Now Page
- What is this page?
- The answer to “what are you up to lately?”
Part of the Now Now Now project.
I made a single-page Progressive Web App (PWA)! It works offline and solves a real issue for me so I’m overjoyed!
I call it Calorie Grid and the idea’s been in my head for years. Now thanks to LLMs like Claude but also being more knowledgeable about JavaScript, I was able to build it in a bit over a day.
It’s already taught me a lot about JS, but more importantly it’s shown me the importance of understanding every single line of code an LLM writes for you. I knew that already, but it’s painful to try to make a small change yourself only to realize your assumption about how the system works was extremely wrong. Lesson learned!
Previously
January 21st, 2025
Pushing quality of life updates to my website. Check out the loading animation on the homepage!
Granted, I copied this awesome animation from Codepen, but it was a great opportunity to learn how to make it fade out smoothly, how to make sure it doesn’t appear if the JS doesn’t load, how to avoid a flash of the page underneath before the loader appears … and to familiarize myself with Cursor!
December 31st, 2024
Not sure how to feel about Arcane Season 2. I finished it a few days ago and can’t get it out of my head.
On one hand, a lot of the things I wanted to happen did; but the way everything was handled made the world and the characters within it feel less… real, compared to Season 1 → smaller emotional investment. S2 felt more like a “videogame adaptation”, whereas S1 felt like a standalone storytelling masterpiece that I’d recommend to anyone.
I still liked it, but the closure felt incomplete because the focus shifted.
December 1st, 2024
Spent the weekend designing and coding a huge overhaul of my website’s homepage and navigation.
Feedback from a third party drove me to acknowledge the shortcomings I had already noticed, but wished weren’t so bad. It was the small push I needed to make some big changes I’ve had in the back of my mind for a long time.
The thing now is that the other pages look stale (to me) by comparison, and I can’t wait to update them too!
November 29th, 2024
After years of knowing I should, I added a “Skip to content” link to my website. I’m not sure why I put it off for so long. I kinda thought it would take a long time to implement, but it took < 5 minutes… Now if anyone uses a keyboard to navigate my website, they won’t have to tab through 8 (!) nav links to get to the main content!
October 9th, 2024
This weekend, I pushed a big update to my website’s homepage, regarding how I show previews of the projects I’ve worked on! Read about it here.
I also wrote a manual for working with me after coming across manualof.me!
May 23rd, 2024
I used ChatGPT + 5 hours to make a Chrome extension that turns my new tab into a grid with bookmarks that can be put into sections!
It’s live in the Chrome Web Store! I’m very excited about it because it’s crazy to me how limited the default browser new tabs are regarding how they handle bookmarks and I’ve wanted an alternative for so long!
Note
I’ve been writing updates on my /now page for a much longer time, and regret that I haven’t been keeping a running log since the beginning. I could theoretically go over all my GitHub commits to populate this page and might do it at some point.