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Japonica Publication

·1 day ago

Visiting One of Japan’s Most Remote Islands

Yakushima is Japan’s oldest World Natural Heritage Site — Allow me to tell the story of two separate encounters with a magical place on a remote Japanese island. Reaching it takes a full day of travel. Getting there, in a nutshell —…

Japan

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Visiting One of Japan’s Most Remote Islands
Visiting One of Japan’s Most Remote Islands
Japan

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Japonica Publication

·Nov 6

The Japanese Word That Expresses Melancholy and Joy at the Same Time

Furusato — the hometown of our dreams — There is an aspect to Japanese culture that I’ve come to appreciate in recent years that is nicely encapsulated by the word furusato. It’s a word that is both easy to pronounce and simple to translate, yet steeped in meaning. The simplest possible translation of furusato is “old hometown”, but…

Japan

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The Japanese Word That Expresses Melancholy and Joy at the Same Time
The Japanese Word That Expresses Melancholy and Joy at the Same Time
Japan

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Japonica Publication

·Oct 4

My Journey Through Japan’s Akiya House Market

Vacant home prices are astonishingly cheap — I’ve just returned from a two week research trip to Okayama prefecture. The purpose of my trip was to scout the area to find a suitable place to call home. …

Japan

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My Journey Through Japan’s Akiya House Market
My Journey Through Japan’s Akiya House Market
Japan

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Japonica Publication

·Sep 21

Why I Decided to Move to Okayama

Japan’s secret gem is hiding in the land of sunshine — Recently, I’ve been looking for a good place in Japan to call home. Someplace away from the urban crowds, while not being isolated. Someplace that’s not too disaster-prone. Someplace rooted in the simpler life of the country’s traditional culture. Okayama prefecture is looking like a pretty good fit. Several people…

Japan

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Why I Decided to Move to Okayama
Why I Decided to Move to Okayama
Japan

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Jul 22

The Whisky Tolerance Society

An allegorical tale of a not-so-civil war — “Whisky. Tango. Foxtrot.” The podcast began with the alarm spelled out like an SOS distress signal. The two sides had been skirmishing for a long time before hostilities reached a fever pitch. What started out as a simple matter of taste, had become a serious dispute, with accusations and bitter…

Short Story

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The Whisky Tolerance Society
The Whisky Tolerance Society
Short Story

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Better Programming

·May 19

More Good News for Large-Scale JavaScript Apps

Importmap offers fresh opportunities for code organization — JavaScript's module system underwent a revolution in 2015 with the standardization of the import and export keywords. But until now, the import process has been hampered by the single trunkline rule for relative pathnames. The long-awaited importmap tag provides the necessary flexibility to free developers from this restraint. Until recently…

JavaScript

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More Good News for Large-Scale JavaScript Apps
More Good News for Large-Scale JavaScript Apps
JavaScript

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JavaScript Fanboi

·Nov 15, 2022

Data Visualization Using Lines, Dashes, Dots & Arrows

How to use lineCap, lineJoin, setLineDash, lineDashOffset & miterLimit — Cartography might easily be considered the world’s most mature form of data visualization. Over the centuries, mapmakers have created and refined a sophisticated vocabulary of lines and symbols that convey relationships between objects and places. We can learn from their efforts. From blobs of blue, to “x” marks the spot…

Data Visualization

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Data Visualization Using Lines, Dashes, Dots & Arrows
Data Visualization Using Lines, Dashes, Dots & Arrows
Data Visualization

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Better Programming

·Jun 20, 2022

A Poor Man’s Web Worker

How an experimental technology can save the day — For a while now, I’ve been developing a browser-based Earth mapping system using JavaScript and HTML canvas. One of the key challenges of this work has been keeping the user interface responsive while projecting 3D latitudes/longitudes onto a 2D canvas. …

Programming

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A Poor Man’s Web Worker
A Poor Man’s Web Worker
Programming

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Level Up Coding

·Oct 18, 2021

How A Simple 500-Word Memo Changed the Way We Talk About the Internet

The unlikely trio MUST, SHOULD, and MAY in internet standards — In March of 1997, Scott Bradner penned a short memo titled “Key Words For Use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels”. It is more commonly referred to as simply RFC 2119. The entire document fits comfortably on two pages of paper. That memo would go on to become the single…

Standards

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How A Simple 500-Word Memo Changed the Way We Talk About the Internet
How A Simple 500-Word Memo Changed the Way We Talk About the Internet
Standards

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Jul 18, 2021

There's an orthographic projection of Earth at https://simply.earth

There's an orthographic projection of Earth at https://simply.earth that tries to handle distortions in a different way -- by allowing the user to change the viewing angle using the mouse. Orthographic projects have the property that the area of least distortion is always at the very center of the map. By exploring the Earth this way we can more readily determine the relative size of things. Great article, thanks for sharing those gorgeous historical maps. I love them.

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