Last Updated:  February 28th, 2026 at 9:23:26 AM GMT+9 Today is:  Friday, March 13, 2026

Hi there 👋

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)!

"Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back." — Proverb

😤 Currently: Swamped

Working on: Revamp Hanawa CMS

Packed schedule, minimal interruptions

GitHub Activity (last 30 days)

862 commits  |  199 this week  |  🔥 29-day streak

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

What I'm Up To This Week

Themes: personal tech

Activity: 2 posts this week

Currently Reading

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

Latest Posts

• 💬 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
• 💬 Got some made-in-Japan Shoes Like Pottery shoes, which are super comfy. They are... _personal
• 💬 J brought Matterhorn choco and K brought homemade cookies and bread, we're bless... _personal

Content Stats

Type	Count
Posts	2249
Articles	61
Podcasts	9
Pages	10

System Architecture

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

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Content Flow

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

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Build Stats

Item	Value
Repo Total Files	7
Repo Size in KB	5016
Lume Version	v2.5.0
Deno Version	2.7.5 (linux x86_64)
V8 Version	14.6.202.9-rusty
Typescript Version	5.9.2
Timezone	Asia/Tokyo

How does this readme work?

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!

Tech Stack