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Lessons Learned: Too Little Too Fast

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 10:10:37 -0400

Following my last article, Reactive Anki Addons with Svelte, I learned when and when not to think in “start up mode.”

In this commit on Kyoro UI, I deleted around 1,000 lines of Svelte code to start over. As the commit message says, the frontend was becoming unmaintainable and making any sort of progress was getting nearing an asymptote. This was essentially the entire project’s frontend.

Using Svelte to Build Reactive Anki Addons

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 05:03:48 -0400

Anki is already using Svelte in its interface, and you should too!

See the GitHub stats. In 2.1.28, the stats screen was re-worked to use Svelte components, over vanilla JavaScript.

One Year of React Experience in Review

Thu, 22 Oct 2020 18:08:13 -0400

Recently, I passed my one-year anniversary of using React. It’s time to take some time to write a blog post about my experiences, and my transition into React and beyond from earlier tools. This will be a rather long post, so get some water.

Remembering the Kanji, Again

Sat, 22 Aug 2020 11:15:36 -0400

Hi. This post will explain why I did RTK for a second time, how I did it, and what I think about how long it took. You can learn from my mistakes to not do that.

Handwriting Recognition in Mozc (and fixing it)

Sun, 21 Jul 2019 09:15:06 -0400

Mozc is (the open-source subset of) Google’s Japanese IME. It has a kinda-hidden feature of handwriting recognition, which is great for RTK students such as myself which sometimes know how to write a kanji but can’t type it. Usually, Mozc installs to /usr/lib/mozc/, so it can be invoked by:

/usr/lib/mozc/mozc_tool --mode=hand_writing

But sometimes it doesn’t work, and recently I’ve found out more about why.

RTK 1 While Working Full Time: A Study Method

Sun, 26 May 2019 10:10:37 -0400

As I posted on Reddit, I often see posts about experiences on tackling RTK. This is my study method for completing Remembering the Kanji 1 6th Edition in less than 5 months (Dec 9 - April 27th; started immediately after I took N5) while also working a full-time job of 9 hours per day.

日本語とは？

Sun, 26 May 2019 10:10:37 -0400

このサイトは、英語と日本語翻訳があります。

全部ページに日本語翻訳のあらないかもしれないが、そして翻訳は多分完璧じゃないけけど、もっと上手になるために、このように頑張ってきます。