J brought Matterhorn choco and K brought homemade cookies and bread, we're blessed! ☕ https://cogley.jp/posts/01KHZH9EG12EMBXG3G9Y79YYED

Enabling WebMCP Tools on my SvelteKit Migration Reference WebMCP gives AI agents the option to call code and get structured answers directly, so I added it to https://svelte.cogley.jp for better integration. https://cogley.jp/articles/enabling-webmcp-tools-on-my-sveltekit-migration-reference

Markdown for Agents on SvelteKit + Cloudflare Workers Serve the AI crawlers markdown to make it easier for them to summarize your site. If you serve them HTML, they waste tokens parsing HTML. If you serve them compact… https://cogley.jp/articles/markdown-for-agents-on-sveltekit-cloudflare-workers

Call it a day and I’ll see you in the morging

There were none but Twister was released in 1966! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twister...

I had used CocoaTech Path Finder Finder replacement and was going to try again but their AI chatbot couldn’t tell me if it runs on Tahoe, and the website is uncanny valley creepy now, so I’m trying Bloom App. So far so good! https://cogley.jp/posts/01KHFNKSRH28GV673W94Q7TD5F

I rode the scooter down Rt 30 to T-Site Shonan in Fujisawa, thinking how I’d never do that on the Rt 30 near home in PA! ⚠️ https://cogley.jp/posts/01KHFMPZC1F7AFMRT4TCTRD2DQ

Struggling with GoDaddy support. Moved a domain's NS to Cloudflare, then setting DNSSEC, for which GD are required to submit a DS record to the parent zone (managed by the TLD registry, e.g., JPRS for .jp), but they claim the NS has to be contr… https://cogley.jp/posts/01KHAEK1Z0V5PPKTMC5MBPXKRA

Migrate to Svelte 5 — An Interactive Reference for Framework Refugees You've been working in React (or Vue, or Angular) for years, shipping production code, wrestling with dependency arrays, wrapping vanilla JS libraries in fra… https://cogley.jp/articles/migrate-to-svelte-5-interactive-reference

My contribution to the math discourse is that it would be cool to have a middle school class that's just defense against scams & manipulation: Compound interest Gambling odds Survey sampling The field of economics etc. Word problems aside, I never understood why math is taught absent context.

Saw a rare radio setup in the park this rainy morning. There's a wire leading from what looks like a yagi antenna to the car, so I imagine someone is in there going "CQ, CQ, Calling CQ"! https://cogley.jp/posts/01KH56342MV6ZX1Q2DCRPZ1N6B

In the future when AI is generating based on training based on artifacts it generated in the first place… there might need to be a renaissance for human creation. ❓ https://cogley.jp/posts/01KH4WK6E2WJBNBMMWBEARFFB3

If you're using AI in your work, are you finding it to be too intense sometimes, even exhausting? I'm finding I can get a lot done, but that I'm also sometimes resisting even thinking about using an AI for anything until I am fully rested and h… https://cogley.jp/posts/01KH3WCRPV5DN4QAAGXZKST2YN

Stayed at the Daiwa Roynet Shimbashi and was pleasantly surprised. No BS about handing over my id at check-in, room was small but well designed, shower was great, breakfast good. https://cogley.jp/posts/01KGZJXSYFYSVYRAX9669F2MFA

I feel a little vindicated, having always thought key rotation is ‘security theater’. Thanks Linus. 👍 https://cogley.jp/posts/01KGX4NF76EMVZE22Z2X3Z2892

Thought-provoking essay on systems thinking. Of those 3000 tangled systems they mention, imagine how many are only understood by 1 or 2 people and you start to see how politics factors in cleaning up techical debt. ❌ Via (Hacker News)[https://… https://cogley.jp/posts/01KGSG8631CJ3J01AS6DHQFSFA

I'm planning a new feature in one of our security monitoring systems, and so far, Anthropic's just-released Opus 4.6 model is just outstanding in its ability to suss out every detail. Color me impressed, Claude! https://cogley.jp/posts/01KGQPA9ZW3EBVNKWJP4NZ389X

Who needs research showing AI assistance won't really help novice coders? AIs are great at executing fast but don't yet reason well and cannot replace human experience. https://cogley.jp/posts/01KG7BVN7FQ3QMH9RBN6HN0CCY

Shiori writes about doing a digital detox in eSolia's Tech IT Easy blog. Stepping back and taking a breath worth a try, sometimes! ⭐ https://cogley.jp/posts/01KG4NN5FD68AJZNNM54N9VEKR

I love Cloudflare Radar "The last quarter of 2025 brought several notable disruptions to Internet connectivity. Cloudflare Radar data reveals the impact of cable cuts, power outages, extreme weather, technical problems, and more." Via The Cl… https://cogley.jp/posts/01KFY0GHQPA6B57BXJ1YTB7D0A

Which AI lies the best? So long sucker might help determine that. 🍪 "(the game) was designed in 1950 by four game theorists including John Nash (of "A Beautiful Mind" fame). The game has one brutal property: betrayal is required to win." https://cogley.jp/posts/01KFF64JBS155M75JPHDNB3EDV

Love this essay from Ploum about use of chatbots during exams! 🍷 Tell the professor if you usually use chatbots (ChatGPT/LLM/whatever) when doing research and investigating a subject. You have the choice to use them or not during the exam, bu… https://cogley.jp/posts/01KFDFE6FEV2392XDA9KA9VH0N

We had an old vacuum cleaner battery, and several old mobile phones and portable recharger batteries, which you cannot simply throw out in the trash. I took them to Totsuka ward office 9th floor and deposited them in the recycling receptacle. https://cogley.jp/posts/01KFCZ3XQXJYW6ZZ982T7NNNCT

The AI vs Creator Dilemma The AI Creator Dilemma: Value Extraction, Attribution, and the Fight for Fair Compensation https://cogley.jp/articles/ai-vs-creator-dilemma

Cloudflare is in the process of merging Pages into Workers, so I am migrating a bunch of apps now. 🏔️ https://cogley.jp/posts/01KEVR59S5SQM73FEC68EEGDQ5

If you like design and thinking about design, User Friendly by Cliff Kuang is a home run of a book. Just fantastic. You could follow its threads to study further, for a year. 📚 https://cogley.jp/posts/if-you-like-design-and

We at eSolia are leveraging Sveltekit for a platform of dynamic sites and a client site, and it works really well. See what's new on the Svelte blog. 💻 https://cogley.jp/posts/01KEN1A03NR41Z5HW9BYKAMR3F

Beginner devs it goes without saying, because even a seasoned pro software dev will benefit from roadmap.sh. It's stunning how much knowledge they've packed in their website. https://cogley.jp/posts/01KEET0KM5543WD176T6ERZHAF

The latest version of Rogue Ameba's Audio Hijack is fantastic. You can really do a lot more with it, but I am using it to make recordings for podcasts, with a chain of processing automation. Good stuff! https://cogley.jp/posts/01KEEH9VYYYQGJMD4C5Q1VERPT

Cloudflare eating their own dogfood at their 600-odd data centers globally. Physical data center maintenance is risky on a global network. We built a maintenance scheduler on Workers to safely plan disruptive operations, while solving scaling… https://cogley.jp/posts/01KECYCY1CGTEJ34HA7CTGND9M

My staff made a blog about a point I got confused when I first started using M365. See our post on the Tech It Easy Blog.

A Bowl of Renewal: Nanakusa-gayu A Bowl of Renewal: Nanakusa-gayu on Jan 7th marks the "Jinjitsu no Sekku" (人日の節句)—the Festival of Humanity, one of the five sacred seasonal festivals in Japan. https://cogley.jp/articles/a-bowl-of-renewal-nanakusa-gayu

Cloudflare's RADAR is a great service that is just chock full of info. Read their 6th annual year in review for the latest global trends, patterns, disruptions, advances and metrics.

Kanreki: Completing the Circle at 60 Japan's Kanreki celebration marks the completion of the 60-year zodiac cycle in Japan. Reflections on turning 60 in the Year of the Fire Horse and what rebirth means today. https://cogley.jp/articles/kanreki-completing-the-circle-at-60

Japan Shrine Donation Amounts Do you know how much money to give when you pray at a shrine in Japan? Read on to find out the standard good-luck and bad-luck amounts! ⛩️ https://cogley.jp/articles/japan-shrine-donation-amounts

The 72 Microseasons of Japan An exploration of Japan's traditional 72 microseasons (七十二候), a poetic calendar that divides the year into moments of natural beauty. https://cogley.jp/articles/72-microseasons

Just updated the design and functionality of my long-form "now" page at rick.cogley.jp, check it out! It's part of a larger effort to build a personal publishing stack using sveltekit on cloudflare.!

I like and use @cloudflare.social but how disappointing is this: I added a client domain under my account on a “pro” subscription, then decided a separate account for them would be best. Paid for “pro” again after migrating, so can I apply the first $240 to another domain? No, per “policy”. Wow. 🙂‍↔️

We are about to become _empty-nesters_ with daughter 1 ready to fly the coop to her **new** apartment closer to work. Pretty sad about it to be honest but it is nice to have them home for the holidays.

We updated and upgraded eSolia’s Japan Emergency Information pages. Help a visitor to or resident in Japan by sharing! 🚑

🪰 🔥 Lume has a new logo!! Meet the vagalume at https://lume.land/blog/posts/new-logo/

Gosh what an exciting World Series. Dodgers and Blue Jays were both stellar and it was a nail biter until the end! Congrats LAD! 💦⚾️

Exciting World Series this year! On to game 7! 🏟️⚾️

When you change your domain’s DNS (NS records), you can flush the records in major DNS providers to force a quicker propagation: Cloudflare: https://1.1.1.1/purge-cache/ Google: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/cache OpenDNS: https://cachecheck.opendns.com/

📣 New Blog Post Have you ever experienced a situation where the network suddenly stops working? This article covers the steps to try when neither Wi-Fi nor wired connections work, how to rebuild your network, and tips to prevent it from happening again.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Lume 3.1 has been released!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Take a look to the post for more info: https://lume.land/blog/posts/lume-3-1-0/

Visited Osaka Expo 2025 on 6 Sept with 220,000 others. It was hot and crowded but ultimately a good time thanks to A’s planning and a little luck.

We have the J-ALERT disaster warning system here in Japan which pushes mobile alerts regarding quakes, floods etc. It makes a big racket when a train car of phones get an alert! 💥