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401d21aed1 Create a uspol tag page 2025-09-27 10:17:37 -07:00
526ecba27e Two Neat Websites from Miriam post 2025-09-23 10:23:24 -07:00
4147167896 Weeknotes for 2025W38 post 2025-09-22 18:59:37 -07:00
f61d824b34 Update title of Hamonshuu post 2025-09-20 06:58:49 -07:00
9bbdf3934e Coca Cola Sign photo 2025-09-20 06:58:14 -07:00
32023c074a Update termlite submodule 2025-09-18 08:04:47 -07:00
1db5039422 Ignore LightroomExports folder 2025-09-18 08:02:48 -07:00
814287c018 Hamonshu post 2025-09-18 08:02:28 -07:00
be077e524e AI Makes Me Sad post 2025-09-18 07:43:12 -07:00
c1621dcc57 Bow River Valley photo post 2025-09-12 08:42:05 -07:00
58b8edb732 Student Again post 2025-09-03 08:42:38 -07:00
e617ec3d03 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.
2025-08-31 07:57:15 -06:00
a07a0d0ff2 Update termlite submodule commit 2025-08-31 07:56:58 -06:00
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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)
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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.

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---
title: "Hamonshū"
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.
<figure class="figure figure--small">
<iframe
src="https://archive.org/embed/hamonshuyv1mori"
width="800"
height="700"
frameborder="0"
webkitallowfullscreen="true"
mozallowfullscreen="true"
allowfullscreen>
</iframe>
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---
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

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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/

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---
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

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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/).

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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.

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