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Rick Cogley

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2026-03-23 21:48:56 UTC

設定はどこへ消えた？ベンダードキュメント変更検知の自動化
設定はどこへ消えた？ Cloudflare WorkersとAIでベンダードキュメントの変更検知を自動化する。
https://cogley.jp/articles/automating-vendor-doc-drift-detection
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2026-03-23 21:47:33 UTC

Who Moved My Settings? Automating Vendor Doc Drift Detection
Who Moved My Settings? Automating Vendor Documentation Drift Detection with Cloudflare Workers and AI.
https://cogley.jp/articles/automating-vendor-doc-drift-detection
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2026-03-23 06:40:36 UTC

SvelteKit + Cloudflare WorkersでAIエージェント向けMarkdownを配信する
AIによるクロール・要約の波が押し寄せています。GoogleのGemini、OpenAIのGPT、AnthropicのClaude、Perplexityなど、あらゆるエージェントがあなたのサイトにアクセスしています。HTMLを返せば、の山をパースするためにトークンを浪費します。Markdownを返せば、クリ…
https://cogley.jp/articles/markdown-for-agents
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2026-03-23 06:18:29 UTC

SvelteKitサイト8個をVite 8に1日で移行した記録
Vite 8は2026年3月12日にリリースされた。その2日後、筆者は8つのSvelteKitプロジェクトを移行し終えた。モノレポとスタンドアロンの混在構成で、すべてCloudflare Workersにデプロイしている。移行はほぼ機械的な作業で、ビルドも速くなった。いくつかの教訓を共有する。 <i class="p…
https://cogley.jp/articles/migrating-sveltekit-to-vite-8
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2026-03-23 04:07:57 UTC

Cloudflare PagesからWorkersへの移行ガイド（2026年版）
CloudflareはPagesをWorkersに統合しつつある。Pagesが明日なくなるわけではないが、新機能はすべてWorkers側にのみ追加されている。筆者は2026年初頭に全PagesプロジェクトをWorkersへ移行し、その過程でつまずいたポイントをまとめた。 Cloudflare Pagesは廃止される…
https://cogley.jp/articles/cloudflare-pages-to-workers-migration
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2026-03-23 02:35:40 UTC

SvelteKit移行リファレンスにWebMCPツールを実装する
AIエージェントが「Svelte 5でのuseEffect相当は？」と質問するとします。現状では2つの方法があります。ページのHTMLをスクレイピングしてパースするか、api/data.jsonを取得して100以上の項目からコンテキスト内でフィルタリングするか。どちらも動作しますが、トークンの無駄遣いです。 WebM…
https://cogley.jp/articles/enabling-webmcp-tools-sveltekit-migration-reference
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2026-03-23 00:52:03 UTC

Svelte 5への移行：インタラクティブリファレンスガイド
同じ気持ちの方はいませんか？ React（またはVue、Angular）で何年もプロダクションコードを書き、依存配列と格闘し、バニラJSライブラリをフレームワーク固有のアダプターでラップし、nodemodulesがアプリ本体より重いことに疑問を感じている。そんなとき、Svelte 5のrunes — $state、$…
https://cogley.jp/articles/migrate-to-svelte-5-interactive-reference
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2026-03-20 09:14:19 UTC

Learners of Japanese: I revamped my 'goroawase /goroawase' Japanese word play page to make it interactive. Check it out!
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2026-03-20 09:13:36 UTC

2026-03-20 07:53:50 UTC

Cloudflare Pages vs Workers in 2026: Migration Guide
Cloudflare is merging Pages into Workers. This hands-on guide covers configuration changes, SvelteKit adapter setup, zero-downtime domain switchover, and the Workers-only features you unlock by migra…
https://cogley.jp/articles/cloudflare-pages-to-workers-migration
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2026-03-19 06:45:00 UTC

I wrote a long-form article about data sovereignty https://esolia.co.jp/en/articles/cloud-sovereignty-japan/ on my company site, after seeing some sales pitches trying to get companies to invest in 'private cloud' which means, buying servers and software. Suc…
https://cogley.jp/posts/01KM2DD7RSCNDD03JEJHYPD91H
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2026-03-15 01:20:30 UTC

Migrating 8 SvelteKit Sites to Vite 8 in a day: What We Learned
Vite 8 dropped on March 12, 2026. Soon after, we'd migrated 8 SvelteKit projects — a mix of monorepos and standalone sites, all deployed to Cloudflare Workers. The migration was mostly mechanical, an…
https://cogley.jp/articles/migrating-sveltekit-to-vite-8
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2026-03-13 13:38:05 UTC

Updated 10 SvelteKit apps to use vite 8. Very quick to build, uses rolldown and lightning, can write local dev errors to console std out. Very useful and kudos to that team.
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2026-03-13 00:19:19 UTC

Updated migrate to svelte https://svelte.cogley.jp/ with several improvements, including a section on Svelte Superpowers, various content updates, and links to official Svelte blog posts and other news.
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2026-03-12 10:34:54 UTC

Got some premium mint balm from J. Love the scent and feel of it. Thanks!
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2026-03-09 22:07:05 UTC

Bing Webmaster Tools is just awful. You do all the recommendations, use IndexNow to submit, manually submit the sitemap, make sure robots.txt is not blocking, and nothing, it simply won't index you. You cannot even make a support ticket because it just loops…
https://cogley.jp/posts/01KKAA3XRSCY84Y5NJJKRM9WX1
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2026-02-27 20:55:49 UTC

Watched a TV show with A about a guy who shelters bitey dangerous dogs that people can’t take care of. Half were Shiba!
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2026-02-26 08:54:08 UTC

Got some made-in-Japan Shoes Like Pottery https://shoeslikepottery.com/product/ shoes, which are super comfy. They are flat, with a grippy tread-less sole, and already feel like I have had them for a while. Great!
https://media.cogley.jp/uploads/2026-02/01KJCA65B2JA7ME88CGBQHRM6Q.jpeg

2026-02-21 07:23:21 UTC

J brought Matterhorn choco and K brought homemade cookies and bread, we're blessed!
https://media.cogley.jp/uploads/2026-02/01KHZ3DB3HAS222RFJTFVAM4C0.jpeg

2026-02-20 00:38:31 UTC

Enabling WebMCP Tools on my SvelteKit Migration Reference
WebMCP gives AI agents the option to call code and get structured answers directly, so I added it to https://svelte.cogley.jp for better integration.
https://cogley.jp/articles/enabling-webmcp-tools-on-my-sveltekit-migration-reference
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2026-02-18 12:47:17 UTC

Markdown for Agents on SvelteKit + Cloudflare Workers
Serve the AI crawlers markdown to make it easier for them to summarize your site. If you serve them HTML, they waste tokens parsing HTML. If you serve them compact markdown, they get clean context im…
https://cogley.jp/articles/markdown-for-agents-on-sveltekit-cloudflare-workers
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2026-02-15 03:31:12 UTC

I had used CocoaTech Path Finder Finder replacement and was going to try again but their AI chatbot couldn’t tell me if it runs on Tahoe, and the website is uncanny valley creepy now, so I’m trying Bloom App https://bloomapp.club/. So far so good!
https://media.cogley.jp/og/post/01KHFNKSRH28GV673W94Q7TD5F-20260215T033053329Z.png

2026-02-15 03:15:18 UTC

I rode the scooter down Rt 30 to T-Site Shonan in Fujisawa, thinking how I’d never do that on the Rt 30 near home in PA!
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2026-02-13 02:54:14 UTC

Struggling with GoDaddy support. Moved a domain's NS to Cloudflare, then setting DNSSEC, for which GD are required to submit a DS record to the parent zone (managed by the TLD registry, e.g., JPRS for .jp), but they claim the NS has to be controlled by them t…
https://cogley.jp/posts/01KHAEK1Z0V5PPKTMC5MBPXKRA
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2026-02-12 03:01:46 UTC

Migrate to Svelte 5 — An Interactive Reference for Framework Refugees
You've been working in React (or Vue, or Angular) for years, shipping production code, wrestling with dependency arrays, wrapping vanilla JS libraries in framework-specific adapters, and wondering wh…
https://cogley.jp/articles/migrate-to-svelte-5-interactive-reference
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2026-02-11 01:47:23 UTC

Saw a rare radio setup in the park this rainy morning. There's a wire leading from what looks like a yagi antenna to the car, so I imagine someone is in there going "CQ, CQ, Calling CQ"!
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2026-02-10 23:01:41 UTC

In the future when AI is generating based on training based on artifacts it generated in the first place… there might need to be a renaissance for human creation.
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2026-02-10 13:38:43 UTC

If you're using AI in your work, are you finding it to be too intense sometimes, even exhausting? I'm finding I can get a lot done, but that I'm also sometimes resisting even thinking about using an AI for anything until I am fully rested and have stepped awa…
https://cogley.jp/posts/01KH3WCRPV5DN4QAAGXZKST2YN
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2026-02-08 21:36:16 UTC

Stayed at the Daiwa Roynet Shimbashi https://www.daiwaroynet.jp/en/shinbashi/ and was pleasantly surprised. No BS about handing over my id at check-in, room was small but well designed, shower was great, breakfast good.
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2026-02-07 22:48:36 UTC

I feel a little vindicated, having always thought key rotation is ‘security theater’. Thanks Linus https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit/CAHk-=whoJYpORG8MK5kSA-x0+MwRa5wHwkHY4sbYbPFegc_g@mail.gmail.com/.
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2026-02-06 12:54:12 UTC

Thought-provoking essay on systems thinking. Of those 3000 tangled systems they mention, imagine how many are only understood by 1 or 2 people and you start to see how politics factors in cleaning up techical debt.
Via (Hacker News)[https://news.ycombinator…
https://cogley.jp/posts/01KGSG8631CJ3J01AS6DHQFSFA
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2026-02-05 20:01:37 UTC

I'm planning a new feature in one of our security monitoring systems, and so far, Anthropic's just-released Opus 4.6 https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6 model is just outstanding in its ability to suss out every detail. Color me impressed, Claude!
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2026-01-30 11:55:11 UTC

Who needs research https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245 showing AI assistance won't really help novice coders? AIs are great at executing fast but don't yet reason well and cannot replace human experience.
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2026-01-29 12:18:25 UTC

Shiori writes about doing a digital detox https://blog.esolia.pro/en/posts/20260122-digital-detox-habits-en/ in eSolia's Tech IT Easy blog. Stepping back and taking a breath worth a try, sometimes!
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2026-01-26 21:08:13 UTC

I love Cloudflare Radar
"The last quarter of 2025 brought several notable disruptions to Internet connectivity. Cloudflare Radar data reveals the impact of cable cuts, power outages, extreme weather, technical problems, and more."
Via The Cloudflare Blog h…
https://cogley.jp/posts/01KFY0GHQPA6B57BXJ1YTB7D0A
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2026-01-24 21:32:43 UTC

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I'm fascinated by this topic, because of course at the end of the day it's just math and not conscious. AIs are about prediction, the way I understand it, and apparently we don't even fully understand what they do or why they do what they do.

2026-01-21 02:29:11 UTC

Which AI lies the best? So long sucker https://so-long-sucker.vercel.app/ might help determine that.
"(the game) was designed in 1950 by four game theorists including John Nash (of "A Beautiful Mind" fame). The game has one brutal property: betrayal is required to win."
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2026-01-20 10:33:15 UTC

Love this essay from Ploum https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html about use of chatbots during exams!
Tell the professor if you usually use chatbots (ChatGPT/LLM/whatever) when doing research and investigating a subject. You have the choice to…
https://cogley.jp/posts/01KFDFE6FEV2392XDA9KA9VH0N
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2026-01-20 05:48:04 UTC

We had an old vacuum cleaner battery, and several old mobile phones and portable recharger batteries, which you cannot simply throw out in the trash. I took them to Totsuka ward office 9th floor and deposited them in the recycling receptacle.
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2026-01-13 13:19:45 UTC

Cloudflare is in the process of merging Pages into Workers, so I am migrating a bunch of apps now.
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2026-01-11 23:38:00 UTC

If you like design and thinking about design, User Friendly https://hardcover.app/books/user-friendly by Cliff Kuang is a home run of a book. Just fantastic. You could follow its threads to study further, for a year. 📚
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2026-01-10 22:44:36 UTC

We at eSolia are leveraging Sveltekit for a platform of dynamic sites and a client site, and it works really well. See what's new on the Svelte blog https://svelte.dev/blog/whats-new-in-svelte-january-2026. <i class="ph-duotone ph-code text-red"></i>
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2026-01-09 11:46:57 UTC

The AI vs Creator Dilemma
The AI Creator Dilemma: Value Extraction, Attribution, and the Fight for Fair Compensation
https://cogley.jp/articles/ai-vs-creator-dilemma
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2026-01-08 12:41:40 UTC

Beginner devs it goes without saying, because even a seasoned pro software dev will benefit from roadmap.sh https://roadmap.sh. It's stunning how much knowledge they've packed in their website. <i class="ph-duotone ph-robot text-fuchsia"></i>
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2026-01-08 11:45:22 UTC

The latest version of Rogue Ameba's Audio Hijack https://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/ is fantastic. You can really do a lot more with it, but I am using it to make recordings for podcasts, with a chain of processing automation. Good stuff! <i class="ph-du…
https://cogley.jp/posts/01KEEH9VYYYQGJMD4C5Q1VERPT
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2026-01-08 00:27:11 UTC

Cloudflare eating their own dogfood at their 600-odd data centers globally.
Physical data center maintenance is risky on a global network. We built a maintenance scheduler on Workers to safely plan disruptive operations, while solving scaling challenges by…
https://cogley.jp/posts/01KECYCY1CGTEJ34HA7CTGND9M
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2026-01-07 09:00:02 UTC

My staff made a blog about a point I got confused when I first started using M365. See our post on the Tech It Easy Blog https://blog.esolia.pro/en/posts/20250827-make-the-most-of-onedrive-en/.

2026-01-07 02:57:56 UTC

A Bowl of Renewal: Nanakusa-gayu
A Bowl of Renewal: Nanakusa-gayu on Jan 7th marks the "Jinjitsu no Sekku" (人日の節句)—the Festival of Humanity, one of the five sacred seasonal festivals in Japan.
https://cogley.jp/articles/a-bowl-of-renewal-nanakusa-gayu
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2026-01-06 20:45:57 UTC

Cloudflare's RADAR is a great service that is just chock full of info. Read their 6th annual year in review https://blog.cloudflare.com/radar-2025-year-in-review/ for the latest global trends, patterns, disruptions, advances and metrics.
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2026-01-06 03:06:40 UTC

Kanreki: Completing the Circle at 60
Japan's Kanreki celebration marks the completion of the 60-year zodiac cycle in Japan. Reflections on turning 60 in the Year of the Fire Horse and what rebirth means today.
https://cogley.jp/articles/kanreki-completing-the-circle-at-60
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2026-01-04 19:47:37 UTC

Japan Shrine Donation Amounts
Do you know how much money to give when you pray at a shrine in Japan? Read on to find out the standard good-luck and bad-luck amounts! ⛩️
https://cogley.jp/articles/japan-shrine-donation-amounts
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2026-01-03 13:32:26 UTC

Just updated the design and functionality of my long-form "now" page at rick.cogley.jp https://rick.cogley.jp, check it out! It's part of a larger effort to build a personal publishing stack using sveltekit on cloudflare.!
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2026-01-03 13:23:07 UTC

Just updated the design and functionality of my long-form "now" page at [rick.cogley.jp](https://rick.cogley.jp), check it out! It's part of a larger effort to build a personal publishing stack using sveltekit on cloudflare.!
JRC CleanShot Microsoft Edge 202…
https://cogley.jp/posts/01KE1G544GC7GFNWHZDDD2SMAY

2025-11-14 05:43:47 UTC

We updated and upgraded eSolia’s Japan Emergency Information pages. Help a visitor to or resident in Japan by sharing! 🚑 https://esolia.co.jp/en/resources/japan/emergency/

2025-11-02 06:09:15 UTC

Gosh what an exciting World Series. Dodgers and Blue Jays were both stellar and it was a nail biter until the end! Congrats LAD! 💦⚾️

2025-11-01 03:21:15 UTC

Exciting World Series this year! On to game 7! 🏟️⚾️

2025-10-26 05:20:48 UTC

When you change your domain’s DNS (NS records), you can flush the records in major DNS providers to force a quicker propagation:
Cloudflare: https://1.1.1.1/purge-cache/
Google: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/cache
OpenDNS: https://cachecheck.opendns.com/ https://1.1.1.1/purge-cache/ https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/cache https://cachecheck.opendns.com/

2025-09-07 09:51:03 UTC

Visited Osaka Expo 2025 on 6 Sept with 220,000 others. It was hot and crowded but ultimately a good time thanks to A’s planning and a little luck. https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2025/78e530d420.jpg

2025-09-05 06:24:02 UTC

We have the J-ALERT disaster warning system here in Japan which pushes mobile alerts regarding quakes, floods etc. It makes a big racket when a train car of phones get an alert! 💥 https://esolia.com/japan-emergency-broadcast-system-j-alert/

2025-09-05 06:11:56 UTC

A and I are heading to Osaka to visit the Expo. Of course a typhoon was coming up as we were heading down so there was a delay but we are moving now. Oh and there’s a pet bird chirping away. 🚄🐤

2025-06-25 05:17:31 UTC

Did you know you can add your Japan My Number card to your Apple Wallet? You can, using your MyNaPortal app. 🧐 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2025/image.png

2025-06-24 11:39:14 UTC

I use git and git clients daily, and a recent one I really like is the fast and featureful fork. It’s available for MacOS or Windows, and “just works”. ⋔⌨️⋔ https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2025/jrc-cleanshot-fork-2025-06-24-203033jst2x.png https://fork.dev/

2025-06-18 01:12:56 UTC

Japan visitors, it’s supposed to be rainy season, but instead we have a heat stroke alert in Kanto. Take it seriously, stay cool, don’t push too hard! 🥵 https://www.wbgt.env.go.jp/en/sp/alert.php

2025-06-09 02:57:50 UTC

My team at eSolia published a couple new blog posts, on checking your laptop battery health and asking AI about IT terms. Check them out! 😎 https://blog.esolia.pro/en/posts/20250409-check-battery-health-en/ https://blog.esolia.pro/en/posts/20250410-admin-asked-ai-about-the-it-terminology-en/

2025-06-02 03:38:15 UTC

On 2nd June in 1859 (166 years ago), the Yokohama port opened for business, after the US-Japan trade agreement the following year. I’ve been fortunate to live here in Yokohama for years now, and enjoy the international feeling of especially the port areas of Sakuragicho and Kannai. ⚓️

2025-06-02 03:32:25 UTC

Do you feel an age or generation gap working with people from younger or older generations? I know I do. I’d love to hear your experiences. Δ

2025-06-02 02:20:11 UTC

There’s a 1963 phone from NTT called the “model 600”, very much like the Bell model 500, which you can view among others at the NTT History Center of Technologies in Musashino, in west Tokyo. I hope to visit some day. ☎️ https://group.ntt/en/newsrelease/2022/09/06/220906a.html

2025-06-02 01:05:05 UTC

A few months ago I learned about Tilley and Dreyfuss’ work “The Measure of Man and Woman” which if you think on it, was just so revolutionary. Design barely even considered measurements of people prior to this, but now it’s ubiquitous. 👫 https://www.google.co.jp/books/edition/The_Measure_of_Man_and_Woman/ZuoCDgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

2025-06-02 00:42:16 UTC

We are debating finally cancelling the landline in our house, which made me think of the phone icon which was designed with the Bell Model 500 in mind. I wonder when this icon will become incomprehensible to younger people? In 10 years? 20? 📞📱 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_500_telephone

2025-05-31 00:04:06 UTC

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Lung capacity and being able to relax if I feel panic

2025-05-30 23:52:55 UTC

My firm just launched our new “Tech It Easy” blog with IT tips in English and Japanese from our team members, like this post on keyboard shortcuts. We hope it might come in handy. 😎 https://blog.esolia.pro/en/posts/20250403-essential-keyboard-shortcuts-en/

2025-05-08 19:30:16 UTC

Version 3 of the static site generator Lume was released after a Herculean dev cycle. It’s an incredibly flexible and powerful SSG written in Typescript by Óscar Otero. https://lume.land/blog/posts/lume-3/

2025-03-31 08:38:40 UTC

When our tree flowers and I start hearing uguisu calls, I always feel spring has come. 🌸 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2025/e7a9b9afa7.jpg

2025-03-22 21:35:32 UTC

Saw Wicked on Broadway a few years ago with A, and now we saw the IMAX movie. Theater buffs will like that It’s chock full of cameos of the original stage performers and even the writers. Casting and performances were on point, with lots of humor. 💚🩷 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2025/img-7287.jpg

2025-03-15 03:01:48 UTC

I loved Think Again by Adam Grant 📚. I’m going to set aside regular time for re-thinking, try to abandon best practices, and “not get stranded at the summit of Mt. Stupid.” 😅 https://micro.blog/books/9781984878113

2025-03-15 02:59:14 UTC

Some of the fam went to Sapporo and Otaru in Hokkaido. I had to work, but they brought some hanasaki crab and we ate it last night. Wow, it’s reaally good! 🦀 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralithodes_brevipes

2025-02-23 11:47:33 UTC

Learned about our local evac center’s “Hamakko Toilet” at today’s event. It’s a sewage pipe you fill with pool water at one end, set toilets above opened man holes, and periodically flush by opening a big valve at the other end. 🚽🚽 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2025/2f8e92e3a7.jpg https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2025/85435be6fd.jpg https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2025/ca96d033c9.jpg

2025-02-23 11:40:02 UTC

Had a local disaster prevention event today. A civil servant / volunteer fireman said we should not assume Yokohama city will prepare enough food or supplies, and that we need to ready our own. A sobering thought! 🧯🚒 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2025/b894d4a2fd.jpg https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2025/8c3caeab08.jpg

2025-02-20 07:33:40 UTC

If you do any system admin and use the terminal, starship.rs is a really easy value add. For instance if you’re in a vps that just has bash installed, running the starship installer gets you a decent prompt in 10 sec. https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2025/jrc-cleanshot-ghostty-2025-02-20-162900jst2x.png https://starship.rs/

2025-02-19 02:15:41 UTC

Web-toolbox.dev is an excellent & convenient bilingual English/Japanese site for web devs by K (thanks!), with various tools for generation, encoding, SEO, text. 🛠️ https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2025/jrc-cleanshot-microsoft-edge-2025-02-19-110503jst2x.png https://web-toolbox.dev/ https://twitter.com/k_urtica

2025-02-18 01:37:19 UTC

I want to learn more about storytelling, and The Perfect Story by Karen Eber 📚 has been great so far. The author posted on LinkedIn about a new Japanese translation, which you can find here. https://micro.blog/books/9781400333844 https://pub.jmam.co.jp/book/b657138.html

2025-02-18 01:34:17 UTC

I searched on the word “Hygge” after eating lunch at a cafe called that, and found this cozy little book on the topic: The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living (The Happiness Institute Series) by Meik Wiking 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9780062658814

2025-02-16 02:31:42 UTC

Our dog goes to daycare with a big unit of a black lab, whose human is French, so I decided to compile a French dog command list, with Japanese and English, to try to communicate next time we meet. Assis! 🐾 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2025/jrc-cleanshot-microsoft-edge-2025-02-16-112855jst2x.png https://cogley.jp/dog-commands/

2025-02-14 11:58:36 UTC

Happy Valentine’s Day 😍 special chocolate from Blue Cacao! https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2025/be3406e758.jpg

2025-02-13 00:04:23 UTC

I really enjoyed and found insightful I Never Thought of It That Way by Mónica Guzmán. It will give you tips about how to bridge the divide in conversation with those you disagree with, and help you stay curious! 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9781637740323

2025-01-31 02:26:31 UTC

Went to Kanda Daimyojin shrine to receive New Year blessings for my firm eSolia. You fill a fill a form, tell what blessings you want (we chose business success and employee health), wear a special sash around your neck, and attend a 15 min ceremony. Let’s go! ⛩️🙏🏻 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2025/img-7208.jpg https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2025/img-7209.jpg

2025-01-21 07:21:11 UTC

If you like design and thinking about design, User Friendly by Cliff Kuang is a home run of a book. Just fantastic. You could follow its threads to study further, for a year. 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9780374713157

2025-01-20 00:45:44 UTC

Interestingly heard via two completely separate conversations, D2’s husband and her best friend both are programming in python now in their careers; the former for data science, the latter for the back end of web sites. All that python setup nonsense gives me a rash, though. 🐍

2025-01-16 07:59:33 UTC

TeamLab Planets in Toyosu was Fantastic https://cogley.jp/2025/01/16/teamlab-planets-in-toyosu-was.html

2025-01-16 07:34:34 UTC

A few years back I took IDEO’s “Insights for Innovation” 5-week course, and just reviewed the assignment submissions. I did manage to implement what I wanted to, at eSolia, and think this course was worth it. 😄 https://www.ideou.com/products/insights-for-innovation

2025-01-16 07:29:09 UTC

Renewed my Japan drivers license at the Futamatagawa center. A pretty efficient process for the most part, though I feel a little traumatized after having watched their safety video which contained several actual scenes of cars hitting bicycles! Be safe out there, people. 🚙

2025-01-14 00:50:01 UTC

Apple’s Image Playground (that I just got access to) would not make a fire-breathing Shiba for me, but it did set a Shiba’s tail on fire. 😜 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2025/jrc-cleanshot-image-playground-2025-01-14-094507jst2x.png

2025-01-11 04:05:52 UTC

At Unitora in Senkyaku-Banrai (Toyosu, Shijomae), before we go to TeamLab Planets. It was sooo good. 🍣 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2025/7569b505ca.jpg

2025-01-07 06:55:14 UTC

For my birthday (59! what?!) I got this Kanazawa-ya U-shaped pillow with wool stuffing. Ordered during their New Year sale, it came with a nice case (expected) and extra stuffing and a handkerchief to boot (a bonus!). It’s great! 😴 #金澤屋 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2025/img-7143.jpg https://www.kanazawaya.ne.jp/products/detail.php?product_id=265

2025-01-03 04:32:23 UTC

Congrats to Aoyama Gakuin for their incredible run of the Hakone Ekiden in 10:40:20, a new record. 2nd Komazawa 2:50 back, 3rd Kokugakuin 9:29 back, edging Waseda! 🏃🏼‍♂️

2025-01-01 07:46:57 UTC

Japan Shrine Donation Amounts https://cogley.jp/2025/01/01/japan-shrine-donation-amounts.html

2025-01-01 03:43:39 UTC

Happy New Year one and all. Hope it’s a good one for you! In Japan, we have osechi like in these photos. 🎍🇯🇵 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2025/79bb80f017.jpg https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2025/b4a8a11361.jpg

2024-12-24 23:03:03 UTC

Got a Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition, but unfortunately it’s not possible to transfer old Kindle book purchases I made a long time ago in the US, to my main Japan-based Amazon account. The Paperwhite e-ink tech is fantastic, but it’s annoying to have to pay twice. 😤

2024-12-21 11:20:09 UTC

Been doing the “big tidy” for the past couple of weekends. Today was about changing the sink filter, cleaning the range hood, sprinkling weed killer, and lubing up the rollers and hinges in the house. 🏡🧹

2024-12-19 23:58:00 UTC

I read this a while back, and it is worth a re-read: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9780375725609