Updated March 24, 2025

**Last updated:** 24 Mar, 2025 This is a /now page, listing out the stuff that's going on with me at the moment. If you have your own site, you should make one too. What I’m listening to: ---------------------- * **The Reflex** - _Miscellaneous remixes_ · I got a package of records from him with extended revisions of things like _It's The Falling In Love_ and _Boogie Wonderland_ and _Someday We'll All Be Free_. I've had a fantastic weekend listening to those and suggest you join his Patreon to do the same. * **The White Stripes** - self-titled and _Elephant_ * **Wet Leg** - self-titled What I’m reading: ----------------- I maintain an archive of the books I read over on The Storygraph. Here's my current selection: * **The Code Breaker** by Walter Isaacson * **Prophet Song** by Paul Lynch * **Private Eye** What I’m watching: ------------------ * **Severance** * **Adolescence** * **Mad Men** * **A Thousand Blows** * **Big Boys** * **Bob's Burgers** Other things I’m enjoying: -------------------------- * Seeing Public Service Broadcasting with a pal * Enjoying walking around Farmoor reservoir * Replaying Rayman Legends Current status: ---------------

Updated February 13, 2025

* A service to generate a podcast from a RSS feed using text-to-speech. * A version of Buffer for Mastodon. * Instapaper * Chrome Extension to add “Add to Instapaper” links to lobste.rs. * Chrome Extension to add “Add to Instapaper” links to feedly. Fitness / Health ---------------- * Self hosted version of MyFitnessPal. Others’ Ideas Pages ------------------- * Jonathan Borichevskiy * Alexey Guzey * Gwern * James McMurray (Updated February 13, 2025 )

Updated February 12, 2025

Here's a list of * Self-host my blog using a setup that uses Markdown files and git * Run a Gemini capsule * Self-host a guestbook for my blog * Sign blog posts and pages with PGP Last updated 2025-02-12. Inspired by Artem Tyurin's /ideas page.

Updated March 26, 2025

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Updated March 26, 2025

Early morning Brain matters. This /now/ page was last updated on 26 Mar 2025. Current projects ---------------- * Brain - A project to make a digital brain. * Swarm - A docker swarm setup with automatic distributed file system. Somewhere for my projects and websites to run. * Bread and Butter - The day job, pays the bills, freelance PHP dev and Sysadmin. 07:41 ----- Thinking about the brain a little. Mostly remembering how dopamine works and how that would make for brain that might be able to actually learn from input other than its programming or underlying training data. 11:05 ----- Lost the really useful tiny screwdriver set I got out of a Christmas cracker like 25 years ago My glasses are gonna fall apart immediately..

Updated March 26, 2025

Home Archives Categories Tags Impressum Contact Atom On Achieving your Dreams ------------------------ Posted on March 26, 2025 in Personal • Tagged with Work, Life, Business • 8 min read My thoughs after achieving the life long goal of creating a profitable Internet business. Turns out that you must be careful what you wish for. Continue reading * * * The State of this Blog ---------------------- Posted on October 01, 2023 in Uncategorized • Tagged with Update, News • 1 min read An update regarding the state of this blog Continue reading * * * How to find the ASN for any IP Address? --------------------------------------- Posted on July 31, 2022 in Programming • Tagged with autonomous system, ASN, API, Security • 4 min read In the Internet, each IP Address belongs to an autonomous system (AS). In this blog article, it is demonstrated how any IP address can be mapped to an AS number. The necessary information and sources to map each IP Address to an Autnomous System is provided as well, since they were not easy to find. Continue reading * * * db.js — In-Memory Key-Value Database with Persistent File Storage ----------------------------------------------------------------- Posted on May 29, 2022 in Open Source • Tagged with db.js, in-memory database, key-value storage, JSON file persistance • 5 min read Instead of using one of the many battle proofed and reliable database solutions out there, I rather created my own solution. In this quick blog post, I am announcing the release of `db.js` - A in-memory database with persistant file storage. Continue reading * * * How to find out if an IP address belongs to a Hosting / Cloud Provider? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted on March 09, 2022 in Security • Tagged with API, Datacenter, Hosting, Cloud-Provider, IP API, Bot-Detection, VPN-Detection, IP-Intelligence, IP-Lookup • 8 min read It is not entirely trivial to find out if an IP address belongs to a datacenter / cloud provider. In this blog article, I try to find an algorithm that outputs with high confidence if an IPv4 / Ipv6 address belongs to a hosting provider or not. Continue reading * * * Fingerprinting TLS - Core differences between TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Posted on January 18, 2022 in Security • Tagged with TLS Fingerprinting, TLS 1.2, TLS 1.3 • 16 min read In this blog post, I highlight the core differences between TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 and investigate how we can use several properties of the protocol to obtain fingerprinting entropy from TLS clients. Continue reading

Updated January 27, 2025

Ideas ----- _Ideas, concepts, planned projects._ Last updated: January 27, 2025 My brain is really good in producing new ideas and sometimes obsessing over them for a short while. Usually though, the ideas will never come to fruition, so this page documents at least some of them for later. If you look through this list and one of the ideas stands out to you, please push my motivation by telling me about it. Even more so if you want to collaborate! Create/Build/Implement a/an... ------------------------------ * Fetching bookmarks from Linkding via API key on every build of this page * Events page for Vuejs events, similar to events.vuejs.org, but with a focus on discoverability * Integrations for (imho) essential services into Vimb. This would be mainly bookmarks via Linkding, passwords via Bitwarden and tab/history sync (via FFSync). * Fediverse enabled Event hub, like Mobilizon, but with an UI similar to Luma. Try out... ---------- * Kagi Websearch - but I don't like that they are yet another Silicon Valley startup * Bridgy Fed to bridge all my social media together

Updated March 26, 2025

✉ | subscribe » atom Hello, welcome to my blog! A listing of all the posts follows. I am now keeping more subjective (and frequent) pieces in /journal. Things that are more _page_ like go in my personal /wiki. I also try to maintain a regular activity /log. * * * Filter by _tags_ 100daystooffload conversational-ai emacs exploration fountain-pens learning lisp llm ml org-mode personal physics productivity programming python ramble ricing skepticism speech tooling ux viz work writing 2025-03-26 A _Good_ Rose Ink fountain-pens 2025-01-17 Semantic Search and _On-Device ML_ in Emacs emacs ml 2025-01-07 2024: A lot of Changes personal 2024-12-26 Leaving _Skit_, and _Vernacular_ personal work 100daystooffload 2024-10-19 Interventional Debates for Studying _Gray_ Topics learning llm 100daystooffload 2024-09-13 _mu4e-snooze_ and Cognitive Heuristics ml emacs programming productivity 100daystooffload llm 2024-09-12 Dictation Mode for Emacs emacs programming 100daystooffload writing llm speech 2024-08-01 Hierarchical Event Bus for Spoken Dialog Systems 100daystooffload programming ml speech conversational-ai 2024-07-17 How good are General ASR APIs for Indian English? speech ml 100daystooffload 2024-06-22 10 years of blogging personal 100daystooffload writing 2024-05-09 Speech LLMs for Conversations work ml conversational-ai llm speech 100daystooffload 2023-12-28 _2023_: The longest year of my life personal 2023-08-20 MatplotLLM: An _LLM assisted_ Data Visualization Framework ml programming emacs viz 2023-07-25 Muse: An Experiment in Music Exploration ml personal 2023-07-22 Learning Colemak-DH tooling personal 2023-06-30 Speech-First Conversational AI Revisited ml work conversational-ai llm speech 2023-06-29 _mu4e-snooze_ and adventures with AI co‑programming ml emacs programming productivity 2023-01-26 Death of Documentation ml work 2022-02-02 Speech-First Conversational AI work ml 2022-01-18 Complexity of Conversations - I ml work 2021-05-09 Ambivalence personal 2020-01-30 A REPL for Conversations ml programming 2019-10-31 Github Linguist Colors programming viz 2019-04-09 Blurring Text exploration ml 2018-08-26 Tangle Templates org-mode programming emacs tooling 2018-06-07 Blog ← Wiki personal 2018-01-27 Blog → Wiki personal 2017-12-20 Fancy Little Lisp λs lisp programming 2017-10-28 Ricing up Org Mode emacs org-mode ricing ux 2017-08-25 The point of keyboarding ux personal 2017-06-29 Leaving Goodreads personal ramble emacs org-mode 2017-06-25 Simpler time map plots exploration viz 2017-05-15 The Beauty of Syntactical Macros programming lisp 2017-03-15 Projects personal emacs org-mode tooling 2017-03-05 Optional Typing programming python 2016-11-02 Cheap polyglot notebooks org-mode emacs tooling programming 2016-08-25 Abusing Evidence: Drought, Deluge and Disregard ramble skepticism 2016-06-13 What is it that Genetic Algorithm does? ml 2016-03-17 On why you too should give Emacs Org-mode a spin org-mode emacs tooling 2016-01-23 Constitution De Markov exploration 2015-12-21 White Rhinos, irrationality and other tales ramble skepticism 2015-11-03 The Writers' Voice ml exploration viz 2015-07-30 Up and running with Theano (GPU) + PyCUDA on Windows tooling 2015-06-27 Hot 100 over the years exploration viz 2015-03-23 Overtone Jamming ramble 2015-03-20 Rowing a Steamer ramble 2015-01-14 Computer Programs and Zipf's Law exploration 2015-01-08 Firewall Paradox and revisiting the Law of Information physics 2015-01-06 Why I Stopped Recommending GNOME ux 2014-11-25 The Interstellar's Tesseract ramble 2014-11-02 Neural Turing Machines for dummies ml 2014-07-29 Flesh and Metal ramble 2014-06-21 Extreme Learning Machines with Julia exploration ml

Updated March 24, 2025

Top level navigation menu ------------------------- * Archive * About * Now What I’m doing now ------------------ * I recently became a Dad. What a ride, heh? We welcomed Isla May Jenkins to the world on 2nd December, 2024. * Working on several client projects via 16by9 and Noise & Grain. * I'm starting to work on a rebrand of 16by9. Will be blogging about the journey. * Migrating this blog from WordPress to Eleventy. Expect things to be a bit wonky for a while. * Taking as many photos (mostly of Isla) as I can. Last updated: 24th March, 2025. Inspired by Derek Sivers.

Updated March 26, 2025

What I'm Doing Now ------------------ Last updated: 2025-03-26 AI or Die --------- What is the future of work? What is the future of business? What is the future of humanity? And how can we prepare for it? Location -------- Currently based in The Midlands, England, UK

Updated March 3, 2025

##### Last updated on March 3, 2025 This is a public list of ideas that I would like to work on someday. This is a copy of the ideas note I have in my Obsidian vault, where I jot down interesting projects, concepts, and thoughts that I find intriguing and might want to explore in the future. Since it is not practically possible for anyone to work on every idea they have, I thought it would be better to make this note public so that someone else might build it someday. Ideas that I’m currently working on are crossed out and have been moved to my projects page. Against each idea, I’ve added a short description to provide more context. If you are interested in any of the ideas mentioned below and want to work on them or collaborate with me, feel free to contact me. In case any of the ideas already exist, please let me know, and I will cross them out with a backlink to the project. **Vape with a Puff Limiter**A vape that lets you set the maximum number of puffs you can have in a day via an app or something! Looks like another person has thought about the same .**A Search Engine for Personal Blogs**I’m unable to search for content in personal blogs on google or any other search engine. Kagi small web is there, but it’s not personal blog specific.**A World Travel Lottery**A lottery with the grand prize as a fully-expensed, world travel package to visit n countries across all continents**Cricket Guard Line Projector**If you watch cricket, you can see batsmen often marking guard lines against the stumps by asking the umpire. Why can’t we have a laser projection of the stumps controlled by the umpire with a remote?**A cheap running tracker**There are multiple running trackers that you can attach to shoes, like Stryd , but these are quite expensive. Why is it so hard to make cheaper running trackers?**A platform to read both sides of an argument.**A moderated platform where a dedicated page is present for popular topics, and people can read about both sides of the argument.**Indian News Aggregator with relevance**India is struggling with misinformation and rigged news. The magnitude is quite high, considering the huge population, the demographics, and the rising internet penetration. A platform like News Minimalist that removes clickbait titles and filters relevant news would be useful for India.**Global Fish Database in different languages**Fishnames are tricky if you travel around the world. Within a country itself, fish names would be different. A global database of fishnames in all different languages would be great!**Bookmark for Videos & Podcasts**I wish there was a tool to record a particular timestamp on a video or a podcast so that I can watch it from the saved timestamp when I resume, rather than scrolling and finding the time.**Strava for Writers**Strava is a great tool to track your activities. As a writer, such a tool would be great to see the number of words written every day and also get a sneak peek at others’ writings.**About Me Collection**I love reading the About Me sections of various personal blogs. A curated list of the best about pages would be cool.**Evergreen Hosting** People put a lot of effort into their blogs, and most often, after the person passes away, these blogs go obsolete. How about a service that you can pay for one-time or in installments, ensuring that your blog stays live forever? _Update: I wrote about in detail here . Also, checkout Digital Legacy Trust by Derek Sivers._ ##### Leave a comment below. All comments are moderated and will appear after approval. Your email, if provided, is optional and won't be shared or used to send any spam. If your comment requires a personal response beyond a public reply, I will reach out to you via email. Comments are static, with no notifications or backlinks.

Updated March 26, 2025

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