ashryan.io
ashryan.io
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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For the month of December, the Kyoto Tech Meetup is trying the Morning Tech & Coffee series as a weekly event. Still the same format: meet at the same cafe, grab seats, and just chat tech before work. The conversation drifted across...
powRSS is an RSS feed aggregator created by Pablo Enoc. As a lover of RSS and RSS-related tools, I reached out to see if I could get this very site added to powRSS. I'm excited to share that ashryan.io is now on powRSS.One fun feature of...
Yesterday we held our first Community Hack Day with the Kyoto Tech Meetup. This post is a quick wrap-up of the day!What we worked onThe idea behind the hack day is let people choose their own adventure, with an emphasis on...
Kyoto Tech Meetup's first Community Hack Day is coming up this week, on November 22, from 10:00 to 16:00.The goal is simple: get together and let community members work on projects that contribute to the community iteself. Anyone can...
Our latest Kyoto Morning Tech & Coffee brought together founders, engineers, designers, and researchers from Kyoto and beyond. Conversation flowed between cultural differences in company structure, startup life, and good spots to co-work...
I like to think about "invisible AI" in apps. It's not a great term, but by "invisible AI", I mean the kind that works quietly behind the scenes instead of showing up as a chatbot.Back at Nylas, I built an OpenAI-powered email triage...
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...
The October meetup is scheduled for Thursday the 30th. If you're curious about the kind of stuff we talked about at the first one, I posted some links.It's a light, agenda-free meetup to help you meet people and chat tech before work....
⚠️ This is written from the perspective of Ghost theme development. If you're an author/end-user, this information likely won't be helpful. Also, I'm pretty new to Ghost theme development, so it's quite possible I don't have the full...
Here's a really good post by Alikhil that probably resonates with a lot of us:One evening, I felt like I had finally cracked a tricky part of our infrastructure. I thought, “Just 20 more minutes and I’ll finish it.” Of course, those 20...
After a decade away, I’m back co-organizing PechaKucha Night Kyoto. Volume 50 is this Saturday, Sep 27 from 8pm at UrBANGUILD.I’ll be presenting about why people in 2025 still care about vinyl records. It's a topic I have some bias...
The very first Kyoto Morning Tech & Coffee is a wrap! I'm looking forward to doing more of these soon.Here’s a roundup of the links that came up in conversation so you can dig deeper:AI + Coding ToolsOpenAI Codex IDE: AI-assisted coding...
I'm on the ground in Kyoto and back at it. And here's a quick update about the Kyoto Tech Meetup kickoff.Who the meetup is forIf you’re a current/aspiring/recovering developer, indie hacker, or founder who likes starting the day with...
If you're interested in the goings-on of Collxn, I just launched a new blog called Connxn, and with it an article that talks about what's new today.For the most part, I'm going to keep the more developer-y topics on this site. Here's an...
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...