Well it is election night 2019 and it looks pretty bleak. A majority of 86 - with the largest share of the vote for the Conservatives in a long time, similarly historical and equally bleak is the Labour seat count - the lowest allegedly since 1935.

After a few recent tweaks to my blog I realised that a large portion of its JavaScript bundle size was taken up with Vue.js. I’m a huge fan of Vue - I think it’s a great framework for developing applications but given I was using it just for a search box and a pop up it was hard to justify keeping it.

Spotting bugs is easy but fixing them can often be a challenge. Here’s the story of how I lost three hours of sleep last night to an unlikely bug.

This post is up-to-date as of August 2022. This post lists my (hopefully!) up-to-date ranking of all the Marvel movies I’ve seen. As caveated in my original attempt to rank Marvel’s catalogue there are a lot of issues with creating a list like this. Marvel movies don’t allow like for like comparisons - even within the bounds of a specific character’s story directors change and genres are blended. For instance, Thor and Thor: Ragnarok have almost nothing in common aside from some of the cast.

Day eight of ten is Hiroshima day! Hiroshima is one of the parts of the trip I’ve been most excited about mainly because of its history of being the first place targeted by a nuclear weapon but also because of the island of Miyajima, which comes heavily recommended.

Today was the day we truly escaped the confines of Tokyo and headed South for our three day excursion to Kyoto and Hiroshima.

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.