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    Next on the Tanzawa task list, I need to decide how I want to handle images and what the (minimum) image processing pipeline will look like.
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    Really excited to have the first instance of πŸ”Tanzawa built and running on a server. Named after the mountain range I see everyday out my window.




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    Got my first version of Tanzawa up and running. Super excited.
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    With the case numbers rising nonstop we’ve decided to stay in as much as possible and live by mail order.
    Doing such means we can’t visit cafes or coffee houses for beans, so we’re ordering them instead. Excited to try the House blend from 27 Coffee Roasters in Tsujido, Kanagawa. β˜•οΈπŸ‡―πŸ‡΅

  • Checkin to Kugenuma Beach (ι΅ ζ²Όζ΅·ε²Έ)

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    in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan

    飽きγͺいγͺぁー



  • Checkin to 徑霊η₯žη€Ύ

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    in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan




  • πŸ”— Full Stack Radio | 151: DHH – Building HEY with Hotwire

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    Good interview with DHH about Hotwire.dev. Turboframes really excites me - I want to write my web apps in Python, not Typescript/JS.
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    First commit of 2021 done. Not sure what I'm gonna call it, but the architecture is solidifying a bit.

  • The Week #25

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    • The slugs for "The Week" posts are in the format "YYYY-WEEK_NUMBER". The idea being I'll be able to go back and see exactly what week #36 of each year was like. Nice and simple. I always thought there were 52 weeks and for the past few weeks I've been noticing that I was going to get 52 before January 1st. And indeed this post's slug is 2020-53. Surely I must have fudged the numbers. Double checking with Python's datetime seems to indicate that 53 is indeed, correct.

    Python 3.8.2 (default, Aug 25 2020, 09:23:57) 
    [Clang 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.2)] on darwin
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> from datetime import datetime
    >>> datetime.now().isocalendar()
    (2020, 53, 1)

    The isocalendar documentation says that 53 is a valid value. I thought that maybe it was because this year was a leap year? Or had my teachers lied to me about the whole "always 52 weeks in a year" thing? They already lied to me about "i before e except after c" as a gospel of spelling which, turns out, is wrong just as much as it's right. Even something like "52 weeks except when January 1st falls on Wednesday" or something equally half-correct half-the-time would have been nice. But I digress. According to the docs:


    The first week of an ISO year is the first (Gregorian) calendar week of a year containing a Thursday. This is called week number 1, and the ISO year of that Thursday is the same as its Gregorian year.

    TIL

  • I tried to visit my favorite Starbucks next-door in Fujisawa. When we pulled up, the parking lot was much emptier than usual and the drive-thru was closed. We've been pretty good about cafes (at least by my own judgement) – eating outdoors the vast majority of the time and not visiting places that are crowded. Turns out one of the staff came down with covid-19. Not worth the risk. The new strain seems to be spreading quite well in Japan at perhaps the worst possible time New Years, which spiritually like Thanksgiving is for Americans.


  • Christmas marked the last day of work for the year and until the 5th of January. Very grateful to have a week off. Leo got the Anpanman Language Field Guide Super Deluxe from Santa. It's an illustrated book with a pen - and when you touch the pen on the pages Anpanman says what what's called in English or Japanese. Each page has a different scene too e.g. in the city, around town, in the forest, the kitchen, or even body parts and the like.

    Leo had originally borrowed this toy from a friend a few months back and he played with it almost non-stop. Keeping Leo busy is nice, but more importantly it help increase his English vocabulary as well. Since borrowing it he would mention the toy at least once a week. Go Santa!


  • With a week off I've been thinking to blogging, privacy, data-ownership, and the indie web. I think I've come up with something that could be very cool. I'm a little afraid I'm going to end up building "the best custom setup for blogging" instead of "blogging" and just using Wordpress, but it will scratch some itches. I don't want to go into detail until I've built a bit more of it and proven the concept to myself and or have something to show.

  • πŸ”— My Unusually Normal Life in Taiwan Amid the Global Pandemic

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    As videos circulated of rebellious Americans refusing the most basic of precautions under the pretense of freedom, Taiwan shook its collective head and nodded at what real freedom looked like: the ability to have a drink at a bar without fear of catching a deadly airborne illness.
    I get this same feeling, even from Japan. I wish the government hadn't let the Olympics dictate their lack of action – we could have been the same as Taiwan and New Zealand.
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