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John Bowdre

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

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{medal} Recent Boasts

• (2024-09-21) Rode 40(ish) miles and celebrated with all-I-could-eat barbecue {bicycle}
• (2024-09-14) Reflected on what I accomplished at my previous job as I get ready to start a new one {business-time}
• (2024-09-07) Rode 29 miles (and survived to tell the tale!) {person-biking}
• (2024-08-21) Accepted a new job and shared notes on how I set up SilverBullet {wand-magic-sparkles}
• (2024-08-15) Fumbled with CSS and JS to implement a light/dark theme selector on runtimeterror {moon}

{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}
• Exploring Portainer for wrangling my various Docker workloads {docker}

{circle-play} Consuming

• Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks {book}
• Only Murders in the Building, RuPaul's Drag Race Global All Stars {display}
• The Last of Us Part I {gamepad}
• Silence {headphones}
  • more recent faves {music}

{brain} Studying

• German with Duolingo (Section 4, Unit 21) {language}
• Esperanto with Duolingo (Section 1, Unit 11) {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.)