Weeknotes: Sweet Amber — Week 14, 2026

A few things I was looking forward to happened this week, and the weather could not be better. Got some brutal feedback from a friend at a yakitori restaurant. The kind of brutal honesty you can only get from friends, over chicken that is so fresh it allegedly expires after 30 seconds. Appreciated, thank-you. Led an all-day architecture workshop in our Nagoya branch office. The purpose was to design and test a single API for a group of complex subsystems, which we did by modelling its entire domain and the journeys between them. We ran exactly to time, and answered the question we set out with. Dinner was at the TikTok Izakaya, which it turns out, is in Nagoya. You know the one. It was a good time, and the food was alright, but there’s something unnerving about filming and live-streaming hapening one thin paper wall away which stifles conversation. “おフードのラストオーダー” made the night for me. Very good long lunch with K before heading back to Tokyo for a meeting: Hitsumabushi. Maybe… Read…