Last updated: April 17th, 2026
Personal
At the moment, I’ve been spending a lot of time working on this website. I started with the command line version and ended up contributing some features to the theme. The original author is incredibly friendly, which made my first experince contributing code to an open source project a breeze. For every hour I spent doing that, I spent 4 working on this one. The end result is certainly less complex, but I spent an absurd amount of time pondering the right theme. Eventually I stumbled this one by camelia, and it was pretty much exactly what I was looking for. It takes a lot of the elements of the classic terminal theme but changes it in ways that I’m a huge fan of, like full-width page content, without having to fully figure out how to do it myself. Camelia, if you end up reading this, thank you very much :)
It’s also currently finals weekend for WGI Percussion, and I’m extraordinaly excited about it. I still have a ton of love for the marching arts, and I make watching WGI Percussion Finals and DCI Finals a personal tradition that I simply can’t miss. I can’t get enough of the music, and I love seeing how the activity is constantly changing while somehow managing to remain the exact same as I remember it. This season, I’m trying to write my thoughts about what stands out to me, what I liked, what I didn’t like, and probably a highlight of my favorites.
Work
Currently I’m finishing up a project I’ve been working on for over a year, and I’m getting down to the last few design documents I need to submit. I’m installing a new RX3i PLC system for a customer complete with a new HMI, and it’s been significantly more challenging than I had imagined it would be when I started on it. I had participated in a similar mod before at my current company, but I mostly held a support role and made some small drawing changes and test procedures with a guiding hand. This time, I did the greater majority of the work like picking the parts, updating our internal BOM, updating the drawings for the system, doing the upgrade for the software, writing new code for a feature that was requested, and testing the entire thing. I’ve loved the entire process, but it has been very stressful. A great learning experience for sure, but the stress was certainly not helped by having to do another smaller mod for a different customer in the middle of it. I am currently wrapping up final drawing changes and the installation documents, and then all I’ll have left to do is update the manual we provide. Very excited to have this one wrapped up, and I’m really hoping the customer likes it. Sure, it’s just my job at a large corporation, but I do take pride in what I do since I know the people who use the things I work on and they’re in similar spots to me.
What’s a now page?
According to the project’s creator
Personal websites often have a link that says “now” that tells you what this person is focused on at this point in their life. It’s called a “now page”.
For me, I stumbled on this some time ago when reading someone’s blog. I really liked the concept since I could find other people’s personal blogs easier, which I find a ton of fun to read. It also feels a lot more real to than social media does; I’ve found platforms like instagram increasingly more hollow, and it feels like even my closest friends are constantly trying to market themselves with it.
You can find people by location too, which I like since it’s cool to see what others in my state are doing. Here’s some of my favs