blackbrokkoli

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I mostly build learning apps.

See what I'm up to: koljasam.com / blog.koljasam.com

Also feel free to contact me: hi ( at ) koljasam.com

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Comment · 1 month ago
haha no worries, setting up email is always a pain :)

I'd be up for a meet, do you have a preferred email or messaging app?

Comment · 1 month ago
When you say "grammar focused", what exactly are you imagining? Research shows that it's very rare that teaching grammar transfers to any kind of actual language proficiency, so curious how you intend to solve that
Comment · 1 month ago
cool concept! I sent some feedback via the support email on the site but sadly it bounced :(
Comment · 1 month ago
Good idea, I like that it's minimalist and straight-to-the point (as opposed to e.g. exercism with its million features).

Nit: I think that when an exercise was just attempted, it should not come up immediately again (soon, yes, but w/ some enforced delay, maybe) — otherwise it feels a bit tedious (even though it's probably decent for internalizing it)

Comment · 1 month ago
here is a random example to showcase how this can make sense (I'm not too familiar with the actual stacks in questions):

- stack A needs lots of tedious, not-quite boilerplate not-quite-copy-paste work whenever you implement something, but reduces cross-OS bugs, UX and accessibility issues down the line. Lots of dev frustration, slows down iteration (when humans actually have to do this).

- stack B has awesome DX and affords smooth operation of the design/UX/dev teams, very fast. More issues down the line, though. May be worth it if unaided humans need to work on it.

Comment · 1 month ago
Cool tool :)

If you're looking for feedback: It's easy to get started (pleasant that you are not forcing a login), but not so easy to understand what to actually do — what's the main flow? Which buttons am I supposed to press to do what? Some onboarding may help.

Since I'm not really in the market to learn English: Are you planning to offer this for other language pairs?

Comment · 6 months ago
Pretty interesting

yeah if it's no effort, please share, otherwise I reckon I'll rebuild it myself some time soon :)

Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
what is your hook into such a sprint; how do you get started? Do you just prompt "so uh teach me something about linux admin" and go from there?

I think this has been my biggest hurdle with LLM-based learning, even though I think the concept may be quite powerful...

Happy to hear more about your approach :)

Comment · 6 months ago
What does this achieve over, say, git? This is hardly a zero-trust situation, is it?
Comment · 7 months ago
Instead of having that one god-author who has to keep maintaining everything, I think a better option may be to have the whole comprehensively community-maintained. Which opens up the question: How do you open source structured data and maintenance?
Comment · 7 months ago
Do you have any idea what killed webrings?

It seems to be simply a great idea...like...should we bring it back? Could we?

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