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Hi there, I’m Luke Bennett — a developer living in beautiful Port Macquarie, on Australia’s Mid North Coast. I work at Thinkmill — one of Australia’s leading design & development consultancies. I primarily work on the frontend and specialise in design systems. I'm a father to 7 kids: 3 of my own, and 4 bonus kids that came with my amazing wife Fern. When I’m not working, I’m usually spending time with my family. I’m passionate about the open web, design, typography, 90’s alternative music, craft beer, coffee, and Tarantino movies. I own a Helvetica poster and have a sticker of a Mac Classic on my car. I also have a small collection of cutthroat and safety razors, which is a bit ironic since I have a beard and rarely shave! This website is built with the following stack: * Tailwind CSS: A utility-first CSS framework that makes it quick and easy to build maintainable UIs. * Keystatic: Content management for your codebase. * Astro: A framework that leverages islands architecture to ship less client-side JavaScript. * Vercel: Serverless hosting from the company behind Next.js. © 2025 Luke Bennett. All rights reserved.

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* LinkedIn * GitHub * Email Blog ---- * You might not need parameterized tests (March 2025) * One method for easier JDBC (January 2025) * Notes on 0x MySQL literals (November 2024) * Don’t use complex expressions in if conditions (August 2024) * mdbooker – turn your README.md into a documentation site (March 2024) * Experimenting with GC-less (heap-less) Java (February 2024) * Using GAWK coprocess to speed up the script 50x (February 2024) * Makesure vs Just command runners on examples (December 2023) * makesure v0.9.21 – what’s new? (October 2023) * fhtagn – a tiny CLI programs tester written in AWK (June 2023) * A story about one refactoring of the parser grammar in IntelliJ-AWK (May 2023) * Bytebeating with GAWK (April 2023) * Rewriting Spring Boot integration tests for 10x speedup (April 2023) * AWK technical notes (March 2023) * Fascination with AWK (March 2023) * Adding parameterized goals to makesure (March 2023) * makesure vs make (March 2023) * makesure – make with a human face (February 2023) * Create bilingual books yourself (February 2023) * Code Coverage for GoAWK (December 2022) * Develop a utility on GraalVM (May 2019) * Y-Combinator in Mercury (May 2011) * Implementing Brainfuck interpreter in Mercury (February 2011) * Abusing Python’s list comprehensions (December 2008)

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About me -------- Hello I’m Kevin Mears I work as a web designer for the University of South Wales. One of my earliest memories is of doodling on waste punch cards from the days when computer programs ran on paper, I’m still amazed by technology and love drawing. I especially like to draw sketchnotes of talks, video, meeting, lectures amongst other things, and you can find lots of those on this site. You’ll also sometimes see the results of me tweaking, testing and investigating on this site, preferring to build some knowledge and have fun rather than ‘build my brand’. I featured in the seminal Zen of CSS Design book and having been designing websites for over 15 years I’m gratified to find that it still excites and delights me. Get in touch at * Twitter * Letterboxd * Instagram * LinkedIn Personal Website of Kevin Mears

Updated January 1, 2025

A modern + minimalist Android home screen optimized for one-✋ access and staying focused. Learn more on Google Play Get press kit (for reviewers) Support · Blog · Twitter · Imprint · Terms · Privacy Policy © 2017-2025 Peter Huber

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A modern + minimalist Android home screen optimized for one-✋ access and staying focused. Learn more on Google Play Get press kit (for reviewers) Support · Blog · Twitter · Imprint · Terms · Privacy Policy © 2017-2025 Peter Huber

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I’m a developer with a passion for building websites, apps, and scalable systems. When I’m not coding, you can find me on the mats practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, playing guitar, or hanging out with my family. ### 🔭 What I'm Up To * Check out my Now page to see what I’m currently working on. Feel free to shoot me an email at \[email protected\].

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As a senior-level technology and cybersecurity executive, I bring over two decades of experience in leading and managing innovative startups, established businesses, and complex security portfolios. I have a proven track record of founding and scaling successful businesses, driving strategic vision, and delivering significant financial growth. I excel in managing large, diverse teams across multiple countries, advising on cybersecurity investments, and providing executive leadership to high-profile organizations. My key professional skills encompass operational management, product development, market strategy, and strategic partnerships. Today, I am the Founder of CleanBrowsing, a DNS-based content filtering service, NOC, which provides speed and security for websites, and Trunc, a log management platform. These ventures reflect my commitment to advancing technology and making cybersecurity solutions accessible. Academically, I hold both undergraduate and graduate degrees in technology management and a graduate certificate in Information Security. These programs helped build my foundation in the principles of technology, business and security, enabling me to develop the strategic and operational skills necessary for leading high-tech ventures. My education has been asset in shaping my approach to building and managing technology startups, as well as in driving innovation and efficiency within my organizations. In my spare time, I engage in various hobbies, including Olympic Weightlifting, Crossfit, and Ranching. These activities help keep me physically and mentally active, while contributing to my overall well-being and creativity.

Updated January 1, 2025

I am **Yanick Fratantonio** (aka @reyammer), a Senior Research Scientist at Google. Before this position, I have been an Assistant Professor at EURECOM, and a Senior Security Researcher at Cisco Talos. (Why did I leave academia? I wrote a long post about it.) My research focuses on **systems security and privacy**, and it covers a wide range of aspects, such as mobile security, reverse engineering, malware analysis, binary analysis, and web security. My research has highlighted systemic flaws in many aspects of mobile devices and developed program analysis techniques to analyze Android, Windows, and Linux malware. More recently, I have been working on security and deep learning. I'm the tech lead for **Magika**, an AI-powered file type detection tool. Magika is designed to be working at scale, fast even on a single CPU. Magika is available on GitHub , and it is fast and accurate enough to be used in critical production pipelines at Google, among other things, to scan Gmail, Drive, and Safe Browsing files. ### Contact Information ### Research These days I work on security and deep learning, and I'm interested in research that is robust enough to go beyond academic prototypes. One my recent projects is Magika, an approach to detect a file's content type via a highly specialized deep learning model: Magika outperforms existing solutions, it is fast and accurate enough to be used in a number of critical production pipelines at Google (including Gmail, Drive, and Safe Browsing, scanning hundreds billions of samples every week), adopted by popular online services (e.g., VirusTotal, abuse.ch), and integrated with popular open source projects (e.g., Apache Tika, Microsoft's markitdown). Magika's python package has been already installed millions of times. Check out the Magika's GitHub repo and the associated ICSE'25 paper for more information. My prior research has highlighted systemic flaws in many aspects of mobile devices, including Graphic User Interfaces (GUI deception, a11y attacks, phishing against password managers, and clickjacking), bootloaders, hardware memory modules, cryptography, dynamic code loading, authentication, and fingerprint API. I also worked on the detection and analysis of malicious logic bombs, native code components, Windows shellcode, and more recently Linux malware. Last, I research about privacy aspects, such as data leaks and emerging ultrasound-based cross-device tracking mechanisms. ### Teaching When I was teaching at EURECOM, I have created a new class on Mobile Security (MOBISEC), first taught in Fall 2018. This was designed to be an hands-on course, and it covers topics such as the mobile ecosystem, the design and architecture of mobile operating systems, application analysis, reverse engineering, malware detection, vulnerability assessment, automatic static and dynamic analysis, and exploitation and mitigation techniques. All the material/slides/recordings are available at mobisec.reyammer.io, and all the wargame-like challenges (featuring an APK analysis system!) are available at challs.reyammer.io. ### Hacking I am a big fan of Capture The Flag (CTF) competitions and wargames — that is how I and many friends got into security. I'm a founding member of the Order Of the Overflow (OOO) team, the current now-retired DEF CON CTF organizers. I am also a core member of the Shellphish hacking team with which I played many competitions and organized many editions of the UCSB iCTF. I was also involved with the NOPS team, the EURECOM's hacking team, acting as their hackademic advisor. ### Professional Highlights * My work has appeared and I have been a speaker in many major security & privacy (IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, ACM CCS, NDSS, PETS, Black Hat) and software engineering (ICSE, FSE) venues. * Magika started as a research prototype, but it found adoption in Google-scale critical production pipelines, and it is now a popular open source project with millions of installations. * I'm serving as the PC Chair for RAID 2025 and I have served as PC Co-chair for RAID 2024. * I have served as PC Co-chair of WOOT 2023. * Our work "Cloak & Dagger" on Android UI attacks won the Distinguished Practical Paper Award at IEEE S&P 2017. * Our work "Drammer" on rowhammer attacks on mobile devices won the Pwnie Award for Best Privilege Escalation Bug 2017 and the CSAW Applied Research Best Paper Award 2017. * I have received the "2015 Outstanding Student Award" from the Computer Science deptartment at UC Santa Barbara. * My research has been covered by many international press venues, such as SlashDot, WIRED, Ars Technica, etc. See press coverage. * I am part of Shellphish, NOPS, and OOO, the now-retired DEF CON CTF organizers.

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(updated January 2025) I'm a business and social entrepreneur with over 650 employees in technology companies in Europe and the USA. My activities centre around **entrepreneurship**, **leading pro entrepreneurship communities**, **projects fighting social isolation and loneliness**, **alumni activation, event hosting**, and public speaking about leadership and entrepreneurship. My modus vivendi is to get things up and running, then hand over to others. ** Entrepreneurship** My businesses are listed on my Linkedin profile – with all of those businesses having clients, staff, management, revenue and sometimes profits. I’ve done nothing that people will have heard of, but some of the businesses – like Argos Multilingual – are among the best companies in the world in their sector, others like Zalamo and ISL are market leaders in their niches, and others like Unicard and SKK Global are very strong in some of the markets they are active in. PMR has a powerful brand in Poland. I have been on the management board of some of these businesses, CEO of two of them, and am on the Supervisory Board of three. If you want to do business with them and the idea makes sense I can help make introductions but I am not the ultimate decision maker, so don’t think that persuading me will be enough. ### Angel Investing I was angel investing before I knew that this term existed. Some of my investments are regarded as successful even though they have never paid me a dividend, salary, consulting fee or made a profit. I exited Targeted Provision, Crowdcube, Everuptive (formerly Notatek.pl), Untitled Kingdom, Racing Life, Lovekrakow.pl Syndicate Room and Vantage Power.  I made many more investments that never made it. I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time, to have the risk tolerance to trust in my instincts even though I was often wrong.For 15 years I was very active in the world of TED.com and TEDx. I organised over 30 TEDx events. I teach entrepreneurship and run workshops in universities, business schools, schools and at community events. I don’t have any need/desire for “work/life balance”. I like being productive and doing things that matter to me and hopefully other people. Some projects I lead or support/(ed) include Open Coffee Lisbon, Lisbon Newcomers Welcome Club, CAMentrepreneurs, Village in the City, Open Coffee Krakow, Krakow Enterprise Mondays and the Wojtek the Soldier Bear project - which I have written about here. I’m particularly interested in changing the way that schools and universities interact with their alumni with respect to the support of entrepreneurship. I have been a Couchsurfer and still occasionally host and stay with people. Although my formal commitment to TED and TEDx ended in 2021, I remain in close contact with and continue to support TEDxKazimierz, which I founded and led until January 2021. I hosted TED Circles while TED supported this innovative form of discussion group based on TED content. and you can find my TED.com profile here. ### Podcasting The New Books Network has grown to be almost certainly the largest non-fiction author interview podcast in the world, with over 140,000 downloads a day (data from December 2021). The NBN Entrepreneurship and Leadership podcast which I founded with my business partner and friend Kimon Fountoukidis is a small part of a much bigger picture. I can and do share advice for people looking for investors in my most popular blog post **_Questions from a potential investor, mentor or partner_** and what not to do!  If you are ambitious, want to have a great life but don’t know what to do, watch my TEDxTarnow talk on “ Opportunity Readiness”. _If you want to meet me to talk about your business idea, please read this_ _first__._ ### **Public speaking, hosting and event improvement consulting** If you want me to help with, host or speak at your event, take a look at "Will you attend/speak at/sponsor my event ?. I wrote it in a bad mood when the event I was speaking at started late. The ten thousand hours I have spent preparing speakers for the TEDxKazimierz stage, hosting, and organising events have had a noticeable impact on me. I don’t accept badly organised events. I have experience in making events much better than normal - if the organisers are interested. My own speaking and hosting skills have improved in recent years - I’m good now and always aim to get better. ### Let’s have a coffee My Linkedin and Twitter profiles can be found below - or you can get in touch via the contact page. I am open to new ideas - assuming you come to me with the right expectations.

Updated January 1, 2025

* Living in Kerava, Finland * Working as a Principal Tech Lead at Exove. * (Trying to) catch up with my to read list, currently reading the Witcher book series. * Listening to podcasts, some favourites: 99% Invisible, Our Fake History, Planet Money, Oh God, What Now, The Bunker, The Bugle, All Points North, Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. * Interested in reading more about leadership, organizations and work culture. This page was inspired by the NowNowNow project. To find out more about it check the about page.

Updated January 1, 2025

Hi there ! ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ, నమస్కారం, नमस्ते ! My name is Satish B. Setty, a Bharatiya born in the mercantile Arya Vaishya community. I’m an ordinary tax-paying citizen and a double Masters’ graduate (M.Tech and MBA) by education and profession for the past 20+ years. As an inclusive meritocrat, I associate with people based on their intrinsic merit and skills, irrespective of their identity markers (gender, skin colour, socio-economic class etc.). My interests lie in historical Hinduism, spirituality, Indology, mathematics and linguistics apart from software engineering and business management. Comments and opinions on my articles are welcome. You can submit them to Reddit and tag me the discussion or mail them to me directly: satish.com.in ‹@› mаіl (click on it). Tech and Things --------------- I’ve been using Debian Testing as my desktop daily driver since Etch - from i3 window manager to heavyweights like KDE. Right now, MATE desktop strikes a good balance. VS-Code is a memory hog and unavailable in the terminal. Neovim is not neo enough. And so Emacs it is. Parentheses all the way! I like C, Python and Lisp, but have dabbled with various languages from time to time (C++, Java, Rust, Nim, Zig, Fortran 2k8, Haskell, etc.). This blog is composed in extended Markdown from which Python scripts crunch out HTML. I’m proficient in Kannada and Telugu. Know enough Sanskrit to delight in simple verses from the Ramayana. Can manage broken Hindi. > People: HH Chinnajeeyar Swami, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Richard Stallman, M.K.Gandhi > Books: Mahabharata (Bhagavad Gita), Malgudi Days, The Design of Everyday Things > Music: Ambient, Downtempo, Carnatic instrumental, old Kannada songs > Movies: any good sci-fi > Hobbies: cycling, running > Map projections: Kavrayskiy VII > Winkel Tripel > Robinson > Wagner VI Value System ------------ I do not qualify for any Reservation or Quota, for, the Indian Consitution has permanently boxed me in the ‘General’ category based on my birth alone and it can’t be changed (state-sponsored hereditary segregationism). Hence, I had to work extra hard, relying on my merit alone, to accomplish what I am today. I usually don’t care so much about Hindu religiosity, but do like to live by the principles of Dharma, Ahimsa and Vegetarianism. I’m inclined towards Vaishnava philosophy and occasionally do meditation. My contemplations are on a separate page. As is normal, the older I get the more I’m inquisitive about my roots and heritage. I believe in leading a value-based life where every activity is done with _real_ knowledge of _sharing_. There are five levels of realisation: bodily, familial, societal, environmental and Spiritual. One level should not contradict the other. And one’s work need not be different for different levels. With one action, everything should be attained. In my teenage, I was fortunate to read Swami Prabhupāda’s _Bhagavad Gita As It Is_. It shaped my worldview at a nascent age. However, these days I’m enthusiastic about Sri Vaishnavism of Ramanujacharya, thanks to the teachings of Sri Tridandi Chinnajeeyar Swamiji. His message of spiritual, social and gender equality, anti-discrimination, inclusiveness and _sēvā_ attitude (_kaiṅkarya_) resonates in my heart. > Serve all beings as service to God. Not just service to humans, but pujya jeeyar swamiji emphasises the Vedic principle of service to _all_ beings, living and non-living, i.e., animals, plants and environment included. > Worship your own, respect all. In other words, acknowledge your identity but don’t discriminate against others just based on their identity. Mutual respect (not one-sided “tolerance”) is necessary. As long as one identifies oneself with the bodily attributes (gender, race, ethnicity, caste, etc.), self-realisation is not possible. The essential position of a _jīva_ (living entity) is that of His servitor. As a monolatrous, panentheist ⁣ realist, this universe is not illusory but a real manifestation of the body of Lord Viṣṇu, who is both transcendent and immanent in it. Can you “see” God? Bhagavad Ramanuja says, yes – the whole world around you is the body of God because He is the indwelling soul (_antaryāmi_) of all creation. Equality is not possible until you focus on the inner spirit self in every living entity. Ideas of equality based on bodily identities (gender equality, caste equality, animal rights, etc.) fail to realise this concept. Other influential teachers have been Sri Aurobindo, Prof. Dr. K.S.Narayanacharya of Karnataka, Swami Dr. Raghavacharya Maharaj of Ayodhya Ramlala Sadan, Swami Rajendra Das Maharaj of Malook Peeth and Sri Hita Premanand Maharaj of Vrindavan. ### Practice You only need to practise few qualities for a fulfilling life: > ahiṃsā-satyā’stēya-brahmacaryā’parigrahā yamāḥ //Yōga-sutra 2.30// Non-injury (_ahiṃsā_), truth, non-stealing, continence, non-possessiveness. > ṡauca-santōṣa-tapaḥ-svādhyāyēṡvarapraṇidhānāni niyamāḥ //Yōga-sutras 2.32// Purity, contentment, austerity, self-study and worship of Īṡvara. > maitrī-karuṇā-muditōpekṣā iti catasraḥ bhāvanāḥ citta-prasādakarāḥ //Sāṅkhya-sutra-bhāṣya 20// Maitrī, karuṇā, muditā and upēkṣā are the four favourite meditations for purifying the thoughts. Maitrī is friendliness towards all who are happy (even to one’s enemies). Karuṇā is compassion towards all who are in distress. Muditā is goodwill towards all persons who are virtuous (even if they are one’s antagonists or of a different persuasion). Upēkṣā is indifference towards the sinful, i.e., not minding the frailties of others. > tasya vācakaḥ praṇavaḥ //Yōga-sutras 1.27// Let us pray to the omniscient, omnipotent and merciful Īṡvara verbally expressed by _praṇava_ (Ōṃ). ### Political views Pursuit of wealth (_artha_) is one of the four pillars of Hinduism, especially when it is used for the collective good. Generally speaking, the implementation of a market economy brings prosperity to its people. But capitalism is not the only form of market economy! * Free markets are too free to abuse workers. * Laissez-faire are too invisible with their hands plundering the environment. * Socialists are too devious – “All the rich are crooks (trust me bro), except myself.” * Liberals are so liberal that they wage wars against nations to donate democracy. * Progressives are so scientific until it negates their snowflake beliefs. * Communists are so equal and united in watching poverty porn together. * Secularists are so secular that Islam is the unsaid state religion. Anyways. A social market economy with emphasis on sustainable ecology is the need of the hour. You can read more about my views here and here. ### Disclaimer Website content is copyrighted © Satish B. Setty and distributed under CC BY-SA International License, with attribution via backlink to the page you took content from, including its title and license notice. **All views expressed on this website are my own and do not reflect the views of my current or past employers or their clients.**

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**Scott Huson** * About * Now * Projects * Research * * * * My priorities now: * Stay safe, have fun * (Just) Keep swimming - swim 5 miles a week * (Just) Keep building * Be kind Last updated Jan, 2025

Updated January 1, 2025

What I’m doing now? ------------------- I live in Siedlce, Poland. I spend the majority of my time doing the following: * working 100% remotely (since 2014), implementing Salesforce solutions for clients from the UK, USA, Belgium, France, USA, Denmark, Australia * building Currency Manager app for Salesforce * practicing Python3 for my own needs * learning Spanish (B1) * driving my Honda NC750X Honda Rebel 500 * * * If my activities change, I’ll update this page. Last update was in **January 2025** _Inspired by Derek Sivers_

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Updated January 1, 2025

Inspired by Derek Sivers now page, here’s what I am doing right now (last update January 2025): * Ready to start a new challenge (more on that later). * Working on my latest side-project. * Reading. One goal is to read all Dune novels. I have finished the Legends of Dune trilogy some time ago and will start on the Great Schools trilogy later this year. * Building various robots. I have recently done a major overhaul of my Lego sorting project and the results are so good I have plenty of energy to continue improving it. * Learning Japanese, 10 minutes a day. I wasn’t able to make as much progress as I wanted. The goal this year is to keep working on it every day and hopefully read a few Yotsuba&! mangas. * My current videogame rotation: Fortnite (it is amazing how they keep reinventing themselves), Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. Recently, I got an Anbernic RG 40XXV that I want to set up to play oldschool point and click adventure games on the go. What I’m not doing right now: * Making music. I’d really love to fit in more music-time in my schedule, but it is a very time-consuming hobby, so it is hard to get started. * Organizing my music collection using the awesome Beets. I’ve found a few options to integrate it with Home Assistant and thus indirectly with Google Home. * Improving my Home Assistant setup. I have many ideas, but there’s just too much to do. via GIPHY

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Hey there 👋 My name is Vinayak, and I’m a software engineer based in Paris. Before moving here, I lived in Delhi, where I grew up. I enjoy writing useful open-source code and talk about the things I learn. I also enjoy running, climbing, and exploring the world through travel, food, and meeting new people. Let's chat! Towards the end of 2020, I joined June as the first employee, just before we started our Y Combinator batch. We were trying to build the best way to do customer support, and we shipped new features, improvements, and fixes every week. I'm currently looking for my next role as a full-stack / product engineer, as June is shutting down and the founders are joining Amplitude. I spent the fall of 2020 at the Recurse Center, my favorite programming community. I explored a bit of everything, but the highlight was learning how Python C extensions work and building wheels for Linux, macOS, and Windows. I wrote about what I did every day for 3 months while I was there. Before that, I worked at Grofers (now Blinkit), a quick-commerce service, where I helped establish the data infrastructure. This included building a replication tool to reliably move data to our data warehouse, and a notebook-centric data platform that enabled the data team to train models and build dashboards. During this time, I also organized the PyData Bangalore and Grofers Tech Talks meetups. Before that, I worked at Socialcops (now Atlan), a data intelligence company, where I contributed to building the DISHA dashboard, India's national data platform. This platform integrates data from various ministries, enabling the Indian government to evaluate key schemes and initiatives. I also developed tools to help the data team create products for tracking disease outbreaks in India, monitoring businesses' contributions to achieving the SDGs, and much more.

Updated January 1, 2025

Vinc / Now * Living on an old farm in a forest of Brittany since 2018 * Playing with my hobby operating system * Enjoying the winter weather Last updated: `2025-01-01` See Also -------- Home, About, Ideas

Updated December 31, 2024

A /now page, for sharing what I'm currently working on. Updated 31 December 2024. ### Work Things are becoming more stable at work. I've moved through natural transitions between a couple of projects and am feeling like I'm able to contribute, which is crucial for me to stay motivated. There are a few events in the pipeline that I'm looking forward to. Pint of Science next week, which is a global science festival. I've been helping to organise the Turing's contribution to the event. In June I'm hoping to travel to Hamburg for ISC High Performance 2025. I've neither been to the event nor Hamburg before, so my expectations are somewhat open right now. Finally in July I'm hoping to attend a CUDA programming course in Oxford. Although I can claim to have some experience with GPUs and distributed programming, I've not done anything with CUDA and I'm genuinely excited to find out more. ### Rest I've been doing my best to fulfil my New Years Resolution of doing something fun outside the house at least once per week. Joanna and I are planning a holiday in the Forest of Dean as well as a trip to Alicante in Southern Spain on the Mediterranean to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary in September. So lots of things to look forward to. ### Play My main outside-of-work activity recently has been developing a NewPipe app for Sailfish OS. As with my Gecko development process I've been writing a daily development diary. It's both exhausting and exhilarating having to do a chunk of development — and write it up — on a daily basis, but so far I've been making steady progress. There's plenty more to do, so I expect this to take up much of my free time for the rest of the year. I was gifted a really nice Nomadic P1000 gaming projector for my birthday. It's been a lot of fun throwing up movies, games and — perhaps most fun of all! — code onto the living room wall.

Updated December 31, 2024

Now --- Living ------ Living in a small town in Brandenburg after many years in Berlin. We're slowly renovating an 90-year-old house which had exciting original features like Third Reich windows and a DDR-era electrical system. The big construction stuff is done, now it's the making it look nice stage. Working ------- Right now, I'm on a break. The last five ten years have been pretty relentless; so after my previous employer ran out of money, I spent the back half of 2024 renovating chunks of the house, working on some side projects, and generally unwinding my head a bit. Eventually I'll run out of walls to paint, but I'll see where I'm at in a couple of months. One of the upsides of a relentless five years is a healthy "fuck you" budget so this time I can afford to be a bit more deliberate about what to do next. Reading ------- The Kindle backlog isn’t getting any smaller, because I haven’t been commuting since the Before Covid Times. I’m trying to add more German language into the mix, but it’s a balance between things that are too-far beyond my comprehension level which get me lost, or things which are easy to read but not well-written. The first 3 entries in the “most recent” list: Glenkill; \[Wool\](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silo\_(series); Poets of Matter Watching -------- Silo - I would never have looked twice at this if I’d seen the „dystopian“ label, but I’m glad I did. The setting reminds me very strongly of Romania. Yellowstone: not a single sympathetic character amongst them, but still oddly-compelling. Slow Horses - slightly spoilered by having read the books, but worth watching anyway. Listening --------- I tried Apple Music as an alternative to Spotify for a while, but it didn't stick. My Spotify auto-generated weekly playlist changes so much from week to week bu it's more-or-less impossible to summarise, but there's a lot of Bach in there at the moment. It's maths set to music, which appeals to my inner nerd. The podcasts on rotation are \[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/downloads\](In Our Time), https://www.luxcapital.com/riskgaming and \[https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/the-joy-of-why/\](The Joy Of Why) Coding ------ The various side projects of the last few years are still running, so I have a huge list of dusty half-completed ideas lingering on GitHub. The joy of a new old house is the chance to try to automate it all by retrofitting new technology to resolutely-analogue ausyems, so there's a pile of ESP boards and various sensors on one end of my desk. And I’m still trying to figure out the best stack and processes and workflow for keeping this site more up to date. Running ------- I’m still not back at pre-Covid levels after most of a year. That could equally be aging-related, of course. I’m deliberately trying not to overdo it this time. _this is a now page_

Updated December 30, 2024

* * * hello world! ------------ i’m kaylee. welcome to my corner of the internet! please excuse the dust, as this site is perpetually under construction. you can find writing at the inkwell, projects at the workshop, and math stuff at the mathplace. you can also find out more about me here, or see the full archive here. * * * top of mind ----------- * DEC 30, 2024 **2025 yearly theme: year of the forge** it is time to forge * DEC 12, 2024 **an attempt to understand the sylow theorems** group theory! * * * recent writing -------------- * NOV 9, 2024 **on getting cooked by my analysis midterm** or, there is only what is true and what needs to be done * SEP 20, 2024 **being present is resisting the urge to skip the cutscenes** a video game interpretation of what it means to live in the moment.

Updated December 29, 2024

> Tahle stránka je inspirováná hnutím Now Now Now. > Jednoduše shrnuje co dělám a čím se zabývám právě teď. Je mi 35 let. Žiju v Brně. Vzal jsem si tu nejúžasnější holku na světě. Máme úžasného kocoura 😸 Siriuse (britská modrá, makrela). Učím se * pracovat s Godot Engine a GD Scriptem * dělat low poly v Blenderu * jezdit na skútru 🛵 Tvořím * old-school RPG hru Čtu * Annie Zimmerman: Váš kapesní terapeut naposledy upraveno 29. prosince 2024

Updated December 29, 2024

What I’m doing now ------------------ Dec 29, 2024 I’m in Dresden, Germany and currently focusing my attention on these things: * I enjoy working on my apps Mp3tag for Windows and Mp3tag for Mac and supporting the community around them. * Over the past year, I’ve also worked on HabitBoard — a simple and flexible habit tracker for iOS, iPadOS, and now watchOS. * I’ve just surpassed my goal of running 1000 km in 2024. (I keep track using Tempo). > Last update was on Dec 29, 2024. > > This page was inspired by Derek Sivers’ nownownow project.