A flashcard app designed for Mark Nguyen to study Chinese and Japanese.
This section documents how to do certain things with the source.
https://github.com/nguyenmp/vps-management has the latest info, but here's a local ref.
First get a copy of example.db (with pre-seeded data) from the VPS. It's on the volume mount. Put it in the project dir (directly under git):
scp -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.digital_ocean root@147.182.236.144:/mnt/volume_sfo3_01/hikariita/example.db .Then docker-build it!
docker build -t hikariita .
docker run -it --rm -p 80:80 --name hikariita hikariita
http://localhost:80
https://github.com/nguyenmp/vps-management on a VPS via ansible / docker-compose and probably with a web server in front.
See https://github.com/nguyenmp/vps-management
See the local setup section, and then run python db.py against a TSV export of a Google Sheets data set.
This section documents why certain decisions were made.
I tried Anki and found that the existing content on that platform to be hard to puruse. Additionally, it only had a concept of "front" and "back". Meaning you could only quiz on some pre-defined "front" and answer with some predefined "back". Traditionally, it's Kanji in the front and meaning in the back. I want something where I can quiz on any of the following and answer with the other two: (1) hirigana, (2) kanji, and (3) meaning. Additionally, I found the Android app to be pretty janky and hard to understand. Third, because the existing flashcard stacks were not exactly what I wanted, I needed a way of copying the content and adding what I desired, or fixing what was wrong. Unfortunately, my only alternative was to upload my own content instead.
Given the amount of work I would need to put into creating this content, I figured adding the application layer on top to do exactly what I wanted was worth the time.
I should probably have tried a couple more apps until I was mostly dissatisfied.
I code in python mostly and I find it pretty easy to get something simple running quickly. Basically all OS's come with it pre-packaged.
Same as why python.