What I’m doing now

📍 Location

Based in Tokyo, Japan, working remotely and exploring the local dev community.

💻 Currently Building

ThreeWeigh - A Rails 8 weight tracker and intermittent fasting app built with Hotwire. Experimenting with real-time features and modern Rails patterns.

YenKit - Financial calculators and tools specifically for expats living in Japan. Built with React Router to help people understand taxes, pension calculations, and cost of living.

keio-course - Distance learning management tool for Keio University students. Built with Next.js.

🌱 Learning

• Rails 8 + Hotwire - Diving deep into Turbo and Stimulus for building reactive applications without heavy JavaScript
• Astro 5 - Exploring modern SSG/SSR patterns with this portfolio site
• Infrastructure Engineering - Transitioning my career focus (see my blog post)

📚 Reading & Watching

• Technical deep-dives on Rails internals
• Anime and manga that inspire my coding approach
• Tokyo dev meetup content

🎯 Current Focus

Looking for opportunities in infrastructure engineering while building side projects. Documenting my journey through blog posts about:

• Job switching in Japan’s tech market
• Building indie hacker projects
• Lessons from the Tokyo dev scene

This is a /now page. It’s like a public declaration of priorities that helps me stay focused.

Last updated: November 21, 2025