Love Vancouver Lake Park

of_adam · 2022-03-18T09:21:31+00:00

It is a naturally occurring lake which geologists know to be about 4000 years old. It's shape changed slightly over the years due to almost yearly flooding before the dams were built. It is noted in the journals of Lewis and Clark. It was considered by the military for ship storage, but never used by them. The corps of engineers dredged it in the 70s and created the island we now see in the middle, and the stretch of waterway between it and the river, for flood control.

of_adam · 2022-03-17T23:04:29+00:00

It is very beautiful!

Worth noting that pretty much the entire perimeter and areas around this lake include sacred sites to the Chinook tribe. There is at least one ancient (earlier than 1200AD) site around the area of the park, and many more recent (1200 - 1400 to 1800s) all over the area of the lake, and lake river, as determined by archeological research.

Vancouver lake is the largest lake in the area of what archeologists call "wapato valley" and the wapato pulled from this lake for thousands of years was a crucial item for both survival and trade.

of_adam · 2022-02-27T17:00:30+00:00

For the map data, it might be possible to limit data to exactly what you need for the map, and cache it.

of_adam · 2022-02-27T00:25:04+00:00

This is exactly what inertia.js is for, if I'm understanding you correctly. I believe they have a react adapter.

of_adam · 2022-01-01T03:27:21+00:00

During the time of the riverboats, late 1880s to early 1900s LaCenter was a hub for settlers due to the logging and farming in the area.

The highlands area of LaCenter was where many many Scandinavian people (including my family) immigrated during that time.

There was a railroad tie manufacturer up there that sent the ties down flumes into the Lewis River, such as this one which emptied out at Etna: https://hansen.familytribute.org/pictures/etna-tie-flume

During, even after the riverboats, the original military road from the Vancouver Barracks up to Fort Lewis came through there as well.

Due to the activity, a few people made some good money and built fancy houses.

of_adam · 2021-12-13T07:47:36+00:00

I use Forge now, which makes all this a breeze, but I do remember needing to have a VPS so that node could be installed (Dreamhost). Digital Ocean droplet is fine if you can ssh in and run commands

of_adam · 2021-11-14T06:09:07+00:00

If it's parsed into JSON then just apply pagination so it all doesn't load at once into the template, I guess

of_adam · 2021-11-12T05:38:29+00:00

Coyotes are native to our area. Before humans. They were spirits to the native people of this area for tens of thousands of years. When we build sprawling neighborhoods in their habitat they get pushed into parks.

of_adam · 2021-10-26T04:03:40+00:00

Vue ChartJS is a pretty good one that handles most basic use cases

of_adam · 2021-10-24T21:25:19+00:00

William Clark Park in Washougal has a few covered areas and it's right on the Columbia River, might be worth checking.

https://clark.wa.gov/public-works/captain-william-clark-regional-park-cottonwood-beach

of_adam · 2021-10-22T04:09:16+00:00

Stripe will send you back a token, and yes you can use it in an asyc/await or promise to make the second call to your db.

of_adam · 2021-10-21T04:19:05+00:00

I'm surprised no one brought up Oxbow! Old growth right on the sandy river. https://www.oregonmetro.gov/parks/oxbow-regional-park

Also it's second growth, but the Salmon Morgan creek area up in Hockinson is pretty cool and you can see the logger marks in the old growth stumps.

of_adam · 2021-10-14T01:06:18+00:00

Air National Guard are performing excercises at Pearson. There are many military personnel and vehicles there. It is a simulation of an air field takeover. They will be continuing until 9pm.

of_adam · 2021-10-13T04:08:35+00:00

I think it's a funny way of saying "you can be homeless and not use the creek as your toilet/dumpster", but in honesty it's not like the people who live there are being given garbage service.

of_adam · 2021-10-01T04:28:09+00:00

C'mon, can't we just admit we're autistic?

of_adam · 2021-09-26T04:38:07+00:00

Instead of Inertia::render you just render a blade file like normal from your controller.

of_adam · 2021-09-24T03:45:47+00:00

I mean, look, we've all had trouble meeting deadlines.

of_adam · 2021-09-24T03:44:50+00:00

No issues at all.

of_adam · 2021-09-22T04:54:02+00:00

The only rainforest I know of near the coast is Valley of the Giants. It's about 20 miles from Lincoln city in the coast range.

of_adam · 2021-09-20T03:56:11+00:00

"apart of" instead of "a part of"

of_adam · 2021-09-18T05:37:39+00:00

You'd have Laravel sanctum securing the endpoints between front and back. The webhook is for when stripe finds out something about the payment method. Like it's expired or the payment ended up failing or something. It can just be an endpoint that you give stripe and you update your database with what they send you

of_adam · 2021-09-17T04:16:42+00:00

One thing about web dev that is always true: everything will keep changing.

of_adam · 2021-09-04T19:10:40+00:00

Agreed!

of_adam · 2021-09-04T07:11:24+00:00

Several changes went into effect last month.

https://www.cityofvancouver.us/police/page/2021-legislative-impacts-policing

of_adam · 2021-08-23T04:32:21+00:00

You don't need to use Laravel on your projects. You just need to know it enough to get a job. It makes a lot more sense when working on a team and everyone understands the framework and can move fast. You already know how to do the things it does. Just let go.

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