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I founded eSolia, a boutique IT services firm based in Tokyo, in 1999. We passed our 25th anniversary in July 2024 and hope to stay healthy and profitable, working on improving our operations by implementing ISO 27001.

I have spent my career in IT in Japan, doing a wide range of activities, such as compsci tutoring, physical cabling, network engineering, project management, software development, system architecture and design, solution consulting, web design and development, and delivering training courses to name a few. Sometimes I look back with nostalgia on the way things were in the late '80s, but mostly, I like how things are now (you're old if you remember the struggle of autoexec.bat and config.sys, and trying to squeeze drivers into limited memory)!

"Great minds think alike, though fools rarely differ." — Proverb

Working on: Revamp Hanawa CMS

Packed schedule, minimal interruptions

875 commits  |  235 this week  |  🔥 29-day streak

Languages: TypeScript (13) · HTML (2) · CSS (2) · Svelte (1) · Vento (1) Active repos (15): eSolia/esolia-2025 eSolia/codex RickCogley/pub-cogley eSolia/periodic eSolia/nexus and 10 more

Themes: tech personal

Activity: 4 posts this week

📖 User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play by Cliff Kuang, Robert Fabricant

• 💬 Updated 10 SvelteKit apps to use vite 8. Very quick to build, uses rolldown and ... _tech
• 💬 Updated migrate to svelte with several improvements, including a section on Svel... _tech
• 💬 Got some premium mint balm from J. Love the scent and feel of it. Thanks! <i cla... _personal
• 💬 Bing Webmaster Tools is just awful. You do all the recommendations, use IndexNow... _tech
• 💬 Watched a TV show with A about a guy who shelters bitey dangerous dogs that peop... _japan

graph LR
    subgraph "Content Creation"
        A[Markdown Files] --> B[pub-cogley CMS]
        C[Quick Posts] --> B
    end
    subgraph "pub-cogley Platform"
        B --> D[(D1 Database)]
        D --> E[REST API]
        E --> F[api.cogley.jp]
    end
    subgraph "Distribution"
        F --> G[cogley.jp Website]
        F --> H[GitHub Profile README]
        F --> I[Syndication]
    end
    subgraph "Syndication Targets"
        I --> J[Bluesky]
        I --> K[Mastodon]
        I --> L[Nostr]
    end
    style B fill:#f9f,stroke:#333
    style F fill:#bbf,stroke:#333

flowchart TD
    A[New Post Created] --> B{Post Type?}
    B -->|Micro| C[Short-form Content]
    B -->|Article| D[Long-form Content]
    B -->|Podcast| E[Audio Content]
    C --> F[pub-cogley API]
    D --> F
    E --> F
    F --> G[cogley.jp]
    F --> H[Syndicate to Bluesky]
    F --> I[Syndicate to Mastodon]
    F --> J[Syndicate to Nostr]
    F --> K[GitHub README via Lume]
    style F fill:#bbf,stroke:#333
    style G fill:#bfb,stroke:#333

I'm generating this readme using the Lume static site generator, pulling data from my pub-cogley API. See this page for details to get your own!