Kyle Barrow

Never saw Titanic when it was released so I'm watching it for the first time as it's on Japanese telly. Totally unbelievable. There's no way such a well built ship would sink just from hitting an iceberg.

Nice advertising for Exit 8 in Shibuya Station today, complete with posters from the game. I exited via the less ominous A0.

I’m hoping the progress is: “How about we don’t start offloading the $1 trillion in US Treasuries we’re holding?”

Earthquake early warning system worked, enough time to open some doors and brace, one wine glass casualty.

Heroes

Shibuya Scramble Square has turned on the landing lights. Gundam is now cleared for approach.

First harvest of blueberries from the terrace. At Tokyo prices, this might be my retirement plan.

Forget red card shenanigans. FIFA should use vexillology to decide the quarter-finals: France vs Belgium, Argentina vs Spain, and Norway, England and Switzerland play a mini round-robin, with the loser taking on Morocco.

Trump announces 400% tariff on frites.

worldcup.webdirections.org So for no particular reason, I have built a World Cup app that gives you real-time commentary, text-based, as well as details on past games, tablets, teams etc. And most importantly has a work mode, which looks like a spreadsheet, so you don't get busted at work.

@gruber.foo Thanks for the useful info on dealing with multiple Apple accounts in the latest podcast. Can confirm it's even worse if you've moved countries.

This brings back fond memories of PostPet, where a cartoon bear carried my email across the internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostPet

At this point, if smartphones didn’t need pockets, civilisation would just be walking around in its underpants.

We've launched an official Japanese account! Give it a follow if you're interested in more Japan-specific information.

CSS is DOOMed! I've build DOOM in CSS and every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms. cssdoom.wtf Try it out! But... not every browser can handle it. This is taking the browser to its limit. Chrome has some issues. Safari too. Bugs will be filed.

Since Trump insists on putting his name on everything, seems only fair we call this the Trump Shock.

Have a bash script on macOS and want to annoy everyone in the office? Add: say -v Zarvox "By your command"

China’s AI adoption outpaces the West. Japan: チャッピー

Nice!

It’s 2026 and BrowserStack still only ships Intel binaries for local testing on Macs (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

@reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz one more menu item disaster for you:

@reckless.bsky.social Break the YouTube hegemony and add video podcast support for even more flavour.

Worth opening on desktop and scrolling around:

Recently an elderly relative asked if I'd 'got the pedophile.' Somewhat alarmed, I asked them to clarify. They meant the PDF. The F apparently means 'file'

Pretty good view of the house that refused to sell so they just built Narita Airport around it.

Very nice!

For this article alone it’s worth subscribing.

Apart from the US, is there any other country where immigration officials do Call of Duty cosplay?

I will learn to play a new musical instrument this year. Expectations are low.

Thetrusize.com, by James Talmage and Damon Maneice, is a website that lets you move a country or state around a Mercator projection map of the world so you can see how big or small a country really is. [thetruesize.com]

Safari 26 is here!!! Anchor Positioning, Scroll-driven animations, High Dynamic Range images, the new HTML <model> element, the all-new Digital Credentials API, SVG icon support, WebGPU, WebKit in SwiftUI, every site can be a web app on iOS and iPadOS, and much more. webkit.org/blog/17333/w...

The nod at the hardware store when you see another whose child painted their toenails

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

Adding a tariff message to our ecommerce site because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Japanese government's latest Mynaportal app update allows you to add your My Number card to your iPhone's Apple Wallet. Servers were a little busy but it works as advertised.

Sounds like the premise of a great heist movie.

I’m all for people doing cosplay, but it’s weird how US immigration and law enforcement always go with Ghost from Call of Duty. One Piece or Ghibli characters would really liven up the vibe.

Guardian photographer David Levene and I travelled to Okinawa a couple of months ago to make this video/text/photography package to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa. A real team effort that would not have been possible without colleagues in Okinawa, London and Sydney.

Science FTW

"Just fucking use HTML" justfuckingusehtml.com

Studio Ghibli has uploaded hundreds of beautiful still images from almost all of their films, including all of the major ones. These individual artworks are free to download “by individual fans to further enjoy Studio Ghibli films”. [kottke.org]

I don't think anyone at Apple uses the native macOS VPN client.

Japan should immediately impose export restrictions on Nintendo IP to the US starting with a 50% reduction in powerups for US players.

text-autospace should be of interest to anyone working on Chinese or Japanese sites.

@reckless.bsky.social My feed isn’t full of trucks jumping over things and now I’m wondering what I’ve done wrong in life.