Blog posts
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End of the year quiet
Some years ago, around the end of the year, I was in a bad place mentally. I had spent the previous month in a slump, and was relying heavily on media (primarily regular podcast episodes released on a...
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My first pop-up newsletter experience
Learnings and reflections from a Japan travel log in the form of a short-lived email newsletter (I loved it).
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My first experience with codemods
Using codemods to manage change on a design system, and the benefits of making system change easy.
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Postcards from friends (yet another forever project)
Cataloguing the postcards my friends send me is a forever project, but maybe that's ok.
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Experiences with Eleventy
A few notes on my experience using Eleventy to power this website so far; search, gardening and Decap CMS.
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Takayama (Japan 2023)
This is the second post in my Japan blog series; in this one I talk about mountain walking, staying at a ryokan, the Hida Folk Village, and the city of Takayama during our two-day stay.
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Matsumoto (Japan 2023)
This is the first post in my Japan blog series; in this one I talk about food, art, jazz bars and the city of Matsumoto during our two-day stay.
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Kanji studies 🕵️♂️
I’ve been studying Japanese on an ongoing basis for almost a year and a half now (wow!!) and I’ve recently been thinking about taking Kanji study more seriously. There’s a few reasons I’ve noticed thi...
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Japan 2023 in Film: Part 2
This is the second in a short series of posts where I share my film rolls from our Japan trip in 2023. We started our second day in Tokyo by wandering the streets of Tomigaya, a residential neighbourh...
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Japan 2023 in Film: Part 1
This is the first in a short series of posts where I share my film rolls from our Japan trip in 2023. Since this roll was mostly used up already, it’s a short one. Sorry! Our trip started in Tokyo whe...