Kimtaro

@kimtaro
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I juggle tokens, parsers and divs on https://jisho.org at night. Ruby infra during the day. He/him.
Had to get it out of my system. Will probably turn it into a proper project over the next few visits, maybe do some medium format portraits of the vehicles + owners or something. For now this will do: https://gosha.net/2026/delica #得利卡
My Delica obsession → Gosha Tcherednitchenko

I’ve been collecting variants of this vehicle all over Taiwan

Gosha Tcherednitchenko

Hina-Mincho is a #Japanese old-fashioned Minchō-style #font, created by Satsuyako.

🔗 https://github.com/satsuyako/Hina-Mincho

GitHub - satsuyako/Hina-Mincho: Japanese old-style Mincho Font created by satsuyako.

Japanese old-style Mincho Font created by satsuyako. - satsuyako/Hina-Mincho

GitHub
🚂🦉 #PixelArt
Excited to announce that
@scriptingjapan.bsky.social's slang dictionary is available on the new Jisho! Wes' dictionary, blog posts and videos are deeply researched and entertaining, and a vital resource for anyone who studies Japanese. Thank you Wes! All entries here: https://four.jisho.org/search/%23scripting_japan
Japanese Dictionary — Jisho.org [Beta]

Bring back naming folders with “ƒ”!!

#VintageApple #RetroComputing

Big fan of this KanjiTalk 6 aesthetic. The brutalist sparseness of System 6 before they added the little 3D touches and proper color icons, and the uncomfortably oversized fonts used to fit the detail needed to show readable Kanji causing everything to feel a bit cramped and misaligned. #mb

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mikaeru/115571389315099716

> This increases the number of encoded CJK ideographs to over 100,000!

十万字【じゅうまんじ】!

#Unicode #Jūmanji #Unihan #CJK #CJKV

there we go - it's basically just a rewrite of some posts on here and another site in the past few days, but there's nothing wrong with that

https://mojilove.net/posts-e/metaphors.htm

A list of Japanese metaphors that are tricky to translate into English | mojilove

Not impossible, just tricky.

@sarcastictoast @gullevek that article made it sound more decided. But maybe they haven’t gotten past the 検討 stage yet :/
@gullevek thankfully they are finally switching to Hepburn. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250822/p2a/00m/0na/018000c
Japan updating rules for romanized characters, but 'Ohtani' OK as exception - The Mainichi

TOKYO -- The Japanese government rules for romanizing Japanese characters are being updated from the conventional Kunrei method to the English-style H

The Mainichi