• Covid cases are back on the rise again in Japan. Kanagawa has roughly doubled its number of daily cases lately. Hopefully we can all take this seriously again and get the numbers back in check. I feel Japan squandered a real opportunity at the end of the state of emergency for New Zealand like results. Instead we ended it early.



• Crew 1 launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the SpaceX Dragon bound for the ISS. This flight has a lot of firsts: first operational crew flight on a commercial rocket, first operational crew flight launched from the US since the shuttle shuttered, first night launch in a decade, and most importantly, the first time they'll have ramen in space.

  I know one of the astronauts on the flight from our time living across from Johnson Space Center, so I was holding my breath a bit more than usual when watching the launch. I'm very happy it was a success.




• I went to Hamleys in Sakuragi-cho in Yokohama. The last time I went was just before covid. If you've never been to Hamleys, imagine you're a kid and you've just walked in to Santa's warehouse, that's what it's like. They've got every toy under the sun, a clown making the rounds heaps of toys to play with and even one of those pianos you play with your feet, albeit not as big.

  But not this time. Covid seems to be taking a toll on the business. A lot of the shelves were empty and a large central section was now dedicated to easy revenue makers: capsule toys. It still had part of the magic you'd expect from a giant toy store, but it still felt like a store that's not too far from shuttering. I hope it makes it through all of this. It seems silly to worry about the viability of a toy shop around Christmas, yet here we are. To help the cause we bought Leo some Clever Cogs.




• I've had my digital garden for a week so far and I'm starting to make good use of it. Dumping parts of my brain of things I'm thinking about has been helpful. So I've documented some print settings that are common when copying a license and ideas for future improvements to Airbot.

A quick run after work. Glad I ran with my reflective slap wristband as it’s getting dark so early these days. Also too many old dudes without masks. 🏃

I gave a talk yesterday about personal data warehouses for GitHub’s OCTO Speaker Series, focusing on my Datasette and Dogsheep projects. The video of the talk is now available, and …

1. I love this idea of standardizing all of your data to sqlite databases so you can freely explore it. I also love this idea of shipping static datasets inside a sqlite db inside a Docker image so you can "scale to zero".

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Pizza time!

Enjoying this lovely fall weather.

This is spot on. I recognize that the purpose of the service from Apple is to prevent malware from running on your Mac, but it doesn’t sit right with me. Especially that the data is sent unencrypted over the net. Combined with not being able unsigned code on the M1, I’m wondering if my mid-2014 Mac might not be my last.

Cool 5km this morning. Running without a phone again, much easier. Miss sharing the sunrise photos though. 🙌🏻🏃

• Joe Biden is the President Elect and I couldn't be happier. It feels like a huge weight has been lifted. I can run again. While I hope the darkness of the past 4 years can now give way, I also recognize that shockingly large number of people saw the racist, lying, self-dealing, and narcissist behavior of the last four years and said "Yes, that's who I want to represent me".


• I watched Joe Biden's first speech as president elect and it sounds exactly like what the country needs. It's what presidents are supposed to sounds like. Not red states and blue states – it's the United States.


• I took the last week off for an autumn break and made my first visit to Saitama. It was a great trip and my first time leaving Kanagawa since February.


• I've been looking for a place to capture / collect knowledge and ideas for a while. I had thought my blog might be the place, but blogs are streams. Once a post is published it's done and not usually edited again. I'm looking for someplace where I can take an idea or list and refine it and connect the dots over time.

I initially considered org-roam or something emacs based, but I'm not always on my computer, syncing notes across computers, exporting to html, setting up some kind of deploy pipeline is more than I want to deal with. I also considered modifying nomiso to make it more wiki-like and support public notes, but I don't really have the time to dedicate to that right now.

Tiddlywiki also seemed promising. Other people on the indie web use it and there's ways to get webmentions working, but I couldn't get it working with a password for editing.

Last night I installed mediawiki and started my digital garden. The subdomain (tw) was from my initial experiments with Tiddlywiki. Although I'm using mediawiki and not tiddlywiki, I decided to leave the domain as tw because when I visit twitter, I type "tw" and Firefox autocompletes the rest. Let's see if I can use my wiki enough for Firefox to recommend my wiki instead of twitter.