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My favorite personal project is a Japanese-English dictionary with full-text search (thank you JMDICT: https://www.edrdg.org/jmdict/j_jmdict.html).

It's a Rails app and includes a flashcard system to help me study. It also emails me a daily list of 5 vocabulary words to study.

I use it all the time and it took about a month to get it into a state where I felt comfortable deploying it. I'm about to add a feature that will use the devices camera to scan and extract a vocabulary list from the image using OCR (I'll use this when reading Japanese text).

It's useful for me, but more importantly, it's fun.




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