Emma Goto

Phase 1 - four widgets The initial dashboard came with 4 widgets - Currenlty Reading, Goals, Feed and Stats. We had plans to let users choose the sizes of their widgets in the future, so for the first release I chose the sizes so it would neatly work as a

This summer, I decided to try growing cherry tomatoes on my balcony! I loooove cherry tomatoes, and I'm also a big fan of those farming simulators like Stardew Valley so I wanted to give the real thing a go. We had also recently moved into a south-facing

Book review for The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin. I rated it 4 stars The Word for World is Forest is rather a short read, clocking in at only 189 pages. The storyline reminds me of the James Cameron movie Avatar . And it turns out that it

Book review for Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance. I rated it 4 stars Hillbilly Elegy is a memoir written by JD Vance who is, of course, the current vice president of the USA. The book was published in 2016, at which time Vance was not yet in politics. Back

Book review for Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb. I rated it 4 stars This is a fantasy book that sprawls across the storylines of multiple characters. One of the main characters is Althea Vestrit, a young 18-year old daughter of the Vestrit family who hopes to

I was going for a run the other day, and spotted a rather interesting looking family down by the river. It didn't look like anything I had ever seen before - and a quick Google revealed it to be a ゴイサギ or black-crowne...

I was born and raised in Australia, which has some of the best coffee in the world (I'm not biased, I swear!) so finding good coffee can be a bit of a high bar for me. But Japan doesn't disappoint, and if you know where to look there are so many good coff

We recently visited GESHARY COFFEE, a specialty coffee shop and roaster near Tokyo station that specialises in selling coffee made with Geisha (also known as Gesha) beans. They offer pour-over, cold brew and espresso-based lattes. The prices range from 11

MIA MIA is a small coffee shop in Kuramae. Its specialty seems to be in being a place where you are guaranteed to have a friendly chat, whether with one of the baristas or one of the other customers around you. So it's a great place to hang out if you are

Porta Coffee Stand is a tiny coffee shop near Koenji station, down one of its busy shopping streets. After a recent visit to Koenji to see a friend, I cottoned onto the fact that it seems to be a coffee hotspot, and so I was back in short order for more.