Code, thoughts, and Monster Energy consumption from a Tokyo-based web developer.
*What I've learned bringing a dormant snack shop back to life.* JapaneseKonbini.com has existed, in one form or another, since 2020. For most of those years, it did approximately nothing. It sat in a domain folder, occasionally renewed, occasionally thought about, never quite shipped. You know the drill. Four months ago I dusted it off. Here's where things are, and what I've learned. ## The…
Last night, I used the self-checkout at Lawson. On the counter, they have one of those racks of plastic carrier bags you tear off. Unfortunately, someone had propped this rack against the wall because the base was broken and it could no longer stand on its own like a functioning member of society. I tore off a bag and carefully propped it back up against the wall, exactly as I'd found it. But as…
3am debugging sessions need timestamps. This overwrites console.log globally. Chaotic but effective. [Code: javascript] // Wrap console.log with timestamps const originalLog = console.log; console.log = (...args) => { const time = new Date().toLocaleTimeString('en-GB', { hour12: false, hour: '2-digit', minute: '2-digit', second: '2-digit', fractionalSecondDigits: 3 }); originalLog(`[${time}]`,…
If the ambulances in Japan drove any slower, they'd be going backwards. Fucking embarrassing clumps of metal on the road.
Well, here it is, the first blog post on this website. I made it in only a weekend. It is my little place on the internet with the nostalgic GeoCities vibe. The goal was to juxtapose the latest technologies with the old school vibes. I think I've pulled it off.