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    Nakata sunrise set. 5km at 5am. 🏃🙌🏻



  • 🔗 dogsheep/healthkit-to-sqlite

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    Convert an Apple Healthkit export zip to a SQLite database - dogsheep/healthkit-to-sqlite
    healthkit-to-sqlite is super neat. I now have an SQL-queriable db of my heart rate, runs, handwashing, sleep analysis, you name it. Even better - this data is all on device. Now to think of some fun queries...
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  • The Week #20

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    • It's been 20 weeks since I started doing the week. Let's go for 20 more!

    • I started getting my feet wet with desktop linux again. I last ran linux on my desktop the around 2003 or 2004 running Gentoo. I liked that computer, it was a full tower with a sticker of Calvin (of Calvin & Hobbes) smashing a swastika in two that said Stop Racism, it was great. But X11 was fiddly and OS X gave me my unix without the fiddling.

    To my surprise Ubuntu just worked on my mid-2014 MacBook Pro. Wifi works, resume from sleep works, printer works, everything that used to be fiddly "just works". I'm able to connect to my Mac Mini and remote control it and access it's shares (my Drobo). monadical wrote a nice blog post that details settings for Mac users on linux to make them feel a bit more "at home". The little things like adjusting the mouse movement and so forth.

    In the event that I switch full-time to Linux, it seems like I could use icloud photos downloaderto automatically sync my photos from iCloud to my computer.

  • Speaking of iCloud Photos, I discovered that it's not useful for anything but looking at recent photos. I've been a user of iPhoto since version 1 or 2 - a long time. I never got deep into rating photos or building extensive albums, but I dutifully upgraded each time a new release came out.

    Some photos - like the one that showed my old full tower computer from high school was shot in 2003 has made all of the migrations between computers and versions. Or another of me and my brother smoking a celebratory cigar after his daughter was born in 2011. These photos show up in Photos on my desktop in the years 2003 and 2011 respectively.

    But on iCloud Photos the years only go back to 2015. What's more is that photo of me and my brother smoking a cigar shows up in 2015. The photo from 2003 is, I'm assuming in there somewhere because the number of photos matches on my desktop and in iCloud, but I can't find it or tell you where it is.

    It's almost like Apple is trying so hard to not read or use your data for privacy purposes off your machine that it can't read the exif data to get timestamp. But that it can't even order photos by the correct year online makes me question if all of my photos are actually safe.


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    Playing around with datasette / datasete-vega with the @Kuukihouston dataset. Look at this fancy looking graph I made showing cancerous Benzene levels in Galena park.

    Graph of cancerous beneze levels in Galena Park






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    Sometime this morning my top drive in my drobo died. New (larger) one comes tomorrow. Let’s hope another one doesn’t die in the meantime. Lasted 7 or 8 years, not bad.



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    Currently status: dual booting my Mac with Ubuntu. Going to give desktop Linux a go again....first time since 2003 or 4?



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    We've seen the social dilemma. We know the FAANG + T silos are a threat to an open/healthy web. Question is: as techies, why the hell do we still participate?

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    Good morning 5km. Running at 5am in autumn is a bit lonely. Not as many runners (near zero) to pressure me in to going just a bit further/faster. 🏃



  • The Week #19

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    • Covid cases are back on the rise again in Japan. Kanagawa has roughly doubled its number of daily cases lately. Hopefully we can all take this seriously again and get the numbers back in check. I feel Japan squandered a real opportunity at the end of the state of emergency for New Zealand like results. Instead we ended it early.

    • Crew 1 launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the SpaceX Dragon bound for the ISS. This flight has a lot of firsts: first operational crew flight on a commercial rocket, first operational crew flight launched from the US since the shuttle shuttered, first night launch in a decade, and most importantly, the first time they'll have ramen in space.

      I know one of the astronauts on the flight from our time living across from Johnson Space Center, so I was holding my breath a bit more than usual when watching the launch. I'm very happy it was a success.


    • I went to Hamleys in Sakuragi-cho in Yokohama. The last time I went was just before covid. If you've never been to Hamleys, imagine you're a kid and you've just walked in to Santa's warehouse, that's what it's like. They've got every toy under the sun, a clown making the rounds heaps of toys to play with and even one of those pianos you play with your feet, albeit not as big.

      But not this time. Covid seems to be taking a toll on the business. A lot of the shelves were empty and a large central section was now dedicated to easy revenue makers: capsule toys. It still had part of the magic you'd expect from a giant toy store, but it still felt like a store that's not too far from shuttering. I hope it makes it through all of this. It seems silly to worry about the viability of a toy shop around Christmas, yet here we are. To help the cause we bought Leo some Clever Cogs.


    • I've had my digital garden for a week so far and I'm starting to make good use of it. Dumping parts of my brain of things I'm thinking about has been helpful. So I've documented some print settings that are common when copying a license and ideas for future improvements to Airbot.


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    A quick run after work. Glad I ran with my reflective slap wristband as it’s getting dark so early these days. Also too many old dudes without masks. 🏃



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