• ๐Ÿ”— Codeberg.org

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    Codeberg is founded as a Non-Profit Organization, with the objective to give the Open-Source code that is running our world a safe and friendly home, and to ensure that free code remains free and secure forever.
    I haven't used Codeberg (a GitHub alternative), but their copy on front page strikes me.
    No tracking. Your data is not for sale.
All services run on servers under our control. No dependencies on external services. No third party cookies, no tracking.
Hosted in the EU, we welcome the world.
    Using external services for every last thing, you end up with your data being spread out amongst multiple (unknown to you) vendors, each with different security-implications / privacy policies / regulations all across the world. It makes your service more brittle (increased points of failure) and less secure (increased attack vectors). Seeing a service make this central to their product is refreshing.
    Focusing on privacy and hosting in non-US owned/operated datacenters in the EU will be a competitive advantage when going up against the US tech companies in the future, if it isn't already.
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  • The Week #23

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    • In addition to reading and writing notes about Atomic Habits, I've also started to re-read some books that inspired me in the past and write notes so I can reference them later. This week is the fantastic book Web Form Design ( my notes ). Do you really need a book about such a mundane topic? When you consider that forms are the bottleneck for all online interactions, yes.

    • I managed to run 5km 3 times last week using Habit Stacking. The habit is basically as follows "After a cup of coffee at 5:30am I will run for 30 minutes". Since I'm not fast enough for a 30 minute 5km yet, it usually works out to 30 ~ 35 minutes.

    • Stacking my running habit around coffee is what seems to work for me. When I first started running (and managed to sustain the habit for 5 or 6 months) in 2018, it was also similar. Except Leo was an infant and I couldn't make coffee at 4:30am without fear of waking him. Since it was summer and the sun rises around then in Japan, I'd go for a run with my endpoint being one of the local 7-11's, where I could get an ice coffee and walk home.

    • I tried the Plant Balls on a trip to ikea, and they're proper tasty. Technically I got the meatballs and my wife got the plant balls and we shared one, but I think they're my new default.

    • I bought my first proper bookshelf and it's in the minimal style of bookshelf I've always wanted (photo in my tweet). I wish I had the space so I could chain multiple shelves together for a wall of books. Like most of the rest of the furniture in my house, it's from Muji. And it's properly screwed into the walls because this is Japan.

  • Checkin to IKEA Restaurant & Cafe (IKEAใƒฌใ‚นใƒˆใƒฉใƒณ&ใ‚ซใƒ•ใ‚ง)

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    in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

    Veggies balls!

  • The Week #22

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    • Japan OKed free Covid-19 vaccinations for residents. The goal is June 2021 for everyone to get vaccinated - just in time for the Olympics :) Unfortunately in the mean time, numbers continue to rise, though it appears that they're starting to level off a bit.

    • As I'm the head of the block this year in my neighborhood, I have some extra duties, like attending a monthly neighborhood association meeting and disseminating information to my block. Each month a portion of the heads have a neighborhood patrol duty. We walk our block with official day-glow green neighborhood watch vests, a lantern, a mini-light saber (used by all the traffic guys), and two long pieces of wood.

    The guy in front slaps to wood together twice and we repeat an announcement in unison. This time it was "็ฉบใใ™ใฎ็”จๅฟƒใ€็ซใฎ็”จๅฟƒ", or "Take precautions against burglars. Take precautions against fire". It seems appropriate for this time of year. The patrol took about 20 minutes, helped me close my rings for the day, and I got to see parts of the neighborhood I'd never been.


  • I finished reading The Little Prince. It's one of those books that's a classic and everyone says you should read. I quite enjoyed it. It's the first book I finished reading cover-to-cover in ages (I tend get what I need from books about mid-way through and move on). Perhaps that it was less than 100 pages made it easier to finish.

  • I started reading Atomic Habits by James Clear. I'm compiling my notes on my wiki. The first few chapters remind me a lot of The Power of Habit (and he says as much in footnotes) - but it has some ideas that I really like. So far my favorite is " Each action is a vote for the type of person you want to become".

  • ๐Ÿ”— jaredks/rumps

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    Ridiculously Uncomplicated macOS Python Statusbar apps - jaredks/rumps
    I've been thinking about couple ideas for status bar apps that could help me at work. One of the largest barriers for me to actually build them is re-learning Objective-C (I can't believe ImageXY was almost a decade ago ) or learning Swift. Letting me write apps in Python should allow me to quickly prototype some apps and see if my ideas are actually any good.
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  • ๐Ÿ”— https://mateuszurbanowicz.com/works/tokyo_storefronts_book/

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    Just watched an episode of Japanology Plus that had the artist of Tokyo Storefronts on. I love the style of these storefronts, they really are the treasure of Tokyo.




  • The Week #21

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    • After 17 years Growl, the open source precursor to notification center on OS X, is going into retirement. I'm a bit sad as Growl was one of the first open source projects I ever contributed to. Chris (the project lead) and I used to meet up at the local diedrech's coffee and talk shop.

    I did the initial implementation of the automatic album art downloader in GrowlTunes, where GrowlTunes would pull album art from Amazon if you didn't have album art set in iTunes. I also came up with the (I think still current?) settings interface and did a horrible Japanese translation of the app (that native speakers quickly noticed and fixed ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป).


  • I reached my running goal of 40km this month despite not starting back up until about a week into the month. Assuming I keep pace, next month I should be able to run about 50km.

  • I've started playing with ripgrep / sed a bit more at work for a large(ish) refactor and inspired me to start keeping track of the handy commands I use at work with examples so I don't have to experiment / fiddle the next time a similar task comes along.

  • ๐Ÿ”— SpaceHey.com

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    SpaceHey.com โ€” a space for friends. It's a place to have fun, meet friends, and be creative!
    This is a brilliant remake of MySpace. I love how simple the design and how fast it loads. 34kb of Javascript sent over the wire and 33 of that is jQuery. Total page size including images, 350kb. It's the stuff of dreams these days.
    Back in the MySpace hey-day I liked Facebook more than MySpace for its clean and consistent design. But looking back with 20/20 hindsight I can't help but think I was remiss. MySpace was quite a special site in a special period of the web. People that maybe wouldn't ordinarily care about html or css were learning how to code them so they could customize their sites. Anything was possible.
    A lot of whimsy has been removed from the web as people locking themselves into the big social networks. Maybe a site like MySpace/micro.blog is a happy medium between the wild-west/running your own server and total platform lock in.
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    3. computing
    4. social media
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    Today's happy thought: native iOS apps running on a Mac means I can run fewer Electron apps.

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    Just past Shimoida station off the subway. Still blows my mind this is Yokohama. Nice 10k to round off the week and get my monthly goal kms in. ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป






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