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It’s August 1 st and I am officially free. I just finished my final project at work and the only job I have lined up is burning my savings while I follow my dreams. There’s fear but there’s also relief. I used to make music. I noticed my last release was 10 years ago. That’s a while. Since then I’ve gone to college, got a job making bespoke apps for businesses, got paid well for it, got my own…
I’m doing it again! I decided I wanted to reboot my site. I came back to the source code for my blog because I’m trying to figure out how to do the same things I did here but in SvelteKit . Lo and behold there is an unpublished post (now published) called Infinite Reinvention that recounts my experiences with this exact phenomenon of wanting to start over to make things better. What I’m actually…
It’s really tempting to think you can redesign something and make it better. It’s worth a try, because you may actually succeed, or you may come to the realization that the thing you were trying to fix already solves countless problems you didn’t even consider. I’ve been working on a JavaScript framework. Started as a response to things I find annoying in the design of React, which I use at work.…
A couple years ago I started writing a series of posts on Japanese particles, mostly to help myself comprehend them, but also in the hope that they might be useful for other learners. I remember those posts being really helpful to write because they made me analyze the grammar enough to be able to explain it in English. It really was useful to build a model of the meaning so I could fit it in my…
Spotify : Robots make playlists for you. Joe Rogan. Apple Music : Humans curate music in a borderline unusable desktop app. YouTube Music : Skynet makes playlists for you. Amazon Music : We also have music. Qobuz : Humans curate 24 bit 96KHz classic rock re-releases. Tidal : “Enjoying Mastodon? Check out Lil Baby.”
Please sir, may I have some も ? I know of two meanings of も , both of which are somewhat related. In both cases, you’ve got some and you want a bit も. Inclusive も / Also You put it on the end of something to include it in the group of what you’re talking about. 私もいく I’ll go too: 「私」 (I) + 「も」 (include) + 「いく」 (go) Literally, "I also go". In this case you’re including yourself in the group that is…
Knex For databases All you need and nothing you don’t for getting data into and out of a database. Everything it does is obvious if you know SQL. moment.js For dates and times One of the nicest APIs I’ve ever used for working with dates and times. It’s fairly heavy and not actively developed (it could be considered finished). For size, day.js has a similar API in a smaller package which is better…
くんよみ is usually used for reading kanji in words with a single kanji as its root. おんよみ readings are usually used for compound words with multiple kanji. I found this completely non-obvious at first. Kanji seem to have several readings with absolutely no rhyme or reason when you start out, but I found myself able to guess how to read some words once I noticed this. The exceptions seem to work the…
I’ve seen もの translated as "thing". もの seems to be just も (include/extend particle) plus の (category particle) together. So, もの does vaguely mean "thing", but in a plural sense where the category is defined as the things being も 'd. For example, if you say 「名をつけたもの」 you’re saying 「名をつけた」 (has been named) + 「も」 (extend to all) + 「の」 (category). So; the category made up of all the things with names.…