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Ash Ryan Arnwine is a startup founder, community organizer, and JavaScript hacker.

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23
Nov

Kyoto Tech Meetup Community Hack Day Wrap Up

Websites, LLMs, RAG systems, databases, and more at our first Community Hack Day.
1 min read
20
Nov

Kyoto Tech Meetup’s First Hack Day

The first Kyoto Tech Meetup Community Hack Day is coming up. We've also got a GitHub org and a starter site.
1 min read
13
Nov

Kyoto Tech Meetup: Nov 13 Wrap-Up ☕

Highlights from the Nov 13 Kyoto Tech Meetup. AI consulting, cybersecurity in Japan, Astro.js, creative side projects, and more.
1 min read
04
Nov

Quietly intelligent app features with OpenAI Agent Builder

How I used OpenAI’s Agent Builder to power an “invisible AI” feature in Collxn. What I learned about LLM reliability, schema design, and control.
5 min read
30
Oct

Kyoto Tech Meetup: Oct 30 Wrap-Up

Highlights from the Oct 30 Kyoto Tech Meetup: AI tools, local dev chat, open source picks, and more from Kyoto’s growing tech community.
1 min read
23
Oct

Kyoto Morning Tech & Coffee: October

This month's edition of our little morning tech meetup is scheduled.
21
Oct

Taking Control of Structured Data in Ghost

Notes on setting up structured data a Ghost theme, including how to handle static and dynamic data.
4 min read
06
Oct

"Just 20 more minutes..."

On taking notes at the end of workday
1 min read
24
Sep

PechaKucha Night Kyoto

After a decade away, I’m back co-organizing PechaKucha Night Kyoto.
2 min read
18
Sep

Links from the First Kyoto Tech Meetup

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