Rick 8 months ago

There’s a 1963 phone from NTT called the “model 600”, very much like the Bell model 500, which you can view among others at the NTT History Center of Technologies in Musashino, in west Tokyo. I hope to visit some day. ☎️

NTT

Analog Telephones

—Actual Phones are Open to the Public for Viewing at NTT History Center of...

Rick 8 months ago

A few months ago I learned about Tilley and Dreyfuss’ work “The Measure of Man and Woman” which if you think on it, was just so revolutionary. Design barely even considered measurements of people prior to this, but now it’s ubiquitous. 👫

Google Books

The Measure of Man and Woman

"The Measure of Man and Woman" ist eine aktualisierte und erweiterte Ausgabe des 1959 erschienenen Klassikers "Human Factors. Diese Neuauflage vere...

Rick 8 months ago

We are debating finally cancelling the landline in our house, which made me think of the phone icon which was designed with the Bell Model 500 in mind. I wonder when this icon will become incomprehensible to younger people? In 10 years? 20? 📞📱

Model 500 telephone - Wikipedia

Rick 8 months ago

My firm just launched our new “Tech It Easy” blog with IT tips in English and Japanese from our team members, like this post on keyboard shortcuts. We hope it might come in handy. 😎

Tech It Easy Blog

This Is Your First Step to Saving Time! Essential Shortcuts You…

Discover useful shortcut keys for Windows and Office 365 to enhance productivity and streamline your workflow, starting today!

Rick 9 months ago

Version 3 of the static site generator Lume was released after a Herculean dev cycle. It’s an incredibly flexible and powerful SSG written in Typescript by Óscar Otero.

🔥 Updates

Lume 3 was released - Adolfina Casás

A blog to follow the updates of Lume, the static site generator for Deno

Rick 10 months ago

When our tree flowers and I start hearing uguisu calls, I always feel spring has come. 🌸

Rick 10 months ago

Saw Wicked on Broadway a few years ago with A, and now we saw the IMAX movie. Theater buffs will like that It’s chock full of cameos of the original stage performers and even the writers. Casting and performances were on point, with lots of humor. 💚🩷

Rick 11 months ago

I loved Think Again by Adam Grant 📚. I’m going to set aside regular time for re-thinking, try to abandon best practices, and “not get stranded at the summit of Mt. Stupid.” 😅

Think Again

Rick 11 months ago

Some of the fam went to Sapporo and Otaru in Hokkaido. I had to work, but they brought some hanasaki crab and we ate it last night. Wow, it’s reaally good! 🦀

Paralithodes brevipes - Wikipedia

Rick 11 months ago

Learned about our local evac center’s “Hamakko Toilet” at today’s event. It’s a sewage pipe you fill with pool water at one end, set toilets above opened man holes, and periodically flush by opening a big valve at the other end. 🚽🚽

Rick 11 months ago

Had a local disaster prevention event today. A civil servant / volunteer fireman said we should not assume Yokohama city will prepare enough food or supplies, and that we need to ready our own. A sobering thought! 🧯🚒

Rick 11 months ago

If you do any system admin and use the terminal, starship.rs is a really easy value add. For instance if you’re in a vps that just has bash installed, running the starship installer gets you a decent prompt in 10 sec.

Starship: Cross-Shell Prompt

Starship is the minimal, blazing fast, and extremely customizable prompt for any shell! Shows the information you need, while staying sleek and min...

Rick 11 months ago

Web-toolbox.dev is an excellent & convenient bilingual English/Japanese site for web devs by K (thanks!), with various tools for generation, encoding, SEO, text. 🛠️

Web ToolBox | 開発を支援するツールコレクション

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K@個人開発 (@k_urtica) on X

Front-end developer😊 / Vue, Nuxtがメイン / 個人開発 → Web ToolBox(https://t.co/GG7o0C2FKX), Tints and Shades(https://t.co/wypWKxnSim),...

Rick 11 months ago

I want to learn more about storytelling, and The Perfect Story by Karen Eber 📚 has been great so far. The author posted on LinkedIn about a new Japanese translation, which you can find here.

The Perfect Story

パーフェクト・ストーリー - JMAM 日本能率協会マネジメントセンター 「人・組織・経営の変化」を支援するJMAMの書籍

Rick 11 months ago

I searched on the word “Hygge” after eating lunch at a cafe called that, and found this cozy little book on the topic: The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living (The Happiness Institute Series) by Meik Wiking 📚

The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living (The Happiness Institute Series)

Rick 11 months ago

Our dog goes to daycare with a big unit of a black lab, whose human is French, so I decided to compile a French dog command list, with Japanese and English, to try to communicate next time we meet. Assis! 🐾

cogley.jp

Dog Commands

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Rick 0 years ago

Happy Valentine’s Day 😍 special chocolate from Blue Cacao!

Rick 0 years ago

I really enjoyed and found insightful I Never Thought of It That Way by Mónica Guzmán. It will give you tips about how to bridge the divide in conversation with those you disagree with, and help you stay curious! 📚

I Never Thought of It That Way

Rick 1 year ago

Went to Kanda Daimyojin shrine to receive New Year blessings for my firm eSolia. You fill a fill a form, tell what blessings you want (we chose business success and employee health), wear a special sash around your neck, and attend a 15 min ceremony. Let’s go! ⛩️🙏🏻

Rick 1 year ago

If you like design and thinking about design, User Friendly by Cliff Kuang is a home run of a book. Just fantastic. You could follow its threads to study further, for a year. 📚

User Friendly