Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 19h55 years ago, mcdonalds japan decided call their mascot "donald", because they thought it would be easier to pronounce. starting this month he's dropping that name and rebranding as "ronald". 220
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 21/09/2026basically "live free or die, amirite Old Man?" stratechery.com/2026/frontier... 110
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 13/09/2026discovering why my robot lawnmower keeps getting caught in holes around the yard. real datacenter backlash energy here. 051
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 20/07/2026into the mountains of kurama to escape the heat / crowds of gion matsuri. 040
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 05/07/2026watching the color drain from the calbee aisle one brand at a time. 000
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 10/06/2026spotting in the wild: monochrome calbee “economy packaging” due to naphtha shortages caused by “epic fury”. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... 130
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 10/06/2026paying respects at the mountain where this poor soul spent his last hours. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... 010
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 03/06/2026stayed at a new 9hours in tokyo. the capsules now have all sorts of sensors in them, and they send you a sleep report after you checkout. 130
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 30/05/2026at an airport dunkin’, where the $6 meal deal is $16.41. at least they honored the promotional digit. 160
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 20/05/2026seeking recommendations for what to plant in the hole of this felled tree lead. 120
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 17/05/2026spotting counterfeit bun merch at fiVe BEL°W. support.fivebelow.com/hc/en-us/art... 010
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 08/09/2025taking chatgpt up on its offer to show me how to load an IKEA SMÅSTAD bed in my RAV4. 361
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 07/09/2025looking all over for where the soggy bottom boys bust out the chromatic mediant A major chord when i realized what had happened. 150
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 20/07/2025forgetting 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. 210
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 20/07/2025not used to the overwhelming parallax of hiking in japanese cedar forests. 060
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 20/07/2025in 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. 020
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 20/07/2025like, 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. 110
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 16/07/2025bummed to get a transfer rejected by my bank, but at least they seem prepared for my feedback. 000
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 16/07/2025seeing 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. 120
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 16/07/2025anyway, 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. 120
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 16/07/2025or even spiritually frothier times. i passed so so many temples, some i'd seen but mostly those i hadn't. 110
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 16/07/2025not to mention the state of abandonment in the long yet still wabisabi shadow of economically frothier times. 100
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 16/07/2025it 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. 100
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 16/07/2025it 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. 210
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 16/07/2025WristTopo 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. 100
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 16/07/2025sunday 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). 210
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 16/07/2025saturday 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). 110
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 16/07/2025friday 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). 110
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 16/07/2025back from a challenge i've long wanted to try: walking the entire kyoto trail in a long weekend. kyoto-trail.net/trail_home.html 290
Jed Schmidt @jed.is · 02/06/2025it’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. 040
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