Language-Learning

A few weeks ago, I published LWT 3.0.0. That’s the biggest release in the project’s history — over 1,000 commits, roughly half of all commits since the project ever started. The entire structure was rewritten: new database engine, new backend, new frontend framework, and even a new security model. It took almost two years since the last release. I went to other projects, stepped away from this one, and actually recommended useful alternatives. So why did I go back to building this ship of Theseus? ...

As announced in a GitHub post, I’d contributed enough to the current version of LWT to consider that it was time to roll over a new project, namely LUTE. In this blog I’m detailing the reasons for this change and its implications. A Bit of History After one year of contributing to my fork of LWT, I felt that I had done most of the reasonable housekeeping and small feature insertions. It was quite fun, but the more I worked, the more I felt that I had to stop contributing to the app at some point. ...

Hi there! In this post I’ll delve into a project which has taken a big part of my time for the last few months, the maintenance of an open-source language learning app: LWT. Original LWT logo LWT, standing for Learning With Texts, is a wonderful tool to learn text in your web browser, but it was quite abandoned 10 years ago, and it has not reached a larger audience since it was a bit difficult to use. So, I decided to blow the dust out of it, and started working on the GitHub community-maintained version. For those interested, the original project was posted at SourceForge.net. ...