If you were using Loom for just recording, please use OBS instead!
Creating tools for your own workflows has become amazing, especially as a creator of anything it feels overwhelming with how many options there are now.
A few of the tool choices in the article seemed uninformed though, e.g. for markdown editing you have perfectly functional (and open!) tools that are free and powerful with good UX.
My favorite framework, and what has brought me much deeper into the world of web development. It's what I have used for me personal page https://bryanhogan.com/ . I'm happy to see it get funding, although I hope this doesn't introduce entshittification. So far I'm hopeful though.
It's the first framework I recommend to web dev beginners, after they have built something with plain HTML and CSS.
I do have to say that all of the doc tools they mention in the beginning are worse than Astro Starlight[1] and Vitepress[2]. Can highly recommend Astro Starlight for documentation sites, used it for multiple projects myself.
Can vouch for Starlight and Astro in general. Don't be fooled by the fact that they are npm packages: Astro is geared for content-heavy websites and produces zero-JS bundles by default (i.e., if you just use markdowns without any script tags or JS frontend libraries, then there will be no JS in the final output at all).
- https://game.tolearnkorean.com/ - Learn Korean words quickly, words go from easy tasks (e.g.) matchings pairs) to more difficult ones (writting it), currently still needs some slight adjustments, and then I'll release an Android version.
- https://app.tolearnjapanese.com/ - Wanted to learn Hiragana quickly, used my existing project as a base to build this. Needs some adjustments as well, feedback is highly welcome.
- https://tolearnkorean.com/ - Since I'm learning Korean, and also working on an app to better learn Korean, I also want to make a guide on learning Korean, improving my own skills by teaching others.
I tested the Japanese app, in in a bit of a hurry, but here are things I noticed.
- 1 time when matching pairs, two different sounds played. Not the automated and presumably yours, but two different sounding sounds. E and another one I think it was.
- One run the male voice played when I clicked on the Japanese symbols to the left when matching pairs. All the other times it played together with the automated voice.
- The error log empties itself despite not leaving the current run, so you can't see what you did wrong. Not sure if it's page specific, but if so it ties into this next point.
- When matching one symbol to four different sounds, the page transition is too abrupt. This is also a thing on the other pages. I'd say better UX here is to give feedback that you did it right, and let the user choose to continue. A score too, if you'd like to "gamify" it.
- The options for modifying runs doesn't work.
I was interested in seeing the other tasks, but even when only enabling the task or tasks I wanted, I kept only getting match the pairs and match the symbol to the sound.
If you don't speak Hungarian and you have a Hungarian friend write a text for you that you submit to a collection of worthy Hungarian poetry, do you really think you are the correct person to answer questions about the text that was written?
You know what is supposed to be in it, but that's it. You can't judge the quality of the text and how it is fitting the rest at all. You can only trust your friend. And it is okay if you do, just don't pull others into it.
IMO it is extremely rude to even try to pull this off and if you do, shame on you for wasting peoples time.
np, it is a hobby horse of mine to point this out in case people are reading and haven’t thought about the difference in some of these algorithms and others
Also I'm curious, how did you gather user feedback?
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