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Checkin to IKEA Restaurant & Cafe (IKEAใฌในใใฉใณ&ใซใใง)
Veggies balls!
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The Week #22
by James- 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 "็ฉบใใใฎ็จๅฟใ็ซใฎ็จๅฟ", 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".
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๐ jaredks/rumps
by JamesRidiculously 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.- Tagged with
- macos
- python
- programming
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๐ https://mateuszurbanowicz.com/works/tokyo_storefronts_book/
by JamesJust 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.
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The Week #21
by James- 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 ๐๐ป).
- 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.
