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I've been writing on this blog since 2019, and have written 729 posts in total - that's a lot! Some of these "posts" are quite short, as I have also added in book reviews that I used to track on another site.

I have my posts scattered across a couple of different sections - hiking (123), programming (83), books (346), photos (63), notes (66) and coffee (30) so I would recommend checking out the specific section that interests you.

Tofu Room Dy's: a vegan tofu store in Sendagi

Tofu Room Dy's: a vegan tofu store in Sendagi

CROSS COFFEE ROASTERS

CROSS COFFEE ROASTERS

Leaves Coffee Roasters

Leaves Coffee Roasters

Think: the second-best bakery in Tokyo

Think: the second-best bakery in Tokyo

armadillo bakes&coffee, Sendagi

armadillo bakes&coffee, Sendagi

Mt Houou: an overnight hike in the Southern Alps

Mt Houou: an overnight hike in the Southern Alps

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Baggage Coffee, Harajuku

Baggage Coffee, Harajuku

Driving around the Izu Peninsula: a 3-day camping roadtrip

Driving around the Izu Peninsula: a 3-day camping roadtrip

ITOKU COFFEE, Izu

ITOKU COFFEE, Izu

Mt Omuro: hiking Izu's extinct volcano

Mt Omuro: hiking Izu's extinct volcano

Shuzenji

Shuzenji

Gantuki Tensho Kinko

Gantuki Tensho Kinko

Tombolo Land Bridge, Nishiizu

Tombolo Land Bridge, Nishiizu

Matsuzaki

Matsuzaki

Muroiwa cave, Matsuzaki

Muroiwa cave, Matsuzaki

Nishiizu Auto Camping Ground

Nishiizu Auto Camping Ground

Cape Tsumeki, Shimoda

Cape Tsumeki, Shimoda

Shimoda

Shimoda

Coffee House Kahikan, Shimoda

Coffee House Kahikan, Shimoda

Jogasaki Coast

Jogasaki Coast

Kusamakura Camping Ground

Kusamakura Camping Ground

Cape Manazuru

Cape Manazuru

Mt Asama (Mt Maekake): hiking Karuizawa's active volcano

Mt Asama (Mt Maekake): hiking Karuizawa's active volcano

Mt Asama

Mt Asama

Minami-Takao Seven Summits

Minami-Takao Seven Summits

KOFFEE MAMEYA, Shibuya

KOFFEE MAMEYA, Shibuya

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan

My Morning Routine

Minami-Takao Seven Summits hike

Minami-Takao Seven Summits hike

Mermaid Coffee Roasters, Ikebukuro

Mermaid Coffee Roasters, Ikebukuro

Hamarikyu Gardens

Hamarikyu Gardens

Daily Rituals

Mt Ishiwari

Mt Ishiwari

Mt Ishiwari, Mt Hirao and Mt Ohira: Lake Yamanakako hike

Mt Ishiwari, Mt Hirao and Mt Ohira: Lake Yamanakako hike

Walking between Osaki and Takanawa Gateway

Walking between Osaki and Takanawa Gateway

A Guide to Japanese Coffee Roast Levels (浅煎り, 中煎り, 深煎り)

A Guide to Japanese Coffee Roast Levels (浅煎り, 中煎り, 深煎り)

NorthStar Beans

NorthStar Beans

KAIDO books&coffee

KAIDO books&coffee

The Raven Scholar

The Score

Walking between Ueno and Nippori

Walking between Ueno and Nippori

Yanaka Coffee

Yanaka Coffee

AOYAMA COFFEE ROASTER

AOYAMA COFFEE ROASTER

Jubilee Coffee and Roaster, Meguro

Jubilee Coffee and Roaster, Meguro

Institute for Nature Study, Meguro

Institute for Nature Study, Meguro

Judgement at Tokyo

Mt Ryugatake

Mt Ryugatake

Mt Ryugatake: A beginner-friendly Lake Motosuko hike

Mt Ryugatake: A beginner-friendly Lake Motosuko hike

Mt Ono

Mt Ono

Mt Ono: A Kanagawa hike with Mt Fuji views

Mt Ono: A Kanagawa hike with Mt Fuji views

Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo: Cherry Blossom edition

Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo: Cherry Blossom edition

Heated Rivalry

Mt Iwadono: Cherry blossom hike from Otsuki station

Mt Iwadono: Cherry blossom hike from Otsuki station

Mt Iwadono

Mt Iwadono

Should you be scared of bears when hiking in Japan?

Should you be scared of bears when hiking in Japan?

The Deep Sky

Tsukikoya Coffee Roaster

Tsukikoya Coffee Roaster

The Lilac People

Coffee Seibu: a Showa-era cafe in Kabukicho

Coffee Seibu: a Showa-era cafe in Kabukicho

Tsukemen gonokami seishakujo: prawn tsukemen in Shinjuku

Tsukemen gonokami seishakujo: prawn tsukemen in Shinjuku

Fire House

Fire House

Scissor cut tofu pasta

Scissor cut tofu pasta

Hamnet

Black kites at Enoshima

Black kites at Enoshima

Enoshima

Enoshima

27 Coffee Roasters Kamakura

27 Coffee Roasters Kamakura

Diggy Doo's Coffee

Diggy Doo's Coffee

Mt Nokogiri

Mt Nokogiri

Mt Nokogiri: a hike to Chiba's stone quarry

Mt Nokogiri: a hike to Chiba's stone quarry

The Lion Women of Tehran

Mt Miura-Fuji

Mt Miura-Fuji

Mt Miura-fuji and the Miura Kaigan Cherry Blossom Festival

Mt Miura-fuji and the Miura Kaigan Cherry Blossom Festival

Mt Hiuchigatake and Mt Shibutsu: a multi-day hike in the Oze Marsh

The Brightness Between Us

Great Egret Fishing

Great Egret Fishing

Birding at Koishikawa Botanical Garden

Birding at Koishikawa Botanical Garden

Birding at Rikugien Gardens

Birding at Rikugien Gardens

Children of Earth and Sky

Muikamachi snowboarding

Muikamachi snowboarding

Snowboarding in Muikamachi, Niigata

Hakkaisanroku Ski Area

Hakkaisanroku Ski Area

Muikamachi Hakkaisan Ski

Muikamachi Hakkaisan Ski

Muikamachi Hutte

Muikamachi Hutte

Getting started with knitting

Getting started with knitting

Exodus: The Archimedes Engine

Rising Sun Coffee, Shinjuku

Rising Sun Coffee, Shinjuku

Flipper's Shinjuku: Souffle pancakes

Flipper's Shinjuku: Souffle pancakes

Kinokuniya: the biggest English-language bookstore in Tokyo

Kinokuniya: the biggest English-language bookstore in Tokyo

Birding at Shinjuku Gyoen

Birding at Shinjuku Gyoen

Akabokko: hiking in Ome

Akabokko: hiking in Ome

Akabokko

Akabokko

Birding at the Imperial Palace

Birding at the Imperial Palace

GLITCH COFFEE & ROASTERS, Jinbocho

GLITCH COFFEE & ROASTERS, Jinbocho

Asakusa Shokuya, Niigata

Asakusa Shokuya, Niigata

Mejiro and snow

Mejiro and snow

Curry Bondy, Jinbocho

Curry Bondy, Jinbocho

Jinbocho Book Town

Jinbocho Book Town

Blue Bottle Coffee

Blue Bottle Coffee

Pressure cooker Keema curry

Pressure cooker Keema curry

Protein rice (rice with edamame and quinoa)

Protein rice (rice with edamame and quinoa)

Wifedom

Coffee Supreme, Shibuya

Coffee Supreme, Shibuya

Joetsu Kokusai Ski Resort

Joetsu Kokusai Ski Resort

Joetsu Kokusai Ski Resort

Joetsu Kokusai Ski Resort

Hosting images on my Astro blog with Cloudflare R2

Mt Jinba to Mt Takao traverse hike

Mt Jinba to Mt Takao traverse hike

Mt Jinba

Mt Jinba

Winter in Shimane, and on Lafcadio Hearn

Winter in Shimane, and on Lafcadio Hearn

Matsue's Fox Shrine: Jozan Inari Jinja

Matsue's Fox Shrine: Jozan Inari Jinja

Matsue's Fox Shrine: Jozan Inari Jinja

Matsue's Fox Shrine: Jozan Inari Jinja

Matsue Castle

Matsue Castle

Matsue Castle and winter in Shimane

Matsue Castle and winter in Shimane

Daisen White Resort

Daisen White Resort

Misasa Onsen

Misasa Onsen

Misasa Onsen

Misasa Onsen

Tottori Sand Dunes

Tottori Sand Dunes

The best multi-day and hut-to-hut hikes in Japan

The best multi-day and hut-to-hut hikes in Japan

Daisen Masumizu Highland

Daisen Masumizu Highland

Matsue Roasting Place, Shimane

Matsue Roasting Place, Shimane

My Life List at 30

Cafes where I like to use my laptop in Tokyo

Honey Beans, Sugamo

Honey Beans, Sugamo

Sarutahiko Coffee, Ikebukuro

Sarutahiko Coffee, Ikebukuro

The RSS feed on my Astro blog now renders full posts

A Marriage At Sea

Saltcrop

Tottori Sand Dunes

Tottori Sand Dunes

Birds at Lake Shinji, Shimane

Birds at Lake Shinji, Shimane

My Coffee Corner

My Coffee Corner

Coffee Pour-over Technique

Catan

Catan

Viticulture

Viticulture

2025 in review: a good year

Mt Nabewari and Mt Tonodake (part 2)

Mt Nabewari and Mt Tonodake (part 2)

AI Snake Oil

Mt Nabewari and Mt Tonodake (part 1)

Mt Nabewari and Mt Tonodake (part 1)

Animals I spotted on a hike in 2025

Animals I spotted on a hike in 2025

Mt Nabewari: a hike to eat its famous Nabeyaki Udon

Mt Nabewari: a hike to eat its famous Nabeyaki Udon

Mt Kintoki and Mt Myojingatake

Mt Kintoki and Mt Myojingatake

Mt Kintoki and Mt Myojingatake: Hakone's beginner-friendly hike

Mt Kintoki and Mt Myojingatake: Hakone's beginner-friendly hike

Adding a new notes section to my blog

Peace Coffee

Peace Coffee

Furusato Nozei

Shibuya to Harajuku Walk

Shibuya to Harajuku Walk

Japanese Snow Resort Reviews

Mt Takao

Mt Takao

Mt Takao: hiking Japan's most-climbed mountain

Mt Takao: hiking Japan's most-climbed mountain

Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home

The Strength of the Few

Mt Oyama

Mt Oyama

Mt Oyama: an easy day hike in Kanagawa

Mt Oyama: an easy day hike in Kanagawa

Hardcover: how to fix inconsistencies with the number of read books on your profile

Mt Mitake and Mt Odake

Mt Mitake and Mt Odake

Mt Mitake and Mt Odake: an Okutama hike with a Fuji view

Mt Mitake and Mt Odake: an Okutama hike with a Fuji view

Mt Kaikoma

Mt Kaikoma

AI 2041

Mt Kaikoma: Southern Alps day hike

Mt Kaikoma: Southern Alps day hike

Mt Senjo

Mt Senjo

Mt Senjo: hiking the Queen of the Southern Alps

Mt Senjo: hiking the Queen of the Southern Alps

Mt Kita and Mt Aino: hiking Japan's second and third tallest mountains

Mt Kita and Mt Aino: hiking Japan's second and third tallest mountains

Mt Kita and Mt Aino: Day one

Mt Kita and Mt Aino: Day one

Mt Kita and Mt Aino: Day two

Mt Kita and Mt Aino: Day two

Mt Kita and Mt Aino: Views of Mt Fuji

Mt Kita and Mt Aino: Views of Mt Fuji

Mt Azuma-Kofuji and Mt Issaikyo hike

Mt Azuma-Kofuji and Mt Issaikyo hike

Alchemised

Mt Nishi-Azuma: an autumn hike

Mt Nishi-Azuma: an autumn hike

Mt Nishi-Azuma

Mt Nishi-Azuma

Staying in Japanese Mountain Huts: What to Expect

Staying in Japanese Mountain Huts: What to Expect

Great Big Beautiful Life

Katabasis

Rose in Chains

The Darkness Outside Us

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

Mt Hiuchi and Mt Myoko

Mt Hiuchi and Mt Myoko

Mt Hiuchi and Mt Myoko

Mt Hiuchi and Mt Myoko

Intermezzo

Talking to Strangers

Slow Productivity

Mt Kurobegoro and Mt Yari - Day 1

Mt Kurobegoro and Mt Yari - Day 1

Mt Kurobegoro and Mt Yari - Day 2

Mt Kurobegoro and Mt Yari - Day 2

Mt Kurobegoro and Mt Yari - Day 3

Mt Kurobegoro and Mt Yari - Day 3

Taronga Zoo, Sydney

Taronga Zoo, Sydney

Mt Kurobegoro and Mt Yari: North Alps Nishi-Ginza Diamond course

Mt Kurobegoro and Mt Yari: North Alps Nishi-Ginza Diamond course

Manly Beach, Sydney

Manly Beach, Sydney

A Sorceress Comes to call

Atmosphere

Check & Mate

Dreams Before the Start of Time

I Who Have Never Known Men

Orbital

The Overstory

Three Sisters, Blue Mountains

Three Sisters, Blue Mountains

Black Rock Beach, Melbourne

Black Rock Beach, Melbourne

Itoigawa

Itoigawa

Itoigawa, Niigata: the Jade Beach and Fossa Magma Museum

Itoigawa, Niigata: the Jade Beach and Fossa Magma Museum

Happo Pond: a beginner-friendly hike in Hakuba

Happo Pond: a beginner-friendly hike in Hakuba

Happo Pond

Happo Pond

Mt Amakazari (雨飾山) hike

Mt Amakazari (雨飾山) hike

Mt Amakazari

Mt Amakazari

Mt Echigo-Komagatake (越後駒ヶ岳)

Mt Echigo-Komagatake (越後駒ヶ岳)

Mt Echigo-Komagatake

Mt Echigo-Komagatake

People and Blogs

Mt Yake: day hike from Kamikochi

Mt Yake: day hike from Kamikochi

The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree

The God of the Woods

Mt Makihata

Mt Makihata

Mt Makihata (巻機山) hike

Mt Makihata (巻機山) hike

Shroud

Mt Jonen

Mt Jonen

Mt Jonen (常念岳)

Mt Jonen (常念岳)

A raichou tucking her chicks in

A raichou tucking her chicks in

Our Souls At Night

Caledonian Road

Two months with my Fujifilm X-T5: my hiking camera setup

A guide to the best hikes in Kyushu

A guide to the best hikes in Kyushu

Sydney Botanical Gardens

Sydney Botanical Gardens

Flow

Odaiba sunset

Odaiba sunset

Mt Ena (恵那山)

Mt Ena (恵那山)

Mt Ena

Mt Ena

Best Hikes in Japan: 42 Favourites by Month

Best Hikes in Japan: 42 Favourites by Month

Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

Les Diablerets hike: La Palette

Les Diablerets hike: La Palette

La Palette, Switzerland

La Palette, Switzerland

Service Model

Montreux hike: Rochers de Naye

Montreux hike: Rochers de Naye

Rochers de Naye, Switzerland

Rochers de Naye, Switzerland

Dungeon Crawler Carl

Mont Salève: hiking Geneva's local mountain

Mont Salève: hiking Geneva's local mountain

Mont Salève, France

Mont Salève, France

Air-Borne

Rigi: Switzerland's Queen of the Mountains

Rigi: Switzerland's Queen of the Mountains

Rigi, Switzerland

Rigi, Switzerland

Grosser Mythen, Switzerland

Grosser Mythen, Switzerland

Grosser Mythen: a day hike from Lucerne, Switzerland

Grosser Mythen: a day hike from Lucerne, Switzerland

Of Boys and Men

Montreux, Switzerland

Montreux, Switzerland

Mt Futatsuzuka and Mt Fuji's abandoned car

Mt Futatsuzuka and Mt Fuji's abandoned car

Lonely Castle in the Mirror

Lucerne, Switzerland

Lucerne, Switzerland

Zurich, Switzerland

Zurich, Switzerland

Mt Odake and Mt Onigatake

Mt Odake and Mt Onigatake

Mt Fuji's abandoned Jeep

Mt Fuji's abandoned Jeep

Mt Futatsuzuka

Mt Futatsuzuka

My writing process after 5 years of blogging

On periods and productivity

Mt Mitsutoge: Lake Kawaguchiko hike with a Fuji view

Mt Mitsutoge: Lake Kawaguchiko hike with a Fuji view

Four years on a 4-day workweek

A behind-the-scenes look at my blog

Mountains with a Fuji view: best hikes near Mt Fuji

Mountains with a Fuji view: best hikes near Mt Fuji

Hanno Alps: Mt Tenkaku to Mt Tenran

Hanno Alps: Mt Tenkaku to Mt Tenran

Mt Nikko-Shirane (日光白根山)

Mt Nikko-Shirane (日光白根山)

Mandarin language learning resources

Automatically create social card (Open Graph) images for your Astro blog

Mt Nantai (男体山)

Mt Nantai (男体山)

Getting started with Cursor AI

Mt Hiuchigatake (燧ヶ岳)

Mt Hiuchigatake (燧ヶ岳)

Building a digital garden with Obsidian and Astro

Can you fit a snowboard in a Jimny?

Can you fit a snowboard in a Jimny?

How to ride the Laview express train

How to ride the Laview express train

Things to do in Shinjuku

Hanno Alps: Mt Izugatake to Nenogongen Temple

Hanno Alps: Mt Izugatake to Nenogongen Temple

Completing Pimsleur Mandarin Level 1

Mt Kuki (九鬼山)

Mt Kuki (九鬼山)

A guide to Japan's best hiking food and snacks

A guide to Japan's best hiking food and snacks

Mt Amagatake (雨ヶ岳)

Mt Amagatake (雨ヶ岳)

Japanese outdoor brands: a guide to hiking gear in Japan

Japanese outdoor brands: a guide to hiking gear in Japan

Splendor Duel

Splendor Duel

Mt Kurodake (黒岳)

Mt Kurodake (黒岳)

How to make hiking friends in Japan

How to make hiking friends in Japan

Mt Tonodake: a Tanzawa day hike from Tokyo with Fuji views

Mt Tonodake: a Tanzawa day hike from Tokyo with Fuji views

Mt Sanpobun: Lake Shojiko hike

Mt Sanpobun: Lake Shojiko hike

A guide to winter hiking in Tokyo (snow-free)

A guide to winter hiking in Tokyo (snow-free)

Swallow Cave (Jianshui, China)

Swallow Cave (Jianshui, China)

Stone Forest (Kunming, China)

Stone Forest (Kunming, China)

Western Hills hike (Kunming, China)

Western Hills hike (Kunming, China)

Tales from the Cafe

James

In Ascension

The Wedding People

2024 in review: starting my hiking blog

Hiking Mt Fuji in One Day: Overnight Bus Guide

Hiking Mt Fuji in One Day: Overnight Bus Guide

The Saint of Bright Doors

Just for the Summer

The Ministry of Time

Mt Kirigamine (霧ヶ峰)

Mt Kirigamine (霧ヶ峰)

My Digital Garden Philosophy

Yatsugatake hike: Mt Aka

Yatsugatake hike: Mt Aka

Creating a Map component with React using Google Maps and Mapbox

Mt Akagi (赤城山)

Mt Akagi (赤城山)

Using GraphQL Fragments in Relay: co-locating fragment spreads

Mt Tsurugi (剣山)

Mt Tsurugi (剣山)

The search for high-protein Greek yogurt in Japan

The search for high-protein Greek yogurt in Japan

20 of my Favourite Day Hikes near Tokyo (Easy to Hard)

20 of my Favourite Day Hikes near Tokyo (Easy to Hard)

Mt Ishizuchi (石鎚山)

Mt Ishizuchi (石鎚山)

Adding comments to my Astro blog using Netlify Forms

Mt Shibutsu (至仏山)

Mt Shibutsu (至仏山)

Handling images in Astro blog versus Gatsby

Take My Hand

Mt Aizu-Komagatake (会津駒ヶ岳)

Mt Aizu-Komagatake (会津駒ヶ岳)

A beginner's guide to airsoft in Japan

A beginner's guide to airsoft in Japan

Mt Norikura: the easiest 3000m+ hike in the Northern Alps

Mt Norikura: the easiest 3000m+ hike in the Northern Alps

Hardcover's Book API: A great Goodreads API alternative

Mt Ontake (御嶽山)

Mt Ontake (御嶽山)

Mt Tanigawa (谷川岳)

Mt Tanigawa (谷川岳)

Mt Nyu (ニュウ)

Mt Nyu (ニュウ)

Real Americans

The Island of Sea Women

Mt Rokko (六甲山)

Mt Rokko (六甲山)

Mt Omine (大峰山)

Mt Omine (大峰山)

Mt Odaigahara: a beginner-friendly Nara hike

Mt Odaigahara: a beginner-friendly Nara hike

Hokkaido Road Trip: Tokyo to Hokkaido via overnight ferry

Hokkaido Road Trip: Tokyo to Hokkaido via overnight ferry

Mt Asahi (旭岳)

Mt Asahi (旭岳)

Mt Meakan (雌阿寒岳)

Mt Meakan (雌阿寒岳)

Sightseeing around Kushiro and Lake Akan

Mt Shari (斜里岳)

Mt Shari (斜里岳)

Mt Rausu (羅臼岳)

Mt Rausu (羅臼岳)

Hiking Mt Kaimon (Kaimondake)

Hiking Mt Kaimon (Kaimondake)

Hiking Mt Aso: Japan's largest active volcano

Hiking Mt Aso: Japan's largest active volcano

Mt Washiba and Mt Suisho: a 3-day hut-to-hut hike in the Northern Alps

Mt Washiba and Mt Suisho: a 3-day hut-to-hut hike in the Northern Alps

Mt Hotaka (武尊山)

Mt Hotaka (武尊山)

Mt Kisokoma-gatake (木曽駒ヶ岳)

Mt Kisokoma-gatake (木曽駒ヶ岳)

My Brilliant Friend

Mt Kobushi (甲武信ヶ岳)

Mt Kobushi (甲武信ヶ岳)

When the Moon Hatched

Yellowface

Mt Kinabalu, Malaysia

Mt Kinabalu, Malaysia

Mt Zao (蔵王山)

Mt Zao (蔵王山)

Mt Arashima hike

Mt Arashima hike

Mt Ibuki (伊吹山)

Mt Ibuki (伊吹山)

Mt Kuju (久住山)

Mt Kuju (久住山)

Mt Sobo (祖母山)

Mt Sobo (祖母山)

Mt Chojagatake (長者ヶ岳)

Mt Chojagatake (長者ヶ岳)

Mt Shinshin (思親山)

Mt Shinshin (思親山)

Lonesome Dove

Mt Daisen (大山)

Mt Daisen (大山)

Mt Tonnomune (鳥ノ胸山)

Mt Tonnomune (鳥ノ胸山)

Mt Miyanoura and the Yakushima traverse: a 3-day hike to Kyushu's tallest mountain

Mt Miyanoura and the Yakushima traverse: a 3-day hike to Kyushu's tallest mountain

Poverty, by America

Mt Hirugatake (蛾ヶ岳)

Mt Hirugatake (蛾ヶ岳)

A Man Called Ove

Legends & Lattes

To Be Taught, If Fortunate

Funny Story

Some Desperate Glory

Mt Ashiwada (足和田山)

Mt Ashiwada (足和田山)

Myojinyama (明神山)

Myojinyama (明神山)

Reign & Ruin

The Familiar

Mt Ashitaka (愛鷹山)

Mt Ashitaka (愛鷹山)

The Heiress

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

The Will of the Many

Commonwealth

Mt Hamaishidake (浜石岳)

Mt Hamaishidake (浜石岳)

Mt Kumotori: hiking Tokyo's highest mountain

Mt Kumotori: hiking Tokyo's highest mountain

Mt Hodo (宝登山)

Mt Hodo (宝登山)

Bride

The Covenant of Water

First Lie Wins

Not in Love

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

Mt Minobu (身延山)

Mt Minobu (身延山)

Numazu Alps (沼津アルプス)

Numazu Alps (沼津アルプス)

Alone With You in the Ether

Weyward

Mt Buko (武甲山)

Mt Buko (武甲山)

Mt Chausu (茶臼岳)

Mt Chausu (茶臼岳)

Hello Beautiful

Mt Tateshina (蓼科山)

Mt Tateshina (蓼科山)

Mt Imakura (今倉山) hike

Mt Imakura (今倉山) hike

Mt Ryokami (両神山)

Mt Ryokami (両神山)

Mt Amagi (天城山)

Mt Amagi (天城山)

Mt Echizen-dake (越前岳)

Mt Echizen-dake (越前岳)

Tips for your first solo hike in Japan

Tips for your first solo hike in Japan

Mt Hinata: the Southern Alps' "beach in the sky"

Mt Hinata: the Southern Alps' "beach in the sky"

Mt Mizugaki (瑞牆山)

Mt Mizugaki (瑞牆山)

Mt Adatara (安達太良山)

Mt Adatara (安達太良山)

Mt Daibosatsu (大菩薩嶺)

Mt Daibosatsu (大菩薩嶺)

Mt Tanzawa (丹沢山)

Mt Tanzawa (丹沢山)

2023 in review: Looking forward to 2024

How to use Japanese hiking app YAMAP (English guide)

How to use Japanese hiking app YAMAP (English guide)

Mt Azumaya (四阿山)

Mt Azumaya (四阿山)

Mt Tsukuba (筑波山)

Mt Tsukuba (筑波山)

Foe

Iron Flame

The Future

Trust

Giovanni's room

The Berry Pickers

Demon Copperhead

Notes on an Execution

Remarkably Bright Creatures

A Taste of Gold and Iron

Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

The Seven Year Slip

Breasts and Eggs

Starling House

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

None of This Is True

Crying in H Mart

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Spare

Oathbringer

Tom Lake

Divine Rivals

Fourth Wing

Kafka on the Shore

I'm Glad My Mom Died

Translation State

Love, Theoretically

Elder Race

All Quiet on the Western Front

Atalanta

The Calculating Stars

Norwegian Wood

Happy Place

Columbine

Eversion

Children of Memory

Crooked Kingdom

A Day of Fallen Night

Pandora's Star

Tress of the Emerald Sea

Lessons in Chemistry

One True Loves

Century Rain

Honor

Loathe to Love You

The Vanished Birds

It Ends with Us

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love

The Measure

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

To Paradise

Carrie Soto Is Back

Reminders of Him

When Women Were Dragons

Nettle & Bone

Revelation Space

Ocean's Echo

House of Leaves

Clockwork Boys

The Wonder Engine

Paladin's Hope

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

The Golden Enclaves

The Goldfinch

The Jasmine Throne

Half of a Yellow Sun

The Paper Palace

Constance

Paladin's Strength

Children of Ruin

The Atlas Six

Sea of Tranquility

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The Kaiju Preservation Society

Book Lovers

There There

The Lincoln Highway

Altered Carbon

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

Dogs of War

How Will You Measure Your Life

Shadow and Bone

The Doors of Eden

Men We Reaped: A Memoir

How High We Go in the Dark

Once There Were Wolves

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

One Last Stop

The Inheritance Games

A Closed and Common Orbit

A Desolation Called Peace

My 2021 in books

Six Crimson Cranes

2021 in review: my second year of blogging

Daisy Jones & The Six

People We Meet on Vacation

The Love Hypothesis

The Dry

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

She Who Became the Sun

Light from Uncommon Stars

Shards of Earth

Black Sun

Walden

Dear Edward

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Mansfield Park

Year One

Beach Read

Cloud Cuckoo Land

The House in the Cerulean Sea

The Silent Patient

The Four Winds

Beautiful World, Where Are You

The Last Graduate

Red, White & Royal Blue

The hating game

The City We Became

The Goblin Emperor

Frederica

On Writing Well

The Grand Sophy

Writing a script to cross-post to DEV.to

Publishing from Ulysses to my Astro blog

How to build an inline edit component in React

To Aka

To Aka

Aurora Rising

Nevernight

The Raven Tower

The Shadows Between Us

Winter's Orbit

Gideon the Ninth

Malibu Rising

Swordheart

A Deadly Education

Generate custom social card images for your Gatsby blog

The Once and Future Witches

The Sword of Kaigen

Klara and the Sun

The Space Between Worlds

The Flatshare

Project Hail Mary

How to build a table of contents in React

A Memory Called Empire

How to add comments to your Gatsby blog

Jest partial matching on objects, arrays and functions

Unit testing Node.js fs with mock-fs

Lord of the Flies

House of Earth and Blood

The Vanishing Half

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

My Dark Vanessa

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Paladin's Grace

The Midnight Library

The Passengers

The Rage of Dragons

How to write to files with Node.js

Automate file renaming with Node.js scripts

Where the Crawdads Sing

Verity

Where the Forest Meets the Stars

Persuasion

Into Thin Air

My 2020 in books

Sense and Sensibility

A Promised Land

Rules of Redemption

2020 in review: My first year of blogging

Strange Love

The Poppy War

The Wicked King

The Cruel Prince

A Court of Wings and Ruin

A Court of Mist and Fury

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Stories of Your Life and Others

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

168 Hours

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Billion Dollar Loser

Going Clear

Hidden Valley Road

How to rename all md files to mdx

When Breath Becomes Air

How to render SVGs in Preact

Their Lost Daughters

Greenlights

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How to add search to your Gatsby site

Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator

Nudge: The Final Edition

How to build an accessible search bar component in React

The Power of Now

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Boy Swallows Universe

Working in Public

How to unit test your Gatsby blog with React Testing Library

Habits for Happiness

The Nightingale

Meta tags: All you need to know for your Gatsby blog

Becoming

Pachinko

Apollo pagination tutorial: using fetchMore()

5 ways to improve your Gatsby code blocks

Using the DEV API to add DEV.to comment counts to my blog

I made my Gatsby blog open source: a feature walkthrough

Using CSS-in-JS with Preact

Attempts at my fifth pull request to Forem

The Song of Achilles

Children of Time

Anna Karenina

Reflecting on a week off from the internet

Gone Girl

Educated: A Memoir

The Night Circus

Words of Radiance

Go Set a Watchman

Station Eleven

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Embracing digital minimalism by doing a digital declutter

Raising my first pull request to Forem

The Golem and the Jinni

Redux vs Recoil: which should you use?

Great North Road

React state management with sweet-state

Starsight

Getting started with state management using Redux Toolkit

Getting started with state management using Redux

Little Fires Everywhere

Ninth House

Normal People

The Fifth Season

The Underground Railroad

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Getting started with state management using useReducer and Context

Flowers for Algernon

Gods of Jade and Shadow

Six of Crows

Creating a mobile-friendly navigation component in under 100 lines of code

How to restart your Ruby on Rails database

Mocking fetch requests in Storybook

This Is How You Lose the Time War

How to add a canonical URL to Jekyll posts

How to loop through and render collections in Jekyll

Setting up web monetization on your Gatsby blog (with RSS)

Building a web-monetized RSS reader using Blitz.js

Exploring how a new model and UI is created in Rails using `rails generate scaffold`

The Casual Vacancy

The Left Hand of Darkness

Getting started with web monetization in React

How to set up your Rails + Preact app's routing

Outliers: The Story of Success

The New Machiavelli

Understanding the shallow function in Enzyme

Jest code coverage report explained

The House of the Seven Gables

What I learned from achieving a 16 week writing streak

Using the functional updates pattern with React hooks

Old Man's War

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

How to mock React hooks using dependency injection

Setting up Storybook for Preact with TypeScript

A quick start guide to creating an app with Preact, TypeScript and Ruby on Rails

How to get preact-router working with Netlify

How to Take Smart Notes

Cloning an item on drag using interact.js

Getting started with styled-components in React

The Developer's Guide to Creating a Successful Blog

Nevertheless, Emma coded

Seven things I learned at ReactConf AU 2020

American Prometheus

Storing values with the useRef hook

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Collapse

The Pragmatic Programmer

Never Let Me Go

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

How to access props in mapDispatchToProps

All Systems Red

A guide to mocking functions and modules with Jest

Use memoization in your code to reduce unnecessary re-renders

The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe

Analyze your React app’s bundle size and reduce it using code-splitting

The Essential Paradise Lost

Setting up Steam Authentication using OpenID

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

My 2019 in books

Wuthering Heights

Jane Eyre

Linting, committing and pushing your code in one magic command

Foundryside

The Alchemist

Circe

Three Moments of an Explosion

Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson

The Familiars

Picnic at Hanging Rock

She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

The Power

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

Blood Meridian

Out of the Silent Planet

Provenance

3 Things I Learnt Feature Leading for the First Time

The Scar

The ONE Thing

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones

Testing your Trello Power-Up hosted on GitHub Pages

Sharp Objects

Dark Matter

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Snow Crash

Red Rising

The Book Thief

The Last Wish

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The Blind Assassin

The Way of Kings