I really enjoyed Make Your Life Better by Doing Less by Scott Young. People tend to focus on a better life by adding things to our lives. But adding things spreads us thin, guaranteeing that we don't improve in where it really matters. Rather, we should subtract and focus on those things that really matter to us.

I think about my morning running habit. Or more accurately, my lack of running habit., You see, I used to run a few times a week, but I kept adding more to my plate. First it was a habit of reading  Twitter for 5 minutes. Then I added Slack for 10 minutes. Oh and Hackernews. One cup of coffee. No, make that two.

Beyond filling my head with noise when I first wake up, it pushed my morning schedule and spread me thin. Sleeping in five minutes breaks my entire schedule and it's much easier to skip a run when I tell myself "I don't have the time".

This passage reminded me of when I decided to build Tanzawa instead of making a custom theme for Wordpress for my IndieWeb-ified blog. It's much harder to build your own CMS than to just point and click – but getting it the way I want is much easier.

I couldn't say it better myself.

Rewatching Long Way Up since we can’t travel. Making me think about my long planned “Trips” feature in Tanzawa. 😜

Hackers move poster came. Turns out movie poster sizes are non-standard and you can't easily buy American movie poster sizes in Japan. Luckily I found a shop that specializes in movie posters in Osaka  that a) knew the problem and b) has frames fit for the various sizes.

Framed and ready to hang. Woo!

Got to try out my new umbrella Yumi got me today. I dig it. ☔️🌂

Tried the @pycharm Code With Me feature today editing some Markdown with a co-worker. It's great for code, but doesn't handle Japanese input cleanly. Cursor jumped and deleted text randomly.

A bit worried I've spent so much time focusing on features in Tanzawa so I could get my blog off Wordpress that there's bugs in the non-happy paths. So I think my next focus is going increasing quality. 

Finished the first s step: integrating my tox setup ( pytest, typecheck, and flake8 linting) into GitHub actions, so I can no longer merge if things are failing. Next step is to fix my typecheck errors and root out some bugs I've been running into recently (with tests!)

Once it's passing and the major bugs have been finished, I think I'm going to make a public release for developers / technically inclined people.

Managed to spend an hour on the bike today. Feel much better. Kinda want to add a small cargo e-bike to the fleet but it’s too soon.

Accidentally deleted my local develop database. Good excuse to start building out the first run screens in Tanzawa.

Launched a fun feature in Tanzawa today: Search. There isn't a direct link to a search page, but clicking the place name in a post will search for all posts within 2km of that post.