It’s spring of 2022, and it’s been over 5 years since I started my journey with Anki. I wrote this story as I was starting to use Anki to keep track of the music I was learning. I wrote an update in 2018 after one year, and this one in…

Two years ago, I wrote this story as I was starting to use Anki to keep track of the music I was learning. I wrote an update last year, and now it’s time to take a look at where this past year has brought me on this adventure. My catalog…

A year ago, I wrote this story about using Anki flashcard software to manage the catalog of music that I was learning and maintaining. At the moment that I wrote that piece, I was one week into learning about Anki, and now it’s been a year, so I thought I’d…

Using flashcards to manage learning music I am both a musician and a programmer, and sometimes those interests intersect. Recently, I read this story about using Anki, an open-source application for creating and studying flashcards, to help you learn Javascript. I read up a little bit about spaced repetition methodology, and quickly realized that this methodology…

And here it’s been over a month again since I’ve written! I’m not writing a lot, because my work is leading me in many other directions, which is probably as it should be. I’ve written in the past about how drilling is really important work for a musician, and how…

Wow, it’s been over a month! I just re-read my last post, and it sounded like I was really ready to get to work, and it turns out that that was exactly the case! I have been insanely busy working in the weeks since that post. So busy that I…

Hello! I’m back! Well, I just came out of a couple of weeks of just awfulness. …

Java was such a perfect programming language for me! It is what they call “strongly typed”. This appeals to me as an obsessive linguist. What it means is that when you create a thing in Java, you have to tell it what kind of a thing it is. …

So I’ve been talking about working with a metronome app for my phone. I use Metronome Beats, which is free on Google Play. But it has a band of ads at the bottom, most of which are onto the fact that some people are using the metronome visually, so the…