BeyondVocab v1 Launch

March 11, 2025

After a few weeks of testing and tweaking, and after a few months of development --- really, I told my girlfriend that I had 'put a bow on it' at Christmas --- I've gotten BeyondVocab v1 (the Chinese-only Anki Add-On version) to good place to share with the world. I'm now using it for my own Chinese vocabulary practice, studying about 200-300 cards with it every day....

Sorting out JavaScript UI Paradigms

March 19, 2025

his was initially an exercise to prove to myself how silly React and Next.js are, but turned into a more useful learning exercise for me, working through which patterns belong to the imperative style, which to the functional style, and which are 'orthogonal' to either style. I figured I may as well write up a summary of the results to help my future self....