Well, the United States now has a new president. Scott, Nick, and Chloe watched the full inaugural speech this morning, and I heard bits and pieces as I was looking for Chinese dictionaries in Oberlin’s …
Now Available In the Mainland
Quick post: Scott and Nick have worked their website wizardry and skirted around the great Chinese firewall. The connectivity problems should have all be vanquished, but if anyone is still having issues getting to skritter.com …
Very Snowy
The last few days about 10 inches of snow have fallen upon Oberlin. We are veritably encased in solid water crystals, and the roads have been terrible. Our friend Trina (who works in the town …
The Factors are Being Figured
Refactoring continues at full pace here at Skritter HQ. Nick’s headphone remain atop his head as he whips the flash and action script into a frothy mixture before his momentous recompiling. If all is well, …
Buffalo Wild Snape
Chloe amusingly discovered that “Buffalo Wild” is a hugerageously useful prefix. George laments that we’ll never get good enough at Chinese to enjoy playing with words like that. Lament concurred, although the people who listen …
Shouldn’t Have Left Me Alone 2
I arrived back in the command center on Saturday the 27th and have been cleaning and organizing with grandmotherly fury. All of the cups have been washed, I dusted, I vacuumed, I did laundry, and …
Goalie joins the offensive
I’m flying to Massachusetts in the morning to see my sweetheart, and I shall be the last: George and Scott have already reached their ancestral homes. The Skritter development complex is unmanned until George returns …
There is a Baby in our Command Center
Trina has brought upon us a harbinger of baby-ness. Miles, the baby infant, is super effective at distracting George and Scott. He also stops crying when you play the soothing lullaby of “vacuum cleaner,” as …
The Rearchitecturization is Underway
We’re heavy into rearchitecturization right now, almost completely reworking most of how data is stored, how characters, words, and tones are differentiated, how vocab lists work, the vocab list page, how loading words is done, …
Chagrin Falls and Refactoring
Last Friday we visited Chagrin Fall’s Gurney Elementary School to get some younger users trying Skritter. It turns out that their elementary school students don’t learn characters, which we might have predicted. Apparently the focus …