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John Bowdre

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

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{medal} Recent Boasts

• (2024-08-03) Rolled out a new domain for my personal blog {face-laugh}
• (2024-07-29) Took a new Tailscale feature for a testdrive {hard-drive}
• (2024-07-27) Finished an autocross event 0.001 seconds behind another competitor {flag-checkered}
• (2024-07-25) Wrote about automating Packer builds with GitHub Actions {industry}
• (2024-07-20) Posted a blog post that's been a draft for 6+ weeks: Building Proxmox Templates with Packer {pen-nib}

{screwdriver-wrench} Tinkering

• Replacing the clutch in a 1973 VW Karmann Ghia {toolbox}
• (Constantly) sprucing up 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}

{atom} Plotting

• Figure out Eleventy, maybe? {question}

{circle-play} Consuming

• Truth of the Divine by Lindsay Ellis {book}
• White Collar, Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs the World {display}
• The Last of Us Part I {gamepad}
• Silence {headphones}
  • more recent faves {music}

{brain} Studying

• German with Duolingo (Section 4, Unit 19) {language}
• Esperanto with Duolingo (Section 1, Unit 10) {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.)