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.
Latest Posts
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...
As a solo founder, I wear every hat: strategy, UX, data, code, infra, support, and more. To stay fast and coherent, I keep a lightweight product system inside my monorepo and pair it with a role-specific AI assistants that let me “switch...
I’m excited to announce the Kyoto Tech Meetup: a weekly, early-morning coffee hang for anyone building software or hardware in Kyoto.Why mornings? Over years of co-organizing Founders Friday and Astoria Tech Meetup in NYC, I've found...
A curated portfolio of my work, including talks, writing, open source projects, and conference contributions from 2015 to present.
Get past context, future explorations, and what I'm focused on today on 3 simple pages.
A recap of the sessions I've led at ITP Camp 2025 thus far. AI coding and records, of course.
Don't read this if you plan to live forever.
NYU ITP Summer Camp starts again next week. I'm pondering what sessions I might facilitate.
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.
A short note on building the Collxn prototype in Val Town and presenting it at the first Val Town Hall.
Sharing a few of my favorites from Color Studies Studio
Wherein I feel ways about not being able to script through my own health data
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.
Some updates for Subcurrent, an open source service that creates a stream of content from the Astoria tech community.