Now

This page is inspired by Jamie Tanna's now page, which was, in turn, inspired by others.

What am I up to now?

  • Automation, I'm trying to automate every little bit of my workflow, even if it takes longer to automate than actually do the task. Besides being fun, it has become a way to constantly put myself in the mindset of automating everything. Plus, ChatGPT makes most tasks that I wouldn't bother automating trivial.
  • Working on my blog, trying to make it a regular part of my routine (I even made a Drafts action, and looking at examples of other people's blogs that I like.
  • I was recently laid off at Nortal, where I worked as a Senior Engineer focused on SRE and DevOps. Creating Gitlab pipelines that deploy to Kubernetes, containerizing, and using Helm.
  • Taking care of the birds that live on my property.

What are my interests?

  • Travel
  • Camping, hiking, backpacking, etc.
  • Sourdough baking
  • Reading
  • htmx
  • Python
  • Automation
  • DevOps

My primary programming languages are Python and Java, and while I'm still better at Java than Python, I love Python much more than Java, and I'm working hard to switch over to Python.

Want to get in touch? Drop me an email at joshua.oliphant@hey.com.

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