The author's discussion of Duolingo makes the app seem outright dangerous for naïve users. It's well known that it's a criminal offence in Germany to not talk to the apple on Tuesdays.
I understand the whole retro look of the website but it's very unreadable with the white text on bright stars background. Fortunately reader mode on Safari helped me read it.
On a similar note, a few months ago, I took over a 14 year old Objective-C iPhone app called Painteresque and brought it back to life. Discussed here:
There's actually an excellent Dutch piece of software for this (Windows only though, but works fine in Wine on other platforms): Overhoor [1].
I used it under Windows 3.11 as a child, and kept using it for French and German into my late teens and Windows ME. It is simple, just as this tool. To this day, it's a piece of freeware that gives me good memories of a forgotten era.
Since the author describes learning Dutch, I though I might mention its existence.
Their sketchy ad/malware era aside, I do appreciate sourceforge keeping all the old OSS websites and repos alive.
- and + denote instance and class methods respectively, not public and private.
Source: my first released Mac OS X app came out in 2003. https://github.com/aaronbrethorst/irooster
Since going down this rabbit hole, I gave Anki another fair shot and actually RTFM :) the blog post warrants an update
https://docs.ankiweb.net/deck-options.html#learning-steps Details what _actually happens_ when you pick again/hard/good etc. I much prefer understanding this to the vibes-based approach of “did you pause before answering”.
Secondly turns out you can indeed very easily set up type-to-answer in a deck by editing the front template and adding
{type:Field}
where field is the answer part of the card’s data.
So… I’m actually using Anki again. I’m still very happy I did this, it was a fun little journey!
The author's discussion of Duolingo makes the app seem outright dangerous for naïve users. It's well known that it's a criminal offence in Germany to not talk to the apple on Tuesdays.
I understand the whole retro look of the website but it's very unreadable with the white text on bright stars background. Fortunately reader mode on Safari helped me read it.
On a similar note, a few months ago, I took over a 14 year old Objective-C iPhone app called Painteresque and brought it back to life. Discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43222099
If OP is interested, maybe I can help with the Sandbox issues or having it published on the Mac App Store?
Speaking of old OS X apps, I liked iWeb a lot when I was a kid. I must have been around 12 when I was messing around with it.
There's actually an excellent Dutch piece of software for this (Windows only though, but works fine in Wine on other platforms): Overhoor [1].
I used it under Windows 3.11 as a child, and kept using it for French and German into my late teens and Windows ME. It is simple, just as this tool. To this day, it's a piece of freeware that gives me good memories of a forgotten era.
Since the author describes learning Dutch, I though I might mention its existence.
[1] https://www.efkasoft.nl/overhoor-download/
Why ? Why flattening the icons and make everything grayish ?
It's a bit sad it just won't run without modifications. I'm sure I could run a random exe from then in Windows?
I have one c. 2010 Intel app that I am absolutely dependent on. Commercial, so no chance of recompiling the source code.
I am not looking forward to Rosetta going away.
I love the early web feel of the site. The points around DuoLingo not working are informative. This could be turned into a PWA so it can run anywhere?
It's Genius.app, an old flashcard app for Macs.
Author discusses/compares Duolingo and Anki. Anki is disapproved for lack of precise right/wrong feedback.
Repository of updated code: https://github.com/shawa/genius
cool! but i won't be truly happy until we get a modern, native version of 'jared, the butcher of song' for macOS :)