A summary of my experience learning some Japanese before a trip to Japan and why I recommend giving it a try.

A guide on sentence mining where I discuss why it makes sense to do it and how using Migaku can speed up the process.

TLDR: C4A CPUs are a significant and free improvement for AlloyDB that is well worth enabling. In this article, I share some graphs from our migration.

A guide on how to self-host the Anki sync server and on using Tailscale to secure this setup.

An overview of the approach and learning from building an N+1 language deck using AI tools, including LLMs, text-to-speech, and image generation.

This post distills the minimal sync engine and BroadcastChannel-powered reactivity that I built to power the offline-first E2E encrypted Interleave application.

My current process for learning languages for fun and why managing motivation is most essential.

I tried creating some PRs to see how useful Cursor BugBot actually is.

Some thoughts on Codex after having used it for two days to generate a dozen production PRs.