Tue, Sep 19, 2023
I first learned about Wordle in early 2022, and like so many others, I started to play daily. Eventually I discovered Quordle, which is like Wordle but with 4 words at the same time, and that became my daily game. It also has a practice mode which lets you play as many times a day as you like. I thought it would be great to play a daily game like this to help me keep up with my Spanish. I found a version of Wordle in Spanish, and even tried Quordle’s Spanish version, but I found these difficult to stick with. I felt like some of the words that were being selected as the answers were often obscure.
Fri, Jun 30, 2023
ClozeMaker is a small Windows application I threw together in 2017 to make the process of making cloze-deletion flashcards in Anki easier. I demonstrated how I make these flashcards in a stream on YouTube:
Mon, Jun 26, 2023
In 2014, I wrote a quick static site to help speed up the process of making flashcards in the way suggested by Gabriel Wyner in his book Fluent Forever. Gabriel wrote a blog post on automating your searches, but his method required some software that I did not or could not use, for some reason I’ve since forgotten.
Fri, Jun 2, 2023
The GMTK Game Jam happened once again in July 2022, and like the previous year, Thomas and I decided to participate. The jam started on a Friday, and we were able to begin right away. Thomas took a half day off of work, and I wasn’t busy at work that day, so I just kept an eye out in case I was needed at work while the jam started.
Thu, Jun 1, 2023
In June 2021, my frequent co-conspirator Thomas sent me a message asking I wanted to participate in a game jam that weekend. I had never done a game jam before, but it was something I had been meaning to try for a while, so of course I agreed. And then he told me the game jam had already started, so we had less than the allotted 48 hours to make a complete game! The game jam was the GMTK Game Jam 2021 and the theme for the jam was “Joined Together.”
Thu, May 18, 2023
RhinoSpike is a site that allows language learners to get recorded audio in their target language. The audio is submitted by other users of the site who are native speakers of that language, and usually are also learning another language and seeking recording audio in their target language. RhinoSpike has been actively online since March 2010, and, as of May 2023, nearly 80,000 audio recordings in 90 languages have been uploaded to the site.
Tue, Dec 27, 2022
Babelhut was a blog created by my friend Thomas and myself to document our language learning journey online. Our about page from the site said this:
Sun, Jun 7, 2009
Barra de Español was a Firefox toolbar for students of the Spanish language. It provided tools and links to resources useful to students, such as word definition lookup and links to native Spanish material.
Wed, Sep 26, 2007
Download Squelch for PalmOS
Squelch is a game I made for PalmOS in 2000. I used to sell it as shareware on a site called PalmGear for $5, and believe it or not, people would occassionally buy it at that price.
Wed, Sep 26, 2007
Pocket Freemind was an open-source Windows Mobile application for taking notes in a hierarchical structure. This allows you organize your notes as you take them. The file format used by Pocket Freemind is compatible with the desktop application Freemind, an open-source mind-mapping application. Although Pocket Freemind uses the same file format as Freemind, Pocket Freemind is not techincally a mind-mapping application because it does not display the data radially. However, you can still use Pocket Freemind for this purpose, as it was designed to be a way to create and modify Freemind mindmaps on the go.
Wed, Sep 26, 2007
Download Head Coach for PalmOS
Head Coach is a game I made for PalmOS in 2000. I used to sell it as shareware on a site called PalmGear for $7, and believe it or not, people would occassionally buy it at that price.
Thu, Sep 13, 2007
Wabajump was an open-source project to allow applications written for the Waba Virtual Machine to be compiled directly to a PalmOS program, so that the application no longer needed the Waba VM on the PalmOS device to run. This was accomplished using the Jump java to 68k assembly compiler.