We can make the computers do things. It turns out that convincing humans is the tricky part.The Turing TestCo-Active CoachingMyers Briggs (16 Personalities)"What to consider when pivoting, from startup founders who got it right"

Here's the links for this week's coffee session!If you only click 2 links, click these:Covid moment for AI (podcast)How to win the wrong AI raceBut also fun AI stuff!OpenClawAssemblyAIDistractor promptOllama

January was a busy month for the Kyoto Tech Meetup. Across the month, we held:1 Community Hack Day4 Morning Tech & CoffeesThis was the first month that we started alternating weekly morning coffees between Thursday and Saturday. It seems to be working so we'll stick with that for February as well.January's Community...

A couple of months after I started the Kyoto Tech Meetup in September last year, we already had some disparate homes and content on the web. We moved quickly from just having a Meetup.com page to also having a Discord server, a GitHub org, and content published by members of the community.I found it hard to answer...

Today was our last Kyoto Tech Meetup event of the year! As a quick recap, our first meetup was in September, and since then we've done 8 events:6 Morning Tech & Coffee sessions2 Community Hack DaysI want to say a massive thanks to everyone in the group. My original intent was to do 3–4 coffee sessions this year to...

Now that we are doing the coffee meetups weekly, I was going to stop writing these wrap-up posts. But it turns out people were getting some use out of them! So I'll try and keep them going.This one is going to be a mish-mash of last week and this week to the extent that I remember them.Michael Lopp (Rands) – Books:...

Yesterday we held our second Community Hack Day with the Kyoto Tech Meetup in space provided by FabCafe Kyoto. This post is a quick wrap-up of the day!What we worked onThis time around, we all split up into solo projects with an aim to make some progress and report back by the end of the day.Projects included:New...

For the month of December, the Kyoto Tech Meetup is trying the Morning Tech & Coffee series as a weekly event. Still the same format: meet at the same cafe, grab seats, and just chat tech before work. The conversation drifted across projects, tools, and whatever links people had been thinking about recently.One...

powRSS is an RSS feed aggregator created by Pablo Enoc. As a lover of RSS and RSS-related tools, I reached out to see if I could get this very site added to powRSS. I'm excited to share that ashryan.io is now on powRSS.One fun feature of powRSS is a "Random" button where you get a random post from one of the blogs...

Yesterday we held our first Community Hack Day with the Kyoto Tech Meetup. This post is a quick wrap-up of the day!What we worked onThe idea behind the hack day is let people choose their own adventure, with an emphasis on community-oriented projects where possible. Projects included:A first revision on the base...

Kyoto Tech Meetup's first Community Hack Day is coming up this week, on November 22, from 10:00 to 16:00.The goal is simple: get together and let community members work on projects that contribute to the community iteself. Anyone can show up and build something on their own or with others.Why a hack dayOur usual...

Our latest Kyoto Morning Tech & Coffee brought together founders, engineers, designers, and researchers from Kyoto and beyond. Conversation flowed between cultural differences in company structure, startup life, and good spots to co-work in Kyoto. This meetup is always agenda-free and super casual. The only...