Day six of our trip to Japan was meant to be a trip to Kyoto but a last minute change of plans due to fortunate weather meant we decided to climb Mount Takao - a mountain about an hour outside Tokyo that has views of Mt. Fuji on a good day!

Day five of ten has arrived and it’s by far the most touristy of our time so far (and probably to come). Before we left for Japan, Joel booked a tour of Studio Ghibli - a famous Japanese animation studio, somewhat equivalent to Pixar. Spaces are so limited you have to book a month in advance and today was our day to visit!

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.