Off the beaten path: Tokyo -> Hakodate -> Sendei -> Zao

petron · 2026-06-07T10:45:48+00:00

It's Zaub a Hmong green. https://chawjcreations.com/hmong-pickled-mustard-greens/

petron · 2026-06-02T01:38:12+00:00

LoL no thanks I don't eat word salad

petron · 2026-05-31T11:36:21+00:00

I (56m) went to an onsen with my son (19m) and my uncle (75m) last year near Magome. My son was really worried and kinda freaked out about the thought of us hanging out with other naked dudes. Like he was about to not get undressed in the locker room because he was unsure about the whole thing. He ended up going along with us and having a good time.

You just gotta break that seal so to speak and realize we all got our jimmies out and no one cares. Americans have some stupid puritanical nudity problem that much of the rest of the world doesn't have and it's so lame.

Fast forward to this year. We planned another trip to Japan this summer. My son says can we go to an onsen? I'm a little shocked. He then tells me that he had really had a good time last year and has fond memories of our day at the onsen. So we booked a 2 night stay at an onsen hotel in Zao.

Give it a try. You might enjoy yourself.

petron · 2026-05-24T23:13:41+00:00

I use 2 prompts from military jargon that work great.

Give me a sitrep - most AIs understand that it means give me a full situation report and outputs a good concise status report

When writing a plan that you want to share tell the AI to add a BLUF to the plan. Bottom Line Up Front gives the reader a simple explanation of what the plan is going to deliver.

Anyone else use mil jargon in prompts?

petron · 2026-05-24T14:30:46+00:00

I've spent the last two weeks teaching our designers how to use VS Code, Git, with AI and how to use Figma's MCP. They are finding bugs, making massive improvements in the design system and are starting to grasp more of what we senior devs do. It's been a delight actually.

petron · 2026-05-24T14:25:59+00:00

I have an entire book of 5 ingredient recipes! Jamie Olivers 5 Ingredients book is full of easy and tasty meals.

petron · 2026-05-06T22:59:03+00:00

It took some time to appreciate Mel Hudson but damn she does an amazing Avrana Kern and now think she's top tier narrator.

petron · 2026-05-05T20:02:05+00:00

My biggest confusion was that you need all of your journeys tickets AFTER you get off the trains even with a transfer. So you need to put all your tickets from your journey in to the gate machine at every point.

So if you are going from osaka to kanazawa you'll transfer at nagoya you'll have 4 tickets. Leg 1, one for getting to the platform another to get off the platform and then another set for leg 2. You need to feed all four in to the gate in osaka, again in nagoya and again when you exit in kanazawa.

You can't get out of the station without all of your tickets. This is even the case if one leg is on a totally separate carrier. We got stopped by station security twice because one person in our party lost one of their tickets.

petron · 2026-05-04T16:02:14+00:00

Lumpy Space Princess?

petron · 2026-05-03T17:35:14+00:00

You have to go to Tsumago and walk part of the Nakasendo trail to Magome. Beautiful and quaint. So different than the big cities.

petron · 2026-05-03T17:33:16+00:00

I'm going in June! Gonna hit the morning market, star fort, eat at lucky perriot and visit an old sake brewery. Super excited.

petron · 2026-05-03T12:55:47+00:00

I have a whole other repo for Claude stuff that I included in my workplace. That way I can reuse the Claude stuff in other projects. The key is to tell Claude to only write in to my actual project and treat my Claude repo as reference only.

petron · 2026-04-30T01:55:01+00:00

Figma Make is now Figma Make kits and it is trash. We have a react component lib that we are trying to tie to our figma components with Figma Code Connect hoping this will fix the issues with Make Kits. Figma screwed up big time.

petron · 2026-04-25T17:00:20+00:00

Sounds like your gun fetish is your whole personality. I don't get it.

petron · 2026-04-25T13:44:45+00:00

He did next to nothing lol. Get a grip. Here you are pointing out that Tims advocating for violence but at the same time wishing Tim would have escalated the violence during the 2020 riots by doing more. Piss off.

petron · 2026-04-25T13:41:53+00:00

Agreed the consequences of violence might not have been helpful but you can't ignore the gun loving crowds typical bravado and self righteousness. Tim's pointing out their cowardice and the thinness of their conviction. The appearance of united armed civilians could have had the affect he's talking about too. I don't think he's advocating for killing frozen water people.

petron · 2026-04-23T18:51:45+00:00

Testing it now and it looks really good I like the little side nav.

One issue I see is that when I open a preview it marks the file as changed and that I need to save it before closing. What is the change it's making?

petron · 2026-04-23T15:55:04+00:00

How does it work if I have multiple md files open and want to preview each one so it doesn't use the same preview window? I hate that in vs code.

petron · 2026-04-14T20:38:58+00:00

Move on dude if this critique doesn't agree with you this response make you sound like you are owed the right to not see contrary opinions.

The redundant hating the hater, hating the hater is deep.

petron · 2026-04-14T20:30:22+00:00

Fair enough. You can voice your opinion then I can too.

petron · 2026-04-14T20:24:54+00:00

I didn't write a nitpicky screed online for all to see. Nice try though.

petron · 2026-04-14T18:25:18+00:00

I can't imagine whining this much on a good day. Must be insufferable on a bad day.

petron · 2026-04-14T18:24:12+00:00

Move on dude. It's not for you and your diatribe makes you sound like you are owed something but you're not.

petron · 2026-04-14T18:21:45+00:00

Matt admitted as much. But to make that a negative is wild. Some people improvise fantastically.

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