This Moment in Time

Last Modified: August 29, 2026

This page is an ephemeral list of what I’m working on and thinking about right now.

Life

I got married in March! We had a beautiful ceremony with our closest family and friends at the Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory.
I found a Minolta 7000 film camera for sale. It was cheap and in great condition. It was one of the first cameras to feature in-body auto focus and it introduced the A-mount. My Sony a58 uses the same mount, and all of my lenses are compatible. What better way to try out film photography? I’m almost done my first roll of film. It’s been a fun summer companion.
Our balcony garden is in full swing. It’s about 80% covered with cucumbers, zucchinis, tomatos, peppers, beans, lettuce and more. Being on the 6th floor, we don’t get many pollenators so we have to hand-pollenate the plants ourselves.

I’ve been diving down the Meshcore rabbit hole! There’s an active community in the GTA. I’ve been building a custom solar LiFePO4 node, linking to Home Assistant, and trying to get as much height as I can out of my balcony antenna.
Just migrated this website from Jekyll to Hugo. I found it be be a bit more flexible and logical for what I want do with this site in the future. I also just got tired of installing Ruby on every computer I wanted to develop my site on…
I’ve been using Linux as a daily driver, and I was on ZorinOS for a bit. I’m between distros at the moment. My computing doesn’t feel like it has a home yet.
Leaning away from algorithms and towards human content and curation by searching for and subscribing to RSS feeds of interesting people.
Building up my homelab. What started as just a NAS is now an experiment in containerized services, home automation, and digital sovereignty. I’m writing a series of articles on it, the first one is published here !

Satisfactory: “Sure maybe I’ll try it out for a few minutes”… “This is pretty fun, maybe another half hour”… “Darn, it’s 4am.”