beeps NOW!

A “now” page is a conceptual accompaniment to an about page. While an about page can tell you about my background and my identity, it doesn’t tell you about what I’m currently doing or what I currently care about. Thus, this.

Now

🐾 Will be attending ConFuzzled in Birmingham like 16 hours after I write this.

🐕‍🦺 It’s currently the Year of Service.

💻 I’m working as a frontend developer on the GOV.UK Design System team. I’m also writing WCAG understanding documents for the Guide to WCAG.

🇸🇪 I’m learning to speak Swedish! Jag pratar lite svenska.

🎶 I’ve been listening to a lot of albums lately, as opposed to my usual ‘everything on shuffle’ approach. Most commonly Too Much Not Enough by Daði Freyr, The Mountain by Gorillaz, it’s hard to be a fish by Montaigne, and A Complicated Woman by Self Esteem.

📺 I’m currently watching The Boys, Amazon’s Fallout show, and Formula 1 (as usual).

🎮 I’ve mostly been playing Factorio, yeah, I fell into that rabbit hole again. Also dusted off my Switch to play a bit of Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream.

🏥 I continue to undergo a bunch of medical assessments. Currently on the docket: more hypertension investigations, an audiology assessment, and investigating suspected thoracic outlet syndrome (aka, my arms keep not working?!)

🥦 I’m trying to diet again. I hate dieting, I’m so bad at it.

Recently

🩵 At work I spent much of 2025 working on the GOV.UK brand refresh (i.e. “it’s blue now”). I wrote a blog post about it that popped off a bit as well.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I attended Scotiacon in Glasgow in February. It was alright; a bit of a mixed bag.

🌲 I did some volunteering work planting mature trees in a nearby park. Turns out planting trees is more physically laborious than you might think.

🫘 An ultrasound and MRI of my kidneys has found them to be in perfectly good condition. It’s something!

Soon

🎵 I’m queued up to see Jazz Emu and Ben Folds live later this year. (Separately, not at the same time.)