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On Desktop Productivity: Using Karabiner-Elements and Keyboard Maestro on macOS(ianjakobs.com)
1 points by ianjakobs 5y ago|0 comments
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by ianjakobs 5y ago
I can't say I'm familiar with him, but I just had a cursory look and his approach looks interesting (and indeed similar in some regards)! Thanks for the recommendation.
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by ianjakobs 5y ago
Thanks, feel free to let me know what you think!
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by ianjakobs 5y ago
The service I use for automatic corrections is LanguageTool ( https://languagetool.org/ ), and they support Chinese. It's hard for me to judge the accuracy, but I know that for Spanish it's good at picking up gramma
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by ianjakobs 5y ago
It's translations, text-to-speech, and corrections. I'm pretty sure the services I currently use support all this, but there's some things built around that such as word counts for the heat map that will need looking into. I&
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by ianjakobs 5y ago
Also not yet, unfortunately. I wanted to hold off on that until hearing some more thoughts from users. If you're interested in following along, I try to be open about working on Felingua over on Twitter: https://twitter.com&
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by ianjakobs 5y ago
I have no details to share at the moment, but the idea I have now is to at least always keep a free plan available. One option I'm considering is for a potential paid plan to then have more advanced features, such as fully customizable
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by ianjakobs 5y ago
I understand, and that's a fair point. For cards I went with JSON so that I'm able to add structure to translations, e.g. to show alternative translations and example sentences and highlight certain words. That said, I do plan on
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by ianjakobs 5y ago
Definitely! The main reason I haven't yet added support for any of those languages is just that I'm unfamiliar with them, to be honest, as I'd want to make sure they're _fully_ supported, both in terms of translations an
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by ianjakobs 5y ago
Absolutely agree. At the end of the day there's only so much those services can pick up, so at some point you're bound to run into limitations there. To address this with Felingua I've added in two methods of getting correcti
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by ianjakobs 5y ago
Creator here. As I’m currently learning Spanish, I started reading the Harry Potter books out loud to my partner (a native speaker) a while ago to get exposed to new vocabulary and practice my pronunciation. From this, I then wanted to revi
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Show HN: Felingua – Language practice by writing pages and reviewing flashcards(felingua.com)
31 points by ianjakobs 5y ago|21 comments
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by ianjakobs 5y ago
13" for me. It's the sweet spot between it being portable enough to travel with or use while sitting on the couch but still having enough to comfortably work with. And then I have an external monitor at my desk for when I'm w
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by ianjakobs 5y ago
Great reads, thanks for posting. I've very recently been inspired to start being more open about my projects, so it's good to have a few more real-life examples of others doing it.