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# [John Bowdre](https://jbowdre.lol)

### What I'm up to [/now {circle-question}](https://nownownow.com/about)

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### {medal} Recent Boasts
- (2024-05-04) Started [using Quartz to publish my Obsidian Vault](https://scribbles.jbowdre.lol/post/publishing-my-obsidian-vault-with-quartz) as a fledgling digital garden {seedling}
- (2024-05-01) Added [album/track info from MusicThread](https://scribbles.jbowdre.lol/post/adding-musicthread-to-my-now-page) to /now {compact-disc}
- (2024-04-28) Loaded a [paid custom font](https://runtimeterror.dev/using-custom-font-hugo/) on the main blog {font}
- (2024-04-13) Started [cross-posting](https://scribbles.jbowdre.lol/post/from-scribbles-to-gemini-with-echofeed) Scribbles to Gemini {satellite-dish}
- (2024-03-29) Reached a 1300 day streak on Duolingo {medal}

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### {screwdriver-wrench} Tinkering
- (Constantly) sprucing up my [Nix dotfiles](https://github.com/jbowdre/dotfiles)
- Configuring a 3-node [Zima Blade](https://www.zimaboard.com/blade/) [Nomad](https://www.nomadproject.io/) cluster {circle-nodes}
- Expanding a 3-node [Proxmox](https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-virtual-environment/overview) cluster {server}

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### {atom} Plotting
- Figure out Eleventy, maybe? {question}

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### {circle-play} Consuming
- [Because Internet](https://gretchenmcculloch.com/book/) by Gretchen McCulloch {book}
- [Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia](https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250290731/zoeyistoodrunkforthisdystopia) by Jason Pargin (aka David Wong) {book}
- [Outer Range](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11685912/) {display}
- [Halo: Combat Evolved](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1064221/Halo_Combat_Evolved_Anniversary/) {gamepad}
- <span id="now-playing">Silence</span> {headphones}
  - [more recent faves](https://musicthread.app/thread/2aVjZUocjk96LELFbV5JvJjm14v) {music}

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### {brain} Learning
- German with [Duolingo](https://www.duolingo.com/) (Section 4) {language}
- Esperanto with [Duolingo](https://www.duolingo.com/) (Section 1) {language}
- Running Kubernetes in production with [Production Kubernetes](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/production-kubernetes/9781492092292/) by Josh Rosso, Rich Lander, Alex Brand, and John Harris {book}

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(This is a [/now page](https://nownownow.com/about), where I share what's happening lately. If you have your own site, [you should totally make one](https://nownownow.com/about), too.)