From a07a0d0ff26d22d146af51bf90cbe5967dfbe3a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eryn Wells Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2025 07:56:58 -0600 Subject: [PATCH 01/13] Update termlite submodule commit --- themes/termlite | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/themes/termlite b/themes/termlite index d158b0d..d24e3a2 160000 --- a/themes/termlite +++ b/themes/termlite @@ -1 +1 @@ -Subproject commit d158b0db8ebaaad35c5ed7fea31db7bee930eb03 +Subproject commit d24e3a2765ace55ef796ea61a84d995c16ba14eb From e617ec3d0362ebe8dc0c264efbd2d1aaf423f6c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eryn Wells Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2025 07:57:15 -0600 Subject: [PATCH 02/13] Use website script to tag the repo Update the `make deploy` target to tag the repo using the value returned by `website deployment next-tag`. Filter .DS_Store files from the public folder before rsyncing. This is a step the deploy script did. --- Makefile | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 72bf627..fea5233 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -21,9 +21,11 @@ site: hugo --buildFuture --enableGitInfo --destination "$(BUILD_DIR)" deploy: site + @echo "Removing .DS_Store files from $(DEPLOY_LOCATION)" + find "$(BUILD_DIR)" -name .DS_Store -print -delete @echo "Deploying to $(DEPLOY_LOCATION)" rsync -avz --no-times --no-perms --delete "$(BUILD_DIR)/" "$(DEPLOY_LOCATION)" - git tag -f deploy-$(shell date +%Y-%m-%d) + git tag -f $(shell ./scripts/website deployment next-tag) deployall: nethack deploy From 58b8edb73223fefb9e2766404d508a43da162074 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eryn Wells Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 08:42:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 03/13] Student Again post --- content/blog/2025/student-again/index.md | 49 +++++++++++++++++++ content/blog/2025/student-again/textbooks.jpg | 3 ++ 2 files changed, 52 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/blog/2025/student-again/index.md create mode 100644 content/blog/2025/student-again/textbooks.jpg diff --git a/content/blog/2025/student-again/index.md b/content/blog/2025/student-again/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6ae066d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2025/student-again/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +--- +title: "I'm a Student Again" +description: I started taking Japanese classes at CCSF. +slug: student-again +date: 2025-09-02 +resources: + - name: textbooks + src: textbooks.jpg + title: My textbooks + params: + alt: > + Three textbooks fanned out on a dark wood desktop. From left to + right: Japanese for Busy People Book 1, Genki Book 1 Workbook, and + Genki Book 1 Textbook. +tags: + - Life + - School + - japanese + - CCSF +--- + +{{< figures/image name=textbooks >}} + +I've been fortunate to take two trips to Japan over the last couple years. +Leading up to those trips, I picked up learning Japanese, attempting to build +some basic language skills for getting around. At first, I used [Duolingo][dja] +but recently switched to [Migaku][mja]. + +When I returned from our most recent trip, I decided to find a class so I can +practice speaking skills. [Community College of San Francisco][ccsf] has an +excellent program called "[Free City][fc]" that grants free tuition to residents +of the city. It also has [Japanese program][ccsfja]. So I enrolled in their +online Japanese 1A (Intro to Japanese) and in-person Japanese 10A (Beginning +Conversational Japanese) courses. + +The scheduling constraints are more complex this time around. Juggling the +responsibilities of work, childcare, volunteer work, and other hobbies is a +challenge. It makes me appreciate the freedom I had in my late teens and +early-twenties. + +Nevertheless, I'm looking forward to learning in a more structured way again, +and also getting a chance to practice speaking with real people rather than +talking to the AI bots in my phone. + +[dja]: https://www.duolingo.com/course/ja/en/Learn-Japanese +[mja]: https://migaku.com/learn-japanese +[ccsf]: https://www.ccsf.edu +[ccsfja]: https://www.ccsf.edu/degrees-certificates/japanese +[fc]: https://www.ccsf.edu/free-city diff --git a/content/blog/2025/student-again/textbooks.jpg b/content/blog/2025/student-again/textbooks.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..35404f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2025/student-again/textbooks.jpg @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:417787d6746c3c5bcf8ac51578bc9308e8ef72a5a60ca382a37b1d55ce59d8bd +size 1378980 From c1621dcc57cb389cd8a3d9c98845e595191c39f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eryn Wells Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 08:42:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 04/13] Bow River Valley photo post --- content/photos/2025/bow-river-valley/index.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ .../website-bow-river-valley.0640.jpg | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/photos/2025/bow-river-valley/index.md create mode 100644 content/photos/2025/bow-river-valley/website-bow-river-valley.0640.jpg diff --git a/content/photos/2025/bow-river-valley/index.md b/content/photos/2025/bow-river-valley/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0047a0b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/photos/2025/bow-river-valley/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +title: "Bow River Valley" +date: 2025-09-07T12:06:49-07:00 +tags: + - Travel + - Alberta + - Canada + - Banff +--- + +The [Bow River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_River) runs down from the +Rockies, feeding Banff, Canmore, and Calgary. In this photo, the valley runs +roughly northwest. It was taken from the top of the [Banff +Gondola](https://www.banffjaspercollection.com/attractions/banff-gondola/). diff --git a/content/photos/2025/bow-river-valley/website-bow-river-valley.0640.jpg b/content/photos/2025/bow-river-valley/website-bow-river-valley.0640.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bf80115 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/photos/2025/bow-river-valley/website-bow-river-valley.0640.jpg @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:543db6db0ec98c85c19c3809054dd61bd17abc3871125aaab587d7ca667c6f5f +size 557092 From be077e524e0c948cd51aa90055d42c9e0e54f8fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eryn Wells Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 07:43:12 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 05/13] AI Makes Me Sad post --- content/blog/2025/ai-makes-me-sad.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/blog/2025/ai-makes-me-sad.md diff --git a/content/blog/2025/ai-makes-me-sad.md b/content/blog/2025/ai-makes-me-sad.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2fee7d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2025/ai-makes-me-sad.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: "AI Makes Me Sad" +description: Sad tooting about AI. +date: 2025-09-05T13:56:40-07:00 +draft: true +tags: + - AI + - Tech +--- + +[My own toot](https://mastodon.social/@erynofwales/115153168015169009) from a +few days on Mastodon: + +> I don't know what to do with how much I dislike AI and its relentless creep +> into my industry. The more I see of it, the more inevitable it seems, and the +> more alienated I feel from the software engineering industry. +> +> It could very well push me out of the industry, not because it steals my job, +> but because it robs me of the joy I had for this work. From 814287c01823621c0493c097722aaed94327eaba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eryn Wells Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:02:28 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 06/13] Hamonshu post --- content/blog/2025/hamonshu.md | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/blog/2025/hamonshu.md diff --git a/content/blog/2025/hamonshu.md b/content/blog/2025/hamonshu.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..00e2cc8 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2025/hamonshu.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +title: "Hamonshu" +date: 2025-09-18 +tags: + - Art + - Web Design + - Design + - japan +--- + +Eric Meyer's [website](https://meyerweb.com) has a hand-drawn ink motif that I +really dig. It's based heavily on drawings from the Hamonshū, a set of books +produced by Yūzan Mōri. This work was new to me, and I enjoyed flipping through +it on the Internet Archive, embedded below. + +
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From 1db5039422cd411f73bad993b92d04ef328a55b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eryn Wells Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:02:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 07/13] Ignore LightroomExports folder --- .gitignore | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 2ca23d2..2073fc6 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +LightroomExports/ node_modules/ public/ /documentation/mirrors/ From 32023c074a4769a92a0c757d927777a9ee41e0fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eryn Wells Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:04:47 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 08/13] Update termlite submodule --- themes/termlite | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/themes/termlite b/themes/termlite index d24e3a2..89cde7a 160000 --- a/themes/termlite +++ b/themes/termlite @@ -1 +1 @@ -Subproject commit d24e3a2765ace55ef796ea61a84d995c16ba14eb +Subproject commit 89cde7aefb96525c09f51ea6318aa666b31f8a98 From 9bbdf3934ea87bdf9d8e4c6664b167f3d6d39dd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eryn Wells Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2025 06:58:14 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 09/13] Coca Cola Sign photo --- .../2025/drink-coca-cola/coca-cola-sign.jpg | 3 +++ content/photos/2025/drink-coca-cola/index.md | 20 +++++++++++++++++++ .../photos/2025/drink-coca-cola/thumbnail.jpg | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/photos/2025/drink-coca-cola/coca-cola-sign.jpg create mode 100644 content/photos/2025/drink-coca-cola/index.md create mode 100644 content/photos/2025/drink-coca-cola/thumbnail.jpg diff --git a/content/photos/2025/drink-coca-cola/coca-cola-sign.jpg b/content/photos/2025/drink-coca-cola/coca-cola-sign.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e5eaba1 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/photos/2025/drink-coca-cola/coca-cola-sign.jpg @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:ebc818a7fcad4a578e2a6eecb3f3980852fcde6487980380b02637dd3c929f62 +size 780897 diff --git a/content/photos/2025/drink-coca-cola/index.md b/content/photos/2025/drink-coca-cola/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..88e5fdc --- /dev/null +++ b/content/photos/2025/drink-coca-cola/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: "Drink Coca-Cola" +date: 2025-09-10T18:26:15-07:00 +tags: + - Urban + - Advertising + - San Francisco + - Coca-Cola +--- + +I was standing on a neighborhood street corner recently and spotted this sign +hiding behind a parked car across the street. When the car moved, I snapped this +photo. + +It's kind of a curious thing, isn't it? It's an advertisement for Coke on a +low traffic residential corner that seems to have been there for a long time. +(It looks old.) It got me wondering what that corner was like 50 or 100 years +ago. Clearly the owner of the building has maintained it too: the paint has been +touched up here and there, and someone added the green frame at some point. + diff --git a/content/photos/2025/drink-coca-cola/thumbnail.jpg b/content/photos/2025/drink-coca-cola/thumbnail.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9980186 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/photos/2025/drink-coca-cola/thumbnail.jpg @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:f3353b44de2d4143ddeb7dd1386dde6ddae9b248d8feeeab0719d5ff63d7f0ba +size 364298 From f61d824b34b3cebfaf12bd85ade87d2fe93faaa7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eryn Wells Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2025 06:58:49 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 10/13] Update title of Hamonshuu post --- content/blog/2025/hamonshu.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/blog/2025/hamonshu.md b/content/blog/2025/hamonshu.md index 00e2cc8..b3d952b 100644 --- a/content/blog/2025/hamonshu.md +++ b/content/blog/2025/hamonshu.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -title: "Hamonshu" +title: "Hamonshū" date: 2025-09-18 tags: - Art From 4147167896681b2f432159c80fc0f0b42f9211fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eryn Wells Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:59:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 11/13] Weeknotes for 2025W38 post --- content/blog/2025/weeknotes-2025w38.md | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/blog/2025/weeknotes-2025w38.md diff --git a/content/blog/2025/weeknotes-2025w38.md b/content/blog/2025/weeknotes-2025w38.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ce1ba32 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2025/weeknotes-2025w38.md @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +--- +title: "Notes on 2025W38" +slug: weeknotes-2025w38 +date: 2025-09-21 +categories: weeknotes +tags: + - Weeknotes + - Trans + - japan + - japan-tokyo + - Trains + - Yamanote + - uspol + - Travel + - Unions +--- + +I'm pretty behind on weeknotes again. + +----- + +It has been a truly awful few weeks for trans people in the US. I am worried for +myself and for every other trans person navigating the daily terror of the +political climate here. You are loved and valid, no matter what they say. +:heart: + +---- + +Someone [compiled all the station ditties](https://yamanot.es) along the +Yamanote line in Tōkyō. Via [Jonathan Wight][wight], though the link is now +dead. + +--- + +[Jimmy Kimmel was removed from the air][kimmel] by a combination of ABC, Disney, +and Nexstar over comments he made about Charlie Kirk. His comments were mild at +best, and his removal portends bad things for freedom of speech and a free press +in the US. + +--- + +The US seems poised to pass a country-wide [bathroom ban][bathrooms] for trans +people. It would deny trans people the right to use the toilets matching their +gender, and _also_ deny them access to toilets matching their birth sex, +effectively preventing trans people from using the bathroom in any public space. +If this passes, I don't think I will be able to travel to the UK for any reason +for the forseeable future. + +Sol Elias draws a comparison to the current [moral panic][panic] around trans +rights and the "crack baby" era of the 1980s and 1990s. + +--- + +The team behind the Diablo franchise at Blizzard has [unionized][diablo]. +Congrats to them! + +[wight]: https://mastodon.social/@schwa/115125526450662142 +[kimmel]: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115112175537370858 +[bathrooms]: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bathroom-ban/ +[panic]: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2025/08/freak-generations-the-moral-panic-playbook-from-crack-babies-to-trans-kids/ +[diablo]: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115112175537370858 From 526ecba27e0a6e5920091204f3f5c707fa0b20e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eryn Wells Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 10:23:24 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 12/13] Two Neat Websites from Miriam post --- .../blog/2025/two-neat-websites-from-miriam.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/blog/2025/two-neat-websites-from-miriam.md diff --git a/content/blog/2025/two-neat-websites-from-miriam.md b/content/blog/2025/two-neat-websites-from-miriam.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..27f9305 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2025/two-neat-websites-from-miriam.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +--- +title: "Two Neat Websites From Miriam" +date: 2025-09-23T10:16:55-07:00 +tags: + - Pottery + - Web Design +--- + +A couple neat websites I learned about from [Miriam](https://www.miriamsuzanne.com): + +* [Learn Pottery](https://learnpottery.com) offers online pottery lessons. Makes +me want to pick up throwing again. +* [Utopia.fyi](https://utopia.fyi) helps you develop font size and spacing scales +for responsive web design. I read about it in OddBird's recent blog post about +[Designing for User Font-size and Zoom][ob]. + +[ob]: https://www.oddbird.net/2025/07/22/size-preferences/ From 401d21aed17c5e61732b53a3e66adfbb8cbe32cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eryn Wells Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2025 10:17:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 13/13] Create a uspol tag page --- content/tags/uspol/_index.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/tags/uspol/_index.md diff --git a/content/tags/uspol/_index.md b/content/tags/uspol/_index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8caccc6 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/tags/uspol/_index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +title: US Politics +---