Being raised British, I've always drank (drunk?) black tea with milk. The standard British tea is a fairly cheap mass-market powdered black tea, common brands being PG Tips, Tetley, and Yorkshire tea. It usually produces a strong, bitter taste, and is ready after just a few seconds of brewing. Here in Japan the equivalent is probably Day & Day , which is pretty decent. Even Lipton is not bad…
I think I've identified the core reason I instinctively dislike LLMs. I strongly value competence. This applies institutionally as well as societally, not just individually. In a competent society, things just work. You can take a hot shower because there is clean water and flammable gas piped into your home, a device on premise that burns the gas in a safe, controlled way to heat the water, and a…
It's Christmas Eve, and I've come to the co-working space by the sea, featured in my profile pic, to reflect on the past year, with just a couple of weeks left until the end of the year. As I mentioned in an earlier post , I left my job at the end of 2024, and have been unemployed all year this year. I think a year of downtime, maybe call it a late gap year, is enough, and I've managed to line up…
Note: This post is Day 5 of the Qiita Elixir Advent Calendar 2025 , so is written in Japanese first. The English version is below. この投稿は Qiita Elixir Advent Calendar 2025 の5日目です。よろしくお願いします。 iex を使う時に、こちらのショートカットを使うと、日常的な操作がより楽になると思います。 一番知っておきたいこと：編集中の式を取り消すことができる 複数行の式を入力中に、入力ミスをしてしまい、書き直すためにわざとエラーを起こそうとして必死にキーを叩き続けたことはありませんか？ iex(1)> Enum . map ( [ 1 , 2 , 3 ] , fn -> "String.trim_leader( ) ] )…
This post walks through how to set up Actual Budget on a Synology NAS using Docker containers, and also includes upgrade instructions for when Actual release a new version. Additionally, I describe how to get it working with HTTPS using both tailscale cert and your own root certificate if you want to use a custom domain. What is Actual Budget Actual Budget is an open-source, self-hosted budgeting…