Gosh what an exciting World Series. Dodgers and Blue Jays were both stellar and it was a nail biter until the end! Congrats LAD! 💦⚾️
Exciting World Series this year! On to game 7! 🏟️⚾️
When you change your domain’s DNS (NS records), you can flush the records in major DNS providers to force a quicker propagation:
- Cloudflare: https://1.1.1.1/purge-cache/
- Google: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/cache
- OpenDNS: https://cachecheck.opendns.com/
Visited Osaka Expo 2025 on 6 Sept with 220,000 others. It was hot and crowded but ultimately a good time thanks to A’s planning and a little luck.
We have the J-ALERT disaster warning system here in Japan which pushes mobile alerts regarding quakes, floods etc. It makes a big racket when a train car of phones get an alert! 💥
A and I are heading to Osaka to visit the Expo. Of course a typhoon was coming up as we were heading down so there was a delay but we are moving now. Oh and there’s a pet bird chirping away. 🚄🐤
Did you know you can add your Japan My Number card to your Apple Wallet? You can, using your MyNaPortal app. 🧐
I use git and git clients daily, and a recent one I really like is the fast and featureful fork. It’s available for MacOS or Windows, and “just works”. ⋔⌨️⋔
Japan visitors, it’s supposed to be rainy season, but instead we have a heat stroke alert in Kanto. Take it seriously, stay cool, don’t push too hard! 🥵
My team at eSolia published a couple new blog posts, on checking your laptop battery health and asking AI about IT terms. Check them out! 😎
On 2nd June in 1859 (166 years ago), the Yokohama port opened for business, after the US-Japan trade agreement the following year. I’ve been fortunate to live here in Yokohama for years now, and enjoy the international feeling of especially the port areas of Sakuragicho and Kannai. ⚓️
Do you feel an age or generation gap working with people from younger or older generations? I know I do. I’d love to hear your experiences. Δ
There’s a 1963 phone from NTT called the “model 600”, very much like the Bell model 500, which you can view among others at the NTT History Center of Technologies in Musashino, in west Tokyo. I hope to visit some day. ☎️
A few months ago I learned about Tilley and Dreyfuss’ work “The Measure of Man and Woman” which if you think on it, was just so revolutionary. Design barely even considered measurements of people prior to this, but now it’s ubiquitous. 👫
We are debating finally cancelling the landline in our house, which made me think of the phone icon which was designed with the Bell Model 500 in mind. I wonder when this icon will become incomprehensible to younger people? In 10 years? 20? 📞📱
My firm just launched our new “Tech It Easy” blog with IT tips in English and Japanese from our team members, like this post on keyboard shortcuts. We hope it might come in handy. 😎
Version 3 of the static site generator Lume was released after a Herculean dev cycle. It’s an incredibly flexible and powerful SSG written in Typescript by Óscar Otero.
When our tree flowers and I start hearing uguisu calls, I always feel spring has come. 🌸
Saw Wicked on Broadway a few years ago with A, and now we saw the IMAX movie. Theater buffs will like that It’s chock full of cameos of the original stage performers and even the writers. Casting and performances were on point, with lots of humor. 💚🩷
I loved Think Again by Adam Grant 📚. I’m going to set aside regular time for re-thinking, try to abandon best practices, and “not get stranded at the summit of Mt. Stupid.” 😅