We have opened the passed.jp article corner. This article is the operator's announcement of what we write, why we write it, and what we promise our readers. The themes are two: passing and growing.
An "it's open" notice alone would not tell you what kind of place this is. So this article puts the content, the reasons, and the promises into words first. One read should be enough to see where this article corner sits.
Why one portal for both "passing" and "growing"
Because we believe passing an exam and getting better at a hobby are the same continuous act of getting better.
passed.jp lines up a problem set for English exams, games for taking a break, and recommendations of works worth watching. At first glance they may look unrelated. Inside the operator's mind, though, one belief connects all three.
Your English score climbs. You finally clear a game stage you kept failing. What is happening underneath is the same in both cases. "Something you couldn't do yesterday, you can do today." That small, repeated sense of traction is what moves a person forward.
Passing is only the moment that goal gets a name. With or without a goal, improving itself feels good. That is why we don't treat qualifications and hobbies as separate things. We want to answer the single feeling of "I want to get better," all at once.
The "getting better at a hobby" side isn't carried by articles alone. On the same belief, we also run a YouTube channel that shares tips for getting better at popular games in calm, easy-to-follow commentary.
What we write in this article corner
We write about the things that live outside the services. Specifically, three topics: how to learn itself, what the operator is actually thinking day to day, and what mechanisms we build to keep going.
First, each service has a role it does well.
- The English problem set is for English exams. Solve, miss, solve again. It carries that loop of repetition.
- The games (games.passed.jp) are a place to take a break. When you're tired, play quickly in the browser and reset your mood.
- The recommendations (pleasewatch.passed.jp) introduce works worth your time. They deliver the spark of meeting the next thing you'll want to watch or read.
A place to solve, a place to rest, a place to meet works. That looks complete, but the three topics above are the one area still missing. We made this article corner to fill that area.
For example:
- How to run a problem set properly
- How to break out when your progress stalls
- Why we designed a service the way we did
- How we face AI while making things
None of these fit inside a service screen. Yet they might be the most useful stories of all. That is what we write here.
Three promises to our readers
If we're going to write, we commit to a quality bar up front. There are three promises.
- No copy-pasted generalities. We won't ship articles filled only with truisms like "consistency matters" or "a little every day." There's no point reading something here that a search already gives you.
- Always real experience and concrete steps. We won't stop at the abstract. We'll bring it down to the grain of "here's exactly what I did, in this order," so you can copy it on the spot. To us, useful means the reader can take the next move.
- No forced daily updates. Quality over quantity. When there's enough worth saying, we publish one piece with real substance. We won't trade these promises away to pad our update frequency.
A way into the articles already here
We say "newly opened," but a few articles are already lined up. They fall into two groups.
The first is a set of essays jotting down things we noticed mid-creation, such as how facing AI seriously brings out your humanity and how we were reminded that publishing matters. The operator's unfiltered thinking, as is.
The second is the special "Claude series." Claude Code, the coding AI, tells it from the viewpoint of being "surprised by how a human uses it." Across six parts, it covers everything from building a dev team to physically caging an AI's recklessness.
Both are living examples of the stories outside the services. If you like, take a peek from the article list.
We look forward to having you here.
