The Week #183

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  • 🎉 It's now 2024! We spent new years eve and new years day as we usually do - toshikoshi soba for dinner and osechi for new years breakfast at the in-laws. Traditionally osechi is made in the days leading up to the new year, full of food that will last a few days. Then the first few days of the new year are spent not-cooking, but instead eating all the food. These days though, most people buy most/all of it and there's varieties with western dishes. This year we bought everything and we only made some soup and warmed up some mochi to put in said soup.

    After writing the above, there was  large earthquake and (as I write this, potentially large) tsunami hitting Ishikawa. My usage of the :tada: emoji feels like it might be in poor taste given the situation. There's never a good day for a natural disaster, but the very first day of the year...let's hope this is the worst of 2024.
  • 🐭 We went to Disney Sea, the second park in the Tokyo Disney Resort, and spent the night at one of the hotels. We weren't explictly planning to visit the park, but when we bought our car earlier this year, we got 2 free tickets to Disneyland or Disney Sea...and since we went to last year 2 years ago...we thought it should go to the other.

    Compared with the time we went towards the end of the pandemic, the lines were massive. 2+ hour waits at some of them. As such we only rode rides with a ~30 minute wait. The Disney Resort app gives you real-time wait time information, which is great...but was also caused some pain as we had run out of data before getting massively throttled. So slow that it took 15 minutes to go through the process of adding an extra 500MB of data.

    Leo only had 2 quasi-melt downs and both times it was because he was hungry and waiting in line. I'm going to bring snacks next time.

    One lesson we applied from the last trip to this trip was to eat early and beat the crowds. For dinner we breezed in to the Aladdin area restaurant for some curry. Leo insisted he didn't want curry, but as soon he ate 1 bite...he wolfed down the rest and immediately fixed his mood.

    We stayed the night at the Hilton Tokyo Bay, and it was really nice. Our room had 3 singles...which I guess is a configuration because lots of friends come in groups of 2 or 3? Leo slept in his own bed and around 5am managed to roll off the bed. The champ that he is, he didn't cry, he got back up in his bed and went back to sleep.
  • 😭 Bill Granger, the father of avocado toast, passed away at 54, far too young. I love going to his restaurant in Shichirigahama. The food was always great and the atmosphere makes you feel good. For years we'd go there to celebrate my birthday with a nice ocean view.
    Ricotta honey-butter pancakes from a visit a few years ago
  • ⛰️ I merged a major under the hood change in Tanzawa that removes Turbo  in favor of HTMX. Turbo technically works with any language / framework, but it feels like it's really geared for Ruby/Rails (makes sense given it's made by 37 signals), while HTMX is more agnostic and integrates better into Django.

    The other fun part of this work is I am slowly removing  my usage of Stimulus (a JavaScript companion library of Turbo). Each time I remove a controller I get one step closer to being able to remove a build system from Tanzawa, which I find highly motivating.
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