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Ash Ryan Arnwine
ashryan.io is the personal site of Ash Ryan Arnwine, a startup founder, community organizer, and JavaScript-focused builder. It features writing on technology, creative projects, and the process of building products and communities in Kyoto, Japan.
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Tomorrow I'll be leading an AI coding session at NYU ITP Camp. I wasn't planning to run one this year, but during the first few days of camp I found myself having the same conversation over and over again: things get messy fast when you...
Site buildershttps://systeme.io/https://www.zite.com/Projects and companies by community members:https://www.instagram.com/kyoto__diaries/https://www.toremlabs.comhttps://koffe-landing-page.vercel.app/ (born at our Community Hack Day!)
Will it work???
This post is in English below.Kyoto Tech...
GitHub issues for our websitevinext: AI-written port of Next.js by CloudFlareLenses have bias: if you're not a photographer this is very much learning a little about to get yourself photo-literateTelephoto bias example: exaggerating...
Thanks to everyone who came. This group is so much fun to chat with. I get smarter every time.Here are the links. AI stuffPrompt Foo"MCP is dead. Long live the CLI.""Don't build agents. Build skills instead."Context ArenaCLI tools that...
We had a lot asks this week, which is rare and fun. AsksOrdered by question, with links where possible.Q: What's the whole OpenAI vs Anthropic vs DoD thing?There's no way for me to recap it here and it's going to continually change...
Kyoto Tech Meetup held its Community Hack Day for February this past Sunday at FabCafe Kyoto. All attendees had code live on the site by the end of the day.What we shippedWe're now up to 8 contributors on the repo.Our changes...
We can make the computers do things. It turns out that convincing humans is the tricky part.The Turing TestCo-Active CoachingMyers Briggs (16 Personalities)"What to consider when pivoting, from startup founders who got it right"
Here's the links for this week's coffee session!If you only click 2 links, click these:Covid moment for AI (podcast)How to win the wrong AI raceBut also fun AI stuff!OpenClawAssemblyAIDistractor promptOllama
January was a busy month for the Kyoto Tech Meetup. Across the month, we held:1 Community Hack Day4 Morning Tech & CoffeesThis was the first month that we started alternating weekly morning coffees between Thursday and Saturday. It seems...
A couple of months after I started the Kyoto Tech Meetup in September last year, we already had some disparate homes and content on the web. We moved quickly from just having a Meetup.com page to also having a Discord server, a GitHub...
Today was our last Kyoto Tech Meetup event of the year! As a quick recap, our first meetup was in September, and since then we've done 8 events:6 Morning Tech & Coffee sessions2 Community Hack DaysI want to say a massive thanks to...
Now that we are doing the coffee meetups weekly, I was going to stop writing these wrap-up posts. But it turns out people were getting some use out of them! So I'll try and keep them going.This one is going to be a mish-mash of last week...
Yesterday we held our second Community Hack Day with the Kyoto Tech Meetup in space provided by FabCafe Kyoto. This post is a quick wrap-up of the day!What we worked onThis time around, we all split up into solo projects with an aim to...