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Please join the Discord or follow @lost.aeon on instagram for regular updates. General Update & Phaser Impressions It’s been a month of…

I received an overwhelming amount of feedback from my two posts about Aspereta (part 1 & part 2) which contain clippings from my blog when I…

This is a part 2 of a excerpts from a Aspereta development updates I wrote in 2002-2003. You can find part 1 here. Jan. 5, 2003 Today I…

As I’ve mentioned before, twenty years ago, I was an exchange student in Japan. I was in the countryside, and my host family didn’t have the…

I was talking about SEO with a friend, and he asked me, “Have you checked your site with Lighthouse? You could definitely be doing better…

My struggle to find a viable VIM set up for Windows 10.

My original implementation for rendering for a single tile was causing performance issues. It was slow because whenever the client added a…

Twenty years ago, I was an exchange student in Japan. I was in the countryside, and my host family didn’t have the internet. In the evenings…

For over three months, I wrote (JavaScript) code from my iPad every day. There was one exception when I had to attend a funeral. There are a…

I have been developing a single page app from my iPad for the last four weeks trying to push something to GitHub every day. It all started…

My basic setup for doing dvelopment in a terminal from my iPad.

I built this site solely from my iPad. That was undoubtedly the easy part. Built using this Lanyon Jekyll Theme and deployed it on GitHub…

Notes on resources I used to learn about machine learning that I shared with a friend.

Thoughts on why I made this site.

One question I get sometimes is about co-working spaces in Nagoya. There are several co-working spaces in Japan. Let’s review a few options…

My first encounter with Belgian Beer Weekend was in September 2012. In Tokyo they hold the event every fall at Roppongi Hills and it’s…

The Nayabashi Yoichi is held on the fourth Friday of every month, which usually coincides with Japan’s ”Premium Friday.” There is also a…

Heading east on the Higashiyama Line, stations alternate between being commercial and residential. After Shinsakae, the next commercial area…

Nagoya is home to iconic Buddhist holy sites and relics. One of them is Kakuozan Nittaiji (覚王山 日泰寺). Nittaiji is comprised of the temple, a…

Trunk Coffee Trunk Coffee is known being one of Nagoya’s best coffee shops. It’s located east of Sakae, in Izumi, near Takaoka Station. The…

Shirotori Garden Shirotori Garden (白鳥庭園) is a ten minute walk from Atsuta Shrine. The garden is 3.7 hectares of rivers, ponds and plants…

That feeling when you go somewhere, and nothing is wrong, but nothing is right either — nothing clicks. 7 Days Brew was a layover between…

I discovered Ghent when I saw a poster listing bars that served Onidensetsu (鬼伝説) in Nagoya. My colleagues and I headed to Ghent as our…

KEG NAGOYA is another production by Sake no Okadaya. It’s tucked away near Oasis 21, like many of Sakae’s treasures (JAZZ&Coffee YURI, Jazz…

My colleagues and I have exhausted our options for burger joints near the office. So today, we decided to spice it up a bit. We had Waves…

Sake no Okadaya (酒の岡田屋) owns several restaurants that I enjoy including Grillman, Y. Market Brewing and Keg Nagoya. Knowing only that they…

I heard great things about SMASH HEAD, and found out that VOL 8 of Pecha Kucha Night Nagoya was hosted at here. (If you’re unfamiliar with…

LAYER’S is a burger shop near Hisayaodori Station I discovered it poking around the internet. It has a fairly high rating on Google maps too…

Hamburger Seikatsu No Susume (ハンバーガー生活のすすめ) is a new burger place that opened up on November 29, 2016 by Yuuji Sekine. The date is a pun on…

I first heard about BRICK LANE from one of my co-workers, she had discovered it and we were keen to try it out for lunch. We checked out the…

Handsome Burger is located in a unique place. It’s in the Fushimi Underground Mall which is best explained as a blast from the past. The…

GRILLMAN is a burger joint by day, and a restaurant by night, with a wide selection of craft beer and Japanese wine. It is owned by Sake no…

I haven’t slept in 27 hours and 16 minutes right now. Today my flight was 16 hours+ total. Long and long would be the two words I would best…

Today threw this together so that it will be here for when I arrive in Japan next week. I plan to update this enough that people can read…