What I'm Doing Now
This is what I'm up to at the moment. It is called a Now Page and is somewhere between a social update and an about page. It is also a good way to keep track of current priorities.
Work life
I’m Focusing on cross-system integrations for purchasing and software license fulfillment. Most of this work is using low-code tooling to simplify sales and support work. It’s also that time of year where we are getting all of our financial information compiled for tax preparation.
Projects
Blog
Building this blog with Astro is fairly straightforward, but I keep running into areas where my limited web development experience makes me run in circles for a while before I figure things out. I’ll probably keep trying a few different ways to organize the underlying content and maybe try to add a simple photo gallery.
Electronics Repair
I’ve been watching a lot of videos lately from CuriousMark on YouTube. His work reviving old hardware including Apollo communications gear is fascinating. As a result, I have picked up an old HP 3478A multimeter from the 1980s that needs some work. I’m also planning to follow some web guidance to build an Arduino-based adapter to connect to its HP-IB communications port from a modern computer over USB.
Personal Stuff
I play trumpet in the Thundering Cats Big Band. We have a couple of concerts coming up comprised of Glenn Miller dance music. Later in the spring we are working on a set of tunes from Chicago, Earth Wind and Fire, Tower of Power, and the Beatles.
I haven’t been flying in quite some time. I need to grab an instructor and knock off the rust so I can get back in the air more often. Regaining currency for my instrument rating would be nice, but not sure if I’m going to find the time for that just yet.