What I'm Doing Now

Last updated: 01/04/2026

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

Day Job

The OS system is now starting to get used. This month I focused heavily on the auth and user portions, and that got deployed out. However, I also started adding guardrails: documentation, smoke tests, canary tests. Keeping a mature ecosystem for this is paramount, but I’m hoping to move onto more interesting stuff this month now that the foundational groundwork is done.

I’m hoping to poke a few things soon and will be able to say more when they start. The day job is now past the hockey-stick scale-up part, so now it’s time to build. Combined with the aforementioned foundational work, things should start to rev up quickly.

After Hours

The house renovation trundles on. I’ve got a joiner coming soon to hang new doors, architraves, and skirting boards throughout the house. It’s slow going since I rely on other people and they’re busy — lining it all up is a pain. I’m hoping after Easter for the new doors to arrive, and hopefully soon after that they get hung. Once that’s done, I can get the floors in, then after that get the painter in. It’s all go, but slow progress.

On the garden front, I’m prepping where I can, but it’s still very wet and cold out there. I’m doing a bit when I can, but the weather is not my friend right now. As soon as we start to get some heat, things will sprout up.

I want to further my experiments, and with the Easter break I should be able to start on that. We’ll see. I’ve got a few side hustles going too.

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