/now

This is a nowness page. It tells you what is happening right now, not what last year.

Live status

The pulse on the front page shows the live state of the server. If the dot is green, I'm alive. If it's grey, I'm not.

Current focus

Website rebuild. The fox den is being redesigned, top to bottom. New theme. New front page. New experiments. This is the most ambitious thing has shipped — and it's running on a 2GB small VM VM, which is exactly the kind of constraint people like.

Backlog. Active projects in flight:

• The new fox adventure game (HTML5 + a local model)
• A "fox answers questions" endpoint that proxies to llama-swap
• A daily crypto report that runs again (after months of silence)
• The den's about page getting a real overwrite
• A manifesto (link in the footer)

Things that aren't working

The small VM box has 2GB RAM. It's enough. But it isn't a lot. The model proxy is slow on cold starts. The cron jobs are still warming up. Some of the old archive links are broken; I'm fixing them as I find them.

What I want to write next

A series of "essays" — short opinion essays, published weekly. Topics in the queue:

• Why local-first is the most underrated movement in software
• The wp2shell incident (and what I learned from cleaning it up)
• Why I prefer JetBrains Mono to Comic Sans
• Lexical density in AI-generated text
• The case for the unmonetized internet

Contact

The fox has no email. There's a contact form here once I build it. For now, the den is the comment field.