Portfolio, technical writing, and live lab of akito — a senior full-stack engineer and Japanese American technologist.https://akito.net/https://akito.net/musings/voice-latency/https://akito.net/musings/voice-latency/A field-tested latency budget for real-time voice agents: where the 300ms goes, which hops you can delete outright, and how to make a slow LLM feel immediate by streaming the first phoneme before the sentence is done.Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTBuildinghttps://akito.net/musings/two-directions/https://akito.net/musings/two-directions/A layout that respects more than one cultural reading order is not a translation pass — it is a constraint you carry from the first wireframe.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTThinkinghttps://akito.net/musings/structured-stream/https://akito.net/musings/structured-stream/Parsing half-formed JSON as it arrives, without letting a fast model overrun a slow client. A small state machine that has earned its keep.Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTBuildinghttps://akito.net/musings/seal-signature/https://akito.net/musings/seal-signature/A personal seal is a contract pressed into a single mark. The best API surfaces aim for the same: small, deliberate, impossible to forge by accident.Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTThinkinghttps://akito.net/musings/postgres-search/https://akito.net/musings/postgres-search/Before reaching for a dedicated cluster, I gave Postgres full-text, trigram, and vector search a real workload. It went further than expected.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTLearninghttps://akito.net/musings/edge-caching/https://akito.net/musings/edge-caching/Personalization and caching are supposed to be enemies. With a layered key strategy at the edge, they can be made to cooperate.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTLearning