What I'm Doing Now

Last updated: 01/06/2026

Updated monthly. This is what I’m focused on in June 2026.

Day Job

The day job is still going strong. I’m getting my teeth into really meaty subjects now. I can’t really get into the details here, but I can feel that I’m at the start of something really interesting — and I’m loving it.

I’m learning so much about graph databases and how they fit into the wider ecosystem we’re building. It’s a bit of a paradigm shift, but honestly that’s so refreshing after all these years. New mental models, new ways of thinking about data relationships. It’s exactly the kind of challenge I needed.

Now that the house work has stopped, I can work from home again. This is giving me the time and space to focus and get serious work done. No commute, no distractions — just heads-down problem solving.

After Hours

As I mentioned, the major work is done, but there’s still bits and bobs to do. The painter won’t be finished until mid-August now, so there’s a wee rest in between of having strangers in my house. After this there’s still more work to do, but it’s nice having a new room to use that was never really used before.

The garden is coming on nicely. It’s getting to the point where it’ll be maintenance mode, which I find a bit sad — but it’s good to see it take shape.

I still have zero motivation for out-of-hours development work. The GitHub contribution graph tells the story:

Almost nothing these past two months. But I can feel motivation starting to come back. I sense a new talk coming on about development processes now that agentic development has become the new normality in work. Watch this space.

Still tracking what I watch on my check-ins page.