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Speedrunning Dictionary Imports: A Race Between Apps

Speedrun fans: play this 💡 this article is unfunished, people didn't seem to take it as seriously as i did On the 1st of January, 2026 importing a dictionary of every Japanese name took 3 hours. Thousand and thousands of hours were spent by people optimising dictionary imports

[Unfinished] Turning Steamdeck into a Japanese immerison machine by dual booting Windows

😋 This article is unfinished The dream of being able to immerse in Japanese games using all the tools you love (GSM, Luna, JL) on a handheld device has simply not been possible. Until now. This blog post will show you, reader who already has an immersion setup on Windows,

Anki VN Sorter

Hi I vibe coded this addon GitHub - bee-san/anki_sorter: Anki add-on for prioritizing new Kiku cards with VN-focused new-card sorting. Anki add-on for prioritizing new Kiku cards with VN-focused new-card sorting. - bee-san/anki_sorter it's a sorting addon for

Mature card exporter for anki

hi i vibe coded this super simple anki addon GitHub - bee-san/anki_mature_words_export Contribute to bee-san/anki_mature_words_export development by creating an account on GitHub. go to tools -> Export Mature Words to Clipboard It will ask you to set up your cards, like

My Moe Desktop Rice 2026

Like any Linux nerd I have been into ricing for a while, stalking the good folks over on r/unixporn and making my own Hyprland rice. But for the past 6 months or so I've been using KDE. And the past 2 weeks I have gone back from

5000 words

5000 words. I hit 4000 words 87 days ago. That's 11.49 mature words a day. Stats since 4k words: Stats 10k average daily characters. 2 hours of visual novels a day on average. Since I hit 4k words in December: 800k chars read, 128 hours spent reading.

Introducing Bee's Character Dictionary

Bee’s Character Dictionary Generate auto-updating character name dictionaries for Yomitan based on what you play/watch/read Generate auto-updating character name dictionaries for Yomitan based on what you play/watch/read

Automatic AFK detection for visual novel reading statistics

💡 This post is AI generated A simple character-based heuristic outperforms fixed timers and requires zero configuration. The formula threshold = max(5, min(chars × 1.2, 120)) handles 80%+ of cases without any user tuning, while an adaptive variant using exponential moving averages can personalize detection after a

Ankidroid new cards are not syncing with Anki desktop

Do new cards on Ankidroid. Sync with Anki Desktop. Anki Desktop says you have not done any new cards. Usually the issue is caused by reorder plugins, if you reorder before syncing it breaks. Reorder after syncing.

Best OpenRouter models for real-time visual novel translation

⚠️ This post is AI generated For real-time Japanese visual novel translation requiring sub-3-second responses at minimal cost , Claude 3 Haiku emerges as the optimal choice, delivering the best balance of speed, price, and translation quality. Gemini 2.0 Flash offers an even cheaper alternative with

Best Japanese Learning Tools 2025 Award Show 🏆

Welcome to the award show everyone! Hosted by your favourite bee... Bee! 🥳 I wanted to summarise the best tools etc out there in 2025, and what better way then to put on a fake award show! And like all true award shows and Christmas themed events, let's

JL vs Yomitan for Japanese Learning

JL is a popular alternative desktop dictionary app, Yomitan is a famous browser based dictionary app. Which one should you use?

Why GSM Stats is different from other Japanese stats apps

TLDR - It has the raw data Other stat apps simply collect data such as how many characters you read and when. They normally collect data like: When you started reading When you stopped How much you read This allows them to calculate stats like: Characters / hour Characters read Hours / day

Poe - Yomitan for Android

I've been playing with Poe recently: Poe: Language Lens - Apps on Google Play Pop-up dictionary and language learning tool for Japanese, Chinese, and more. This is Yomitan for Androids but anywhere on the screen. It's really easy to install. You just have to: Install via

Priority Reorder Anki Addon

I use this Anki Addon to reorder my Japanese cards GitHub - tomahtoes/priority-reorder Contribute to tomahtoes/priority-reorder development by creating an account on GitHub. Specifically I want to reorder them based on 2 things: Cards I recently mined, as they are still fresh in my memory. Cards that