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Reviving Genius

July 07, 2025

EDIT: I’ve had some feedback from HN readers, and I’ve learned some interesting things since writing this post!

For one, after this whole journey I thought that surely it is easy enough to type in answers on Anki, and indeed it is. In the card’s template, you can add an entry {type:FieldName} to the front, where you are asked ot type in whatever FieldName is. So in my “Frequency Dictionary of Dutch” deck, I’ve added type:Definition.

Secondly, I actually read the manual for Anki, and they have a great explanation of what the Again / Hard / Good / Easy buttons actually do to the underlying repetition model. What I liked about Genius was how straightforward it was to understand why you’re seeing or not something during a review session.

Finally the post had some typos, and a couple of errors. Thanks to aaronbrethorst for pointing out that + and - are for instance, and class methods, not public/private.

Imbolc

February 02, 2025

Yesterday, the first of February, marked Imbolc or Lá Fhéile Bhríde in Ireland. It is also fitting that today is the first day I can recall in months of waking to sunlight streaming into my bedroom. A much welcome change from the thick, duvet-like cloud cover has been blanketing London lately.

Web Posts For All

January 26, 2025

In RSS is Really Simple I conjectured that the state of the internet would be very different and to be honest better, had we elided these closed platform in favour of something open like simple RSS.

RSS really is "Really Simple"

January 26, 2025

Following some intense lobbying from fellow netizen Killian (see his website at https://killiandavitt.me) I’m pleased to announce that I’ve added an RSS feed to the site.

How the Web Site is built

January 21, 2025

NOTE: I took the photos down because I broke the build script and couldn’t publish new articles, and couldn’t be bothered to fix it. Sorry!

Lo-fidelity Icelandic Choral Beats to Surf/Browse the web to

January 18, 2025

In the in-between space and time of a long haul flight, I added some snazzy background music to the site, which you can listen to if you click on the headphones button under the nav bar.

Resorting Pages with Graphs

January 15, 2025

There’s a really neat graph-based solution to Day 5 of 2024’s Advent of Code.

A Breath of Air

January 01, 2025

I think it worse looks great.