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• 2021-12
• A little disappointed that performer called AI at #NHK紅白 was not actually a computer program. 2021-12-31
• I've waited 10 months to be back at the snow. I managed to organise a rental car with tiny snow (studless) tyres, drove 200km out of Tokyo a… 2021-12-23
• The Austrian ski hotel I stayed in 12 years ago still emails me marketing content. 2021-12-23
• Apparently this also is able to detect cancer? New Yorker has an article about this tech.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of… twitter.com/liquidx/s… 2021-12-21
• Stumbled into the most high tech bakery ever. They use image recognition on your selected bread to auto checkout.I can't quite believe it, t… 2021-12-20
• Visited this monolith in Saitama on my day off on Friday. What an incredible design and execution. Just looks like a rock. pic.twitter.com/4… 2021-12-19
• I can still write recursive methods in one try. Still hirable. 2021-12-15
• Maybe I should make it my life's mission to make all application forms in Japan have no character limit on their first/last name fields. 2021-12-15
• Added my dat.gui to my light control so I don't have to keep recompiling, I guess. pic.twitter.com/jX2T1kM3A7 2021-12-08
• Still trying to understand the range of these LEDs, there are probably less than 256 colors I can make. But sure looks pretty if you find wa… 2021-12-07
• How do you run JS on a watch with 64KB of RAM? How do you reverse engineer a watch to put your own firmware on it?This is wizardry.youtu.be/… 2021-12-07
• I like the sunset so much I decided I needed to have one on my desk. pic.twitter.com/y6MIa6NpKw 2021-12-06
• Everyone in Tokyo that experienced that long earthquake this morning originating from Mount Fuji are now wondering if Mount Fuji erupted...#… 2021-12-02
• 2021-11
• I got the Bangle.js 2, and so of course the first thing I do is rewrite my old watch face I made for the Pebble (RIP) to it.Not bad for a fe… 2021-11-29
• Someone on my team came up with a wonderful idea to make our own (mini) mechanical keyboard as a remote team event.He made a whole primer to… 2021-11-26
• This turned out better than I thought. SwiftUI, SceneKit and a Blender exported model all mashed together. pic.twitter.com/kW8bRud664 2021-11-21
• After hearing about tech debt for an hour today at work, I read tonight that maybe we should rebrand it as tech wealth.increment.com/plannin… 2021-11-17
• Woah, the MHLW now publishes the names of people who violate the quarantine process on their website:mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunit… 2021-11-17
• If you ever wanted a green car, Mercari has you covered. pic.twitter.com/aCcwroGjwZ 2021-11-17
• Someone has combined tamago-sando (egg mayo sandwich) with hotcakes into, I guess, a hotcake egg sandwich.Pure magic. pic.twitter.com/tEqfTT… 2021-11-14
• Another fun GeoTokyo virtual meetup last night. Thanks @reustle for all the hard work organizing. Check out the links to things we talked ab… 2021-11-11
• A few of us going to chat about interesting maps tomorrow evening (Japan time).meetup.com/geotokyo/event… 2021-11-10
• Walked a loop from Jiyugaoka to Futako Tamagawa and back. Trying to complete the loop around Setagaya-ku we failed to finish a month ago.Sti… 2021-11-07
• 2021-10
• After visiting so many gardens in Kyoto, I'm now obsessed with moss. pic.twitter.com/4uDVgmQU1C 2021-10-29
• Walking around Kyoto everyday for a week. Just shy of 100km in a week.Loving this city, quality over quantity. pic.twitter.com/P8351viEJ5 2021-10-29
• Your actual moment of Zen, before all the foreign tourists return to Kyoto. pic.twitter.com/FAkgNgXvTe 2021-10-24
• Hopped down to Kyoto today for two weeks-ish. My word it is quiet. Not empty, but quiet.No queues, just the right amount of people to respec… 2021-10-22
• Apple Stores in Japan are bizarre now. I walked past and wanted to check out the new Apple Watch and Airpods.First they said I couldn't go i… 2021-10-22
• We went to our favorite grandpa grandma sushi bar for a very hisashiburi dinner out (at 5:30 no less to avoid crowds).Sitting next to us are… 2021-10-15
• I googled, "usb charger with 8 ports." And the results exceeded my expectations: pic.twitter.com/h5bZeV0so5 2021-10-14
• When I interview someone for a job, I sometimes feel like I'm interviewing them in a podcast. 2021-10-14
• I accidentally ordered the cup noodle anniversary sampler for too much money. Mainly because there was a joke Cup Noodle flavoured soda.Feel… 2021-10-10
• Haven't been on a train for a while. The ads are way more relevant to me now. pic.twitter.com/FRFUIItHSy 2021-10-09
• You know a code base is big when the normal tools everyone use to generate API docs runs out of memory and crashes your Mac. 2021-10-06
• With a hilarious typo combined with Japan putting last names first, my ISP has decided that my name is now “The Alastair”. 2021-10-04
• We went to buy eggs from the egg shop (they only sell fresh eggs, damn good eggs).Surprising twist that has never happened before in the fou… 2021-10-04
• We stopped by a retro coffee shop run single-handedly by a granny. It suddenly closed for a few weeks, but reopened when we walked by.She to… 2021-10-04
• 2021-09
• It's silly that the best bits of a Taiyaki is the bit that's not the fish. pic.twitter.com/LKH58DECL5 2021-09-30
• My iPad has asked me to set up Apple Pay on it for the last two years, and it still hasn't given up. 2021-09-27
• So many robots are subscribing to newsletters, this one has to ask you to double check. pic.twitter.com/nROdtIUtgJ 2021-09-24
• This is the first non-Apple thing I've ever owned that accepts a lightning cable.It's a TNTOR battery pack. It comes with a tiny lightning t… 2021-09-23
• This is the only way I could figure out how to do a walk. Stars as markers to ensure I make the correct turns. pic.twitter.com/H1t0mObuaj 2021-09-23
• Yesterday, we pulled out the map we got from Setagaya Ward for moving in. We live in the very bottom right (SE) of the ward and joked that w… 2021-09-22
• Spent the day making zen rock gardens, and also packet sniffing with Charles Proxy and Wireshark. I guess they're related? 2021-09-20
• Feels so good to have fiber internet again!Though, a little sad my speeds are not what they were used to on Nuro (800Mbps up/down) pic.twitt… 2021-09-08
• One of the most stressful things about moving within Japan (or anywhere for that matter) is the period of time where you have no internet co… 2021-09-07
• All in boxes, ready to move to a new place! pic.twitter.com/H14gJZvmhw 2021-09-02
• 2021-08
• Last week was my 4 year anniversary living in Japan.I remember the first week I arrived, it was this same late-Aug unbearably hot weather, e… 2021-08-26
• I’m on @withFND 🌐0x2887646fF395fe35F16E49bAFb1b762DD133087afoundation.app/0x2887646fF395… 2021-08-24
• I just checked how much internet data we used in the last 30 days at home.700GB. (100GB up 600GB down). 2021-08-21
• Did you know you can "Print to PDF" from iOS Safari?I had to do this because I needed a screenshot of a website that I can only log in to on… 2021-08-17
• My level of Japanese is just good enough for me to apply for things, like internet service installation, over the phone, but not good enough… 2021-08-15
• This is amazing.I learnt new stuff about threejs/codex this demo from the generated code I didn't know how to write.🤔 Wouldn't codex be goo… 2021-08-15
• Discovered this river status website for Japan where you can see the flooding situation along all rivers.river.go.jp/kawabou/pc/tm?… pic.twi… 2021-08-14
• This is beautiful, serene.youtube.com/watch?v=c3uJUr… 2021-08-10
• Museum of Modern Gmail Art.Mega Thread. Digital ink on browser. pic.twitter.com/KLYHEPX9SQ 2021-08-09
• Scarily windy in Tokyo. Utility poles and trees swaying. 🌬 2021-08-09
• First vaccination rate for Tokyo broken down by ward and age. Over 80% for 65+ 👍, but what the hell is going on with the huge variances for… 2021-08-08
• This is the real medal ranking. medalspercapita.com/#medals-per-ca… pic.twitter.com/rV9O858qDJ 2021-08-08
• I spent four hours debugging a JS prototype to finally realise:parseInt('0xfedcba0987654321', 16).toString()will silently return the wrong r… 2021-08-07
• I had to use the Japanese eTax software. It needs a iOS companion app to login using RFID. Conceptually cool.But it only works in Safari, ne… 2021-08-02
• Bought a cheap handheld USB microscope. Now I can see all sorts of things I couldn't see before - such as how the S key on my Macbook is wo… 2021-08-01
• Quietly watching as much Olympics as I can. 2021-08-01
• 2021-07
• Love this typeface in all the Japan team kit. @Japan_Olympic pic.twitter.com/uuLu5onCGV 2021-07-25
• I thought they were going demonstrate how they will build a new house in less than 30 mins.#tokyo2020 2021-07-23
• The theme for #Tokyo2020 is TeamLab. 2021-07-23
• #GoogleDoodleg.co/doodle/scx8kwq 2021-07-23
• There's a whole game world in the Google Doodle today.Amazing. pic.twitter.com/fKHx59bDbO 2021-07-23
• Typing an emoji into Google to see the auto suggests are fascinating.Here's the one for 🔴: pic.twitter.com/ah9Uv3kJbV 2021-07-21
• I want this 42-inch e-ink whiteboard from Ricoh!ricoh.co.jp/service/e-whit… youtu.be/Cd-8AcaDgPI pic.twitter.com/kWCtBpgInd 2021-07-19
• Now that I built my little web tool to blur photos, I can finally post this silly pic I took in my home office.These screens on my desk seem… 2021-07-18
• As I threatened, I built the most simple version of the blur app at blur-quick.web.app twitter.com/liquidx/status… pic.twitter.com/TjRzLg05c… 2021-07-18
• All I wanted to do was blur part of a photo before posting it. But there's no app on the iPhone I can find that can do it without horrible U… 2021-07-15
• I'm still waiting for Japan to invent the Smart Hanko.I'm imagining a robotic dynamic QR code stamp the size of a hanko that you touch into … 2021-07-14
• I unfollowed too many (400) accounts on Instagram and it froze my account. 2021-07-10
• Finally joined #TeamModerna 💉 2021-07-06
• 2021-06
• Now that's packaging that I approve.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00EZHY61S/… 2021-06-29
• I spent the week sorting out and merging all my data for the last decade Google Maps Timeline, Foursquare, Jawbone 💔, Apple Health, Fitbit,… 2021-06-27
• 👋 Back from a week break from socials and news. Feels great to just focus for a week. 2021-06-27
• It occurred to me that it's called COVID19 (nCoV-2019), and we're now in 2021. 2021-06-20
• Woah, you can boot up a Linux console with Visual Studio Code in a web browser in Google Cloud, for free.I had no idea this existed, I just … 2021-06-17
• I'm not sure if it's allowed to have a Good Design Award for a website any more.I haven't visited this site for so long -- what happened to … 2021-06-11
• Do you realize that 1.4 billion people in the world are not allowed to mention what happened on June 4th 1989 in Tiananmen Square?youtube.co… 2021-06-04
• 2021-05
• Today: I finally trained my first very simple binary classifier to detect sensor errors in GPS tracks. Red means detected errors.I had to le… 2021-05-31
• What if you could see the tweeting frequency of everyone you follow? pic.twitter.com/hZcPEBJucM 2021-05-30
• What if Twitter's timeline was a round-robin scheduled instead of a Last-In-First-Out (or worse, an algorithmic timeline)?So I spent a few h… 2021-05-29
• Long meandering journey to this view. Did not expect this today. #mountfuji pic.twitter.com/rW7YraIGYq 2021-05-28
• Just ran our first ever online @geo_tokyo meetup with @reustle and it was great fun. We had people join from all over Japan, from Osaka, Fu… 2021-05-27
• Today: First render of some mountain data that is passable.After a lot of strenuous coding (e.g. copy and pasting), have something half dece… 2021-05-21
• Yet another episode of Comedy meets API. Oops, I mean "What's new in Android". 👏 @dsandler"If your app crashes, you can just blow on the co… 2021-05-20
• This is pretty cool, adding flat at the end of a Github URL to a JSON file and get a nice browser for the data. This one for the covid19japa… 2021-05-20
• Make 💩 Happen 2021-05-20
• Today: I ventured in to trying to make things 3D. Here is what is supposed to be a ski resort.A hot mess of vertices. Back to the drawing bo… 2021-05-17
• Found an old screenshot of a set of triangles I liked.I can't figure out how I made it now- but it's from this prototype: liquidx.net/works/… 2021-05-17
• Today: Fixed many issues with the mobile layout, added filtering by name and zooming transitions.Took me a good two hours to find the one li… 2021-05-16
• I've been having phantom key repeats on certain characters on my Drop CTRL mechanical keyboard. Thanks to the hot-swappable switches, I just… 2021-05-10
• Osaka's critically ill COVID beds is currently at 96% occupancy (coming down from 100% 5 days ago). The regular COVID beds are at 79%. Ther… 2021-05-10
• I've been loyal to dat.gui for many years now in my prototypes. But some issues with using it in Nuxt made me look for alternatives. Tweakpa… 2021-05-09
• Today: implemented zooming (also rewrote rotation code again for the 3rd time)Can't figure out how much to scale the mountains when zooming … 2021-05-08
• Today: Back at the mountains. Drawing different sized mountains where the grid contains multiple mountains.Previous iteration had half width… 2021-05-07
• Today: 🔵 = Open, 🟡 = Partially Open, 🔴 = Closed. Showing ski resort status along with reported snow depth.At the beginning of May there a… 2021-05-06
• Today: Made some tables of data in the browser.Why am I always making things look like spreadsheets? pic.twitter.com/5jI9S95E7F 2021-05-04
• Not sure what I'm doing here, but I took all the links I've sent to myself in my email and put it in a giant Markdown file checked in GitHub… 2021-05-04
• I love this SPAM onigiri cafe website to bits.p-cafe.tokyo 2021-05-04
• I wrote a little on how this all works. liquidx.net/words/blog/202… twitter.com/liquidx/status… 2021-05-04
• While COVID19 PCR tests are not free if you don't have symptoms in Japan, it's not as expensive as I keep on reading about on Twitter.I jus… 2021-05-04
• Read about a place. Find it on a map. wherecam.web.appUse your phone camera to lookup places you see in books and magazines. Take a picture … 2021-05-03
• Tokyo is so proud of their toilets that there's a whole site dedicated to the star architect designed toilets around Shibuya.I can't wait to… 2021-05-02
• First time I saw a notification in time from NERV on my phone to warn me of an impending earthquake.Tapping on the notification bought be to… 2021-05-01
• 2021-04
• Today: Trying to make something that would tell me where something is if I just point a phone at it.I made some progress with Google Cloud V… 2021-04-25
• Oh no, the Togari Onsen Ski Resort which I stayed close to for a few weeks had a fire rip through it.news24.jp/nnn/news1169pg… 2021-04-25
• Today: Manually offseting city labels. Experimenting with filling the mountains.It makes it easier to see the mountains, but loses some of t… 2021-04-24
• Today: Obsessive Collective.Thought of a silly domain name idea and so I started to build what I thought it would be about.#ObsessiveCollect… 2021-04-21
• What is this typographic magic? Generate typefaces out of another typeface based on shapes?github.com/rosettatype/ha… rosettatype.com/Handje… 2021-04-19
• People always ask what lens or camera when photographers post photos?Does that happen for other things?"Hey, nice song. What mic did you use… 2021-04-19
• Today: redrawn the points on a grid, which makes it a bit more tidy but also hides some of the bugs I have with the map outline and points n… 2021-04-18
• Going to start posting my daily progress of ski area datavis while I wait for next season.Today: went back to basics, drawing a plain outlin… 2021-04-17
• This video re-cuts the Evangelion movie into an ad for New New Tokyo City (in Kanagawa).I love the idea of New New Tokyo even though the exi… 2021-04-16
• I wonder if Kanagawa really has a bad case of pimples. Or is this a terrain mapping bug?goo.gl/maps/8GWSf4yaz… pic.twitter.com/zDe7UWbm0p 2021-04-15
• Safely in my bubble. Or am I?Long time no see, Ginza. pic.twitter.com/z4RHHB1zEo 2021-04-14
• There's a new beer - it's only got 0.5% alcohol. It's sort of a beer, one can say it's beer-ish. They found a perfect name for it.Beery. pic… 2021-04-13
• This example in the @threejs_org repo is blowing my mind. 🤯threejs.org/examples/#webg… pic.twitter.com/iOYKAj9Wvl 2021-04-13
• Just discovered that エビ (prawns) are not considered 肉 (meat) in my Japanese lesson today. This explains a lot.If you're vegetarian in Japan,… 2021-04-13
• Yesterday, we drove to the most eastern end of Chiba Prefecture. And back. pic.twitter.com/f8ydWIb4to 2021-04-12
• Woah, this is the first time I've seen a beer can open like that. Never stop innovating, Japan.It's so good it sold out in 2 days.youtu.be/z… 2021-04-09
• My favorite YouTube channel right now is THE F1RST TAKE. Premise is getting Japanese singers do a single take of their songs -- the premise,… 2021-04-09
• Looks like a normal vending machine. But ...OMG. It's a decapitated bus! pic.twitter.com/dWcx4AfW7B 2021-04-06
• What do people nowadays use to search for GIF reactions? 2021-04-05
• I found out that I could access my own photos in Google Photos through an API.developers.google.com/photos/library…But after getting it work… 2021-04-03
• 2021-03
• I thought to myself, I hadn't seen all the different sides of Mount Fuji yet. So it tried to see if I could in a weekend. Eventually only ma… 2021-03-31
• Wow, the Kyushu Shinkansen now is also a light show.youtu.be/1apK8MzXCHY 2021-03-29
• It feels my job is basically closing Chrome tabs (that I don't remember why I opened.) 2021-03-29
• Today I accepted a marketing phone call accidentally. I let the Japanese guy launch into his Insurance pitch and then after a minute he real… 2021-03-22
• How about this cheesecake? pic.twitter.com/MC5GKHvTGU 2021-03-22
• This building is really something. Nestled in the middle of a residential area. pic.twitter.com/giHfEjEYMe 2021-03-21
• 🗼 pic.twitter.com/kgTjTe67tT 2021-03-20
• Long week this week. Exhausted by work and the news. 2021-03-19
• Out at the pointy end of Chiba is this confusing structure. pic.twitter.com/32uvzlgDDF 2021-03-15
• Out in Chiba admiring Mt. Fuji in the distance. Then got obsessed with how the sunset reflected off the bonnet of the car. pic.twitter.com/Y… 2021-03-14
• In the end, I just want a screensaver that doesn't spin my fans. So the most simple one it is. pic.twitter.com/ClYvStSvGu 2021-03-10
• Don't know when this happened, but Japan GIS data now has an English site with clear downloads.(Catch: Just clicking on the links to downloa… 2021-03-06
• I prefer this orientation of Japan(only because it is easier to layout on a webpage) pic.twitter.com/UzIgcMvr13 2021-03-04
• An Apple pie research lab, in Ueda, Nagano. pic.twitter.com/02noBnDv1C 2021-03-03
• No country will ever catch up to Japan's level of innovation in Toilets. dezeen.com/2021/03/02/sen… 2021-03-03
• 2021-02
• I just dispensed the famous "have you tried turning it off and on again?" line from IT Crowd and it actually fixed the problem. 2021-02-24
• So long, Daft Punk.youtube.com/watch?v=DuDX6w… 2021-02-23
• Some people go on runs, I guess this is my kind of a run. pic.twitter.com/xVgWW8HIyf 2021-02-19
• I have a 5 year old MacBook Pro that behaves like a old car. When it's cold in the morning (below 10C), it won't start up, pretends like it … 2021-02-18
• Looking at sensor data from my iPhone and realizing how little I know about gyroscopes and accelerometers. Watching the Core Motion WWDC tal… 2021-02-16
• Does anyone know if there's a possibility to embed creation date in videos (mov, mp4) in the metadata? It seems there's no standard for this… 2021-02-15
• I love it when an idea I've had for three years comes together. pic.twitter.com/OBVF2zpFCe 2021-02-10
• That deep powder, it's real. pic.twitter.com/rg2pzHwrM6 2021-02-08
• I've missed you. pic.twitter.com/ebP7LCp6RR 2021-02-05
• Today I learnt there is this emoji. 🧃This may be the only time ever I will use it. 2021-02-04
• Long time no see. My yin and yang boards. pic.twitter.com/pWHE5ZZEuO 2021-02-03
• 2021-01
• This site calculates the COVID-19 reproduction number Rt for all prefectures in Japan. /ht @lchincovid.gutas.net/?c=4 2021-01-26
• Me: I want to buy an 256GB SD card Sandisk: Do you want a EXTREME PRO SDXC V30 UHS C10 U3 A2 V30 or ULTRA SDXC C10 A1 U1? Me: ... pic.twitte… 2021-01-26
• Who likes HEIC files?I had to make a special automator action just to deal with these files. pic.twitter.com/LkCFYK46hC 2021-01-25
• Finally solved the puzzle of getting a rental car for more than a month in Japan. Short of it is that I needed to also rent a parking spot, … 2021-01-25
• Japan COVID19 update:New daily cases are coming down after two weeks of State of Emergency in parts of Japan.covid19japan.com pic.twitter.co… 2021-01-24
• When you plot the reported snow depth of every ski resort, you find out how different each resorts season is. One even gets so much snow it … 2021-01-23
• Getting a color emoji to render in mono in CSS:-webkit-background-clip: text; background-image: linear-gradient(90deg,red,orange 20%); color… 2021-01-15
• I wish there was a social network mostly to tell you who hasn't posted for a while so you can check in on them. 2021-01-14
• I wanted something that could help discover places outside the well-known Japanese ski resorts, but not bound by knowing the detailed geogra… 2021-01-04