Jed Schmidt

dill the dolphin flying through the air

son pointing at a ray

red jellyfish

back at the kyoto aquarium for a morning out of the heat.

お酒の美術館

seeing BAR LIQUOR MUSEUM locations everywhere now, basically the IKINARI STEAK of alcohol.

forgetting the fact that EN readers are subject to 50% more rules (the last 3 EN rules are basically the last JA rule), interesting that they allow only JA readers to use the bath _before_ drinking.

not used to the overwhelming parallax of hiking in japanese cedar forests.

slide showing how durable objects turned [network, network, network] [compute, compute, compute] [storage, storage, storage] into [network, compute, storage] [network, compute, storage] [network, compute, storage]

in the same way, DO took the cloud silo (ie, network, compute, and storage split into API Gateway, Lambda/EC2, and DynamoDB/S3) and turned it on its side; each object has a bit of all three. this is more natural and also drops ton of config (IAM, et al). i think this innovation is under-appreciated.

slide showing how react turned [style, style, style] [markup, markup, markup] [logic, logic, logic] into [style, markup, logic] [style, markup, logic] [style, markup, logic]

like, before react became popular, there was a lot of overwrought dogma about separation of concerns; it was gauche not to co-locate your scripts, styles, and markup in separate silos. react turned this on its side, prioritizing co-location by component, which always made more sense to me.

one thing i've always thought but never really expressed in a talk (mostly because i don't really do talks anymore) is how durable objects changed the way i think about the backend in much the same way react changed the way i thought about the frontend.

Where Durable Objects Live Tracking where Durable Objects are created, wherever you are in the world.

had a good time meeting local devs and chatting about building where.durableobjects.live a few years ago, at kyoto's inaugural workers tech talk. thanks for the invite, @yusukebe! x.com/yusukebe/sta...

email from chase misspelling compliance as complaince

bummed to get a transfer rejected by my bank, but at least they seem prepared for my feedback.

oh wow, there’s a great sticker idea.

thanks! didn’t feel like much a feat given all the trail runners who breezed past me.

“japanese first” sanseito campaign poster

seeing a lot of these "japanese first" (not "japan first", mind you) campaign posters. interesting that sanseito reached right-wing/anti-vax product market fit years before MAGA/MAHA did.

anyway, despite the lingering foot pain and leech bites it was a worthwhile hike. definitely drop a line if you're thinking of tackling it and need any tips.

or even spiritually frothier times. i passed so so many temples, some i'd seen but mostly those i hadn't.

not to mention the state of abandonment in the long yet still wabisabi shadow of economically frothier times.

it was interesting to see the various states of (dis)repair in the forests around the city as a result of dieback and disease due to abandoned forestry development, post-war conifer monoculture, and climate change.

it was nice to have the city always at my left, close enough if i needed it, but far enough to mostly avoid the crowds of summer tourists. here's kyoto from the east, north, and west.

WristTopo in particular is probably the most killer app i've ever used on my watch. so amazing to just raise your wrist to see your trail map centered on your location and oriented to your direction. it saved me from getting derailed in areas where the trail was poorly marked.

‎GPX viewer 2 ‎GPX viewer 2 is the brand new version of my first GPX viewer app! With new features, a new modern user interface and new interactions. I've listened to your needs and built a new app just for you! I...

to get the routes, i downloaded this gpx[1], simplified/split it with GPSBabel and GPX Editor, loaded it on my phone with GPX Viewer 2[2], and then finally onto my watch with WristTopo[3].

[1] fastestknowntime.com/route/kyoto-...
[2] apps.apple.com/us/app/gpx-v...
[3] apps.apple.com/in/app/wrist...

home 京都鞍馬 天然湧出｜硫黄温泉 くらま温泉 鞍馬の山里に自然湧出する 硫黄温泉 京都市左京区の鞍馬山麓。くらま温泉は豊かな自然と由緒ある歴史に囲まれた名湯です。この温泉は鉄分を多く含み、美肌効果や疲労回復に優れた泉質を誇ります。また、本館とは離れた高台にある露天風呂からは四季折々の風景が楽しめ、紅葉や新緑の時期には絶景が広がります。パワーポイントとしても...

i chose these routes to optimize for one trip without backtracking, spending the first night at home and the second night relaxing at the kurama spa. kurama-spa.com

sunday i hiked west through the northern mountains behind kinkakuji and ryoanji, down into takao for lunch, along the river to ochiai, through the crowds in saga and arashiyama, and then over mount matsuo to kokedera. total 26 miles (58k steps, 299 flights).

saturday i hiked farther north over mounts uryu, hiei, yokotaka, mizui, and obi, then down into ohara for lunch, through suzuhara and over into kurama. 20 miles total (46k steps / 371 flights).

friday i hiked north from momoyama through the higashiyama mountains, hitting the fushimi inari shrine, the top of daimonji, and the philosopher's path. 20 miles total (43k steps / 252 flights).

back from a challenge i've long wanted to try: walking the entire kyoto trail in a long weekend. kyoto-trail.net/trail_home.html

paying respects at the local 31-story pagoda.

it’s bittersweet; this bench has outlived a good chunk of what it celebrates. but on this balmy june morning it’s a quiet place to reflect and remember good friends who did great things.

in herndon, virginia to see about a bench. ten years ago BrooklynJS bought this bench to honor the folks who inspired us to create the best little community i’ve ever been a part of, and i finally made the trip to see it.

kishibashi encore song in the bearsville theater.

catching kishibashi in bearsville again.

photo of lake biwa

photo of rokkaku starbucks

photo of philadelphia

photo of ashokan

following @simonwillison's lead, watching ChatGPT's o3 absolutely nail the locations of these (screenshotted!) photos.

I had the pleasure to attend and speak at multiple NY borough JS meetups and it is one if not the most amazing community I have ever experienced. And it shows: a large number of internationally renowned speakers and leaders from the JavaScript community emerged from one of of NY's local meetups. I think we can follow their example, but LA style 😎🎬

happy to see the ripples of BrooklynJS still lapping up on distant shores. good luck, @gr2m.bsky.social! https://github.com/jsla/lunch.js/discussions/438