Emma Goto

@emmago.to

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Software engineer living in Tokyo 🗼 tinkering on my blog @ emgoto.com and hiking Japan's mountains one peak at a time ⛰️ Currently taking a break from full-time work, but on the side I'm also helping build @hardcover.app 📚

Screenshot of my Umami analytics. Filtered my traffic to be from Linux users in the United States. A small percentage are probably real users, but can see the huge spike from a bot in the last 2 days.
See more links at the bottom of my post on Armadillo Bakes&Coffee. It shows two more cafes in the nearby area - Yanaka Coffee and AOYAMA COFFEE ROASTER. Below that is a list of recent posts from my coffee section.
Screenshot of my blog's map page. Shows a map of Izu, with little dots for all the places that I've been.
The bubble emoji, plus the number "1" next to it, which signifies that my post has gotten 1 upvote on Bubble
Screenshot of my /now page. It has a row for each time I comment on a post somewhere (in reply to someone else) or when I publish a new post. (Not pictured - I also put new bird sightings and when I update posts as well).
Some cherry tomato plants are on the vine, a few are bright red
Screenshot of the /coffee section of my blog, with an intro and some blog posts underneath it.
A screenshot of the programming section of my blog - which features a terminal-esque setup - but in light mode with a cream colour palette.
A screenshot of the homepage of my blog, in light mode. I've gone with a cream/brown colour
(rather blurry) photo of my husband's laptop screen, it has two red lines with a knee hinge to symbolise the foot pedalling and then the rest of the bike is outlined with some black lines. A bunch of sliders on the LHS to let you change the seat height, etc.
Photo of Mt Fuji, in the foreground is a lawn of pink shiba-zakura flowers plus a small lake
There is a large white flowering tree that takes up most of the frame. Underneath its branches sit many picnickers. In the distance you can see Mt Fuji.
Screenshot of the green summary section I've introduced on the Mt Iwadono hiking page - provides summary of course options, when to hike, weather forecast link and public transport options.
Screenshot of my Chrome browser - on a new tab. It's rendering a text editor with the current week at the top and then some goals and tasks underneath it
A kei truck on the road through Muikamachi. In the distance you can see the mountains (covered in snow) plus large wall of snow on either side of the road.
Screenshot of the top bit of Japan's mainland - Aomori, Akita and Iwate prefectures. There is a conspicuous lack of dots on this part of the map.
My /map/ page now has a LHS sidebar with location filtering, and tag filtering on hikes, coffee, food, etc. The RHS is a map of Japan. It's mostly a lot of green dots, since my blog is mostly hikes (ha)
Screenshot of the search bar, accessible in my navigation's side drawer. I've searched in "Niigata" and its returned some results
A photo of a mejiro. It has a distinctive white ring around its eye. It's a kind of light khaki-ish greenish head with a dirty brown body. Around it is a bush with snow on it
Screenshot of the series tracker page - it shows that I am following the Hierarchy series by James Islington, plus the Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Both of them have a new book coming out in the future 👀
A trail leading to one of the mountain huts sat Mt Jinba. Behind the hut building you can see Mt Fuji in the distance
Screenshot of emgoto.com/map. You can see 5 orange dots in a section of Japan stretching between Shimane and Tottori prefectures, plus a sidebar with some info on some of the dots (Matsue Castle, Daisen White Resort)
Screenshot of the homepage of emgoto.com - posts every day including ones on Matsue Castle and the Tottori sand dunes
Screenshot of the feed item for my Mt Nabewari hike. Below that is 2 nested posts, that are smaller in height, that list 2 sets of photos that from the same hike.
Screenshot of my blog's post feed. The first item is for a note about Catan, and then underneath it says "+ 2 more notes created (My Coffee Corner, Viticulture)"
A screenshot of the black drawer that slides in from the right on the home page of my blog. It covers about a 1/3 of the screen and links out to all the various sections on my blog - books, code, hikes, photos, map and notes.
A globe view of the Earth, with little orange dots marking my blog posts' locations. There's dots in China, Japan and Australia.
A screenshot of emgoto.com's new /map page. Features a sidebar on the left, which lists any posts on my blog that have a position associated with them (I've only set it up for 4 posts at the moment). Plus a large map, powered by Mapbox, on the right. Not putting the map in my navigation links just yet since I want to get it in a better state, so think of this as kind of a preview mode.
Screenshot of a page from vhbelvadi.com - the hambuger menu opens up as drawer that comes in from the right (full screen on mobile) which takes up the full height of the page and is very neatly organised
Screenshot of a potential new "map" section on my blog - on the LHS is a big map (powered by Mapbox) and on the RHS there is a sidebar with links out to my notes
A clear view of the summit of Mt Fuji. It's got plenty of snow on it! There are some low-lying mountains in the near distance with Mt Fuji in the back.
A deer staring straight at me. It's in between some deer fences and has some tiny little horns. I think also it's munching on some grass so I think I interrupted its lunchtime (sorry!)
Me at 183wpm and first place on the Typeracer leaderboards
My Jimny in front of Mt fuji (this one's near lake Shojiko)
Screen shot of my "push folder" plugin, I just run this and it will copy-paste across all files that have the isPublish: true variable to my repo.
Screenshot of my Umami analytics - my cursor blog post gets 400 page views in a week. Visit duration is only 2 seconds though.
My latest "Walking between Shibuya and Harajuku" post belongs to the "Things to do in Tokyo" list
screenshot of my blog's /notes/ page. It's got a bit of a pink theme, and lists out all of my notes with a little excerpt of each post.
A screenshot of an Obsidian base, filtering everything that has "publish: true" in my vault at the moment.
Screenshot of an example note in Obsidian - let's say I wanted to write a quick note about Mt Naeba, I could have a "publish" boolean value in my frontmatter that I could check to get it published?
Some of the foldiers in my Obsidian vault, the ones I most frequently use is probably the blog / hiking folders.
Screenshot of my newsletter in Substack. I went from 96 to 125 subscribers this year, and got just over 2000 views.
A fox statue that was guarding a little shrine on my hike up Mt Takao. Sometimes Japanese people like to put beanies etc on statues to keep them warm in the winter months. This fox is setup with a big red beanie, a patterned poncho and then to top it off what looks like a green glove on his tail. Very festive.
A deer (probably not full-grown) with some horns sprouting in, looking right at the camera.
A snow-tipped Mt Fuji in the distance, with some lower-lying green and brown mountains in the foreground
A setup of the boardgame Viticulture on my tiny dining table. I really need a bigger table
A boardgame setup at a cafe, featuring a mug of matcha latte, cards with grapes on them, and a bunch of other winery-themed game pieces.
A corner of my apartment. Got some beans and filters, and my kettle, in a little green trolley from IKEA. Plus on the counter is my grinder, scale and a teapot with the pourover thingy on top. And a pot plant in the corner to top it all off!!
If you were curious about my line of thought: - Removed the all-caps title, since I think adding bold is enough of a differentiator - made the amount of space above and below the divider equal - centred the previous post link in the box. I think just generally with UI design having sort of this "equalness" between all your UI elements just looks more pleasing - also left aligned the content. centre does look good if there's just 1 box, but I was thinking if you had 2 squares (for previous and next post) having it left aligned makes it fit more with the stuff above it
Cockatoos on a statue / fountain. They were drinking the water
A pothos in a pot on a shelf next to a white microwave oven (Japan doesn't have ovens built-in to kitchens so we bought a combo microwave oven thing)
A got an email notifying me that my build usage had reached 100% on Netlify (I'm on the free tier).
The home page of my blog. To the right of each blog post is a small image, plus I've added a colour-coded category tag to the top of each post
The tram in Zurich, with some boats covered in blue tarp in the foreground. Zurich is very blue as a city
Just a cow chilling. I love how you can see a house in the background (there are so many cows here). Taken next to Museggmauer
Below my blog's heading logo there is now a "Hiking in Japan" green link like a breadcrumbs component.
Screenshot of my pull requests tab on github. I have these pull-requests set to auto-merge
A fairly broken down Jeep Wagonia parked on the side of Mt Fuji (well, it doesnt have wheels so it's not going anywhere). In the distance you can see the snowy peak of Mt Fuji