived in since we moved there in December 2012. What can I say, it's cozy, rent-controlled and in an awesome neighborhood (near Zeitgeist). I also have the same job at YouTube that I've had all that time.

I'm still teaching a free Python class at Noisebridge on Monday nights. I'm trying a new format where I intentionally repeat lessons several times, in order to give people a chance to catch up when they miss classes (which people tend to do a lot) and also reinforce material that may have been mystifying the first time around. I've also been experimenting with recording the lessons.

All the work I put into Rainfall has kind of been a bust. I added matomo analytics and it seems like I'm getting between 1-3 visits a week. Yikes. Not sure if I want to ramp up some efforts to promote the thing, or just let it die a quiet death. Meanwhile, Faircamp, which Rainfall is based on, got some new features and it seems like a good time to support those features, so I have some amount of inspiration to continue development.

I bought a beautiful used copy of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind from Dog Eared Books and I'm definitely enjoying it. I also took out another Zen book from the library, about zazen and Zen meditation. Both books emphasize that there's kind of no point in "reading about Zen" and that the real value is from the practice of sitting zazen. So I'm thinking about going to the beginner day at the San Francisco Zen Center (which is the sangha founded by Shunryu Suzuki, the author of the book) on April 6. It's walking distance from my apartment!

What is a 'now' page?

A now page is like an about page, but with the scope of "right now" instead of a long view. The easiest way to think about it is: what would you tell a friend that you haven't seen in a while about what you're up to?

Where can I find a list of people with websites that feature a 'now' page?

Just go to nownownow.com. You can add your site to that directory should you choose to add a /now page to your site.