Now (or Recently)
The "now page" concept comes from an idea by Derek Sivers to have people communicate what they're focused on now at this point in their lives.
Podcasts
Podcast episodes without links are members-only but I think are interesting enough to post in case you want to investigate them.
- Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance – Can You Spatchcock a Jackalope?
- Tech Won’t Save Us – Patreon Preview: How Cloud Giants Cement Their Power w/ Cecilia Rikap
- The Talk Show With John Gruber – 414: ‘Annoying Friendliness’, With Joanna Stern
- Upgrade – 538: A Lot of Mac in Your Face
- Robot or Not? – 301: Fan/Light
- Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance – Beware The Click of Regret
- The Race Members’ Club – Ad-free F1 pod: Brad Pitt’s F1 movie - How it’s been filmed and why it matters
- Chit Chat Across the Pond – CCATP #802 – Adam Engst on Invasive Location Tracking and Tips On How to Manage
- The High Performance Podcast – Johnny Sexton: How to Reframe Regret, with Fernando Alonso, Gabor Maté and Keir Starmer
- Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance – Naked (iPhone) and Not Afraid
Books
Don’t be surprised when the book list stays constant for awhile. Reading time is harder to come by these days. 😞
- Inside Mercedes F1 – Life in the Fast Lane F1 and reading, two of my main passions. Still, it’s not often that I find a book about F1 that I actually want to read. This is one. It’s told from an honest, intelligent perspective by an outsider. I heard Matt on The Race podcast talking to Ed Straw about his book and I knew I had to buy it.
- Leave the World Behind FINISHED. I’m not going to lie – I didn’t like this book. What’s happening is never fully resolved, but if it’s what the book implies, there’s no way it would have been this relatively easy for the characters in the book. None of how this happened would have happened that way. I know it’s popular, but the writing style and the ambiguity didn’t really suit me.
- Polostan – Volume One of Bomb Light FINISHED - a good start to a new Neal Stephenson series, with lots of the usual info-dumps that somehow are fun coming from him.
- Guerrilla Marketing in 30 Days Marketing. I can’t do it.
- Build, Run, and Sell Your Apple Consulting Practice: Business and Marketing for iOS and Mac Start Ups | SpringerLink This book is by Charles Edge, much missed MacAdmins guru. The lessons in here are applicable to consulting in general.
Movies
- Sicario: Day of the Soldado I liked the first one with Emily Blunt as the fish out of water much better, but this is a pretty good movie. It’s weird that Graver and Gillick seem to be redeemed here, as though their crimes and corrupt personas in the 2015 Sicario weren’t really them. 🤷
- Pain Hustlers Quirky, funny, depressing. Recommended.
- Wolfs Two guys past the point where their charm overcomes a lame script, but it could have been worse, possibly.
TV Shows
- Pachinko Season 1 Episode 6 – Chapter Six Pachinko is so beautiful and haunting and hard to watch. It really is an absolute must see.
- Pachinko Season 1 Episode 5 – Chapter Five
- Pachinko Season 1 Episode 4 – Chapter Four
- Pachinko Season 1 Episode 3 – Chapter Three
- Pachinko Season 1 Episode 2 – Chapter Two
- Pachinko Season 1 Episode 1 – Chapter One
- Griselda Season 1 Episode 2 – Rich White People
- Silo Season 2 Episode 1 – The Engineer Man, I love this show. SO good. I read the books a long time ago and I don’t remember much about them. I may have to reread them.
- Griselda Season 1 Episode 1 – Lady Comes to Town Even more narco related stuff 😄
- El Chapo Season 1 Episode 1 – Episode 1 More narco related stuff
Food and Drink
- Urban Brewing Co Forgotten Lore Porter
- Wandering Goat Coffee - One Eye Open Decaf
- Folkvangr — Little Beast Brewing
- Wayfinder Beer Corpo Seco Pumpkin Ale
- Hapa Pizza
Projects
- trakt-history-py
Python version of Trakt history grabber for updating my /now page. I want to be able to grab my trakt history and format it for the Movies and TV section of this /now page using a Raycast Script Command. I don’t update trakt directly, rather I am using the excellent Sequel app to track shows and movies (and also books).
It now internally incorporates the parts of pytrakt3000 that I’m actually using and doesn’t need to import it any longer, so it’s now a standalone utility.
https://github.com/scottaw66/trakt-history-py
- pytrakt3000: A Pythonic interface to the Trakt.tv REST API
This is a fork of glensc/python-pytrakt: A Pythonic interface to the Trakt.tv REST API and is a module for using the Trakt API. My trakt-history-py utility mentioned above used to import and use this.
I’m no longer actually using this as I incorporated the parts I was using into trakt-history-py itself.
