I finally got around to rebuilding my website using #Python #Django and #reStructuredText . It is now allows me to easily write about projects and write blog posts.

One of my biggest and most useful (to me) hobby projects is my language learning tool #xiaolongdictionary . The last couple of days I have written about the tool and its features extensively [1].

I think I will still improve the writing and extend it in the future.

[1]: https://web.xiaolong-hosting.com/projects/project/xiaolong-dictionary

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In my #python project #xiaolongdictionary I had need for generating example data. I did not want to add more dependencies for that, so I took some time to create a function, that takes a TypedDict type and a dictionary of "constraints" to constrain the produced values and output a "factory", that can be called and outputs example values.

https://codeberg.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/xiaolong-dictionary/src/commit/9437f974e8f59a77e0052d26ee6cc10641052313/test/factories.py

It does not cover all the cases that one could imagine, but seems to cover all of mine.

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The newest improvement in my language learning tool #xiaolongdictionary is, that one can now comfortably enter special characters, that one might not have as keys on standard keyboard layouts. Since I use it to learn #mandarin / #chinese and I use US keyboard layout, those special characters are the pīnyīn vowels with diacritics.

This looks as shown in [1].

Currently, the shortcut is `ctrl+i`, "i" for "insert". The special chars can be configured in the config file.

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Just created a new release of my language learning tool #xiaolongdictionary [1] packing a massive improvement of usability for non-technical users. The change list can be found in the release notes as well. Most of the improvements are about exposing functionality for creating and editing words via the UI. Actions that previously only could be done by editing text files.

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[1]: https://codeberg.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/xiaolong-dictionary/releases/tag/v0.6.0

I released 2 new versions[1] (v0.5.0 and v0.5.1) of my #xiaolongdictionary language/vocabulary learning software today, with new features and improvements.

One new feature is, that one can now plot progress and daily training of words for any search result, as well as result of saved search.

Another is the main window status bar.

An accessibility improvement is behavior of tabbing through widgets in the main window.

[1]: https://codeberg.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/xiaolong-dictionary/releases

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I added a new data visualization to my language learning tool. As one can see, I am a bit below my goal for words trained per day.[1]

Also I reworked the tag list widget, so that one can (un)select tags and undo that, before confirming changes when bulk editing tags.[2] The tags are now so called check buttons (checkboxes in browser UI speak). I am using their inherent state of being (un)selected.

I'll probably make a new release soon.

#programming #python #tkinter #gui #xiaolongdictionary

Found a silly bug in my language learning tool, that I introduced in a previous change and release. The bug caused the global search to act like a refining search. Now fixed in release v0.4.2 [1].

[1]: https://codeberg.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/xiaolong-dictionary/releases/tag/v0.4.2

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I built a new release of my language learning tool #xiaolongdictionary [1].

New in this release: Saved searches. Perform any complex search and save it, to re-run the same search later. If the vocabulary changes in the meantime, the search result also potentially changes.

(For saving resulting vocabulary, I plan to add a "save search result" functionality later.)

[1]: https://codeberg.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/xiaolong-dictionary/releases/tag/v0.4

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