Now

Abby will be having surgery on tumors in the back of her scalp on April 29. She's currently visiting her family in Massachusetts, though I might fly out this coming monday (Apr 21) to meet them in New York City. She's also going to be starting a chemotherapy drug in the next few months that will hopefully shrink some of her other tumors. We have a lot of anxiety but also a lot of hope.

I checked out the San Francisco Zen Center on April 6. It is, in fact, walking distance from my apartment! Of course now I'm kind of obsessed with Zen, which is literally ironic. The more you grasp at it, the more it slips through your fingers and all that.

Currently, I'm still living in San Francisco, in the same apartment I've lived in since we moved there in December 2012. What can I say, it's cozy, rent-controlled and in an awesome neighborhood (near Zeitgeist). I also have the same job at YouTube that I've had all that time.

I'm still teaching a free Python class at Noisebridge on Monday nights. The new format of repeating each lesson several times has been going well! I've also been experimenting with recording the lessons.

Someone reached out about a bug in Rainfall but it seems to have resolved itself? Meanwhile, Faircamp, which Rainfall is based on, got some new features and it seems like a good time to support those features, so I have some amount of inspiration to continue development. I'm still secretly hoping that it goes viral and gets popular or something, especially considering all the work I put into specifically making it scalable.

What is a 'now' page?

A now page is like an about page, but with the scope of "right now" instead of a long view. The easiest way to think about it is: what would you tell a friend that you haven't seen in a while about what you're up to?

Where can I find a list of people with websites that feature a 'now' page?

Just go to nownownow.com. You can add your site to that directory should you choose to add a /now page to your site.