October 2025

How to setup auto renewal of SSL certificates with Certbot in Oracle Linux
Enhancing Hugo code blocks with Copy Button and Dynamic Titles
How to use custom fonts in a Hugo blog
How to build a theme‑agnostic site search overlay in Hugo
Organize a Hugo blog with Series taxonomy

September 2025

How to use Oracle Cloud Free-Tier’s Storage more effectively
How to run llama.cpp on Arm-based Ampere with Oracle Linux
Serve and inference with local LLMs via Ollama & Docker Model Runner in Oracle Ampere
Running LLMs locally on Ampere A1 Linux VM: Comparing options
Using modern Japanese NLP tools for language learning

August 2025

Automating deployment workflow with GitLab CI/CD
Beyond Docker Hub: free private container registry options
Run Django and ASP.NET apps together in Oracle Compute VM with Docker
Deploy an ASP.NET Core app to Oracle Ampere Linux VM using Docker
My treasure box from Japan, #3: People
My treasure box from Japan, #2: Places
My treasure box from Japan, #1: Art
My treasure box from Japan
Arimoto Yoko on honing one’s own taste for good living

July 2025

Performance benchmarking of embedding similarity search: ChromaDB vs. PostgreSQL pgvector
Deploy Django app to Linux VM with Nginx and Gunicorn in Oracle Cloud
Mobile blogging with Hugo, Github and Obsidian
Deploy Hugo blog automatically to Firebase hosting with Github Actions
Perform multimodal and spatial search using PostgreSQL as a vector db
Setting up PostgreSQL for vector search in Windows Linux Subsystem

June 2025

Somatic healing: mind-body connection for healthy living
How to enable comments in a Hugo blog
How to streamline theme switching in Hugo
Japanese NLP: Challenges, Latest Developments in LLMs, and Business Opportunities
Evaluate threshold and density-based clustering algorithms with parameter tuning

May 2025

Perform multimodal image search and visualization using CLIP, ChromaDB, UMAP and Bokeh
Generate meaningful insights from Japanese content with Topic Modeling using BERTopic

March 2025

The joy of reading, as echoed by the book Hidden Library
Why we created FindMyRyokan, a ryokan recommender

January 2025

How I become a more effective learner with adaptive learning
Build a second brain with Obsidian as my Knowledge Management System
2024 in recap - my most favorite content

September 2024

My learning journey on Coursera and MOOC platforms
Creating Value, Not Just Products - Lessons from Keyence

July 2024

Debunking the creative process : how non-creatives can harness creativity with routines, linking and practice

May 2024

Too much creativity, or too little humanity in a GenAI priest

March 2024

Nakano Yoshihisa on always living in the present moment

February 2024

Innovations by Japanese booksellers to bring people back to reading and gathering

January 2024

Out with negative content, in with nutrients for our mind
Wakamiya Masako, world’s oldest iOS programmer, on lifelong learning and aging wisely
Minimalist living in Tokyo opens up a big world
Regain your innate calmness with renowned Zen master, Thich Nhat Hanh

December 2023

2023 Books Recap
Recalibrate our brain with mindfulness
Matsuura Yataro on training oneself for thoughtful and tasteful living

November 2023

Tsutaya - transforming physical bookstores into concierges for idea exchange and lifestyle exploration

October 2023

Recommender Systems - Then and Now
Kihon - my fundamentals and principles in life
Traveling as a PM dojo
7-11 Japan’s hypothesis-driven innovations for product excellency

September 2023

The beauty of practicing Just Enough Design in our daily lives

August 2023

3 things a new hotel brand teaches us about product planning

January 2023

3 time-tested leadership lessons passed down by Japanese temple carpenters 1000 years ago
2022 in recap - my most favorite books

November 2022

What can Viktor Frankl’s search for meaning in inevitable sufferings teach us today?

October 2022

‘The Drowned and the Saved’ - an introspection of humanity’s grey zone

September 2022

How to upgrade your Kindle while keeping your existing notes, bookmarks and reading progress

July 2022

How to produce an interactive visualization using Matplotlib in Python
Danshari - a radical way to declutter before clutter even happens

June 2022

Integrate Firebase CLI, Hugo & VS Code for a seamless development environment in Windows Linux Subsystem
Why do we procrastinate or aim for unachievable perfection, and how to fix it?
Improve your reading ROI by building your own knowledge tracking system - Part 3 : Metrics
Improve your reading ROI by building your own knowledge tracking system - Part 2 : Build the app

May 2022

Improve your reading ROI by building your own knowledge tracking system - Part 1 : Learn better
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