Hello there! 👋
It is the end of summer and the long, long, shared parental nightmare of “summer break” is now over. The children are no longer moping about complaining of being bored and consuming endless hours of YouTube. They started back at school earlier this week (to the relief of all parents!).
And it isn’t like we didn’t do anything… we travelled Iki Island, visiting the beach and old friends (the photos I promised last month are linked below). We also had visitors. Some of my best friends from Kelowna are here now, visiting us in Kyoto. I took them to the Kyoto State Guest House, “a national facilities to receive foreign dignitaries, such as monarchs, presidents and prime ministers, from countries all over the world.“ There is a photo gallery and a writeup linked below. The Kyoto State Guest house is “the place that offers the finest hospitality where the best essence of Japanese traditional skills are integrated.” Only the finest for my friends!
While the kids were playing video games, having sleepovers and going to movie theatres with their friends, I have spent quite a bit of time planning. This fall is going to be a busy one and I am trying to get ahead of things. Some chapters are ending, so I better have the outlines for the next ones.
Hope your book is going well,
Chad
🖋 From the Blog
LoFi software and inverting our relationship to The Cloud
Covering a few proposals for a different web development architecture, ones that actually broach the problem of dominance in computing.
🧭 Elsewhere
Photos from our summer vacay on Iki Island Photos →
Took some friends from Canada to the Kyoto State Guest House so they could experience the absolute peak of modern Japanese craft Photos →
My original writeup of the Kyoto State Guest House Link →
Chinese is more difficult than you think Link →
Rice as an analogy for understanding data scale Link →
📖 What I’m Reading
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
(60% Complete)
An engaging story about agency and choice, written on the backdrop of the gaming industry in the 1990s. I am no gamer, but I recognize a lot of the games in the book from when I did play games as a kid. So far I love the structure of the book, and find it highly highly empathetic.
Connect with me on GoodReads → or on Bookwyrm →