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This is not a typical blog article

Takuya Matsuyama

Jun 2, 2023 — 3 min read

Hi, it's Takuya here.

This week, I've posted a new video on devaslife, which is about how I take tech notes in my engineering workflow.

I also created an article version on the website here:

In this newsletter, I'd like to share some tips on how I created it.

Vlog:

It's a static webpage

The source code is available on GitHub:

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