What I’m doing now

This is a “now” page. Obviously, it covers what I’m doing now. Not where I’m on holiday or what I ate for lunch, but life updates I might share with you if we hadn’t seen each other in a while.

Travel

When we were in our 20s my buddy Yas said he was doing the 30 under 30 challenge. Visit 30 countries before you turn 30. I was already at 27. He said “double it”. 60 before 30. As I turned 30, I had visited 40-something countries. Then COVID happened. My revised goal is 60 before 40.

Home renovation & automation

The house renovation is complete. Even though the builders are gone, there’s still a lot of work to do – inside and out. I’ve been working on getting the automations right and getting the sensors and lights fitted in the right places. Still have a lot of painting to do and furniture to buy, but it’s already feeling like home.

Writing

I started this site to share what I learn. I hope it will be useful to at least one other person. I’ve published a few posts, and even hit the first page of hacker news last December. Looking back, I haven’t written nearly as much as I wanted to. This is something I’d like to focus on once things with the house wrap up.

Last updated May 28th 2023 from London, UK.

My Articles

Talk to your computer, for free

Talk to your computer, for free

Last night I built a voice to text app for macOS. Well, saying I built it is a bit of a stretch. AI built it. I funded the tokens and provided some sense of direction and product scope. Together, we built Gemmur - an app which let's you speak, transcribes the text,...

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