kamui – Tales of Kamui

The difference between the katakana Shi, Tsu, so, and n. Remembered as Holy シ, ツ, ソ, ン

May 28, 2026 kamui

Remembering Similar Katakana Without Overthinking It

Some parts of Japanese feel difficult not because they are complex, but because they are too similar. Katakana is a

Illustrated scene showing a person listening with headphones, a gradual checklist progression leading up a mountain path with an upward arrow, representing steady progress through language immersion.

May 15, 2026 kamui

Tracking Progress With Immersion

Quiet Exposure and How to Notice Progress After spending time with more structured study, I started experimenting with something simpler:

Layered AI platform diagram showing a powerful core system surrounded by policy, tooling, and audit controls, with warning and threat indicators highlighting the risks and governance challenges of advanced AI infrastructure.

May 7, 2026 kamui

Claude Mythos, Project Glasswing, and the point where AI becomes cyber infrastructure

I have been thinking about AI in the same way I think about any technology that graduates from “interesting” to “operationally unavoidable.” At first, it feels like a tool you can bolt onto a workflow. Then it starts to behave like infrastructure, meaning the real work moves from “what can it do?” to “how do we control it, monitor it, and live with it when it fails?” Claude Mythos Preview is one of the first releases that makes this transition feel explicit, because Anthropic is treating it less like a product launch and more like a risk-managed capability with a constrained deployment model.

Minimalist desk scene with a laptop, notebook, coffee cup, and a phone displaying an abstract Japanese vocabulary card, suggesting quiet daily language study alongside work.

May 1, 2026 kamui

Learning Japanese Without Forcing It

Quiet Progress Through Repetition Learning Japanese has a reputation for being overwhelming. New scripts. New grammar. New ways of thinking

kore the Japanese characters for the word this

April 11, 2024 kamui

This and that

One of the first words you will learn when starting Japanese areこれ kore – this and それ sore – that.

December 12, 2018 kamui

HTTPS What is it good for….

Quite a lot really, I know that’s not how the song goes but, HTTPS, the common abbreviation for Hyper Text

July 19, 2018 kamui

Why Building security backdoors into software is a bad idea

This should be obvious, but on the surface, to reasonable people, this seems reasonable. If bad people are doing bad

July 1, 2018 kamui

Test Driven Development (TDD) – A practical example

Recently the development teams here have been improving their coding skills by taking on the challenge of Clean code, a

October 9, 2017 kamui

What you need to know about GDPR in the coming year by FieldFisher

Thank you to Phil Lee and Mark Webber from FieldFisher for their talk on the GDPR regulations which will be

August 4, 2017 kamui

NDC – Clean Coders Hate What Happens to Your Code When You Use These Enterprise Programming Tricks

I have recently been listening to a few of the NDC talks from around the world and the one today