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2025

Run Django and ASP.NET apps together in Oracle Compute VM with Docker
August 16, 2025
Deploy an ASP.NET Core app to Oracle Ampere Linux VM using Docker
August 11, 2025
My treasure box from Japan, #3: People
August 9, 2025
My treasure box from Japan, #2: Places
August 7, 2025
My treasure box from Japan, #1: Art
August 7, 2025
My treasure box from Japan
August 7, 2025
Arimoto Yoko on honing one’s own taste for good living
August 6, 2025
Performance benchmarking of embedding similarity search: ChromaDB vs. PostgreSQL pgvector
July 27, 2025
Deploy Django app to Linux VM with Nginx and Gunicorn in Oracle Cloud
July 18, 2025
How to blog from iPhone using Hugo, Github and Obsidian
July 8, 2025
Deploy Hugo blog automatically to Firebase hosting with Github Actions
July 6, 2025
Perform multimodal and spatial search using PostgreSQL as a vector db
July 4, 2025
Setting up PostgreSQL for vector search in Windows Linux Subsystem
July 3, 2025
Somatic healing: mind-body connection for healthy living
June 26, 2025
How to streamline theme switching in Hugo
June 24, 2025
Japanese NLP: Challenges, Latest Developments in LLMs, and Business Opportunities
June 20, 2025
Evaluate threshold and density-based clustering algorithms with parameter tuning
June 13, 2025
Perform multimodal image search and visualization using CLIP, ChromaDB, UMAP and Bokeh
May 31, 2025
Generate meaningful insights from Japanese content with Topic Modeling using BERTopic
May 4, 2025
The joy of reading, as echoed by the book Hidden Library
March 16, 2025
Why we created FindMyRyokan, a ryokan recommender
March 9, 2025
How I become a more effective learner with adaptive learning
January 27, 2025
Build a second brain with Obsidian as my Knowledge Management System
January 17, 2025
2024 in recap - my most favorite content
January 10, 2025

2024

My learning journey on Coursera and MOOC platforms
September 21, 2024
Creating Value, Not Just Products - Lessons from Keyence
September 18, 2024
Debunking the creative process : how non-creatives can harness creativity with routines, linking and practice
July 14, 2024
Too much creativity, or too little humanity in a GenAI priest
May 24, 2024
Nakano Yoshihisa on always living in the present moment
March 28, 2024
Innovations by Japanese booksellers to bring people back to reading and gathering
February 3, 2024
Out with negative content, in with nutrients for our mind
January 28, 2024
Wakamiya Masako, world’s oldest iOS programmer, on lifelong learning and aging wisely
January 18, 2024
Minimalist living in Tokyo opens up a big world
January 13, 2024
Regain your innate calmness with renowned Zen master, Thich Nhat Hanh
January 3, 2024

2023

2023 Books Recap
December 31, 2023
Recalibrate our brain with mindfulness
December 21, 2023
Matsuura Yataro on training oneself for thoughtful and tasteful living
December 9, 2023
Tsutaya - transforming physical bookstores into concierges for idea exchange and lifestyle exploration
November 12, 2023
Recommender Systems - Then and Now
October 29, 2023
Kihon - my fundamentals and principles in life
October 19, 2023
Traveling as a PM dojo
October 4, 2023
7-11 Japan’s hypothesis-driven innovations for product excellency
October 1, 2023
The beauty of practicing Just Enough Design in our daily lives
September 2, 2023
3 things a new hotel brand teaches us about product planning
August 31, 2023
3 time-tested leadership lessons passed down by Japanese temple carpenters 1000 years ago
January 26, 2023
2022 in recap - my most favorite books
January 10, 2023

2022

What can Viktor Frankl’s search for meaning in inevitable sufferings teach us today?
November 25, 2022
‘The Drowned and the Saved’ - an introspection of humanity’s grey zone
October 6, 2022
How to upgrade your Kindle while keeping your existing notes, bookmarks and reading progress
September 5, 2022
How to produce an interactive visualization using Matplotlib in Python
July 28, 2022
Danshari - a radical way to declutter before clutter even happens
July 1, 2022
Integrate Firebase CLI, Hugo & VS Code for a seamless development environment in Windows Linux Subsystem
June 22, 2022
Why do we procrastinate or aim for unachievable perfection, and how to fix it?
June 19, 2022
Improve your reading ROI by building your own knowledge tracking system - Part 3 : Metrics
June 10, 2022
Improve your reading ROI by building your own knowledge tracking system - Part 2 : Build the app
June 1, 2022
Improve your reading ROI by building your own knowledge tracking system - Part 1 : Learn better
May 23, 2022
Setup your own blog in under 1 hour with Hugo and Firebase, all for free!
May 15, 2022