Blog Archives

• 📏 Weekly Measure: 2024 W50 2024-12-15
• 🖥️ Migrating to NearlyFreeSpeech.NET 2024-12-15
• 📏 Weekly Measure: 2024 W46 2024-11-15
• 🎮 Renkon Plays Pokemon Fools Gold, Part 1 2024-10-12
• 📝 Buffering 2024-09-23
• 🎮 The race is on 2024-08-26
• 📝 Crabby 2024-07-08
• 📝 Regarding douZINE, again 2024-04-09
• 📝 First snow of the season 2024-02-05
• ✍️ Girls' Day postmortem 2024-01-22
• 🖥️ Migrating to Eleventy 2023-11-15
• 🗂️ Anki Guide #5: Reviewing and organizing your Anki collection 2023-11-06
• 🗂️ Anki Guide #4: Making a kanji deck 2023-11-04
• 🗂️ Anki Guide #3: Cloze deletions 2023-11-04
• 🗂️ Anki Guide #2: Recall cards, sentences, and editing furigana 2023-11-04
• 🗂️ Anki Guide #1: Setting up Japanese flashcards and furigana 2023-11-04
• 📝 Whatever happened to October? 2023-11-03
• 📝 Slump 2023-09-11
• 📝 Whoops 2023-08-11
• 📝 Friturday 2023-07-28
• ✍️ The Hunter and the Mikoshi Nyudo 2023-07-25
• 📝 The Dog Days 2023-07-21
• 📝 Friday Fundays 2023-07-14
• 📝 Indiepocalypse Presents: インディー通信 Indie Tsushin 2023-05-03
• 📝 The April Fool 2023-04-02
• 📝 Year of the Rabbit 2023-01-17
• 🎮 GOODBYE WORLD 2022-12-12
• 📝 インディー通信 Indie Tsushin Revival Tour 2022-12-11
• 📝 Tired of being sick 2022-11-25
• 📝 Finally got the 'rona 2022-11-23
• 📝 Is it really November already?! 2022-11-09
• 📝 Summertime 2022-08-05
• 📝 Rediscovering my love for Web 1.0 2022-06-06
• 📝 Living the Yuru Camp Life 2022-05-23
• 📝 End of Golden Week 2022-05-05
• 📝 Hello, World! 2022-04-28

Learning Japanese with Anki

Beginner-friendly series of guides on studying Japanese with Anki.

• 🗂️ Anki Guide #1: Setting up Japanese flashcards and furigana 2023-11-04 » Let's get your Japanese deck set up with furigana!
• 🗂️ Anki Guide #2: Recall cards, sentences, and editing furigana 2023-11-04 » Building on the basics to cover Recall cards, sentences, and editing furigana!
• 🗂️ Anki Guide #3: Cloze deletions 2023-11-04 » Learning how to make notes with cloze deletions!
• 🗂️ Anki Guide #4: Making a kanji deck 2023-11-04 » Let's practice writing kanji with a dedicated Anki kanji deck!
• 🗂️ Anki Guide #5: Reviewing and organizing your Anki collection 2023-11-06 » Organize your collection with tags, then review your cards using powerful Filtered Decks!

Misc Guides

• 🖥️ Migrating to Eleventy 2023-11-15 » I migrated my site from Zonelets to Eleventy, and here's how!
• 🖥️ Migrating to NearlyFreeSpeech.NET 2024-12-15 » Some of my notes from migrating my sites from Neocities to NearlyFreeSpeech.NET!

Photos and galleries of pictures I’ve taken of which I am especially proud.

• 📏 Weekly Measure: 2024 W50 2024-12-15 » Weekly update for 2024 W50, featuring a photo walk through Ōfuna Flower Center!

Select entries of which I am particularly proud.

Short Fiction

• ✍️ The Hunter and the Mikoshi Nyudo 2023-07-25 » A short yokai story extracted from my NaNoWriMo 2020 project of fictionalized Japanese folktales.

Personal Essays

• ✍️ Girls' Day postmortem 2024-01-22 » Reflecting on family, Girls' Day, and memory.

Video Games

These are more off-the-cuff thoughts. For ✨good✨ video games stuff, please visit インディー通信 Indie Tsushin.

• 🎮 Renkon Plays Pokemon Fools Gold, Part 1 2024-10-12 » Part one of my screenshot playthrough of Pokemon Fool's Gold on my Miyoo Mini Plus! Originally posted to Mastodon and archived here for posterity.
• 🎮 The race is on 2024-08-26 » Playing through Final Fantasy 4 (GBA version) against Daikon (SFC version)! These are archives of the first batch of Mastodon live-toots about it.
• 🎮 GOODBYE WORLD 2022-12-12 » My thoughts on GOODBYE WORLD by YO FUJII.

Weekly check-in posts.

• 📏 Weekly Measure: 2024 W50 2024-12-15
• 📏 Weekly Measure: 2024 W46 2024-11-15

Miscellaneous stuff that doesn’t really fit anywhere else.

• 📝 Buffering 2024-09-23 » The end of cohost, refreshing the website, getting back into photography (maybe), and autumn video game events
• 📝 Crabby 2024-07-08 » Long time no see again, eh
• 📝 Regarding douZINE, again 2024-04-09 » A post about douZINE and my history with its organizer, npckc
• 📝 First snow of the season 2024-02-05 » Happy new year! Wait, what do you mean it's already February...
• 📝 Whatever happened to October? 2023-11-03 » Shhh, don't look at the calendar, this is just my usual weekly check-in right on time...
• 📝 Slump 2023-09-11 » I'm back with another check-in, only one month late!
• 📝 Whoops 2023-08-11 » Checking in for a Friday post after accidentally missing last week's, whoops!!
• 📝 Friturday 2023-07-28 » A quick Friday check-in post!
• 📝 The Dog Days 2023-07-21 » Friday check-in! Preparing for Tokyo Game Dungeon, playing Roadwarden and Theatrhythm, and reading Rikka Zine!
• 📝 Friday Fundays 2023-07-14 » Checking in on Fridays to get in the habit of blogging more! Weekend in Gunma, Tokyo Game Dungeon prep, and stray thoughts on games we played.
• 📝 Indiepocalypse Presents: インディー通信 Indie Tsushin 2023-05-03 » Celebrating the Indiepocalypse Presents: インディー通信 Indie Tsushin issue breaking even, and a reflection on working on it!
• 📝 The April Fool 2023-04-02 » Camping, projects, game events, oh my! 2023 has been busy so far!
• 📝 Year of the Rabbit 2023-01-17 » Happy New Year! Talking about Indie Tsushin and some other stuff, plus goals for 2023.
• 📝 インディー通信 Indie Tsushin Revival Tour 2022-12-11 » Talking about all the work and upcoming projects I have planned for the revived インディー通信 Indie Tsushin blog!
• 📝 Tired of being sick 2022-11-25 » Rambling about the latest Pokemon games and their reviews, plus some short story recs
• 📝 Finally got the 'rona 2022-11-23 » It's finally happened. We got COVID.
• 📝 Is it really November already?! 2022-11-09 » Catching up on life stuff.
• 📝 Summertime 2022-08-05 » Odds and ends from the summer '22.
• 📝 Rediscovering my love for Web 1.0 2022-06-06 » Website nostalgia and Choju Yokai Giga.
• 📝 Living the Yuru Camp Life 2022-05-23 » Camping and #Unity1Week stuff.
• 📝 End of Golden Week 2022-05-05 » It's Children's Day in Japan, which means Golden Week is nearly over.
• 📝 Hello, World! 2022-04-28 » Testing out Zonelets and Neocities.