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Highlights from this week’s Kyoto Tech Meetup: AI tools for database design, project shares, and more.

ashryan.io is now on RSS feed aggregator powRSS.

Slightly late for November, but better late than never!

Lorem CLI

Websites, LLMs, RAG systems, databases, and more at our first Community Hack Day.

The first Kyoto Tech Meetup Community Hack Day is coming up.

Upgrading golang using go

Highlights from the Nov 13 Kyoto Tech Meetup.

How I used OpenAI’s Agent Builder to power an “invisible AI” feature in Collxn.

Highlights from the Oct 30 Kyoto Tech Meetup: AI tools, local dev chat, open source picks, and more from Kyoto’s growing tech community.

This month I went on a two week long road trip through California with a friend.

This month's edition of our little morning tech meetup is scheduled.

Notes on setting up structured data a Ghost theme, including how to handle static and dynamic data.

I’ve always been uncomfortable around historical re-enactors at museums – people who are walking around in period costume while visitors in modern clothes are browsing the exhibits.

On taking notes at the end of workday

My pick for song of the month this time around is a track that played at Spectacle Theater before the movie started (the movie was Mirage Men (2013), by the way).

After a decade away, I’m back co-organizing PechaKucha Night Kyoto.

Roundup of links from the first Kyoto Tech Meetup: AI tools, local LLMs, Val Town experiments, and a coffee+vinyl record shop recommendation.

Morning Tech & Coffee launches in Kyoto this month.

It's been almost two years since I posted the "Collecting pins" post!

Just two days ago I went to an immersive theatrical experience called Viola's Room.

Today I want to try starting something new.

Who dis.

How Collxn’s Daily Drop email works: a simple service stack for fetching, rendering, sending, logging, and running safely in previews.

How I use a simple wiki structure in my monorepo to manage product alongside AI agents in my IDE.

Kyoto Tech Meetup launches weekly morning coffee sessions.

A curated portfolio of my work, including talks, writing, open source projects, and conference contributions from 2015 to present.

Get past context, future explorations, and what I'm focused on today on 3 simple pages.

IndieWeb Ring

A recap of the sessions I've led at ITP Camp 2025 thus far.

Don't read this if you plan to live forever.

NYU ITP Summer Camp starts again next week.

Astoria Tech Meetup goings-on.

A short note on building the Collxn prototype in Val Town and presenting it at the first Val Town Hall.

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Sharing a few of my favorites from Color Studies Studio

Wherein I feel ways about not being able to script through my own health data

I've recently updated the blog's theme and I felt I should make a post not only to document the reason but also to archive pictures of the blog before and after the change for the future.

go doc

I'm working on something new to help me explore my record collection in new ways.

Some updates for Subcurrent, an open source service that creates a stream of content from the Astoria tech community.

With LLMs, looking for the big picture or seeking the pros, cons, and white space in and around my path of inquiry is really all on me as the human.

TL;DR: Ollama on a MacBook Air with M4 is great and it's a taste of the future.

I could write – and have written – the past twenty years as a string of successes for my linguistics career: I have presented my work at many conferences on linguistics, digital humanities and literature, in several countries.

YAML's special indicators > and | handle of multiline strings

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked."

Subcurrent now posts RSS updates to Discord.

Wherein 9 years after I decide to do so, I delete my Facebook account.

Subcurrent brings together content from Astoria Tech community members into a single web page and RSS feed.

If you work across multiple systems, you've likely accumulated a collection of configuration files over time.