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The Week #158
by James- This week I have a couple of stitches in my face...thankfully hidden by glasses. Let me explain. For the past few months I've been monitoring a small spot on my face about 0.5cm from the location where I had a basal cell removed over a decade ago. The new spot hasn't been getting better on its own and is exhibiting the exact same characteristics as my first basal cell. I've heard horror stories of people going to the dermatologist (or any doctor in Japan, really) and the doctor ignoring what patients are telling them...so I kept putting it off (Though sometimes I wonder if the stories are partially as people are not proficient enough explain the situation?)
Either way, I couldn't deny it any longer and went to the dermatologist to get it checked out and...she listened to me , took me seriously, and did a biopsy. I'll have the results in 2 weeks, but I'm fairly confident it is a basal cell. Last time I had surgery to remove it and a plastic surgeon to sew me back up... this time I may go for a chemotherapy cream and see if it clears up before taking another knife the face. - Which is to say, I'm really happy that the kids as Leo's school noticed that Leo's not getting super dark like everyone else is, despite them both playing outside. This is because we're ensuring he wears his sunblock everyday and re-apply when we're out for extended periods of time. If there's any takeaway from the first two points this week it's please be sun smart: wear your sunblock and keep covered.
- I built out support for backfeeding my runs from Strava into Tanzawa. I put this off for a long time because I couldn't decide how I'd make the actual post in the db. Do I make a new "activity" type and try to microformat that and...ugh. That's when I decided to just make them a note/status post, relate the run to it, and have the template look for extra information (photos, run paths etc...).
Admin view
The results turned out ok, so far. This will allow me to save time from making blog posts with the same photos I just posted to Strava and then manually tooting about it. There are some limitations. Strava only makes the primary photo available in their API and there doesn't seem to be a way for me to backfeed likes / comments as webmentions. - Leo and I took Sophie for a walk after dinner on Sunday, after it started cool down. I've been looking forward to being able to walk Sophie with Leo for...since he was born. He's got enough endurance where he doesn't walk half a block and get tired / ride my shoulders. Walks are also great, if not the best, time to talk about life and communicate.
On this week's walk, forever obsessed with Zelda, we were pretending we were walking through Hyrule. As we're walking past creeks there's those little water blobs that throw rocks at you, which we were able to get with an imaginary bow and arrow. As we come along a straight stretch in the road Leo turns to me and says "Oh shit, rock guys!", and dutifully threw a bomb to take care of them. I look forward to our next walk around Hyrule.
- This week I have a couple of stitches in my face...thankfully hidden by glasses. Let me explain. For the past few months I've been monitoring a small spot on my face about 0.5cm from the location where I had a basal cell removed over a decade ago. The new spot hasn't been getting better on its own and is exhibiting the exact same characteristics as my first basal cell. I've heard horror stories of people going to the dermatologist (or any doctor in Japan, really) and the doctor ignoring what patients are telling them...so I kept putting it off (Though sometimes I wonder if the stories are partially as people are not proficient enough explain the situation?)
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by JamesI've made a few more tweaks and deployed my Strava run details to my site. Still a couple things remaining before I merge it into Tanzawa...but good enough for me to test it in prod. See my Sherlock homes run.
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by JamesThere used to be this service in Japan called something like 6am. I don't remember all the details, but I remember it was made by a foreigner who also had made a photoblogging site...Either way, the concept was a daily email at 6am JST with things like the weather, latest 3 items from the news, and a few other things...I think I kinda wanna build something like that...
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by James☀️HOT outside today. 11 am and over 30C . Battery’s full and I can turn on the AC worry free. Still exporting some green electrons to the grid, too.
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🔗 Building Search DSLs with Django
by JamesSearch DSLs can give a user more granular access to searching without exposing an overly complicated interface.
GitHub issues provide a DSL that’s accompanied by UI elements. An example query for searching issues would be:
is:open author:danlamanna
We can create something similar for use in a custom Django application.Improving search on my website has been long on my list of things to do. Something like this would make it easy for me to search my posts like "city:Yokohama type:checkin" to find all checkins in Yokohama. 🤔
