The Beginning

Welcome to the first article of my blog!
Working as a game developer, the contents of this site will naturally gravitate towards that, but with some photography and other various hobbies sprinkled in.

Many blogs have started under the pretense of writing amazing content everyday, and making the best blog ever. And many of these blogs have gone to last no more than three articles long. I've personally fallen into this trap multiple times, and this blog will be approached with zero expectations instead. Low-friction relaxing blogging. Or so they say!

In the past few years I was somewhat active on Twitter, but after taking a long break from it to detox from social media, I never came back. In doing so I lost the place to share the various gamedev-related experiments, and drifted away from even doing it as a hobby entirely.
The idea of having this site is to once again have a space to output technical ideas, without opting in to the whole social media aspect of things. My Twitter account will now just become a glorified RSS feed sharing links to this blog.

Photography has been a great hobby for the past year-and-a-half, and allowed me to take a break from doing work-like things on my spare time while still being loosely related.
Here too I use social media (Instagram) to share my work, bringing me motivation and purpose.
But it also is a third-party platform, and it lacks organizational features that I would like to have.
So this site will likely have a photography section as well with albums and whatnot.

Perhaps the main obstacle to this website is a problem of identity. Over the past years being on Twitter, I used a pseudonym and posted mainly in Japanese. However I would like to consolidate everything under my real name, for vaguely career-related purposes. Forgoing anonymity has its disadvantages as well, but there is something about having your name there to keep you honest. My Twitter was mostly in Japanese though, and I would like to use English when writing in-depth blog articles. Living in Japan, it makes a lot of sense to continue writing in Japanese though, so I guess the answer is I must write in both!
I do have to be careful not to introduce too much friction in article writing though. Because if it's too tedious to write, this will become yet another dead blog on the internet!

Until next time, for now I leave you with a photo of plum blossoms that I took this past long weekend, during the middle of blooming season!