Tag: Production
Articles tagged "Production".
I'm Not the One Who Found the Gap — How english.passed.jp Was Born, Stalled, and Started Moving Again
2026-07-20 18:45:00 · Production
The starting point of english.passed.jp wasn't market research or a bright idea. It was a real gap found in the field by an internship student who was actually teaching English to junior high school students. All I did was say, "Then let's build it." Then came a stretch where it was stopped — and now it's moving again. Not because motivation showed up, but because a plan I'd always wanted to carry out (SEO, AEO, GEO) finally became reachable with AI. An honest record of who did what, in what order.
Read moreBurning Grammar into Memory with Impossible English Sentences — We Built an "Impact" Department
2026-06-25 16:25:00 · Production
"My husband was killed by a giant anteater" — we use absurd English sentences like that as anchors for memorizing grammar. As the people who built it, we wrote down the new "Impact" department of english.passed.jp from its design philosophy to the guts of the implementation, and its honest limits. Clickbait headlines, sourced trivia, vertically-held YAML, fixed URLs and structured data. How we use technology to support "you touch it because it's interesting, and you remember it because you touched it."
Read moreI Built the "Tool," a Voice to Talk With — A Fully Local, Free Voice AI Called "kit," as a Parallel System (Podcast Log #2)
2026-06-25 15:35:00 · Production
I built a voice AI bot called kit that runs entirely on my own machine (M1 Max), free, with zero external APIs. A normal voice bot is a single line: finish listening, then think, then reply. kit abandons that and runs listening, thinking, backchanneling, deep reasoning, and speaking in parallel, with a single Arbiter collapsing everything into one verdict. A technical record written in full — real function names, real config values, and honest limits.
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