I did myself a favor and subscribed to polypane.app by Kilian Valkhof, which is just an outstanding and multifaceted tool for web dev! 🎛️
Unlearning old, bad CSS habits and replacing them with shiny new ones, with Andy Bell’s Complete CSS course. He said it took a year to produce, and you can tell. It’s outstanding. 🤩
CleanShot is fantastic & featureful screenshot software for Mac, which has the basics, but also annotation, cloud storage, capture history, screen recording, OCR and more. If you share any instructional content, you’ll want to check it out.
Reading about the lovely next-gen programmer font “Monaspace” on GithubNext, also found a cool fork of it, Moralerspace, that merges in Japanese “IBM Plex Sans JP” and a nerd font. Nihongo looks good, and the “nerd” symbols mean tricky Terminal prompts will display as well. 😎
Listening to BSI’s “The Standards Show” today I learned about the British “Kitemark” for service excellence and others. Interesting concept of having triers adhere to multiple British or ISO standards to achieve a given Kitemark scheme. Can any Brits share their thoughts?🪁
Maru the Shiba turned 4 today, how time flies! He got some fresh tennis balls, a Winner Trophy chew toy, his favorite chicken burger (shaped like a 4) and whipped yogurt meal, and lots of love. He never wolfs his food, always carefully inspecting and taking small bites. 🐕🥳
Saw “Samurai Timeslipper” yesterday after reading a review in the paper, and liked it. It’s Showaesque, low budget (eg the actual AD plays an AD, director dons many hats) warmly humorous, takes cues from the best of J cinema. 🥰 www.samutai.net
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Went with friend Dave to see the Drum Corps Japan Championship at Carlos Ghohn Memorial Stadium 😅 as he calls it (aka Nissan Stadium), and it was a fantastic long day of great performances. Even the really small corps were excellent, employing creative solutions to their size challenges. 🎼
Bluesky’s “AT Protocol” for identity is cool. I set up my handle as @cogley.jp in one easy step using a TXT record in DNS. Slick! 😎
We installed a physical security system in May. After telling the client yesterday during a conversation about extended warranty that “security panels don’t really break very often”, of course THIS AM the security panel is failing and we are scrambling. From my lips to God’s ears?! 🚨
Maru the Shiba was “helping” Akko read the paper this AM. Cuteness overload every day. 🐕
Lately we’re building websites in the fantastic «Lume ルメ» by Óscar Otero, and using its companion CMS to make editing easier for users. The CMS runs on Deno Deploy, or in a VPS like those from Digital Ocean and the latter provides an awesome live preview capability. 🚀
Happy Halloween everyone! My wife got me a frankenstein wagashi. She trying to say something?! 🎃
What an exciting World Series! Congrats to the Dodgers (Shohei’s wish came true), better luck next time to the Yankees. The games were so exciting, you couldn’t assume anything. Freeman’s performance will be the stuff of schoolboy dreams. When’s the season opener again?! ⚾️🍾
I tried verifying my LinkedIn profile via Persona, but it won’t let me select the US presumably because it detects me in Japan. What an idiotic system, that tries to prevent fraud but actually causes more of it because people have to resort to vpn hacks if they want to verify. 🤷
We cleaned and prepped our old house over the last 2 months preparing for guests who had got free air tickets. Turns out those were “standby” ones and they couldn’t come. 🥲
Heading to the US, first time since before COVID. Will see family and a client. Somehow the flight to SFO tonight didn’t get cancelled, but Haneda is empty. ✈️
“Bookie” is a good series, funny and dark with a great cast.