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 …
Finally: Cramming is Back!
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 …
Bokken Attack!
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
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
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!
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
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
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 …
