Kyoto Tech Meetup: 2025 wrap-up
Recapping what the Kyoto Tech Meetup has been up to in 2025.
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Kyoto Tech Meetup: Dec 11 and 18 Wrap-Ups
Highlights from the Kyoto Tech Meetup: engineering management books, Supabase, AI stuff, tech career sites in Japan
Kyoto Tech Meetup Community Hack Day Wrap-up for December
A recap of the December Kyoto Tech Meetup Community Hack Day at FabCafe Kyoto. AI projects, site features, dev tools, and more!
Kyoto Tech Meetup: Dec 4 Wrap-Up
Highlights from this week’s Kyoto Tech Meetup: AI tools for database design, project shares, and more.
powRSS
ashryan.io is now on RSS feed aggregator powRSS.
Kyoto Tech Meetup Community Hack Day Wrap Up
Websites, LLMs, RAG systems, databases, and more at our first Community Hack Day.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kyoto Morning Tech & Coffee: October
This month's edition of our little morning tech meetup is scheduled.
Taking Control of Structured Data in Ghost
Notes on setting up structured data a Ghost theme, including how to handle static and dynamic data.
Working
"Just 20 more minutes..."
On taking notes at the end of workday
Community
PechaKucha Night Kyoto
After a decade away, I’m back co-organizing PechaKucha Night Kyoto.
Community
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.
Community
Kyoto Morning Tech & Coffee: First Session Is On
Morning Tech & Coffee launches in Kyoto this month. Software & hardware builders feel free to drop in.
Collxn
New Collxn site and blog
Who dis.
Collxn
Behind the Drop: Collxn's Daily Email Stack
Every morning, Collxn surfaces one record from your vinyl collection and sends it to your inbox. The feature’s called Daily Drop, and under the hood, it's powered by a stack that's simple to read, quick to tweak, and safe to run in preview environments. Here’
AI
From Vision to Version: My Doc-Driven, AI-Assisted Product Workflow
How I use a simple wiki structure in my monorepo to manage product alongside AI agents in my IDE.
Community
Help Kickstart the Kyoto Tech Meetup: Morning Coffee Edition
Kyoto Tech Meetup launches weekly morning coffee sessions. Connect with local software and hardware builders, share projects, and help select our first cafe.
Portfolio
New Portfolio Page
A curated portfolio of my work, including talks, writing, open source projects, and conference contributions from 2015 to present.
About
AboutIdeasNow
Get past context, future explorations, and what I'm focused on today on 3 simple pages.
Community
NYU ITP Camp 2025, week 1
A recap of the sessions I've led at ITP Camp 2025 thus far. AI coding and records, of course.
Your periodic reminder of the impermanence of all things
Don't read this if you plan to live forever.