https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/index.html The answer is already clear… Since this page appears at the top of my blog, I’m going to write about the things I most wanted to say and write about. In fact, this is what’s motivating me to take on this blog challenge—for the umpteenth time. When you’re unemployed (without a steady job), life becomes incredibly simple, and you have the time to spend almost every day doing exactly what you want to do. My colleagues, junior coworkers, and even my kids often ask me, “If you have so much time, why don’t you go on a trip or something?” I’m honestly happy that they care. But having gone through ひりついた出張 / A tense business trip, when I’m touring tourist spots alone, it reminds me of the sense of relief and loneliness I felt after those business trips filled with constant tension back then, so I just can’t honestly enjoy it. Also, I don’t know if it’s good or bad, but at my age, I don’t really seek out such exciting things anymore. Instead, I’ve come to feel that it’s more valuable to tackle the things I left undone and pursue the things I want to do from here on out… Hugo en-us Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0900 https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260927/index.html Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0900 https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260927/index.html 　I’ve finished hacking all the equipment I have on hand. Since my funds are a bit tight, I’ve been working on ways to make even better use of my peripherals for a while now. If I clearly define what I want to do, all I have to do is give instructions to AI, and it’ll handle the rest. It all depends on how I give instructions to AI. The AI I’m currently using offers a free tier. Of course, if I had the money, I could pay to use it, but as mentioned above, I don’t have any funds. So I’m using the free tier—that’s right, I’m a free-to-play guy. The horror of not spending money is that you’ll hit the token cap before a task is completed, and it takes time for the tokens to replenish (the recovery time for Claude code, which I use frequently, is about 3 hours). On the other hand, if I break tasks down into tiny pieces, I end up in an absurd situation where I hit the limit even within the smallest parts of small tasks (which I consider atomic). https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260926/index.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0900 https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260926/index.html 　Lately, I’ve been really into building websites, and as I was thinking about where it all started, the topic of “1” came up in a conversation with “0.” Since I’m a PC enthusiast, I got into the Internet relatively early on, but this tripod.com seems to have really taken off around 1998. I was posting my work on this site around 2000. And apparently, I was still working on 2026/4 until quite recently. If I’d been lucky, I might have been able to salvage it, but it’s too little, too late now. https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260925/index.html Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0900 https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260925/index.html Old Farts use various services without paying a dime. I’d love to pay, but since I’m unemployed, I have no income—you can’t squeeze blood from a stone. Even so, I think Claude Code is a good option. Since starting this blog, the service I’ve used the most is “GitLab.” If “GitLab” were just a place to host Git repositories, I could get by with Plan 1, and since Old-Timer’s output is nothing to write home about, that wouldn’t be a problem. But I never expected to hit the limits for Plans 2 and 3. Well, come to think of it, it’s only natural—as long as I’m using computing resources to run Runner, I’m bound to hit the limit… https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260924/index.html Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0900 https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260924/index.html 　We’re using gitlab as our Git repository. gitlab’s CI/CD environment has a clear edge over github’s. In this context, I’ve set up remote environments for both hugo and Android, but the heavy use of hugo is on the verge of exhausting the free quota, and I’ve received a warning from the system. I wanted to release the build for Android, so I wanted to do CI/CD. I consulted with AI, who told me to use runner in a local environment. After some struggle, I set up the Android environment, and hugo—the culprit behind this resource drain—is now running locally as well. The SaaS environment takes 12–3 minutes, while this one takes 4 minutes, making it more than three times as efficient. This is definitely usable. https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260923/index.html Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0900 https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260923/index.html 　When I’m browsing sites like X, discussions about science education occasionally pop up. Well, since the discussion forums on X (if you can even call them that?) are basically irresponsible, they’re entertaining at first glance. They do discuss where to secure the funding—or whatever you want to call it—to expand science and math education, and I find myself thinking, “That makes sense.” Generally speaking, Classical Chinese is singled out as a potential source for that funding. Since I attended a Kosen (a specialized technical college) for my secondary and early higher education, I never experienced preparing for university entrance exams from a general academic track. Not only was there no Classical Chinese, but we even sacrificed World History, Japanese History (modern period only), and—as for science subjects—even Biology and Earth Science to free up class time for math and specialized technical courses. There was absolutely no trace of a well-rounded education left. After I graduated and started working—had it been two or three years?—there was a late-night TV show called The Humiliation of Canossa. From my perspective, I just thought, “That’s a show with a weird title.” I recall a junior from that time (we were in the same grade, but he was two years behind me because he had a bachelor’s degree) saying, “That’s such a brilliant choice of name, isn’t it? ‘The Humiliation of Canossa’—it’s something you absolutely learn in world history…” Nowadays, I devour books on world history and religion, discuss their origins with people from the countries where those events took place, and have even written for publications other than specialized journals—but back then, that was the extent of my knowledge. Needless to say, the driving force behind these activities was the inferiority complex I felt from not knowing about “The Humiliation of Canossa”… https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260922/index.html Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0900 https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260922/index.html 　The other day, news broke that a 58-year-old had been accepted into Kyoto University, prompting reactions from X users such as, “He should make way for the younger generation,” and “No, you should never be too old to start learning.” There’s a saying: LTV: Lite Time Value. The former fits this description, while the latter amounts to risk-killing. Since it’s often said that Japanese people don’t pursue lifelong learning enough as it is, this might serve as a heartwarming story to counter that perception. If this had been a bachelor’s program starting in the third year, the story might be different. To begin with, the admission requirements are different, so this argument doesn’t hold up. I haven’t looked into the specific circumstances of his admission, nor am I particularly interested, so I haven’t followed up on it, but regarding LTV, it made me realize something again… https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260921/index.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0900 https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260921/index.html 　As an unemployed, penniless old fogey, I have no choice but to be very selective about my subscriptions. The only ones I currently have are Apple One and Amazon Prime (hereinafter referred to as Amazon Prime). For an old fogey, the biggest benefit of Amazon Prime is being able to watch the early morning MLB broadcasts. This is a real lifesaver for an old fogey who wakes up in the early morning—or rather, in the late night—due to what’s practically a sleep disorder; it’s practically a form of social welfare. As I get older, I’ve come to realize that I only watch “sports programs” anymore. Even then, I don’t watch the ones that are overly staged by advertising agencies, like the Olympics. I only watch the ones that simply and matter-of-factly cover the regular season. In that context, the live broadcasts on MLB are a real lifesaver. On the other hand, Channel 4 has very little airtime on both terrestrial and BS channels. As for me, an old fogey, I happen to be a Yokohama DeNA BayStars fan, but I can only catch them occasionally on TVK, or—if I’m lucky—on Niconico Static Images. Given that, the MLB broadcasts are truly a rare treat. https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260920/index.html Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0900 https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260920/index.html 　When I posted a bunch of stuff about the Trinity system in the RTL-SDR dongle group on Facebook, someone commented, “Don’t go showing off.” After that, the “give-me-give-me” crowd started swarming in. Amid all that, someone who managed to recreate Trinity posted about it and got a ton of “likes”—more than my original post, lol. Well, if people like that didn’t show up, there’d be no point in making it, and I wouldn’t be able to show off my skills either lol. This is nothing more than a manifestation of my “desire for validation” lol. Well, other than that, I guess I just have to keep improving this site as proof that I’ve been alive… There was an issue where the jog dial wasn’t working properly, but I fixed it the day before yesterday—it was just a time lag. It seems everything’s fine in the latest version. While I was at it, I asked if it would be better to consolidate the AI and jog dial features, but while multi-device support is Eye-Catch, the conclusion was, “It’s not really practical…” So we’ve decided not to implement it this time. https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260919/index.html Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0900 https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260919/index.html 　The site is gradually taking shape. Well, it’s still not quite up to par—it’s basically just “still in its old form.” This site does have a strong “Maker” vibe to it. I believe the true purpose of “Maker” is to present my own work to a wider audience. In other words, I hope people will relate to them, recreate them, and enjoy them together. This site also aims to achieve that. So, I thought about what I could do to increase the success rate of those recreations. What came up in my conversation with the AI was llms.txt. There are various ways to train an AI individually, but this method is relatively simple and, if it works, can be quite effective. Since this site is SSG based on hugo, they’re a good match (though I’m writing this as a general observation—a week ago, it was ?…). llms.txt converts site information into plain text, making it accessible for reference. In other words, it’s information intended for AI to read. I wondered if I could put this to use. Currently, the most difficult work on this site is Trinity. I thought I’d written it in reasonable detail, but precisely because it’s so detailed, there are parts that are difficult to grasp. llms.txt incorporates this information as well. Users who want to reproduce the results should feed llms.txt into the AI they’re using, and if they ask the right questions, AI should guide them to a solution, right? https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260918/index.html Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0900 https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260918/index.html 　I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve built a website, but I’m making progress little by little. Up until now, whether I went hiking or mastered a new gadget, I’d just post a quick update on social media, so my information was scattered all over the place. I plan to use this as an opportunity to organize it all. I do wish I’d started this a little sooner, but since this is a pretty elaborate framework, I realize I couldn’t have done it without AI. I hadn’t been doing any writing work for a while, and since I didn’t have a site like this before, I realized I hadn’t written many long pieces lately. Well, I guess I’ll just keep chipping away at it little by little… https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260917/index.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0900 https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260917/index.html 　I’m working on a website for the first time in ages, chipping away at it bit by bit. It looks like something from 1998–2000—after all, almost everything is static HTML. But I’m not writing it out by hand; I’m dynamically generating it from scratch. Plus, I’m using Git for management and CI/CD for deployment. The system is set up to generate English pages and output an llms.txt file as part of that process. Thanks to this setup, I can convert the site’s content into plain text, feed it to an AI, and have the AI explain the site’s information. This is actually pretty exciting—it means we can have the AI answer questions about the site. It’ll be especially useful for Makers, which has a lot of Q&A related to deliverables. https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260915/index.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0900 https://teamknox.com/en/blog/life/20260915/index.html Is the “Give-Me” guy a universal phenomenon? A little while ago, I asked an AI if people like that exist overseas too, and it gave me a word that sounded like it, but I’ve forgotten what it was. Oh well, I’ll probably never run into one again, so it’s fine…