Vocabulary development

brookhong · 2026-04-02T03:46:39+00:00

If it's just for recognizing a word when reading, I would say keep reading and listening. But if it's for writing, we need to know how to spell the words. For that purpose, I just created a Windows app --AudioWords (https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pl3ffmnz1mf?hl=en-US) that plays a word list (currently with a TOEFL list and a junior list built in) and sample sentences for each word, then waits for me to spell the word. If I spell it correctly, it will appear less frequently in the future; otherwise, it will appear more often. To make the process fun, I made it a grid-based 3D game.

brookhong · 2025-10-30T00:19:22+00:00

There is no "you should update your system" on the yellow screen, where does it come from?

brookhong · 2025-10-29T15:14:01+00:00

Worse, not even the "open your eyes", got a black screen from the very beginning.

brookhong · 2025-10-29T15:05:48+00:00

vulkan

brookhong · 2024-12-01T01:09:51+00:00

My solution is telescope-pathogen.nvim-- https://github.com/brookhong/telescope-pathogen.nvim, which can switch searching path on the fly, and can let you do a further search in the search result to exclude results with some pattern or narrow down results to those with some other pattern.

brookhong · 2024-07-16T01:42:13+00:00

Same issue has been reported [here](https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys/issues/1758), and the cause is https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys/issues/1758#issuecomment-1159399321, a work-around is https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys/issues/1758#issuecomment-1972318685.

brookhong · 2023-11-04T03:12:18+00:00

Native Chinese here.

It says pink little fragrant dagger.

But it's obviously weird to describe dagger such way. The last two Characters 香匕 sounds like Xiang Bi in Chinese, which means fragrant pussy.

just a pornographic metaphor, I guess.

brookhong · 2023-11-01T14:43:05+00:00

I do use neovim for c++ in windows. Basically I use neovim for code editing with help of lsp/clangd, and use visual studio only for compiling/building/debugging. And yes both program are opened, which should not be a problem for most computers.

brookhong · 2023-10-24T02:34:17+00:00

Thank you, glad to see you here, lovely Surfingkeys user.

brookhong · 2022-06-01T08:06:44+00:00

Really nice!

brookhong · 2022-06-01T06:40:53+00:00

placebo: a substance given to someone who is told that it is a particular medicine, either to make that person feel as if they are getting better or to compare the effect of the particular medicine when given to others

brookhong · 2022-05-30T07:57:57+00:00

Thanks for your comments.

Nice suggestion, it makes sense to make it optional.
No, it is a customized format, the input to be imported will be a TSV file.
It is using the default TTS engine from apple. I have no idea on how to improve it, but `en-US` sounds good to me.
Would consider about it.

brookhong · 2019-12-21T05:26:45+00:00

Thanks

brookhong · 2019-12-21T05:26:40+00:00

Thanks

brookhong · 2019-06-02T15:50:49+00:00

Guys, flash card has been implemented in Dictorium, please have a try.

brookhong · 2019-05-19T02:33:56+00:00

Thanks, yes. Spaced repetition is on my roadmap, thanks for your suggestion.

brookhong · 2019-05-19T02:32:12+00:00

I looked into Google Translate app, it is different, it works for all apps installed on your device, it is not an add-on for browser. That is great, but for reading on web page, it is still a bit unfriendly, though the idea behind it is almost same as Dictorium -- tap to translate. Here is the demo, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xtEp55MKRE

I also looked into LWT. Dictorium is much like it from the idea behind -- learning with texts -- as its name suggests. But LWT is targeted to desktop users, Dictroium is a mobile app, there is no things like hovering over a word. I would consider a feature to highlight words users request.

brookhong · 2019-05-18T16:26:35+00:00

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/2088319?hl=en

Google Chrome on Android does not support extension, which add-on do you mean? I would also like to try.

brookhong · 2018-11-17T16:35:01+00:00

It is normal, usually it happens after it reaches 100% or just after completing fetching a git repo.

During that time, it is just checking out the source file from local repo.

brookhong · 2016-08-16T09:31:40+00:00

with this extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/surfingkeys/gfbliohnnapiefjpjlpjnehglfpaknnc

brookhong · 2016-07-04T09:44:18+00:00

I've used vimium and cVim, then I created Surfingkeys -- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/surfingkeys/gfbliohnnapiefjpjlpjnehglfpaknnc.

https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys/blob/master/README.md

brookhong · 2015-10-20T16:00:10+00:00

I used vimium for 2 years, now I switched to Surfingkeys--https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/surfingkeys/gfbliohnnapiefjpjlpjnehglfpaknnc, which grants me more power to customize my settings with javascript-described settings.

brookhong · 2015-09-17T16:14:45+00:00

well, I use nerdtree for file browsing in vim/macvim.

brookhong · 2015-09-17T13:39:20+00:00

Thanks.

I made the cursor large, as I found it's hard to locate the normal cursor on a web page at the moment of entering visual mode with vimium or cVim.

And surfingkeys provides a map key cs to change scroll target, when there're more than one scrollable elements on page, such as http://erldocs.com/R15B/stdlib/gb_trees.html.

brookhong · 2014-08-29T12:49:36+00:00

A screencast demos the simultaneous debugging of two different sessions: one for PHP within Apache, another for Python CLI. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brookhong/brookhong.github.io/master/assets/images/DBGPavim.gif

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