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I recently learned about the wcurl command. It’s a wrapper around curl , focused on making downloading files simple without passing options. It has some heuristics to figure out what to do with the given URLs, and in my testing it’s pretty good. For simple file downloading, I think this will replace regular curl calls for me.
I was muttering the abbreviation API (a, pee, eye) under my breath, and shifted over one phonetic stop to “ ape pee eye”. The puerile interpretation is right up front, which did make me giggle, but it also made me question if there was anything that actually existed with that sound. I searched Kagi for “Ape PI”, and the first result was the ancient Egyptian ruler Apepi . I didn’t find a…
Why I added a Markdown representation to the Kyoto Tech Meetup website, and where it fits alongside WebMCP and APIs.
Watched on Friday August 7, 2026.
This month, or rather last month as I'm a few days late, I spent back in my home town: São Paulo, Brazil. Jam sessions with my brother During my stay, me and my brother met a few times to play together. He played the drums, I played the piano. We …
Still the best.
I was randomly curious the other day, and looked up bands from New York City on Wikipedia. I noted down every one I recognized; it’s a very musically diverse list, and there were a few surprises, at least for me. Do you see anything that ties them all together? I’ll give you a hint: I don’t. A Tribe Called Quest Anthrax Beastie Boys Blondie Blood, Sweat, and Tears Blue Oyster Cult Brand New C+C…
How I added WebMCP tools to a static site, and how to inspect them in Chrome DevTools.
Collxn Pulse worked because a real person at an audio fingerprinting API helped unlock messier record matching.
Last weekend me and my girlfriend went on a trip to Wildwood, NJ. As we walked around, we started noticing way too many cool neon signs. Intrigued, we did some research and made a wonderful discovery: Wildwood is "the Doo Wop capital of the USA". Naturally we decided to walk …
Simple strategies for keeping your vibe on the rails
I guess I can't help myself
Links. Just the links.
Brace expansion
How I stood up a privacy-friendly analytics stack for my personal sites — Plausible CE on an exe.dev VM, with TLS handled by the proxy.
Posting for Kyoto Tech Meetup
A call for organizers to help our meetup grow and evolve
Every once in a while you play a game that is unlike any other, that transcends genres, that you can feel the author speaking through it to you, and that you can tell will stick around in your mind in some way or another probably forever. Hyperbeat is one of …
Catch "oh $%#!" commits with gitleaks
As a non-large language model, I have no idea how to summarize the sheer breadth of these links.
Learn how Git worktrees let you work on multiple branches from one repository, speed up context switching, and simplify parallel development workflows.
MCPs? Skills? Tools? Raw LLM? What's today's AI weather?
Devbox + Nix
Render preview environments require Blueprints, but a GitHub issue suggested a Terraform + GitHub Actions workaround. I built a reusable module for it.
Time management, OpenClaw, cherry blossoms, and more
A recap of what we built and info on the next hack event in March.
"Humans are hard" edition
It's AI all the way down.
Updates from our morning coffee and hack day events last month. Also, this month's schedule.
TL;DR: Astro, React, Tailwind, GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages, RSS.
This year I bought more shirts than ever. Mostly because I decided to go to as many concerts as I possibly could. With the year coming to a close, I thought this would be a good moment to look back at the shirts I collected throughout the year and see …
Recapping what the Kyoto Tech Meetup has been up to in 2025.
Highlights from the Kyoto Tech Meetup: engineering management books, Supabase, AI stuff, tech career sites in Japan
A recap of the December Kyoto Tech Meetup Community Hack Day at FabCafe Kyoto. AI projects, site features, dev tools, and more!
Highlights from this week’s Kyoto Tech Meetup: AI tools for database design, project shares, and more.
ashryan.io is now on RSS feed aggregator powRSS.
Slightly late for November, but better late than never! As November rolled by, and the Christmas mood took over, I put on an old school Christmas songs playlist on YouTube . Many of the songs I was hearing for the first time. A few of my favorites were Carol of the …
Lorem CLI