Give agents a Markdown version of your site
Why I added a Markdown representation to the Kyoto Tech Meetup website, and where it fits alongside WebMCP and APIs.
Ash Ryan Arnwine | Writing
Writing from Ash Ryan Arnwine.
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WebMCP for Browser Agents
How I added WebMCP tools to a static site, and how to inspect them in Chrome DevTools.
The human touch still matters for API platforms
Collxn Pulse worked because a real person at an audio fingerprinting API helped unlock messier record matching.
Aligning Coding Agents
Simple strategies for keeping your vibe on the rails
My third year leading AI coding sessions at ITP Camp
I guess I can't help myself
Kyoto Tech Meetup Coffee links for May 9
Links. Just the links.
Test for Discord
Posting for Kyoto Tech Meetup
Help Shape Kyoto Tech Meetup
A call for organizers to help our meetup grow and evolve
Kyoto Tech Meetup links for March 19, 2026
As a non-large language model, I have no idea how to summarize the sheer breadth of these links.
Kyoto Tech Meetup links for March 14, 20206
MCPs? Skills? Tools? Raw LLM? What's today's AI weather?
Kyoto Tech Meetup links for March 5, 2026
Time management, OpenClaw, cherry blossoms, and more
February Community Hack Day wrap-up
A recap of what we built and info on the next hack event in March.
Kyoto Tech Meetup links for February 19, 2026
"Humans are hard" edition
Kyoto Tech Meetup links for Feb 14, 2026
It's AI all the way down.
Kyoto Tech Meetup: January 2026 wrap-up
Updates from our morning coffee and hack day events last month. Also, this month's schedule.
How the Kyoto Tech Meetup website works
TL;DR: Astro, React, Tailwind, GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages, RSS.
Kyoto Tech Meetup: 2025 wrap-up
Recapping what the Kyoto Tech Meetup has been up to in 2025.
Kyoto Tech Meetup: Dec 11 and 18 Wrap-Ups
Highlights from the Kyoto Tech Meetup: engineering management books, Supabase, AI stuff, tech career sites in Japan
Kyoto Tech Meetup Community Hack Day Wrap-up for December
A recap of the December Kyoto Tech Meetup Community Hack Day at FabCafe Kyoto. AI projects, site features, dev tools, and more!
Kyoto Tech Meetup: Dec 4 Wrap-Up
Highlights from this week’s Kyoto Tech Meetup: AI tools for database design, project shares, and more.
powRSS
ashryan.io is now on RSS feed aggregator powRSS.
Kyoto Tech Meetup Community Hack Day Wrap Up
Websites, LLMs, RAG systems, databases, and more at our first Community Hack Day.
Kyoto Tech Meetup’s First Hack Day
The first Kyoto Tech Meetup Community Hack Day is coming up. We've also got a GitHub org and a starter site.
Kyoto Tech Meetup: Nov 13 Wrap-Up ☕
Highlights from the Nov 13 Kyoto Tech Meetup. AI consulting, cybersecurity in Japan, Astro.js, creative side projects, and more.
Quietly intelligent app features with OpenAI Agent Builder
How I used OpenAI’s Agent Builder to power an “invisible AI” feature in Collxn. What I learned about LLM reliability, schema design, and control.
Kyoto Tech Meetup: Oct 30 Wrap-Up
Highlights from the Oct 30 Kyoto Tech Meetup: AI tools, local dev chat, open source picks, and more from Kyoto’s growing tech community.
Kyoto Morning Tech & Coffee: October
This month's edition of our little morning tech meetup is scheduled.
Taking Control of Structured Data in Ghost
Notes on setting up structured data a Ghost theme, including how to handle static and dynamic data.
"Just 20 more minutes..."
On taking notes at the end of workday
PechaKucha Night Kyoto
After a decade away, I’m back co-organizing PechaKucha Night Kyoto.
Links from the First Kyoto Tech Meetup
Roundup of links from the first Kyoto Tech Meetup: AI tools, local LLMs, Val Town experiments, and a coffee+vinyl record shop recommendation.
Kyoto Morning Tech & Coffee: First Session Is On
Morning Tech & Coffee launches in Kyoto this month. Software & hardware builders feel free to drop in.
New Collxn site and blog
Who dis.
Behind the Drop: Collxn's Daily Email Stack
How Collxn’s Daily Drop email works: a simple service stack for fetching, rendering, sending, logging, and running safely in previews.
From Vision to Version: My Doc-Driven, AI-Assisted Product Workflow
How I use a simple wiki structure in my monorepo to manage product alongside AI agents in my IDE.
Help Kickstart the Kyoto Tech Meetup: Morning Coffee Edition
Kyoto Tech Meetup launches weekly morning coffee sessions. Connect with local software and hardware builders, share projects, and help select our first cafe.
New Portfolio Page
A curated portfolio of my work, including talks, writing, open source projects, and conference contributions from 2015 to present.
AboutIdeasNow
Get past context, future explorations, and what I'm focused on today on 3 simple pages.
NYU ITP Camp 2025, week 1
A recap of the sessions I've led at ITP Camp 2025 thus far. AI coding and records, of course.
Your periodic reminder of the impermanence of all things
Don't read this if you plan to live forever.
Oops all BK: NYU ITP in June
NYU ITP Summer Camp starts again next week. I'm pondering what sessions I might facilitate.
Astoria Tech Meetup, late May
Astoria Tech Meetup goings-on. Within is a partial recap of last week's event, as well as links for you to RSVP for our hack session coming up this week.
Val Town Prototype Showcase
A short note on building the Collxn prototype in Val Town and presenting it at the first Val Town Hall.
Color Studies Studio
Sharing a few of my favorites from Color Studies Studio
The short answer? A lot of bullshit.
Wherein I feel ways about not being able to script through my own health data
Collxn
I'm working on something new to help me explore my record collection in new ways. I think other collectors may find it fun too.
WE HAVE APOSTROPHES Y'ALL
Some updates for Subcurrent, an open source service that creates a stream of content from the Astoria tech community.
Don’t Subject Yourself to an Endless Stream of Answers
With LLMs, looking for the big picture or seeking the pros, cons, and white space in and around my path of inquiry is really all on me as the human.
No cloud required: local LLMs as a practical app dependency
TL;DR: Ollama on a MacBook Air with M4 is great and it's a taste of the future. Developers should try it now.
Gall's law
"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked."