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I Built This Blog a Hatena-Style Calendar, and Locked My Own JSON In a Box
A record of building a Hatena-Blog-style calendar, tag cloud, and monthly jump buttons into this blog’s own sidebar - including tracking down why the calendar silently failed to render, caused by Hugo’s html/template auto-escaping mangling an inline JSON blob.
2026-08-22 · 3 min · Taiki Ito
Riding the Momentum of Starting the Blog, I Also Shipped a Singlish Glossary Site
A small side project shipped the same day as this blog: a plain HTML/CSS/JS Singlish-term glossary for Japanese speakers, plus the subdomain + repo pattern that later projects would reuse.
2026-08-22 · 2 min · Taiki Ito
Before Writing a Single Post, I Renamed My GitHub Account
The decision to start publishing this blog: Hugo + PaperMod, GitHub Actions deploying to GitHub Pages under a custom domain, a private source repo force-pushing built output to a separate public repo, and a GitHub username rename along the way.
2026-08-22 · 2 min · Taiki Ito
I Built Myself an RSS Reader, and Tore It Down the Same Day
Self-hosted a Miniflux RSS reader on the same server as MulmoClaude to aggregate news by category, then decided the same day it would just become an overflowing unread inbox, and removed the entire stack.
2026-08-21 · 2 min · Taiki Ito
With the Domain Working, I Built Myself a Digital Business Card the Same Day
A same-day side quest after getting the domain working: a static digital business card at a new subdomain, served entirely separately from the main app, with a vCard-download button, a WhatsApp click-to-chat link, and a small run-in with Cloudflare’s email obfuscation.
2026-08-19 · 2 min · Taiki Ito