Its server, client, app and curator, and the tools that write its
assets (maps, Anki fixtures, icons), as they are; paths are fixed in
the commits that follow.
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Signed-off-by: Tizian 「ティツィアーン」 <raisondetredev@pm.me>
What applies of Japanese's features to Chinese, Korean, Greek, German and
English, with the developer's choices and each decision's reason: Unihan's
characters, KRDict's words and levels, Make Me a Hanzi's and the curator's
own strokes, typed pinyin, radicals and readings by language; what doesn't
apply or has no open data. AGENTS.md, the server's README and the
instance's example environment follow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Tizian 「ティツィアーン」 <raisondetredev@pm.me>
Every dictionary entry now has a version: 16 hex digits of the SHA-256 of
what cards take of it (headword, reading, entry), made by the loader and
carried on every hit. A card keeps the version it took (card schema 8).
DictionaryEndpoint.changed returns, of the entries named with the
versions cards keep (1,000 at most a call; the app asks 500 at a time),
those whose version is another now.
The card browser says how many cards are behind their dictionary and takes
the corrections at a tap (decided 2026-10-09: by offer, never by
themselves). Taking one writes the entry as it is now over the revision
in which the card last took it, beside whatever came after, so the
revisions merge per side as two devices' edits do (ADR 0003): a side only
the dictionary changed takes the correction, a side the person changed
too is a conflict settled in the composer, whose words now name that
case. Cards made before versions are never offered one.
The server rereads its dictionary folder hourly now, not daily: the
dictionaries service fills its volume after an instance's first start,
and an hour with nothing changed costs a hash of each file.
Migration 20261009145434785-dictionary-entry-version: adds
dictionary_entry.version, text NOT NULL DEFAULT '' (rows loaded before
have none and are never reported as corrected), and by hand empties
dictionary_source."fileHash", so every source loads once more and its
entries get their versions; the schema stays as definition.sql says. The
old server goes on working until the switch.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MMm7usAo6q9ZZRoPkWjoxi
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EDRDG's licence asks of a server showing its dictionaries that it update
them at least monthly. The instance now does it alone: a `dictionaries`
service in compose, built from the curator (halkyon_learn_curator/
Dockerfile, its own unprivileged user 10001, 1 GB at most), runs `curate
update --every 7`, downloading EDRDG's files of the day once its files are
a week old and replacing them in a volume the server mounts read-only.
The curator never enters the server's image or process (decided
2026-10-09: a container of its own, weekly). The server rereads the
folder daily at 04:07 (DictionaryReloadFutureCall), loading what changed,
and loads now run one at a time. redeploy.sh builds both images.
An operator who'd rather supply the files removes the service and mounts
deploy/dictionaries/ into the server, as compose.yaml says.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MMm7usAo6q9ZZRoPkWjoxi
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About lists the data the app comes with beside the instance's
dictionaries: KanjiVG's strokes, by Ulrich Apel under CC BY-SA 3.0, with
the link its licence asks for. The server's README names the dictionary
of kanji and kana beside JMdict.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MMm7usAo6q9ZZRoPkWjoxi
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The curator reads JMdict's examples edition (jmdict-simplified), which
ties Tatoeba's sentences to the meanings they show, and keeps them on
each sense of an entry (the form the word takes, the sentence, its
English, its Tatoeba id), crediting Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). A card made
from a word takes its first three as hints: the sentence with the word in
bold, the English below; Look up gives them to a card without hints of
its own. 98% of N5 and N4 words have one, 82% of N1. No new card format:
hints exist since card schema 5.
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The server now holds dictionaries for everyone: `dictionary_entry` and
`dictionary_source`, reference data owned by no one, never synced. It
loads the dictionary files in its `dictionaries` folder at every start,
those whose SHA-256 changed: in the background, each source replaced in
one transaction, so searches meanwhile find the old entries; a file it
can't read is logged and left out. All of JMdict loads in under half a
minute. On an instance the folder is deploy/dictionaries, mounted
read-only (compose.yaml); the server's README says how.
DictionaryEndpoint (signed in): the dictionaries with their credits; a
search (exact key, exact loose key, key starting with the query, loose
key starting with it, each in the source's order; katakana as hiragana,
macrons written out), some 150-450 ms over all of JMdict; and the
entries with a label, counted and a page at a time (all JLPT N5 words).
The curator now keeps spellings that aren't quite right apart, as
`looseKeys` (romaji with long vowels typed once): "sushi" finds 寿司
before 数詞 (すうし).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MMm7usAo6q9ZZRoPkWjoxi
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The app and the client package are under AGPL-3.0-or-later, the server under SSPL-1.0, as decided for before the first publish: the server builds on Serverpod's core, which is SSPL, while the app links only BSD-3 packages and the client is generated from our own models. "Or later" keeps the code compatible with future AGPL versions without asking every contributor. Each package carries the official text in its LICENSE (from gnu.org and the SPDX licence data) and a notice in its README; LICENSE.md explains the split and covers the files outside the packages.
CONTRIBUTING.md: contributions come under the licence of the package they change, with no copyright assignment; every commit carries a Signed-off-by certifying the Developer Certificate of Origin, quoted verbatim; tool/check.sh runs before pushes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Tizian 「ティツィアーン」 <raisondetredev@pm.me>
Deviations from a stock `serverpod create`:
- Dropped Flutter web support, for two reasons:
- Appflowy editor had issues in the past, potentially related to the
Flutter-Web IME bridge. Upstream has also open bugs in relation to
that:
- AppFlowy-IO/appflowy-editor#1029 [Bug][Web] Unwanted space on click
and overall space bugs (open)
- AppFlowy-IO/appflowy-editor#782 [Bug] Editor auto-scrolling when
pressing space too quickly if placed inside a scrollable (open)
- Offline-first is a required feature. serverpod_offline_sync's SQLite
support in browsers, maybe via sqlite3.wasm + OPFS, is not
documented.
- SDK constraints raised to ^3.13.0, instead of ^3.12.2, so enjoy the
newest language features.
- Pinned to Flutter 3.47.4 via FVM.
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