Hello

Hi/Bonjour/こんにちは/侬好👋, This is Haruka!

I am a software developer located in Japan. This is my personal blog where I write random stuff, most of them are not related to programming or computer science.

I love traveling through the world in Google Street View, thus you can also find me here in GeoGuessr.

I like to talk with different people, if you’re interested in me or my content, feel free to email me.

What’s New

Feb. 2025: I recently start to take photos, you can see my work here in Bluesky.

Other things

Where does the name of the blog come from?

New River, New Water is a song from one of my favorite Jazz albums The Dream Thief by pianist Shai Maestro and his band members Jorge Roeder, Ofri Nehemya.

Why am I blogging even though no one is reading?

And there’s another thing. My other passion is street photography. Which is a bit like blogging.

You walk through the city, camera in hand. You see a scene — a moment of light, shadow, humanity. You capture it.

Nobody cares.

But that’s not why you did it. You did it because you saw something.

Like blogging. You write because you think, because you observe, because you need to put it somewhere.

Quote: Why Blog If Nobody Reads It?