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.
Our second Kyoto Morning Tech & Coffee brought together another great mix of builders, designers, and technologists living and creating in Kyoto.
We kicked things off with open chat before diving into Pick/Ask/Give shares. Pick/Ash/Give is a quick, informal way for everyone to exchange ideas, questions, and resources.
🧩 Picks
Tools:
- vue-timeline-chart — open source interactive timeline for Vue.js
- Subcurrent — a feed aggregator for discovering new posts across community blogs
- OpenAI Agent Builder — for quickly prototyping new AI behaviors
IDEs:
- Windsurf — a fork of VS Code built for AI-assisted workflows
- Cursor — an AI-native IDE
- Phoenix IDE — browser-based IDE for getting started with JavaScript
Apps:
- Yamap — an app for hiking and outdoors
- Sanaru (3R / サンアル) — making sense of trash management in Japan
Events:
- Ship&Co E-Commerce Connect conference — a Shopify conference in Kyoto
💡 Asks
- Tools, frameworks, and discussion for LLM memory and context persistence
- Getting started with JavaScript and modern development workflows
- Opportunities for English-language conversation and exchange in the context of tech career development
- Information about local and remote-friendly job openings in tech
🤝 Gives
- Teaching JavaScript and mentoring beginners
It’s exciting to see this group start to emerge. We're already talking about whether to put it on a weekly cadence (currently it's monthly).
If you’d like to join next time, check out:
👉 Kyoto Tech Meetup on Meetup.com
See you at the next one!
- Ash