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@karenattiah.bsky.social “Luckmaxxing”, love that turn of phrase

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@cogley.jp Despite siloed content everywhere, I stubbornly cling to the idea that one should own one’s own information…

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@tedunderwood.com You mean the winking anus logo? Yes, we need to talk. My dog is a Shiba with a prominent one, but even if he weren’t I would have noticed. I’m not even 12 years old either.

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We updated and upgraded eSolia’s Japan Emergency Information pages. Help a visitor to or resident in Japan by sharing! 🚑

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@lume.land Congrats on being 5, thank you for all your help, and yeah, I like this a lot!

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Gosh what an exciting World Series. Dodgers and Blue Jays were both stellar and it was a nail biter until the end! Congrats LAD! 💦⚾️

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Exciting World Series this year! On to game 7! 🏟️⚾️

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When you change your domain’s DNS (NS records), you can flush the records in major DNS providers to force a quicker propagation:

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Visited Osaka Expo 2025 on 6 Sept with 220,000 others. It was hot and crowded but ultimately a good time thanks to A’s planning and a little luck.

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We have the J-ALERT disaster warning system here in Japan which pushes mobile alerts regarding quakes, floods etc. It makes a big racket when a train car of phones get an alert! 💥

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A and I are heading to Osaka to visit the Expo. Of course a typhoon was coming up as we were heading down so there was a delay but we are moving now. Oh and there’s a pet bird chirping away. 🚄🐤

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@erikahall.bsky.social “Mystery crank” :-p it’s been years since I used one of those!

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@piepants I’m getting more nervous about trying it. I got distracted by work and quit in the middle!

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@fischr hi! These days I have a few of these to run so I made a little Deno Deploy app to run them via cron. github.com/eSolia/pi…

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@piepants I got distracted by work in the middle of trying it. I’m not surprised it doesn’t work well!

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Did you know you can add your Japan My Number card to your Apple Wallet? You can, using your MyNaPortal app. 🧐

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I use git and git clients daily, and a recent one I really like is the fast and featureful fork. It’s available for MacOS or Windows, and “just works”. ⋔⌨️⋔

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Japan visitors, it’s supposed to be rainy season, but instead we have a heat stroke alert in Kanto. Take it seriously, stay cool, don’t push too hard! 🥵

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My team at eSolia published a couple new blog posts, on checking your laptop battery health and asking AI about IT terms. Check them out! 😎

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@dai ありがとうございます！I would love to stop there some day!

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@RoboticistDuck still causing trouble to this day !

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On 2nd June in 1859 (166 years ago), the Yokohama port opened for business, after the US-Japan trade agreement the following year. I’ve been fortunate to live here in Yokohama for years now, and enjoy the international feeling of especially the port areas of Sakuragicho and Kannai. ⚓️

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Do you feel an age or generation gap working with people from younger or older generations? I know I do. I’d love to hear your experiences. Δ

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There’s a 1963 phone from NTT called the “model 600”, very much like the Bell model 500, which you can view among others at the NTT History Center of Technologies in Musashino, in west Tokyo. I hope to visit some day. ☎️

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A few months ago I learned about Tilley and Dreyfuss’ work “The Measure of Man and Woman” which if you think on it, was just so revolutionary. Design barely even considered measurements of people prior to this, but now it’s ubiquitous. 👫

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We are debating finally cancelling the landline in our house, which made me think of the phone icon which was designed with the Bell Model 500 in mind. I wonder when this icon will become incomprehensible to younger people? In 10 years? 20? 📞📱

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@Miraz thanks! It’s catchy though I’m not sure who came up with it!

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My firm just launched our new “Tech It Easy” blog with IT tips in English and Japanese from our team members, like this post on keyboard shortcuts. We hope it might come in handy. 😎

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@bcdreyer.social Missed opportunity for a semicolon here, I’d say

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@dashasierra.com Haha “a case of awhooga” 😂

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@dashasierra.com Ok, wow, that’s a lot worse. Hope they’re ok!

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@dashasierra.com Like, sooo many 😉

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@nerdy.dev Ah, that’s just too hard to bear. I’m sorry that happened to you. Your work helped me a lot.

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@dashasierra.com Thanks! Yes, at the time it was not funny. The surgeries and wearing a bandage really sucked. But now it’s funny; and it was all because of the slobber toddlers continually produce! I was really nervous about our daughters being around anything electric tho.

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@dashasierra.com Yep. Parents found me in a pool of blood. I remember it feeling like I was spinning. It took 2 years of surgeries and time to recover; I’m careful around outlets now 😬

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@dashasierra.com Oh! Just remembered a really dumb one: I was a newly-minted 20-something in Japan, watching pretty girls playing tennis while walking, turned my head to look ANOTHER pretty girl coming towards me and BAM, walked right into a utility pole. Got a bloody nose, broken glasses and a “serves you right!”.

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@dashasierra.com Well, er, the scar on the left corner of my mouth happened when I was three (this is a vivid memory). We had an old fan with a post switch, the kind you push down with a thumb? I was cold, trying to turn the fan off but it wouldn’t budge. So I bit the plug to yank it from the outlet and ZAP! 🤩

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@uta8a.bsky.social どういたしまして。プラグインのUseの順番が大事になった。

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github.com/lumeland/lum…

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また、tailwind 4 もOKで、site.add() が追加された。お馴染みのsite.copy()は、そのまま処理しないでコピーする機能だが site.add() の方は、処理される。たとえば、css が lightningcss とうすとか。CopyRemainingFiles() なくなった。論理が大分すっきり。

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@heydonworks.com Good point. I tried to explain to my daughter, a budding web designer, my doubts about it. Scariest kind of price is “free during beta”.

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@timthepost congrats, you did a lot of work on it!

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@kamekure.bsky.social 初めまして、
\n@lume.land v3 がリリースされたばかりで、使えそうな機能結構良さそう

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lume.land/docs/advance…

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@uta8a.bsky.social 初めまして。
\n@lume.land v3 がリリースされたばかりで､比較できるかも？

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lume.land/docs/advance…

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Version 3 of the static site generator Lume was released after a Herculean dev cycle. It’s an incredibly flexible and powerful SSG written in Typescript by Óscar Otero.

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When our tree flowers and I start hearing uguisu calls, I always feel spring has come. 🌸

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Saw Wicked on Broadway a few years ago with A, and now we saw the IMAX movie. Theater buffs will like that It’s chock full of cameos of the original stage performers and even the writers. Casting and performances were on point, with lots of humor. 💚🩷

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I loved Think Again by Adam Grant 📚. I’m going to set aside regular time for re-thinking, try to abandon best practices, and “not get stranded at the summit of Mt. Stupid.” 😅

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Some of the fam went to Sapporo and Otaru in Hokkaido. I had to work, but they brought some hanasaki crab and we ate it last night. Wow, it’s reaally good! 🦀

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Learned about our local evac center’s “Hamakko Toilet” at today’s event. It’s a sewage pipe you fill with pool water at one end, set toilets above opened man holes, and periodically flush by opening a big valve at the other end. 🚽🚽

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Had a local disaster prevention event today. A civil servant / volunteer fireman said we should not assume Yokohama city will prepare enough food or supplies, and that we need to ready our own. A sobering thought! 🧯🚒

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If you do any system admin and use the terminal, starship.rs is a really easy value add. For instance if you’re in a vps that just has bash installed, running the starship installer gets you a decent prompt in 10 sec.

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