I moved from a tiny 1K to a 2LDK in Tokyo. Here is everything that was worth buying for the new place and the services worth hiring - a budget mover, furniture assembly via Kurashi no Market, and off-model appliance deals - with the real numbers from my card statements.
An honest review of Yamazaki home products — mostly the tower series — after 4.5 years of use. From kitchen staples and repeat purchases to the one product that let me down — ranked straight from my Amazon order history.
July 2026 Ryota-Blog release notes. Migrating from microCMS to Velite + MDX, self-hosting a subsetted font, strengthening the OpenNext cache, and the story of how following a Next.js 16 deprecation warning broke production. This month focuses on internal machinery updates.
A record of migrating an internal TMS's historical dispatch analytics from an RDS staging table to reading gzip CSVs directly from S3. Two out-of-memory crashes, CloudFront's 30-second timeout, Go's substring pinning and the GOMEMLIMIT trap — and the lessons learned.