akari.log — English articles feedhttps://akari-iku.github.io/enhttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/why-i-chose-astro-and-github-pages/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/why-i-chose-astro-and-github-pages/The full thought process behind building my personal site with Astro + GitHub Pages: a Cloudflare Pages comparison, the Public Suffix List, and why an SEO zero-start doesn't scare me.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/should-you-upgrade-to-typescript-7-yet/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/should-you-upgrade-to-typescript-7-yet/TypeScript 7.0 is GA and genuinely fast. I benchmarked it on a real Astro site (5x faster), watched astro check crash, and mapped out who can upgrade now and who should wait for 7.1.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/base64-fell-in-with-the-wrong-crowd/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/base64-fell-in-with-the-wrong-crowd/Is your Claude Code safe? Six months after befriending Base64, I keep finding them in shady places: hidden in supply chain attacks, MCP exploits, and AI agent compromises. A 2026 misuse tour for developers.Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/sweet-dreams-claude-auto-dream/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/sweet-dreams-claude-auto-dream/Claude Code's /memory menu quietly shows an Auto-dream toggle that nobody can turn on. I dug into the source code and a related research paper to figure out what it is and why it matters.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/gws-cli-design-philosophy/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/gws-cli-design-philosophy/What started as a tech blog about building a CLI for Google Workspace turned out to be a masterclass in trust boundary design for AI agentsSat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/windows-gotchas-claude-code/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/windows-gotchas-claude-code/A practical guide to Windows-specific pitfalls when using Claude Code, from image pasting shortcuts to shell quirks.Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/per-step-constraint-design-claude-code-skills/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/per-step-constraint-design-claude-code-skills/Why Claude Code Skills drift, and how per-step constraint design reduces those 'no, not like that' momentsSat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/ive-organised-the-claude-code-commands-including-some-hidden/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/ive-organised-the-claude-code-commands-including-some-hidden/Greetings from the island nation of Japan. In an era where we outsource our cognitive heavy lifting...Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/gas-x-geminiprompt-to-create-an-in-house-web-app-with-uiux-a/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/gas-x-geminiprompt-to-create-an-in-house-web-app-with-uiux-a/Greetings from the island nation of Japan. We live in an era of AI-driven dreams, yet we still spend...Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/zenn-auto-translation/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/zenn-auto-translation/In January 2026, Japan's dev platform Zenn shipped AI auto-translation with default ON. Eight hours later it was OFF. A field report on product development, consent, and why translation is harder than it looks.Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/is-json-outdated-the-reasons-why-the-new-llm-era-format-toon/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/is-json-outdated-the-reasons-why-the-new-llm-era-format-toon/TOON vs JSON: A Token-Efficient Data Format for LLM Applications ...Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/increase-my-familiarity-with-base64/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/increase-my-familiarity-with-base64/Greetings from the island nation of Japan. Here in the age of shiny Multimodal AI, we have a...Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/in-2025-ai-regulations-were-established-in-four-major-global/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/in-2025-ai-regulations-were-established-in-four-major-global/Greetings from the island nation of Japan. We often observe the complex, multi-layered strategies of...Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/a-cynics-guidethe-paradox-of-selecting-diagramming-tools-whi/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/a-cynics-guidethe-paradox-of-selecting-diagramming-tools-whi/Greetings from the island nation of Japan. Here, surrounded by the sea and a deeply ingrained...Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/rag-architecture-design-theory-and-conceptual-organization-i/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/rag-architecture-design-theory-and-conceptual-organization-i/Greetings from the island nation of Japan. This article attempts a rather ambitious feat: bringing a...Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/llms-learn-from-pseudoscientific-papers-too-quality-control-/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/llms-learn-from-pseudoscientific-papers-too-quality-control-/Introduction An incident occurred where a press release claiming \"All Millennium Prize...Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/analyzing-the-best-diagramming-tools-for-the-llm-age-based-o/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/analyzing-the-best-diagramming-tools-for-the-llm-age-based-o/What is everyone using!? The Diagram Tool Wars in the LLM Era Our Shared...Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/ai-chatbot-developers-whats-the-other-safety-we-should-be-th/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/ai-chatbot-developers-whats-the-other-safety-we-should-be-th/California Bill Highlights User Protection Perspective in AI ...Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/google-opal-is-not-a-degraded-dify-its-strategic-positioning/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/google-opal-is-not-a-degraded-dify-its-strategic-positioning/Greetings from Japan. My devotion to Google runs deep, and colleagues jokingly ask if I'm planning to...Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/ai-makes-it-cheaper-right-is-this-happening-in-your-country-/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/ai-makes-it-cheaper-right-is-this-happening-in-your-country-/The other day, I read an article written by someone working at a web design company, and I couldn't...Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/beyond-yaml-logic-compression-for-50-llm-cost-latency-reduct/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/beyond-yaml-logic-compression-for-50-llm-cost-latency-reduct/Greetings from the island nation of Japan. In programming, what we fear is spaghetti code. In prompt...Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/when-your-ceo-says-lets-use-ai-a-technology-selection-surviv/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/when-your-ceo-says-lets-use-ai-a-technology-selection-surviv/Greetings from Japan. The CEO declares: ‘Let's introduce generative AI to improve operational...Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/the-era-of-choosing-rag-learning-cognitive-load-and-architec/https://akari-iku.github.io/en/blog/the-era-of-choosing-rag-learning-cognitive-load-and-architec/Greetings from the island nation of Japan. My English may be rather difficult to read. But I would be...Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT