• Counting Down the Tasks

    I got a good question from Adam (@TalAdam) about why I have Tanzawa on a subdomain, rather than my main domain. While the answer is simple it's a good opportunity to discuss my plans for Tanzawa in the mid-term future.

    To answer Adam's question:

    1. 1. When I started Tanzawa I didn't have a domain (or even a name), so I started with a domain I owned.
    2. 2. I need to build up my minimal feature parity of my current blog before I can switch my main domain from Wordpress to Tanzawa.

    What's remaining for my minimal feature parity? Only three parts:Β  bookmarks/likes, checkins (w/ maps), and photo posts. Technically four - but photo posts are lower on the list. Once that's done I'll need to figure out how to migrate my data and create a huge redirect map for nginx. Perhaps by the end of the month?Β 

    Once I migrate my main site to Tanzawa what's left for this blog? I plan to redirect it somewhere on the tanzawa.blog domain. From there, I'll continuing using this blog as a development blog as I polish Tanzawa for a proper release that other people can use.
  • Response to The Week #34

    I started working on replies in Tanzawa. Introducing Turbo to add some dynamism to admin interface. It’s turned into a bigger rabbit hole than expected. I imagine most rails devs are familiar with the basics of Turbo (Links) but as a Django dev, things like Turbo aren’t included, so there’s a bit of a learning curve for me to implement it properly. That said – it’s coming along.
    Although I said it's coming along earlier today, I got it all working andΒ  I decided to ship despite replies not being implemented in my micropub endpoint yet.

    One thing I'd like is to make responding to a tweet via Tanzawa as smooth as butter, so it's quick to tweet and reply from your own site. I imagine I can do that if I integrate with Bridgy.
  • The Week #34


    • I forget what I was searching for but I found this fantastic blog (in English) about trains in Japan called Tokyo Railway Labrinth. It has history of different trains and so much more. I love when I find a site where someone is just geeking out about their passion online.

    • During the week some co-workers and I were discussing burgers. This gave me a craving for an avocado cheese burger from Kua`Aina. I recounted the story of how, even though in Japan you're supposed to have a nice light Japanese meal the day before the birth of your child, my wife was craving a burger and calories, so we went to the Enoshima Kuga`Aina before Leo was born. It was delicious as always. And since we got there right after they opened, not busy.

    • I also visited the Fujiko Museum in Kawasaki over the weekend a.k.a. the Doraemon museum. I've never read the manga, but I have watched a couple of the movies (Leo's going through a mini-boom at the moment). It was pretty great, though I spent most of the time holding Leo watching this giant Rube Goldberg machine move a bunch of different balls across the room.

    • I started working on replies in Tanzawa. Introducing Turbo to add some dynamism to admin interface. It's turned into a bigger rabbit hole than expected. I imagine most rails devs are familiar with the basics of Turbo (Links) but as a Django dev, things like Turbo aren't included, so there's a bit of a learning curve for me to implement it properly. That said - it's coming along.

  • Breaking the admin into TurboFrames and it feels like I'm rewriting the entire app. It's a good opportunity to refactor templates and views, but man do I feel like a hamster running on a wheel while I figure out the implementation patterns.
  • Checkin to Fujiko F. Fujio Museum (藀子・Fγƒ»δΈδΊŒι›„γƒŸγƒ₯γƒΌγ‚Έγ‚’γƒ )

    in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
    Doraemon!
  • Reworked my template a bit and it seems that comments are now coming through!

    Reply from Tanzawa in moderation
  • I can now extract the reply data for microformat and schema.org schemas when I reply. Editing and RSS is also working nicely as well. I'm sending webmentions, but I think my template needs some tweaking as the comment is coming through.

    Mixing Turbo (for replies) and regular page loads (for status/articles) is starting to show it's limits. I think after I get replies shipped, I need to step back and refactor my admin template to go full-in with Turbo.
  • Checkin to Enoshima Station (EN06) (ζ±ŸγƒŽε³Άι§…)

    in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan
    Everyone’s favorite, the enoden.
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  • Checkin to KUA`AINA

    in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan
    Talked about this place during the week with co-workers. The body craves an avocado burger near the beach.
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  • Working on the display of replies. It's still a big work in progress - but progress none the less. The publish date / by-line work well for articles, but adding in the reply to URL makes it feel like there's too much information.

    My initial design matching the admin interface.


    Perhaps it would be better to make the response title itself a link and hide the url?

    A bit cleaner look?
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