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.
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JMdict brings Tatoeba's sentences for Japanese; the other languages'
dictionaries had none (CC-CEDICT) or Wiktionary's own, often
quotations. Each file now takes Tatoeba's sentences of the week (its
per-language exports, CC BY 2.0 FR) as its entries' first examples,
which become a card's hints: each sentence with a translation into the
dictionary's meaning language goes to the entries its words find, cut
as the app cuts a line of subtitles (at spaces, Korean's particles off,
Chinese by its longest words), up to three for each, those using the
word as its headword writes it first (Haus rather than zu Hause; 学习
rather than 學習 in the simplified dictionary), then those nearest seven
words long. German's common words nearly all get some (8,849 of
9,292), in ten seconds and under 300 MB; a dictionary whose sentences
can't be had keeps its words. `curate tatoeba` does the same for a file
made by hand.
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A studyset in German, Greek, English, Chinese or Korean finds its
dictionary as one in Japanese does (ADR 0008), and its subtitles are cut
into words by its language (`WordCutting`): Chinese by its longest
words as they stand, the longer words over each cut offered as for
Japanese; Korean at its spaces, a word the dictionary lacks as it stands
taken without the particle it ends with (집에서 is 집, 아이 stays a
child); every other language at its spaces, a word written exactly so
first (the noun Essen before the verb essen). A studyset finds the
dictionary of its language tag, else of its language alone (zh for
zh-Hans).
A Wiktionary word shows its genders, principal forms, IPA, romanisation
and Hanja; a German or Greek noun of one gender goes onto its card with
its article (das Haus, το σπίτι); its tag is its word class, named in
full (Noun, Adjective, Preposition), as Wiktionary's adj and adv would
read as JMdict's codes. Articles, pronouns, prepositions and
conjunctions are left out of a video's words. Chinese words show their
pinyin over each character on the Watch screen, carry their HSK level
as a tag (HSK-1 … HSK-7-9), and the dictionary adds a level whole; the
Watch screen filters by HSK levels for Chinese, JLPT's for Japanese, and
by none for a language without. A reading is typed in a session only
when it is kana, so pinyin isn't. Words are looked up on the web on
Jisho in Japanese, on Wiktionary at the language's section otherwise,
and a search's hint speaks of kana and romaji only in Japanese.
`DICTIONARY_LANGUAGES` in deploy/.env names the languages an instance
keeps (unset: de,el,en,ko,zh; empty: none).
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Deleting a studyset blanked it with everything inside it once a
four-second Undo was over. It now only marks it (`studyset.deletedAt`, a
column as `archivedAt`): it leaves every list, count and session with
what is inside it and waits in the library's Recently deleted for 14
days, saying how many are left, with Restore and Delete now. Deleting no
longer asks first and offers Undo; Delete now asks. Once the 14 days are
over, whichever of the person's devices looks next (as their data opens,
after every sync) deletes it for good, blanking first as before; the
server can't blank a payload and never writes a person's space (ADR
0007). The connector, publishing and the learner count leave deleted
studysets out too.
The migration adds one nullable column: app versions before it stop
syncing until they update.
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A Claude plan can't drive a chat inside another app, but Claude's apps
(every plan, the phone apps too) can add a remote MCP server as a custom
connector. The instance now is one (ADR 0006): Serverpod's web server
serves the MCP endpoint (/mcp, Streamable HTTP, JSON answers, no
sessions) with five read-only tools over the person's own synced rows
(their studysets, a studyset's cards and notes a page at a time, a
search across cards, a note, their progress), and the OAuth the
specification asks for: protected resource and authorization server
metadata, dynamic client registration, authorization code with PKCE
(S256 only), tokens bound to the resource, iss in the response, refresh
tokens that rotate. Caddy forwards these paths alone to the web server,
which production now runs on 8082.
People connect with a code from the app (Settings › Assistant › Connect
Claude): eight Crockford characters, valid for ten minutes and once,
typed on the authorization page, which names where it returns to, loads
nothing from elsewhere and may not be framed. Anonymous people can
connect too. Codes and tokens are kept only as SHA-256 hashes; an access
token lives an hour, a refresh token 30 days. The app lists what is
connected and disconnects it, which ends its tokens at once; deleting
the account deletes it; a daily job forgets what expired and clients
nobody connected within a week. InstanceInfo says where the connector is
(additive); the migration only adds server-only tables, so devices and
older apps are untouched.
The handlers take plain requests, so the integration tests drive the
whole flow (registration, the code, tokens, refresh, the tools, another
person's content, disconnecting, expiry, pruning, account deletion)
without a web server.
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The app's side of stage 4 (ADR 0005, rule 11). The card's Report sheet
offers "Send to the author too" on a card from a release; a copy's menu
reports the studyset as a whole and lists what is reported and
suggested on it, as Explore's summary does; the editors of cards, notes
and steps suggest them to the author as the learner has them, never
under "no derivatives". The Profile tab holds the inbox: the threads on
the person's published studysets and those they wrote, the newest
activity first, with a count on the tab. A thread shows a suggestion
beside the author's own item and its replies; its writer and the author
reply, and the author accepts (the content becomes their own edit, its
files fetched from the writer's), declines, closes, hides or blocks.
Writing needs an identity; reading what is public doesn't.
ADR 0005 gets an addendum for stage 4.
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Explore says how many people learn a published studyset on this instance
(ADR 0005, rule 8): shown, never ranked, counted daily by the server from
the people with an identity who chose to be counted (Settings, Privacy;
settings schema 8) and studied a copy on 3 or more days of the last 30,
rounded down from 5 on, so that nobody can be told apart. Only a number
the instance computes itself counts; votes count for nothing. The author
sees the same rounded number in the Publish sheet.
A copy of a published studyset is published within the original's
licence: never under "no derivatives", under a licence that keeps
adaptations under it only under that one, in every studyset of the copy.
Its releases say what they are based on, and Explore shows it.
ADR 0005 gets an addendum with stage 3's decisions.
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Releases in a git repository per published studyset (the `git` command),
learning as a copy that follows (later releases offered, merged per side),
handles on the account domain Mastodon's way (`name@halkyon.eu`, changeable
until the first publish; a profile of display name, bio, links and
avatar), reports and suggestions of our own on plain git rather than a
forge's, carried by the sync engine, and ActivityPub through Fedify in a
container of its own: federated from the start, built in six usable
stages. Decided 2026-10-09; the alternatives and why they lost are in the
ADR.
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The study option Write by hand (settings schema 7) has character cards
and words written in a session, on a schedule of their own (review mode
`write`; older apps skip a mode they don't know): what to write on top, a
character's meanings and readings or a word's reading and meanings, and
below it a square to write it in, character by character.
Each stroke is checked as it ends against KanjiVG's: both resampled to 22
points, then their shape once centred, where they lie, how long they are
and which way they go, each against what a loose hand strays by; a stroke
closer to one still to come is out of order. One that counts is drawn as
KanjiVG draws it, and the hand's offset from the middle is forgiven in the
strokes after; any other flashes red, says why and counts as a mistake, as
does a hint. Two misses in a row show the next stroke faintly. Once
written, or given up on (Show it), the rating the mistakes suggest is
outlined: none Good, one or two OK, more Bad.
The square takes every touch on it at once, so writing never scrolls the
card or swipes to rate. Characters without a stroke order (in a word) are
written for the person.
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A tag is still its name, but no longer in lowercase: the name keeps the
case it was written in, and names that differ only in case are one tag
(ADR 0004, rule 2, amended). Two such tags from two devices fold into the
one with the smaller id, its case with it. Tags stored before stay
lowercase until renamed.
Words from the dictionary are tagged JLPT-N5 to JLPT-N1 and with their
word class (Noun, Verb, i-Adjective, na-Adjective, ...). Anki tags and
PDF chapter tags arrive as written.
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AGENTS.md: the file endpoints and the app's files, asset URLs in content,
imported cards, platform plugins behind interfaces, server tests on the sync
engine's database, and GStreamer for Linux builds. ADR 0004: content names
files as asset:<id> URLs, and how stored files are deleted.
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Each review records its mode (ADR 0004, rule 3): front to back, back to
front with a schedule of its own, or crammed outside the schedule. A
card's schedule replays only the reviews of one mode. Resetting progress
appends a 'reset' entry per card, no migration (the column is text):
schedules replay what follows it, and the history stays for the streak
and the heatmap. Reviews are inserted in batches.
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A card has a type: front/back, multiple choice (drawn on a map when it
names one), vocabulary or matching, and the fields of that type. The card
payload's schema 2 holds the type and the fields in use; schema 1 reads
as front/back. Revisions merge per field rather than per side (ADR 0003,
amended): a field one device changed takes the change, a field changed
differently is a conflict, lists included as a whole.
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A tag is its name: names are lowercase, a person has one tag per name,
and two of one name (made offline on two devices, or by renaming) fold
into the one with the smallest id, so every device ends up alike. The
colour lives in the payload. Deleting a card deletes its tags too.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Tizian 「ティツィアーン」 <raisondetredev@pm.me>
Decided 2026-10-01: after the starred ones, the library lists the most
recently changed studysets first. That needs a change date, so studyset
gains updatedAt (ADR 0004): when the studyset itself last changed, its
content, place, star or archive date, written by the device making the
change in the same update as the change; the last writer wins. Studysets
from before have none and come last, the newest of them first.
The branch's migration is still unreleased (not merged, not deployed), so it
is recreated rather than followed by a second one:
20261001064926911-tree-tags-assets replaces 20260930213716558 and differs
only by one line on the server, ALTER TABLE "studyset" ADD COLUMN
"updatedAt" timestamp without time zone (nullable, so existing rows keep
null and no data changes), the same column in the table devices rebuild,
and its version. The model's comment on the payload no longer lists schema
1's fields alone.
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studyset gains archivedAt (archived studysets rest in their own section and are left out
of studying, with everything below them) and starredAt (kept at the top of the
library), both nullable. Columns rather than payload fields, for the same reason as the
parent: starring on one device and renaming on another must not overwrite each other.
The branch's migration wasn't applied anywhere yet (tests build fresh databases, and
the branch isn't merged), so it is recreated with the two columns instead of adding a
second one: 20260930213716558-tree-tags-assets replaces 20260930211154224, and differs
from it only by the two ALTER TABLE lines and its version.
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The schema of the features planned for the first release, as one migration: every
migration of a synced table locks older app versions out of syncing (ADR 0002, rule 3),
which costs nothing before that release. New card types need no migration; they are the
next version of the revision payload.
- studyset: `parent` (the tree; cycles and orphans show at the top level) and `position`
among siblings (fractional index; existing studysets at 'a0').
- tag (its name in the payload) and card_tag, one row per assignment, so concurrent
adds and removes merge.
- review_log.mode: review, reverse (a schedule of its own) or cram (never moves a
schedule); existing reviews are 'review'.
- person_settings: study goals now, preferences later; random ids, since an id derived
from the person could be claimed by someone else and break the owner's sync.
- asset: a file's hash, type, size and name; the file goes into Serverpod's private
cloud storage, served through an owner-checked endpoint (to come).
Migration 20260930211154224-tree-tags-assets only adds: four tables with their space
indexes and foreign keys, three columns with defaults. On devices SQLite rebuilds
studyset and review_log to add foreign keys, which is safe only with foreign keys off,
as Serverpod's runner does; a new test replays every client migration on a database
with a row in each of our synced tables and checks that none is lost (with foreign keys
on, it fails as it should).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Tizian 「ティツィアーン」 <raisondetredev@pm.me>
Records step 10's decisions with their reasons and the alternatives weighed: a list of parents instead of ADR 0001's single parentRevisionId (a revision with two parents resolves a conflict), a three-way merge per side against the newest common ancestor (no silent merge inside a side), and an explicit fractional position for the order. ADR 0001 gets an "Amended by" line, and AGENTS.md points to the new ADR.
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Signed-off-by: Tizian 「ティツィアーン」 <raisondetredev@pm.me>
Private and shared content is stored in plaintext on the instance and is readable by its operator, as on Mastodon. Private sharing happens only between persons of the same instance; only public content travels between instances. The key management that encryption needed (master key, recovery phrase, per-space keys, re-wrapping, compaction on devices only, signed operations) was the largest subsystem on the plan, and it shut the server out of grammar checking, search and publishing. Whoever trusts no operator can run an instance.
Rules: the privacy page and a notice when sharing say so; deleting content first blanks the payloads of its revisions, because the sync engine keeps rows until their space is deleted; content stays in the versioned payload, because every migration of a synced table locks older app versions out of syncing; server features decode payloads into server-only tables; reports and suggestions go through endpoints, so the author comes from the session. keyId and nonce stay nullable as the one way back.
ADR 0001 gets an "Amended by" note; its decision and rules stand.
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Signed-off-by: Tizian 「ティツィアーン」 <raisondetredev@pm.me>
Private and shared data sync through serverpod_offline_sync (0.0.8 on Serverpod 4.0.2), with the nine rules the spike established, the consequences, risks and the way out. Evidence: branch spike/offline-sync.
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