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+---
+layout: post
+title: "Now page update"
+date: 2024-11-12 06:10:00 +0000
+location: London
+categories: ['now', 'site']
+---
+
+Updated the [Now page](/now), archiving the contents below for posterity.
+
+---
+
+## Building a little startup
+
+Together with my partner, an [Internal Family Systems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Family_Systems_Model) therapist, we’re building [Parts](https://parts.ifs.tools), a parts mapping tool for IFS therapists and their clients. This is my first foray into software for mental health professionals, which is something I hope to do more of down the line.
+
+I’m excited and hopeful about building this project!
+
+## Learning Clojure
+
+I’ve spent my career as an engineer working with Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, but I’ve been getting into [Lisp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language))s over the last few years, and have been wanting to put them to use on a non-trivial project.
+
+So [Parts](https://parts.ifs.tools) is being built using [Clojure](https://clojure.org), a functional Lisp dialect running on the JVM (and [compiling to JavaScript](https://clojurescript.org/)!). It’s been really fun learning a brand new programming paradigm and a brand new ecosystem, and while it has made progress slower than if I had used tech I’m already familiar with, I feel I am growing as an engineer in the process.
+
+## Parenting
+
+N. is 2.5 years old, and she is an active, smart, happy child. When I re-read [my 9 months of parenting post](/2023/nine-months-of-parenting), I can’t help but smile at my old self, who seems to think he’s got it all figured out. Life with a child keeps changing, and keeps challenging us, the parents, in brand new ways every day. It can be exhausting for sure, but most of all: delightful.

now.md

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 layout: now
 title: What I'm doing now
 active: now
-updated_at: 2023/12/03
+updated_at: 2024/11/11
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-## Improving this website’s accessibility
+## Building a little startup
 
-I've been learning about accessibility and working to improve it on this website and making some slow progress. I’m posting updates on [this Mastodon thread](https://merveilles.town/@gosha/111078441324258664).
+Together with my partner, an [Internal Family Systems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Family_Systems_Model) therapist, we’re building [Parts](https://parts.ifs.tools), a parts mapping tool for IFS therapists and their clients. This is my first foray into software for mental health professionals, which is something I hope to do more of down the line.
 
-## Drawing
+I’m excited and hopeful about building this project!
 
-I love drawing but have largely abandoned it after starting university, for lack of time. I’m trying to pick it up again, with a first goal of filling up a small notebook. I’m also posting updates on Mastodon, [in this thread](https://merveilles.town/@gosha/111479225488078347).
+## Learning Clojure
 
-## Reading
+I’ve spent my career as an engineer working with Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, but I’ve been getting into [Lisp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language))s over the last few years, and have been wanting to put them to use on a non-trivial project.
 
-Reading a lot of works by Ursula K. Le Guin recently. In particular:
+So [Parts](https://parts.ifs.tools) is being built using [Clojure](https://clojure.org), a functional Lisp dialect running on the JVM (and [compiling to JavaScript](https://clojurescript.org/)!). It’s been really fun learning a brand new programming paradigm and a brand new ecosystem, and while it has made progress slower than if I had used tech I’m already familiar with, I feel I am growing as an engineer in the process.
 
-- The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
-- The Left Hand of Darkness
-- Space Crone
+## Parenting
 
-The Left Hand of Darkness blew me away, and I much prefer it to The Dispossessed, which I had read last year. The essays have given me a lot to think about, and I have also very much enjoyed the style.
+N. is 2.5 years old, and she is an active, smart, happy child. When I re-read [my 9 months of parenting post](/2023/nine-months-of-parenting), I can’t help but smile at my old self, who seems to think he’s got it all figured out. Life with a child keeps changing, and keeps challenging us, the parents, in brand new ways every day. It can be exhausting for sure, but most of all: delightful.