• Checkin to Iida Farm (飯田牧場)

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    in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan
    Took the bike to get some fresh gelato πŸ˜‹

  • Response to Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities

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    We've been using our electric assist "mama-chari" a lot more recently. I've been taking it to a local coffee shop that I'd usually walk (15 minutes) or drive (5 minutes)to and it's been great. My wife has been taking it to her parent's house (5.5km away) where I'd either drive them round trip or we'd take the train. Travel time ends up being about the same regardless of the method of transport we take.

    What I like the most about cycling is how you can travel quickly and you're not disconnected from your environment like you are with a car. It feels more human.

  • The Week #39

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    • Another big week in the Van Dyne household. After 3 years (mostly by-choice) my wife is re-joining the workforce. The timing is mostly because Leo will be starting pre-school next week, so he'll be out of the house most days for the majority of the day. Japan has some different laws surrounding healthcare/social security/being able to be declared as a dependent for tax purpose requirements, where if you work more than x hours or earn more than y per year you can no longer be included on your spouses healthcare/social security, so she's staying within those bounds for now. Either way, exciting.

    • I watched The Trial of the Chicago 7 about anti-Vietnam war protestors charged with the intention to start riots at the 1968 DNC convention in Chicago. I've never seen Sacha Baron Cohen in a serious role before, usually he's Borat or Ali G for me. I didn't realize until the end it was an Aaron Sorkin movie – it's no wonder I liked it.

    • This year marks 100 years of public transit in Yokohama and the city has build a webpage celebrating those 100 years. It even looks like the next station down has some limited edition paper tickets "Dancing Cat" tickets. Fun!

    • I got a haircut and talking with my barber about the vaccine and she said she's hesitant to get it. I asked why and she mentioned Bill Gates funding the research, alluding to an ulterior motive. I wasn't quite sure how to handle it exactly, but tried to talk about his vaccine work before covid. She said "do you think this might be one of those rumors?", "Yes, absolutely.". I also told her about my dad and brother's experience getting the vaccine (uneventful, because it's safe and not filled with 5G ads for Windows).

  • Checkin to Kinuta Park (η §ε…¬εœ’)

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    in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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    I’ve got all of my extractors written. Next up is actually importing the content. In my import I’m also going to automate cleaning up some of the markup.Β 

    • Removing link wrappers around images. I.e. images posted from Sunlit wrap all images with an a tag. I want to strip that.Β 
    • Rewriting all attachment links to their new Tanzawa permalink.
    • Rewriting all internal links to their new Tanzawa permalink.

    I have a few pages on blog. I’m not sure I want to support pages yet (at least not in such a free form). I could import them as posts, so the content moves over. But instead I think I’m going to move them to my wiki instead.
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    There's still a slog ahead for importing posts, but it seems manageable. I wrote a bunch of utility functions (with tests) to extract and normalize individual fields of data from a post.Β 

    The idea being, once I can extract the data easily, I should be able construct my records by simply calling each function (more or less).

    Migrating comments is going to be tricky as I only support webmentions in Tanzawa and not all comments on my blog originate from webmentions. I think I'll probably just not import comments/webmentions until after I migrate my blog to Tanzawa.
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    After a day-ish of trying to figure out a nice clean ( Javascript-less ) way to make a queue to import images, I decided to just forget the queue and let Tanzawa import images as fast as possible. The number of simultaneous requests seems to be limited by the browser anyways.

    The last thing I need to do is import individual post content. Maybe it's because I'm not building fun features, but this last Wordpress import feels like such a slog.

  • Checkin to Starbucks

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    in Kanagawa, Japan
    Sakura donuts with Leo. Perfect weather for enjoying the terrace seats.
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  • Checkin to Ootoya (ε€§ζˆΈε±‹)

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    in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

  • πŸ”— Izumicho, Kanagawa, Japan Air Pollution: Real-time Air Quality Index

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    How polluted is the air today? Check out the real-time air pollution map, for more than 100 countries.
    Love this site that shows me the air quality from around the world. The simple visualization at the bottom with a colored square for each day of the year really lets you easily see trends in air quality over time. Izumi-ku, Yokohama's air quality looks to be improving over the years. Yay!
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