As you probably already noticed, we’ve changed the overall style of the site a bit, and put in our brand new logo. But this is only the beginning, as we settle in to wrestle with …
Teaming Up with ChinesePod
Yes, it’s official: ChinesePod is awesome. They’ve been providing audio and their lesson data to Skritter for a while, but the action’s been all over here. We’ve always wanted to share a little Skritter writing …
Rollin’ Skritter Style
In between all the progress that has been made to the site in the last week, a lot has been happening. Last Wednesday Nick, Maksym, Alex (my brother), and I visited Cedar Point together after …
Stroke Order Animations
A little while back, I changed the phantom to animate a character’s strokes in order instead of showing up all at once. Some liked it, some didn’t and wanted the old, instant phantom back. Now …
Genius Bug Fixed
I have fixed the eternal Genius bug! No more shall the blue to-review bar stick, and skip over thy items, and vex thy studies. Now you really can tell when you are done with your …
Genki’s Here
The first Genki book has arrived! Along with that we’ve already done a fair amount of tweaking to Japanese this past week, mostly to the backend, just making sure things work the way they should, …
Japanese Alpha! And Practice Tweaks
It has arrived! Nick, George, Maksym, I, and two of our fellow Oberlin grads have been working throughout the summer to arrive at this point. We’ve been making characters, putting together a dictionary, constructing lists, …
Japanese, Skritty and the Magnet
The past few days Nick and Scott have been making dramatic headway on the Japanese version of Skritter which will soon be released upon the world. At the moment, we’re focusing our efforts on getting …
Chinese Campfires
我跟我女朋友 took a trip this weekend to Kelleys Island, which is north of Sandusky Ohio, out in Lake Erie. It’s a very small place, populated during the summer months mainly by tourists like myself. In …
Write 口 faster
Over the past weeks, George has been going through all 4050 of our characters, fixing stroke orders, adding new strokes, and making characters look nicer. Much of what he’s been doing is adding shortcuts to …