Rick Cogley

This morning at about 5:30 I drove Maru to the big park he likes for his walk.

I’m sitting in the barber shop and, what, angine de poitrine is on the normal-ass radio.

Updated my Japan Shoes article to include a photo of my new weatherproof shoes from Moonstar, which were great during the long 'tsuyu' rainy season this year.

I updated my Migrate to Svelte app to show the latest and greatest.

How to Automatically Power On a PC After a Power Outage：Dell BIOS Setting Guide Learn how to configure Dell Optiplex BIOS settings so that your PC automatically powers on after power loss or updates.

IT Terms You Think You Know: What Is a Server?

So I read in the Japan Times that APA hotels are going to expand internationally starting with North America.

Is it safe to remove that USB device?

Reflecting on the True Value of IT Professionals at the Heart of Tokyo Station What is the true value of IT project managers?

Starz “Amadeus” starring Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany was well done, and satisfyingly operatic.

Just a STUNNING London Marathon result, with two sub-2-hour finishes.

There is a white canvas shoe sitting in the shoe-rack grid at the entrance of almost every Japanese primary school — a wall of small cubbies, roughly 25 cm on a side, one slot per child.

日本の小学校の下足箱（入口の壁に並ぶ、児童ひとりに一枠ずつ割り当てられた約25cm四方のマス目）には、ほぼ必ず白いキャンバスの靴が並んでいる。

AI crawlers — Gemini, GPT, Claude, Perplexity — are reading your site constantly, and they'd rather parse markdown than HTML.

AIクローラー（Gemini、GPT、Claude、Perplexityなど）は絶えずサイトを読みにきており、HTMLよりMarkdownのほうを好む。

I run an IT services firm in Tokyo.

東京で小さなITサービス会社を運営している。

I have been successfully using Anthropic Claude and I like how it works.

Let’s share your data using OneDrive!

Sendai was great, very relaxing.

Heading to Sendai tomorrow for an onsen soak with A.

SvelteKitのリポジトリを10ほど管理していて、開発にはAnthropicのClaude Codeを活用している。

I manage about ten SvelteKit repositories deployed on Cloudflare Workers, and leveraged Anthropic's Claude Code to do it.

4月。

Welcome to your first job.

Migrate to Svelte 5は、React・Vue・AngularからSvelte 5への移行リファレンスサイトです。

My Migrate to Svelte 5 site started as a side-by-side reference for developers wanting to convert to Svelte 5, from React, Vue, or Angular.

データベースに保存したJavaScriptテンプレートを実行する必要があった。

I needed to run user-defined JavaScript templates from a database — code that formats RSS feed items into social media posts.

Telework Offensive!

How Should You Manage Your Passwords?

Introducing Acrobat Standard features for use in administrative departments From differences with Acrobat Reader to useful features and comparison with Acrobat Pro https://blog.esolia.pro/en/posts/20260323-acrobat-standard-en/ (Japanese version also avail…

スペンサー・ジョンソンの『チーズはどこへ消えた？』

Spencer Johnson's Who Moved My Cheese?

AIによるクロール・要約の波が押し寄せています。

Vite 8は2026年3月12日にリリースされた。

CloudflareはPagesをWorkersに統合しつつある。

AIエージェントが「Svelte 5でのuseEffect相当は？」

同じ気持ちの方はいませんか？

Learners of Japanese: I revamped my 'goroawase' Japanese word play page to make it interactive.

Cloudflare is folding Pages into Workers.

I wrote a long-form article about data sovereignty on my company site, after seeing some sales pitches trying to get companies to invest in 'private cloud' which means, buying servers and software.

TL;DR: Vite 8's breaking changes for SvelteKit + Cloudflare Workers are small: bump @sveltejs/vite-plugin-svelte across its major (6→7), rename a few config keys (rollupOptions → rolldownOptions, esbuild → oxc), drop the manualChunks object form, and make…

Updated 10 SvelteKit apps to use vite 8.

Updated migrate to svelte with several improvements, including a section on Svelte Superpowers, various content updates, and links to official Svelte blog posts and other news.

Got some premium mint balm from J.

Bing Webmaster Tools is just awful.

Watched a TV show with A about a guy who shelters bitey dangerous dogs that people can’t take care of.

Got some made-in-Japan Shoes Like Pottery shoes, which are super comfy.

J brought Matterhorn choco and K brought homemade cookies and bread, we're blessed!