Now

This is a now page. It loosely summarizes what I’m up to these days. You may follow me in Mastodon for more granular updates.

Desktop application

I’m currently building a toy application for me and my partner to track and annotate our books and reads. Think of a local Goodreads, just for you.

In the spirit of writing local-first software, I’ve chosen to make this a desktop application using Wails and Go. It uses SQLite to store the data, and Solid and Tailwind for the user interface.

This project is also a proving ground to see how fit this stack is for building desktop applications. If it proves successful I may have a go at some other ideas for applications that I’d like to use myself.

See Robin Sloan’s An app can be a home-cooked meal for some inspiration on creating software to serve just you and your loved ones.

Music

I’m composing some music which I hope to release informally throughout the winter. I’ve chosen the following constraints:

• No more than four tracks per song.
• Compose entirely using my Microfreak and Digitakt. Sampling directly from my iPhone to the Digitakt is allowed.
• Some post-processing allowed in Ableton: EQ, saturation, minimal delay and reverb, and compression.

Writing

Halfway through the summer I drafted some essays that I want to publish at Metanoia. Summer ended up being as busy as I expected and publishing these fell sideways. I’m looking to publish one or two essays, as well as making Metanoia more of book blog.

Listening

The following albums are currently in circulation:

• A Host for All Kinds of Life by Green-House
• Untrue by Burial
• Music Has The Right To Children by Boards of Canada
• GREEN by Hiroshi Yoshimura

Reading

Currently reading El Proceso by Franz Kafka.