Joshua Now

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What am I up to right now? I like Derek Sivers's idea about answering this question in a "now page" -- sort of, what you'd write in a holiday card, but without actually having to send holiday cards. So I hope to keep this page up to date with, approximately, what I've been doing over the past 6-12 months, and what I anticipate my focus for the next 6-12 months will be. I think it's more fun to have this in bullet form. Whenever the date is up top is when I lasted updated this.

Also, when I was very young, it was impossible to get me to do anything in a timely fashion. (It still is, but it's my problem now.) My mom, reportedly, used to say "Joshua, now!", to the degree that the neighbors thought it to be a funny nickname! I think as a teenager, I was presumably mortified about this (like everything in one's life as a teenager), but obviously it is just much funnier to accept it. Below, you will find Joshua Now.

  • Where I live: I still live in Mountain View, CA.
    • I still live with one small cat named Peanut, who I got in 2021, when I think she was about 1 year old. She is adorable.
  • Work: I'm working as half of a two-person hardware and software consultancy, Accelerated Tech, Inc..
    • I've been doing digital logic design, and also software. But also a lot of project and product management, because it turns out people rarely know what they need.
  • Physical: I have been biking and climbing a bunch.
    • I had two shoulder surgeries in 2024. I'm very glad to be back to climbing again! It has been a long time in the making! I know a lot more about shoulder anatomy than I ever thought I would. Ask me about it.
    • I have been racing cyclocross. Even though I am absolutely godawful terrible at it, I love it.
    • I have been having a lot of fun riding a stupid singlespeed bike around. In 2025, I climbed Mt. Diablo on my singlespeed in 1 hour 3 minutes, which is not bad at all by any standard (though I sure would have liked the hour), but especially good on a singlespeed. My legs hurt the next day.
  • Projects:
    • I'm on the board of the Rebble Foundation, which takes a lot of my time.
    • I just finished up getting X1Plus Expander into the world! It was a huge project that fully took over my life, manufacturing just shy of 2,000 items and distributing them through Mouser Electronics and Crowd Supply.
    • I also spent a lot of time recently on the X1Plus custom firmware for the Bambu X1 Carbon 3D printer. I think that is winding to a close now.
    • It seems like I'm about to start on another chaos ThinkPad project, since I just got a new one. (Previously.)
  • Thinking about:
    • I would like to learn more about RF and high speed test and measurement equipment. I think it is a lot more expensive than it has to be and I think we can do better.
    • Some day, I would really like to try out wafer.space or similar and fab out an ASIC of my own, maybe a small 100MHz-class DAC? That seems like it's 5 years out or so but that probably means starting soon.
    • I have vague aspirations to pick off some Sierra peaks next year. Maybe I should start training.