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🔗 Biking Boom - Cycling as Lifestyle
by JamesDiscover contemporary cycling culture in three European cities: Berlin, the unofficial capital of vintage racing bikes. London, where cycle-cafés also hold speed dating evenings and Amsterdam where cyclists stand out from the crowd with style.
A great documentary series about cycling from 2018. With interviews and footage with bike couriers in Berlin, cycle fashion bloggers in Copenhagen, it inspired me to take out my cross-bike instead of the eBike mama-chari for the first time in ages. I wish I had a reason to ride it more.
I love the sub-culture around bikes. Not the lycra wearing weekend racers, but the everyday riders. Riding for transport. Or work. Or whatever. Each bike as unique as its owner. And each ride in the city, a small protest against the car dominance that is killing us all. -
Checkin to Starbucks
久しぶり朝スタバ。新宿に通ってた時の定番。 -
Checkin to 本格インドカレーChai立場店
First Indian joint in forever. Missed it so much. -
Checkin to Chigasaki Satoyama Park (茅ヶ崎里山公園)
Back again with the tent, hot coffee, annd the bicycle we forgot last week. 🙌🏻 -
Response to
by JamesI really appreciate you taking the time to answer my questions, James.
I wish I had the technical knowledge to accomplish these things and help with Tanzawa development, but I know only enough HTML, CSS and Javascript to build simple websites.
- Is there a way to use iframes (embed media) with the editor?
- On my current local installation Tanzawa Replies do not seem to work.
- Flag emojis do not seem to show up in the streams sidebar
- Manually editing post dates.
- Options to enable/disable Maps & Trips?Thanks for the reply. I'll keep this reply public so it acts as "documentation" if other people are searching around about Tanzawa and wondering similar things.
I'll dive in to answering your questions.> Is there a way to use iframes (embed media) with the editor?Not at the moment. Tanzawa is using Trix as its editor, so there is probably a way, but I haven't researched it at all. The main reason for not even allowing video uploading is that processing is quite time/cpu intensive. Processing video needs to be done in the background, which requires background tasks and Tanzawa doesn't support (yet) in an effort to keep the system simple.
> On my current local installation Tanzawa Replies do not seem to work.
This happens sometimes. Tanzawa's code for pulling out metadata for replies / bookmarks isn't quite as robust as I'd like. If you can share the URL with me I'd be happy to take a look.
> Flag emojis do not seem to show up in the streams sidebar
Yes – I ran into this on my site as well. It seems to be an issue with the Django admin converting the character automatically (or something of that nature). I created my Japan stream via the Django console by typing in the python code directly.$ python3 apps/manage.py shell >>> from streams.models import MStream >>> MStream.objects.create(icon="🇯🇵", slug="japan-2", name="Japan 2") <MStream: Japan 2> >>> exit()
As slug is a unique field, if you want to update an existing stream, you can do it by first selecting it, setting the value, and saving.$ python3 apps/manage.py shell >>> from streams.models import MStream >>> stream = MStream.objects.get(slug="japan") >>> stream.icon = "🇯🇵" >>> stream.save() >>> exit()
> Manually editing post dates.
Yes - I have an issue on GitHub for this and a WIP branch locally. It's been a while since I looked at the code, but as I recall I was getting bogged down writing the interface for it. After I finish ship plugins, I'll give it another look.
> Options to enable/disable Maps & Trips?
There isn't a point and click way to do this. The easiest way for now modify the base public template in apps/templates/base_public.html. Maybe it makes sense to transition Maps/Trips to plugins in the future... -
Response to
by JamesI installed Tanzawa. It's amazing. Seriously amazing.
I feel right at home using its UI. I'm loving testing it locally, but there's two things I haven't figure out:
1. What's the best way to import content from markdown files?
2. Custom link support.Thank you for such kind words, Andrés!
To answer your questions:
1. There isn't a direct way to import markdown into Tanzawa. Wordpress would be one way, but you'd likely lose the "post kind" data along the way. The Tanzawa Wordpress import was really designed for moving data from the IndieWeb Plugins to Tanzawa. I also haven't run it since I imported my site in April, so it might be broken.
Perhaps the best way, although it would require a little programming, would be to convert the posts to microformat and POST it to the micropub endpoint. Something like this would be useful for many people, so if you do go this route, I'd love to be able to direct people your tool.
2. Custom link support is something I've been thinking about. I think I might handle it with a plugin, but I'm not sure. Right now the only way to add a redirect in your nginx or apache configuration. So not simple or scalable. -
The Week #71
by James- This week marks 1 month being at Octopus. I've been enjoying my time at the company so far and I'm learning a lot. I know I'm working more hours than at BP. I think it's a combination of things, but mostly as there isn't a time sheet to worry about, just start and end whenever, it's easier to get into a late afternoon groove.
- With the covid numbers down, after family dinner on Friday, I went out for a quick beer with a couple of co-workers. Another first in about 2 years (the last time I went out was 2019, after the last working day of the year). It was a lot of fun getting to know them better and being able chat without thinking "I should be working" in the back of my head.
- One of the solar installers came out to measure our roof to see if the QCells 3.5KWh system would actually fit and turns out, it wouldn't. The south side could fit 9 panels, but the east/west sides can't fit 3 panels each. I'm having see if they can the smaller 185w panel on the east/west.
Since we've now missed the deadline for a ¥19/KWh feed in tariff, the most we'll is ¥17/KWh. This is for the best though. As with the pressure off, we can better look into subsidies, and it looks like there may be city, prefecture, and national subsidies available to help purchase the battery and HEMS (Home Energy Management System). - Leo and I went to the Yokohama Tram Museum. I'd been wanting to go since I first heard about it after seeing a special on TV-Kanagawa about 2021 being 100 years of public transit in the city. I've been delaying going as it's a 20 minute bus ride from Kamiooka station (I like trains, not a huge fan of buses ( though they're better than cars)). You also get a discount if you go via public transit, which was nice. I think it was ¥250 or ¥350 for both of us to get in.
In addition to having a collection of trams, they have some dioramas you can drive and a tram simulator you can play. Leo just kept the tram going full tilt until it ran into the boundaries and was forcefully stopped ( about 5 meters after stop).
The museum also had a separate building where they had a huge set of pura-rail setup and if you wait your turn you actually drive them! Leo drove Dr. Yellow once, and Hayabusa twice. Paradise for any young rail fan!Leo driving Hayabusa - We went to Satoyama Park in Chigasaki to play on the big bouncy things and ride the roller slide. This time we brought a tent we got specifically for these purposes (bringing tents to the beach / big parks where you're going to be for a while seems to be a thing in Japan).
Small milestone on this trip was Leo finally decided to take of a proper sized rice-ball, rather than having bite-sized mini-rice balls. After he took a first bite he said "Oh, taking a bite of onigiri is delicious!", and beyond being relieved that he's eating his lunch was thinking "That's what we've been saying, dude!!".
We're likely going there again this weekend as we seem to have forgotten his little blue-bicycle in the rush packing and getting back to the car 🙃.
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Enjoying some pizza watching the carps with Leo.
Getting that bread. -
Checkin to Yokohama Tram Museum (横浜市電保存館)
Before the subway, Yokohama had trams!Love the subway, but wish we still had trams, too. -
by JamesJust found a hole in my DarnTough socks. They're some of my favorites and they've got an unconditional lifetime warranty. Going to give it a try. ( And maybe order me a pair for running in the mean time)
