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 …

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, …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Cramming has made its triumphant return! But like Gandalf’s reincarnation, it has returned in a new form. No longer is it a ‘mode’. Instead of switching to ‘cram mode’ and choosing a section from a …

Have you ever heard of Bokkens? They are wooden practice swords made in the shape of Katanas (sometimes Tantos as well). They’re made for sparring practice and to help Kendo students improve their Katas. All …

I’m using the custom list editor to upload some more textbooks, and so we’ve made some improvements to the process to make longer lists easier to manage. The first is that you can include all …

Another week, another update! For a while now I’ve been making major changes to the vocabulary list backend. The first half of those changes allowed me to make the custom list system, and the result …