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๐ 512KB Club
by JamesThe 512KB Club is an exclusive list of web pages weighing less than 512 kilobytes.
I should add my blog to the 512k club. Confirming I'd quality and noticed I'm loading a gravatar image (likely in my h-card) in 2 different places but not displaying them โ I wonder if I can modify that somehow to provide the url but not load a hidden image....- Tagged with
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Checkin to Hase Station (EN12) (้ท่ฐท้ง )
Taking the Enoden to the end. -
Checkin to Freshness Burger (ใใฌใใทใฅใในใใผใฌใผ)
Salsa burger time. -
Checkin to ๆฐดๅนณ็ทใฎใฃใฉใชใผ
Aiko Poole has an exhibit -
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Less Meat
by JamesOne of my recent quests in life is to reduce the amount of meat that I consume. There isn't a single reason why, but rather it feels like a manifestation of slow culmination of thoughts and beliefs.
Whether it be literal less i.e. physically driving less or buying less junk or less in the sense of slow, the idea of less has always had an appeal to me. Better living with less. This thinking is counter to a lot of those I grew up around and was a constant source of conflict.
Why now? Why meat? I can't give can exact reason for why now, other than, why not now? Why meat? The answer to that is more complex.Each burger we consume comes with a at least of costs baked in: the direct cost of a life of the animal and environmental (cutting down forest to make room for cows, shipping animals across an ocean to get processed in a foreign country, just to be shipped back to their origin for sale).
The first is true no matter what. I'm mostly fine with that cost. It's the circle of life. I'm glad it's not me that has to do it. If it were, I'd probably be vegan. The second, the environmental costs, can be controlled, or at least managed by our consumption choices. Do we go for the cheap back of mince from the super center or do we go for the grass-fedย at Whole Foods?
The Power of Defaults
When I was in my teens I was massively overweight. I was well over 100kg and only 172cm. While 172cm hasn't changed, but I'm currently in the low 70's (still too high, but I digress). What made this possible wasn't exercise, but learning about the power of defaults. ย
If you can change your default, you can make substantial changes with significantly less effort. So if your goal is to lose weight, it's less work to reduce consumption rather than burn off excess calories consumed. By changing my default from burger, fries, and a coke to burger and a diet coke or just burger or maybe the chicken sandwich could shave off 600+ calories, which is at least an hours worth of running. And since it's just a default, if I really wanted fries or a coke that day, I could, but I had to make the decision.
Likewise, I've changed my defaults for meat. As beef as it has a higher CO2 footprint per kilogram than pork or chicken, I mostly stopped buying beef and replace it with pork or chicken. Default changed to not beef. The other default I've been working on default: no meat.
Changing DefaultsMy default breakfast has changed from toast with eggs, and maybe some sausage or bacon to toast with peanut butter and a banana. I can still eat an egg if I want, but I usually don't.
Lunch is harder to default for me, but I've been defaulting to less or no meat dishes. I'll have some pasta (either a butter-soy-garlic Japanese style pasta, or a Naprotian (sans bacon as is traditional)), taco rice (with beans instead of meat or just little meat), or onigiri with a Japanese style omelette (tamago-yaki).
Dinner still typically has some kind of meat or fish component, but it's no longer the main. It's used more like a spice. To replace the gap we've been increasing the variety of vegetables that we buy and eat in it's place.
I don't have a particular goal of becoming vegetarian or vegan (though many creatives I respect are e.g. Moby, Casey Neistat etc..), but I may end up there.
For now it's just a journey of exploring life with less meat. A life with less harm. A life with more veg. A life with different defaults. -
by JamesI shipped some nice quality of life improvements around webmentions with Tanzawa. There were a few issues with the design that didn't become apparent until I'd used it for a while, especially with older posts.
Pending webmentions was toggled closed if you had 4 or more webmentions pending moderation. My theory was that drafts and recent posts take priority over moderating, and a long list of webmentions would get in your way.
As each webmention was triggering a full-page reload, any time you a large queue of webmentions (in my case, anytime I check in somewhere), approving them all was slow and required too many clicks (click to open the webmention list, move the mouse, click to approve, wait for a full reload, move the mouse to open the list, repeat). Moreover a N+1 query snuck into the dashboard, so as webmentions increased the page load got slower, making the entire dance more frustrating.
Next I noticed that it was difficult to know which page the webmention was referencing. This usually isn't an issue as they are usually referencing the latest post. But sometimes I'd get one referencing older posts and it was a struggle to find it. Initial designs of webmentions had a permalink link but I removed it to keep things cleaner.
How'd I fix things?
First, I've added a link to the post back to the moderation view, but without an emoji and in my "help-text" font to reduce visual noise.Updated Webmention Design
Second, I fixed the N+1 query on the dashboard (and post detail). The dashboard is now 7 queries regardless (including session checking etc.). I might be able to make it 6, but it's good enough for now.
Third, the webmention moderation queue is opened by default, regardless of the number of webmentions pending moderation.
Lastly, webmentions moderation no longer triggers a full page-reload. Rather it just reloads the list of pending webmentions. And since it's always open, you don't even need to move your mouse to approve the next item in the queue, just click click click. I posted a video on twitter so you can see it in action. -
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by JamesI'd donate to you for a theme decoupling. This is high on my list! :)
I appreciate the sentiment ๐. It's not money that's preventing me, it's time.
I've been thinking about how to handle theming for Tanzawa properly. It's a big task, but not impossible. There's 2 different ways to think of theming: 1) css only changes theme support, 2) complete theme support (i.e. colors and layout). The move from css only changes wouldn't be much less work than allowing full customization.
Roughly here's what I think would be required:- Extract all mentions of tailwind colors from templates/public (e.g. bg-negroni-700 ) and replace them with a common name โ perhaps role based?
- Create a record / setting somewhere ( django-admin?) to track the active theme.
- Create a custom template loader (or other shim) that will prioritize rendering with the selected theme's public themes.
- Set Tanzawa to only include the css of the selected theme.
- Document how to make a custom theme.
Theming isn't my top priority, but it's not low either. If anyone is interested helping before I have a chance to get to it, I'm happy to answer questions / provide direction and so forth. ย -
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Early morning Sonyan spotting -
The Week #62
by James- This week was my last week at BP. I spent it heads down trying to get one last (part) of a project completed and while I didn't get it polished, I was able to get the basics completed. Literally merged about an hour before I finished. It's nice to have a few weeks free and clear without between gigs.
- 15 minutes after I finished, I had an on-boarding call with my employer of record (basically my actual legal employer until Octopus gets an entity in Japan), going over paperwork requirements to get fully signed up. It was nice to chat with them. The call itself was mostly in Japanese, but everyone on the call speaks English, so it was interesting to hear word replacement here and there.
- Covid cases continue their decline and Leo's school was canceled until the end of the month. His school seems to be on the more cautious side of this, as not all schools are canceling in our area. The teachers have a 40-minute zoom activity each day, but Leo has zero interest. It's too much stress (for both of us) just to try and get him to watch or dance with it all, so I think we'll be skipping them.
Assuming the state of emergency isn't extended beyond Sept. 30th and he goes back to school as per usual starting in October, I'm a bit concerned it's going to be a big struggle each morning again. - There's a local farmer's market(?) nearby where local producers can bring their veg for sale. The back wall has the names of photos of the farmers who sell their produce there. I took Leo there with the bike and bought veg that isn't usually in the local co-ops like red bell peppers (not sweet ones, same flavor as the green ones, just red) and butternut squash, as well as some super fresh leaks (negi) that still have moist looking dirt on them. Cutting the negi and it was so fresh it kinda oozed like when you cut some aloe vera to treat a sunburn.ย
Best of all, it's helping me live up to my values better by consuming more food that's made locally in my city, rather than some nameless farm in hokkaido or tochigi or even abroad.
