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RSS FeedI'm a software engineer working in R&D. I build tools — mostly small, focused ones — and write about what I learn making them.
Lately that means AI-augmented engineering workflows, Flutter apps, and whatever else is holding my attention. The archive here goes back to 2007. Have a look at what I've built or read the blog.
Recent Posts
A Sentence Method Plan
Planning how to merge the 10,000-sentence method with Outlier Linguistics-style shadowing, where spaced repetition falls short for long audio, and the Tortoise Mode app I built to fill the gap.
Too Many Modules
Building a "Hamiltonian Method" interlinear reader for Mandarin with AI, and noticing that making study resources can be its own ancient form of procrastination.
Is Software Engineering a Cheese Grater?
Searching for a metaphor for software engineering: why cheese graters and mesh walls fail, and why a proof of concept is a low-resolution picture of a car whose wheels fall off once you try to drive it.
Recent Chinese Study
Shadowing Get Speaking Mandarin audio on early-morning walks: where I'm at in GSM1 and GSM2, and the repetition process I'm still working out.
Preston The Worm and C3P0 — Session 02
Another story time with my six-year-old.