Installing PIL on Mac 10.6
Installing PIL on a Mac caused me about 50 minutes of headaches today, but it did make me 6000 yen. (I tried installing through Brew but it didn’t work. Â Might want to try that if your install fails)...
View ArticleWhat you see before you..
..is a result of me stupidly trusting WordPress. Japanese comments / text all mangled while trying to get past a text injection vulnerability for which there is no update available. I am pretty upset...
View ArticleGraphviz Python Bindings on the Mac Brews install are missing.
If you want to install graphviz on Mac and you can’t find the python hooks, you are in luck – as I was in the same place. Download the source code (not the mac installer, it has the same problem) and...
View ArticleFlickr CLI in Python
I am probably not the first, nor the last person to have to deal with uploading a large number of photos. Watching the computer attempt to futilely put every single image in memory before uploading...
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Impoverishing the Japanese-language web through treacherous chains
When I first met my Japanese in-laws, I realized I had to toe a fine line in order to win acceptance. To that end, I paid attention to my father-in-law’s habits; while I am not much of a gardener, I do...
View ArticleMy Procedure to Learn Kanji
My Japanese level is incredibly uneven. I can understand fairly dense newspapers but I can’t confidentally hand write Kanji characters. The gap might sound shocking, but it is a common problem...
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Amusing IE8 / PHPmyFAQ bug
An amusing bug, if only because it took a few minutes to debug as opposed to a few hours. If users navigated to the newly updated PHPMyFAQ server by name, they layout was broken – but going to it by...
View ArticleThe iPad as a High-Latency Second Monitor with Air Display
At work, I’ve been experimenting with standing while coding. I do find it far more effective than the alternative, and as an added side-bonus, I don’t feel crippling exhaustion when I get home....
View ArticleAngry rant about Akihabara that I posted on TLUG
Sitting on the train, it is hard not to be inundated by desperate Yodobashi camera signs that tell you about the benefits of buying from a brick-and-mortar store. #3 on the list is a knowledgable...
View ArticleEvery year..
Every year, I find my way back to this blog and figure out what the password is.
View ArticleJapanese Startups
I happened to run into the conversation about Japanese startups on Hacker News and on the BBC. A few stream of thought notes. While it is great to see South Korea has come a long way, it has hardly...
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Using Custom Django Settings Files with Jetbrains PyCharm
When the Jetbrains site said one could not use custom settings files with PyCharm, I was concerned; until I realised the comment was more than 2 years old. You CAN use custom settings files....
View ArticleThe Beauty of Decorators
@Decorator Pattern @Python Wiki: Decorators @Python Usage Beautiful Code is being nice “A set of rules? About Code? Decided by whom? Why? What about (…)?” If “Beautiful Code” sounds a lot like...
View ArticleInteresting Comment on Islamic Banking
I previously considered Islamic banking a fraud, more or less at the same level as “halal pork”. This comment has forced me to reconsider.
View ArticleDjango Views As Classes with Python’s __call__ Magic Method
I have been using Django off-and-on for about 2 years now. I am really liking the direction, but what bugged me (for the longest time) is the re-usability of the view section. For those unfamiliar with...
View ArticleInstalling PIL on Mac 10.6
Installing PIL on a Mac caused me about 50 minutes of headaches today, but it did make me 6000 yen. (I tried installing through Brew but it didn’t work. Might want to try that if your install fails)...
View ArticleGraphviz Python Bindings on the Mac Brews install are missing.
If you want to install graphviz on Mac and you can’t find the python hooks, you are in luck – as I was in the same place. Download the source code (not the mac installer, it has the same problem) and...
View ArticleFlickr CLI in Python
I am probably not the first, nor the last person to have to deal with uploading a large number of photos. Watching the computer attempt to futilely put every single image in memory before uploading...
View ArticleCredit Card Ads
When a fresh face joined my team in Japan from Canada, I recall sitting to him in a train and saying, “Every advertisement in this train is an invitation to self-harm.” The first thing my eyes fell...
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