Now

A brief overview of my activities and focus of the past few months. You can also read more about the now page concept.

Last updated on November 4, 2024.

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I don’t foresee any significant availability for new client projects in the near future, but don’t let that stop you from saying hello anyway.

Client work

I’m continuing to work with a few clients right now, including a new one starting up this week doing some hardware-connected iPad work. I’d say I’m keeping things at about 1/2 to 2/3 of my working time on things for others. It’s a balance I continue to struggle with, because I’m still trying to squirrel away time for…

Long-term personal product/project

My hardware & software project continues to creep along. I’ve been spending a lot of time on the language side of things, especially with Lisp and Lisp-derived languages (tiny Lisps, Fennel, Janet). On the hardware side, I’ve been prototyping and testing tiny keyboards and battery charging circuits.

Hands-on projects

I revived Catch the Wave for both local science museum and Girl Scout STEM Day events again, as well as put together some nice video overviews of what the project actually is. And I tried something new — an in-person popup museum of some of my retrocomputing collection for Portland Design Month. I had several dozen people out to my house for a number of events and it was very rewarding to let people experience these things hands-on. I had a lot of fun curating hardware & software setups for all of the systems, which covered almost twenty years of computing history.