What I’m Doing Right Now

Last updated Tuesday, July 22, 2025 from my home in Wisconsin..

I recently completed a one month sabbatical from my full-time job at Zendesk. I spent most of my time off away from my computer, engaging in physical hobbies, spending time with my family, and traveling. Some day I would like to do a sabbatical where I spend time doing fun things on a computer (like the Recurse Center) but this was exactly what I needed to take a step back given the state of the tech industry right now. I am feeling re-invigorated and anxious to get back to work.

Upcoming

I am currently training for the 2025 Chicago Marathon, using the Hal Higdon intermediate 1 training plan.

Projects

Olima - coming soon.
oliver - a jekyll theme - a new design for my personal website. I really like Jekyll, but I have very little experience with frontend web development (mainly CSS), so it’s been a good learning project.

Reading

I always find myself reading too many books at once.

Currently

Fiction	Non-Fiction
The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook	The Anxious Generation

On-deck

Fiction	Non-Fiction
A Dance With Dragons
Catch-22
The Count of Monte Cristo

See more at my Goodreads TBR.

Series I am Currently Reading or Plan to Read

A Song of Ice and Fire (4/5 done)
Dungeon Crawler Carl (2/7 done)
The Stormlight Archive (1/5 done)
Children of Time (1/3 done)
Dune (1/6 done)
The Wheel of Time (0/15 done)
Mistborn Saga (0/7 done)

Books Read in 2025

Games

I got a Switch 2!

Now Playing

Most recent at the top, but all of these are kind of in rotation at the moment…

Always Playing

Balatro

P.S - you can view the history of this page in GitHub if you’re interested.

This is a /now page. If you have your own site, you should make one too!

Dakota Chambers