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What My AI Agent Did for Me This Week (That Wasn’t Coding)

What My AI Agent Did for Me This Week (That Wasn’t Coding)

From checking me in for a flight while I was drunk to chasing government refunds, planning cycle routes, and registering me for Council Tax. Here’s what I actually use an AI agent for outside of coding.

Speedrunning Dictionary Imports: A Race Between Apps

Speedrunning Dictionary Imports: A Race Between Apps

💡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 to make them as fast

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

[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, how

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_sorterGitHubbee-san it's a sorting addon

Mature card exporter for anki

Mature card exporter for anki

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

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

Introducing Bee's Character Dictionary

Bee’s Character DictionaryGenerate 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

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 brief warm-

Ankidroid new cards are not syncing with Anki desktop

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

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 faster responses

Best Japanese Learning Tools 2025 Award Show 🏆

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 get

JL vs Yomitan for Japanese Learning

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

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

Poe - Yomitan for Android

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

Priority Reorder Anki Addon

Priority Reorder Anki Addon

I use this Anki Addon to reorder my Japanese cards GitHub - tomahtoes/priority-reorderContribute to tomahtoes/priority-reorder development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHubtomahtoes Specifically I want to reorder them based on 2 things: 1. Cards I recently mined, as they are still fresh in my memory. 2.

Japanese Progress November 2025

Japanese Progress November 2025

It's nearly been 2 years since I started Japanese, and 3 months since my last Japanese update: How I’m Learning Japanese August 2025My morning routine looks like: Anki I do 20 new cards a day. The cards are ones I have created from reading, like this: I

Speeding up Game Sentence Miner (GSM) Statistics by 200%

Speeding up Game Sentence Miner (GSM) Statistics by 200%

Over the course of a weekend in-between job interviews I decided to speed up the loading of statistics in one of my favourite apps, GSM. GSM is an application designed to make it easy to turn games into flashcards. It records the screen with OBS and uses OCR / Whisper

JJ Method for Japanese

JJ Method for Japanese

👾This is not an endorsement of this method, simply an archive of it. TL;DR Grade in Anki on readings not meanings For N3+ learners who have already built up a good foundation in the language: Anki/Mining * Anki is a tool to learn readings, not meanings. * Anki is fantastic

My Magpie settings to play VNs on a bad GPU

My Magpie settings to play VNs on a bad GPU

Designing Bit.ly

Designing Bit.ly

Problem: Design a Tiny URL / Bit.ly competitor Given a long URL, create a short URL. Given a short URL, redirect to a long URL. Requirements * Very high read, likely 80% of all links are the same 20% of links * Not so much write * Needs low latency * High availabilitiy Flow

Statistics for reading Japanese

Statistics for reading Japanese

Hi friends! I just released my first ever web-dev project! There's a tool called Game Sentence Miner which uses OCR to grab text from your screen, and it lets you look that text up in a dictionary. GitHub - bpwhelan/GameSentenceMiner: An All-in-One immersion toolkit for

20 Popular System Design Interview Questions

20 Popular System Design Interview Questions

1. Distributed Metrics Logging & Aggregation System Companies: Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay, Datadog, Atlassian 2. Distributed Stream Processing System (like Kafka) Companies: Amazon, Microsoft, Wise, Confluent 3. Key-Value Store Companies: Apple, Google, Canva, Avalara, Rubrik, OpenDoor 4. K Most Shared Articles in Time Windows (24h, 1h, 5m) Companies: LinkedIn,

Japanese August 2025

Japanese August 2025

I made this to track my characters read! My mining deck is nearly at 1k matures :)

How I'm Learning Japanese August 2025

How I'm Learning Japanese August 2025

My morning routine looks like: Anki I do 20 new cards a day. The cards are ones I have created from reading, like this: I only make cards if: * It's within 5k frequency, so it's common to me * OR I know all the Kanji in the