This page includes a bit of what I’m working on and thinking about right now. Credit goes to Derek Sivers for the idea.
SUMMER 2025
Life
I’ve made mantra meditation an important part of my mornings, and it’s become a steady, daily practice. On the bureaucratic side of life, I’ve requested permanent residency here in Spain, earned my driver’s license, and officially registered as an autónomo.
Work
It’s been nearly four years at Castos, and the work continues to evolve. I’ve appreciated the human side of being tech-adjacent; connecting with users, listening closely, and helping them navigate tools. My background in education still feels relevant every day. Lately, I’ve started exploring other areas, especially around APIs and how other workflows can fit into blogging and podcasting.
Projects
Once again, I started tinkering more in WordPress. After a webhost migration and some (self-inflicted) DNS shenanigans, I started looking into static site generators and their tech stacks again. My idea is to migrate this blog from WordPress to a lighter, more sustainable static site built with Lume and Deno. The project is as much about reducing hosting and energy costs as it is about learning and publishing.
Closer to home, I’m working on an idea for a coworking and creative space in town with a friend. It’s very early, but the hope is to have a third place in town for people who want to work together, host events, and collaborate. I also want to give more of my attention to Linguas Tecidas, a language exchange that I started a few years ago. I’ve neglected in promoting it a bit more around the comarca (county) and would love to expand it from just a general meetup into a larger program that revolves around linguistic diversity.
Learning
- Spanish has been a long-term journey. Despite tons of external positive reinforcement from others, I still oscillate between feeling confident and hating my accent and wanting more fluency. To that end, I started taking classes with a language teacher. We read poetry, chat, and also have been slowly preparing me for the DELE B2.
- Signing up for Galician classes in the fall, something I’ve wanted to do for a while.
- I’m probably reading more Galician than Spanish these days.
- On the technical side, I’m working through The Odin Project and FreeCodeCamp, focusing on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Current
| Reading | Listening |
|---|---|
| J. R. R. Tolkien’s Fellowship of the Ring | Jahnavi Harrison |
| Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed | Casapalma |
| The Upanishads | Chapo Trap House |
| Xosé Durán’s A Raíña Galega | TrueAnon |
| Mohamed Abdou’s Islam and Anarchism | Trillbillys Workers Party |
| Riane Eisler’s El Cáliz y La Espada | Not Another D&D Podcast |
This page is a living note, updated now and then to reflect where my attention is.