Three weeks in Japan, and a top-ten list in the works. Two of the nights that already made it:
May 2026Kotsu, a site I built to learn Japanese.
Open kotsu.org → Read how I built it →I stopped running someone else's agent harness and built my own in about 250 lines of TypeScript — plexus — then plugged it into gbrain for memory. Here's the whole setup and how it fits together.
I'm going to Japan in 2 months. Instead of paying for another app, I built a Japanese learning plugin for Claude Code and used it to learn conversational Japanese for free — using Claude Pro I already pay for.
I had the incredible opportunity to explore a town in Sicily where my ancestors once resided and engage with the local officials.
