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John Bowdre

What I'm up to /now {circle-question}

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{medal} Recent Boasts

• (2024-10-26) Reached a 1500 day streak on Duolingo {language}
• (2024-10-20) Migrated my Fediverse presence to an ActivityPub server running on a Raspberry Pi {mastodon}
• (2024-10-13) Looked back on an awesome experience at Furnace Fest 2024 {music}
• (2024-09-29) Began publishing (selected) SilverBullet notes with Quartz over at notes.runtimeterror.dev {gem}
• (2024-09-21) Rode 40(ish) miles and celebrated with all-I-could-eat barbecue {bicycle}

{screwdriver-wrench} Tinkering

• Wrenching on a 1974 VW Karmann Ghia {toolbox}
• Fiddling with my Nix dotfiles
• Configuring a 3-node Zima Blade Nomad cluster {circle-nodes}
• Using Packer to build VM templates on Proxmox {clone}
• Experimenting with my simple feed aggregator powered by GitHub Actions {rss}
• Exploring Portainer for wrangling my various Docker workloads {docker}

{circle-play} Consuming

• Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds {book}
• Abbott Elementary (Season 4){display}
• Star Trek: Lower Decks (Season 5){display}
• What We Do In The Shadows (Season 6) {display}
• Drag Race España (Season 4) {chess-queen}
• RuPaul's Drag Race UK (Season 6) {chess-queen}
• Drag Race Down Under (Season 4) {chess-queen}
• The Boulet Brothers' Dragula (Season 6) {chess-queen}
• The Last of Us Part I {gamepad}
• Mudrunner {gamepad}
• Silence {headphones}
  • more recent faves {music}

{brain} Studying

• German with Duolingo (Section 4, Unit 23) {language}
• Esperanto with Duolingo (Section 1, Unit 13) {language}
• Going deeper with Go, with Go Programming: From Beginner to Professional by Samantha Coyle {book}

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