Today was another reasonably late start - we didn't get out until the afternoon. This is partially driven by yesterday's late night, both Joel and I were up till 3am blogging and working on some PhD work respectively, but also the strange adjustment that comes to travelling east.

The third day in Japan was definitely our shortest. Both Joel and I were shattered from our first two days and jet lag caught up with us so we involuntarily spent most of the day asleep.

This was such a busy day I fell behind on my blogging!

The first day of my trip to Japan with Joel is over! And it's been a long one - 31 hours total.

I've been using Hugo as my blog framework for a good while now and the reason I've stuck with it for so long is the freedom it gives me to tweak things to be exactly how I want. The series list I added this week is a good example of that.

So I'm off to Tokyo (and probably other bits of Japan) next week. I'm planning on blogging about the trip but I also thought I'd blog about the process of figuring the trip out!

I’ve spent this bank holiday weekend building an improved tool for generating my Hugo short codes for responsive images on my blog. In the process I ran into a situation where I needed to call a Go library from Rust. In doing so I learned a fair bit about FFI and as there was no single resource that documented the process I thought I’d break down how to do it and highlight some of the intricacies.

Getting good at using a command terminal and distancing yourself from GUIs is part of the rite of passage of becoming a programmer and has been something I’ve taken at a slow pace. Here are a few neat tricks I’ve learned when I joined Limejump.

With Avengers: Endgame behind us, it feels like a huge milestone has been passed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Whilst technically there's one more movie still to come in MCU's Phase 3 - I expect the Spiderman: Far from Home to bridge the story rather than add to the previous chapter so I think it's fair and fitting to reflect a little on the past eleven years of Marvel cinema.

Trys wrote in his weeknotes this week that he uses JournalBook to write his weeknotes up. I haven’t cracked the discipline side of that yet - and only have two entries for the past seven days - but thankfully those entries reminded me of a few things worth writing about, otherwise this would’ve been a weeknote-less week.