Bokken Attack!

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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 …

List editor improvements

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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 …

ChinesePod Updates and More

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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 …

New Feature #2: Custom Lists!

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Yes, they are finally here! You can now create your own lists with whatever word or sections or traditional variants you want. I’ve built a few of the custom lists that were being put together …

Twitter tie-in, reminders

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You’ve asked and it is delivered: Skritter can now tweet your progress for you. Head over to the new reminders page to set it up, if you use Twitter. “But why would I want Skritter …

Pollswagger, open scratchpad

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I’ve written our own poll system to replace the previous one we were trying. It’s accessible from China, it’s better styled, and it doesn’t even forget your vote every five seconds! There will also soon …

Crazy Chinese Dream

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So last night my subconscious transported me to China of old. My closest guess is that it was several hundred years ago. By some stroke of terrific luck, I was part of the royal court …

Downtime and Poll Rollin’

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Just to let everyone know, tonight at 7:00 EST the site will go down for 30 minutes due to scheduled Google App Engine maintenance. It should come back up again at 7:30PM. We hope it …

Scratchpad

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I’ve just uploaded a new practice mode I’ve been working on for a while: the scratchpad. It’s a way to call up some words you want to check out or practice or demonstrate, without saving …

Left Atlanta, Greeted Maksym

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I have finally returned from the IALLT conference. All told, the conference was a success. When we first arrived, we were a little concerned that we couldn’t recoup our investment because it was such a …