A couple days late, but Hackers was released 27 years ago. It's my favorite movie, for both nostalgia and soundtrack. But the thread on HN made me realize another reason, Hackers shows how it feels to code, not just what it looks like (which is boring, just a person looking at a terminal).

Hack the planet!

One of the things I think about a lot lately is the amount of animal products I consume. Not just meat, but milk, yogurt, and cheese as well. And I've been working on reducing it when I can.

Doing so makes me feel better mentally. Not just from the "no animals were harmed in the making of this lunch" perspective, but that there's just less to think about. Did I cook the meat enough? Have I accidentally cross-contaminated my meat and veg? And so forth.

When visiting Waterstones in the UK, there was a book that caught my eye and I read a bit, but ultimately didn't buy called This is Vegan Propaganda. As I finished the climate change book, I decided to buy it as I kept thinking about it. Thus far it's been a good read.

The only downside is it's made me a bit uncomfortable when I ride by the chicken farm not too far from my house. I find myself questioning the well being of the chickens, while before I just thought about fresh eggs.

While I don't intend to become vegan (neigh impossible in Japan, unless you cook all of your own meals), I am curious.

Took out the acoustic bike yesterday morning. Glad I did. I should do it more often.

The Inflation Reduction Act passed. It actually passed. Do I wish it was stronger on climate? Absolutely. Is it a giant step in the correct direction? Absolutely. $370 billion in spending on energy and climate change is a BFD. Great job, Dems!

Lovely sunrise this morning in Odawara. 🌅

I've been fiddling with that new health feature I've been thinking about the past couple weeks.

No (admin only) visualizations or anything yet, but I'll probably add some graphs at some point. My main priority is starting to get data input.

I've got a couple of ideas for improvements for my blog that I've been pondering recently.

1. A plugin to make it easy to track health related data. This wouldn't necessarily become a blog post but rather, due to the sensitive nature of health data, would rollup into a "health" page, which would be private. Mostly I'm thinking of a dead simple form to input weight in kg and eventually graph it.

The important part about is that it doesn't immediately take you to the graph or show you the previous results when inputting data, so you don't end up in a negative spiral if it goes the wrong direction.

2. A "books" feature that would let you store the books you're reading. Then when you're reading and find a quote you like, you can save the quote along with your notes. This would become a blog post, but would rollup into a "books" section. Similar to how Trips.

I imagine the list page would be a list of book covers with the title. Clicking on it would then take you to a page that shows all of the quotes/posts in the order that they appear in the book.