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  • Checkin to Lettula

    Lettula 35.871009 139.327352
    Nov 04, 2020
    by James
    in Hannล, Saitama, Japan
    Snack time. Enough for 4 adults...
    Pancakes with frozen berries on top
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  • Checkin to Hemulin leikkipaikka (ใƒ˜ใƒ ใƒฌใƒณใ•ใ‚“ใฎ้Šๅœ’ๅœฐ)

    Hemulin leikkipaikka (ใƒ˜ใƒ ใƒฌใƒณใ•ใ‚“ใฎ้Šๅœ’ๅœฐ) 35.873062 139.325611
    Nov 04, 2020
    by James
    in Hannล, Saitama, Japan
    Amazing
    Incredible playground.
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  • Checkin to Moominhouse (ใƒ ใƒผใƒŸใƒณๅฑ‹ๆ•ท)

    Moominhouse (ใƒ ใƒผใƒŸใƒณๅฑ‹ๆ•ท) 35.871293 139.324361
    Nov 04, 2020
    by James
    in Hannล, Saitama, Japan
    Moomin House!!
    The Moomin House!
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  • Checkin to Moominvalley Park (ใƒ ใƒผใƒŸใƒณใƒใƒฌใƒผใƒ‘ใƒผใ‚ฏ)

    Moominvalley Park (ใƒ ใƒผใƒŸใƒณใƒใƒฌใƒผใƒ‘ใƒผใ‚ฏ) 35.871063 139.324066
    Nov 04, 2020
    by James
    in Hannล, Saitama, Japan

    Lovely balloons
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  • Checkin to Metsa (ใƒกใƒƒใƒ„ใ‚ก)

    Metsa (ใƒกใƒƒใƒ„ใ‚ก) 35.87261953291092 139.3312418460846
    Nov 04, 2020
    by James
    in Hannล, Saitama, Japan
    First time in Saitama.
    Lake Miyazawa
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  • The Week #17

    Nov 03, 2020
    by James


    • One of my side projects is running an air quality bot for the city of Houston called @Kuukihouston. Basically what it does is scrapes pollutant data from The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, stores it in a databases, and tweets if thresholds are exceeded or updated to cross that threshold.

    I noticed it hadn't tweeted in a while but appeared to be working. Surely the city Houston didn't suddenly stop dumping benzene into the air (though a man can dream). Turns out they TCEQ started returning 404 Not Found responses to my bot. I hadn't yet moved the server to Frankfurt to be powered by sustainability energy so it was a good excuse to move it and see if it would start working.

    Sure enough after moving to a fresh ip address, Kuukibot came back to life and started tweeting again.


  • Sketch wrote a great blog post about why they're proud to be a native app. I wholeheartedly agree - software that's made for the Mac, not just on the Mac is always preferable. At the same time, with iOS and iPad apps coming to macOS with Big Sur and the ARM transition, I feel like even the "native" apps won't feel like Mac apps before we know it.


  • My buddy John at Trendsmap pointed me to a great blog post by Karl called Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit. The basic premise is that closed forums tend to take your work, hide it from the wider internet, and eventually shut down โ€“ taking your work with it and without a real way to export it. Basically if it's important to you in anyway, put it on your own site. Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere


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  • Checkin to Costco (ใ‚ณใ‚นใƒˆใ‚ณ)

    Costco (ใ‚ณใ‚นใƒˆใ‚ณ) 35.48239164112873 139.4271039962769
    Nov 02, 2020
    by James
    in Zama-shi, Kanagawa, Japan

    Road snacks.

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  • Checkin to Tully's Coffee

    Tully's Coffee 35.42963851058279 139.5575962904548
    Nov 01, 2020
    by James
    in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

    Used to visit this Tullyโ€™s regularly in 2009 - 2011. These days not so much.

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  • Oct 31, 2020
    by James

    The sunset tonight in Yokohama is fantastic. Lovely Mt. Fuji. Days like this I really love where I live, never gets old. ๐ŸŒ…๐Ÿ—ป



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  • Checkin to Starbucks

    Starbucks 35.42861 139.506997
    Oct 31, 2020
    by James
    in Kanagawa, Japan

    First cup of black coffee in days.



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