Just booked a flight from Okinawa to Fukuoka on Peach airlines. $53, all-in, including aisle an aisle seat.
Could get used to this. #円安
PSA: if you're using Rails+Hotwire, Turbo's so-fast-it-feels-like-magic ability to update sections of the DOM downgrades Capybara's all method from "likely to regret this" to "definite footgun" when used in system tests.
IME, Turbo Streams updates the DOM so fast that elements found with Capybara's all are extremely likely to be stale by the time you iterate and interact with them. After several days of fighting intermittent CI failures, I had to banish all in favor of find in all my tests.
Tabelogged: SKY BAR AUGUST MOON
Preparing for the first night of RubyKaigi in my traditional way: debugging a
flaky Capybara/Selenium test which has nothing to do with Ruby and everything to
do with JavaScript. 👍
Oops! All Dryers
Had a surprisingly hard time finding a coin laundry in Okinawa this morning. First one I went to only had dryers, which was a first. 💨
Kawakyu Tonkatsu
We had a brief stop in Kagoshima, so we took full advantage to get ourselves some Kurobuta (黒豚) pork. The pork is like "black angus" in that despite having "black" in the name, it is still the just-barely-cooked-enough-to-be-safe pink color we know and love.
Tabelogged: とんかつ 川久
I was genuinely confused when so many people were excited for the Rabbit R1 device, because they said that it worked by hostile screen-scraping of Android apps in the cloud to order Uber, Door Dash, etc.
Had anyone who preordered this thing ever tried automating even a basic web site with Selenium?
Tabelogged: 肥後の陣屋
Antonio
This place had a ludicrous happy hour deal, essentially boiling down to $2 whisky highballs and lemon sours, sub-$2 for five grilled homemade gyoza, and just a wee bit over $2 for a draft beer.
Naturally they were as good as any gyoza I've had in my life.
Here is my Tabelog check-in
Tabelogged: ラーメン 天外天 熊本駅店
Kumamoto Castle
I've done a lot of castles in Japan, but after the 2016 earthquake, I really had no idea what to expect from Kumamoto-jo. The degree to which the restoration project has seemingly made the castle more accessible to the general public is really impressive.
You can tell something is up when you walk the massive sky bridge from the castle town to the structure itself. When you enter the castle, the amount of modern infrastructure present—from steel beams supporting the stonework to drywall and air conditioning—is a little overwhelming. All-in-all, it's a really cool 2-3 hour diversion, but prepare for a lot of walking!
Tengaiten (天外天) Ramen
Somuri
Yoshoku is often mistaken for simply meaning "Western food" in Japan, but it's really it's own genre, with its own distinct vibe and standard menu. Walking into a great yoshoku place feels like entering an alternate Western history, if that makes any sense.
Anyway, this place has a great ハンバーグ(hamburger steak), which is not to be confused with a ハンバーガー(hamburger sandwich).
See my Tabelog check-in here.
Just booked our ferry tickets for the overnight, 27-hour boat ride from Kyushu to Okinawa for RubyKaigi. Can't wait to see everyone Tuesday night! aline-ferry.com
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