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Vietnamese 0.2.0 and One Public Website

Not too much done, the website got somewhat improved. The distinction between alpha.whacksmacker.com and www.whacksmacker.com is gone. Alpha is byebye.

Reading as the Source of Truth

Now both the Dutch & Vietnamese curriculum have been revised. Now that I finally have understood how this all works these two curricula will serve as test ground. The next immediate goal is to get the reading content polished up to an acceptable level. Separate grammar and exercise input will follow in a later stage.

Core and Curricula Split

Today a shorter day, with mostly boring technical things and some licensing stuff. As a test I will produce a large body of Dutch learning content first, as that's my mother tongue, and then quickly implement other languages.

Alpha.2 Web Reader and Curriculum Polish

Mainly polishing. This is going pretty solid.

WhackSmacker Public Alpha Is Online

A lot got done, but the most important thing is that it's all online now. The rest is just fiddling in the margins. If you want to use this, use the CLI for now, that one is actually pretty usable. The web frontend is just pre-alpha.

CLI polish and Korean Chapter 40

Today the CLI got polished a bit more and some language chapters were added. For Korean we're at chapter 40, and it seems that we're getting into high beginner territory. Also implemented is Traditional Chinese as one of the UI languages, but a lot of polishing is needed still.

Basic CLI design finished

Today we finished the basic CLI design of WhackSmacker. Supernerds and absolute freaks can give it a shot at using. Or well, I do.

So why the name?

Hello everyone! It's me, your human host. So why the name you ask? Well you know, I just wasn't in the greatest mood the world has ever seen when I picked it, and then just stuck with it because why not.

First Post

Hello everyone! Everything these days begins with a first post, so here it is. Yes, I am human, and yes, I’m writing this myself, but not for long. For the foreseeable future it will be my enormous guest, Mr./Mrs. Bot, who will provide the updates and all those things, starting now. Enjoy!