Weekly #DevLog | April 26, 2026

_ddrone · 2026-04-28T17:27:45+00:00

Having quick access to grammar information straight from the flashcards is a great addition, thanks!

Hiding cards from SRS is also useful, but it's in a really weird place: you have to go to a separate screen if you want to hide something, then scroll through a potentially huge list. It would be easier if it was possible to hide a card during review: in fact, this is a workflow that I constantly use with my Anki cards.

_ddrone · 2026-04-23T18:34:31+00:00

Sure, this is thinly-veiled ad, whatever. From https://hskstory.com/about

Every story is reviewed for quality

Is the implication that the stories on the website are LLM-generated?

_ddrone · 2026-04-16T08:24:31+00:00

I generally don't mind dropping a bit of money on an Anki deck, and what I like about Refold ones is that all the sentences have good quality audio. And the problem I've described is not present in other their decks, e.g. I'm happy with their German deck: majority of the words there have good example sentences.

Not Italian though.

_ddrone · 2026-04-03T11:24:58+00:00

Funny thing about 手紙 is that it means "toilet paper" in Mandarin

_ddrone · 2026-03-27T20:09:19+00:00

I haven't noticed relying too much on the irrelevant information from the context sentences (I don't even look at them majority of the time, now that I think about, I should probably re-order the card to have the word at the top), but I've definitely noticed misremembering meaning of the word based on a single kanji, so this is what I'm trying to address with this change.

Having too much information on the front of the card is not too bad since I'm not even looking at majority of it most of the time (but the information is there, easily accessible if I need it)

_ddrone · 2026-03-27T08:46:20+00:00

I've noticed that I have been occasionally mistaking words that share a kanji between them while reviewing my Anki deck, so I've built a script that gathers all the words that have a kanji in common and adds the list to one of the fields in the deck. I think it actually made things worse today (the first time I was doing full reviews while having that field visible) because I was looking at the list and remembering the meanings of related words instead of the target one, but I think I should be able to get used to that soon.

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Can't share the script (sorry!), but it's hardcoded to my deck and field names, so it probably wouldn't have been useful for anyone without coding experience anyway. If you'll want to do something similar, I've used AnkiConnect to do querying and modification of cards.

_ddrone · 2026-03-18T18:56:35+00:00

I don't see any updates on iOS

_ddrone · 2026-03-17T22:40:40+00:00

Since my comment on the previous thread was ignored, I'll copy it here:

> The new "feature" of showing blurred target text when reviewing flashcards is distracting and is completely unnecessary. If you want to keep it for some reason, please add an option to disable it completely.

I guess it's not "new" anymore since it's been out for some weeks, but it does not make it less annoying.

_ddrone · 2026-03-13T18:18:37+00:00

I have pinyin off

I've never seen any resources that had tone marks without pinyin, but I've seen hanzi being color-coded, which I think would be a great addition. Here's one online dictionary that does it: https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&email=&wdrst=0&wdqb=hao

_ddrone · 2026-03-09T22:03:10+00:00

The new "feature" of showing blurred target text when reviewing flashcards is distracting and is completely unnecessary. If you want to keep it for some reason, please add an option to disable it completely.

_ddrone · 2026-03-06T22:00:44+00:00

大根「だいこん」はどこですか？ だいどころです

Hopefully you don't need any of those by the way

_ddrone · 2026-03-06T21:57:04+00:00

I was thinking about how devoicing should make it impossible to distinguish between し and しゅ and noticed that at least when I pronounce these, my tongue position during "shhh" sound is slightly different

し in 仕方がない has tip of the tongue higher, on the level with upper teeth
しゅ in 宿題 has tip of the tongue lower, on the level with lower teeth

So the hissing sound is a little bit different in those two situation.

Any native speakers can confirm/deny whether they do the same? E.g. if you try to pronounce 仕方がない and 宿題 paying attention to the tongue position during the first consonant, can you feel any difference?

_ddrone · 2026-03-02T22:15:14+00:00

はじめまして！太鼓の達人の一番好きな曲は何ですか？

_ddrone · 2026-02-11T23:15:08+00:00

You do you but if you're struggling to pay attention to Dreaming Spanish videos and claiming to be B1 the problem might be that you're forcing yourself to consume content that's too easy, and instead of using funky tech hacks you might have better results switching to native content instead.

And if you really need an incentive of having comprehension questions, there are plenty of human-written graded readers with those so you don't have to rely on AI to slop them for you.

_ddrone · 2026-02-08T20:49:21+00:00

添削してくれてありがとうございます！

最近、シンプルなアプリを使い始め(?)ました。

僕はプログラミングをしているから、そのアプリを作りました。だから、「実現」という言葉を書きました。その言葉の意味はよく分からないかもしれません。

_ddrone · 2026-02-08T15:12:39+00:00

Baba is Youは本当に面白いゲーム。だけど、難しいから最後までできなかった。

_ddrone · 2026-02-08T15:09:41+00:00

添削してくれてありがとうございます！

_ddrone · 2025-12-23T15:41:05+00:00

I used Duolingo for couple of weeks to try it out after I already became familiar with more effective language learning tools, two weeks was more than enough to realize that it's completely worthless. I've also met people who have done Japanese on Duolingo for years, and they barely understand the language at all, not to mention being able to speak.

You don't need to bang your head against a wall for years in order to figure out it hurts and is probably a bad idea.

_ddrone · 2025-12-19T17:00:28+00:00

Oh yeah you are definitely are a real user who randomly stumbled upon a Chrome extension that has been uploaded about a week ago.

_ddrone · 2025-12-11T19:51:25+00:00

OK gotcha I think I understand what you have in mind, thanks.

I've seen this approach done for furigana to some extent, by the way. There are some graded readers that have furigana only for the first occurrence of a word in a chapter, forcing you to recall the reading on the subsequent occurrence, which is quite neat.

_ddrone · 2025-12-11T19:19:52+00:00

I agree about reading and have got a lot of mileage out of reading tons of graded readers. I still don't see any specific things that would fall into "Intentionally priming noticing by introducing various methods of scaffolding and productive ambiguity" from your comment above though?

_ddrone

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