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Benjamin Barrell 🪶

@barrelltech

building phrasing.app with @elixirlang & #clojurescript

looking for co-conspirators to take down duolingo with

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You win some, you lose some I’m replacing my boring pie charts with some much more visually interesting custom charts. The first one - I love it. The dots are so much more visually pleasing than the pie chart it replaced. Communicates the data clearly and has some flair The

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I signed up for tailwindUI many years ago. I've been using headlessUI for years (although recently removed it). I've purchased multiple copies of refactoringUI for the designers in my life. These are my thoughts in the hopes that should Adam Wathan ever see them, they are

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pretty cool to take my actual review history and best fit different curves to it to build predictive models. years of guessing and now I can actually test all my hypotheses

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If you send me a new message notification email with the message body, I might read it in the email and not open the app If you send me a new message notification email without the message body, I am definitely **not** going to open the app

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Checking in on my progress learning 18 languages at once. I cover my 4 tier 1 languages (Arabic, Croatian, Turkish, and Japanese) and a bit Chinese in the end!

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Language Log 4: Checking in on French, Italian, Dutch, and "Portuguese". The languages I have some ability in and am working to improve while learning my main languages

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First non language log related podcast! Stop trying to learn language from short phrases and find out I recommend and encourage such long expressions on Phrasing

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How short can content be and still be considered "comprehensible input"? Can it be combined with Spaced Repetition? Here's my theory:

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Most people learn a language in two steps. Learning from books and courses teaches you to 'speak' a language in a manner of speaking, but then you have to relearn how to actually _speak_ the language. Phrasing helps you skip this detour and work towards the final destination