# Stef van der Struijk’s developer blog


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## About this blog

I’ve been wanting to keep a blog for a while now for various reasons:

- Keeping track of my design decisions. I’m keeping crude notes about
  what I’m doing in Obsidian, but I hope by writing blog posts these
  will be a bit more fleshed out and stand-alone.
- Able to share my experiences and join the sharing community.
- Practice writing and experimenting with coding- and AI-assisted (not
  by-AI) writing that the [SolveIt platform](https://solve.it.com/)
  enables.
  - Let’s try out if a `nbdev` project is a suitable starting point for
    blog writing.

### Where to view this Blog best?

Documentation can be found hosted on this GitHub
[repository](https://github.com/NumesSanguis/blog)’s: -
[pages](https://NumesSanguis.github.io/blog/).

In the future also hosted on
[Bearblog](https://herman.bearblog.dev/manifesto/)?

## Kanji Origin - Kanji studying app

I’m developing a Kanji learning app, because other apps out there are
not offering the learning experience I’m looking for. I’m taking the
approach of: Doing a few things only, and doing those good. Those things
being:

1.  Develop a sense of what a Kanji could mean (EN translation,
    pictures, etc)
2.  Able to read vocabulary (ふりがな)

I don’t have a marketing speech prepared yet, so I’ll leave the
introduction to this.

As for the tech-stack, I’m taking the following approach: - **Rust
back-end**: Handle all logic in Rust, for a fast, solid and
cross-platform product. - **Kotlin front-end**: The first user of this
app is me. I’ve an Android phone and I want to be able to study offline.
Only re-doing the UI to e.g. get it to working on the web seems
plausible. - **Python database creation**: Data exploration and
wrangling just goes the smoothest in Python for me.

I have a basic app working with the above stack. However, this is only
teaching English meanings for Kanji (1). The database needs to be
revamped to support vocab readings. I’m also not happy with the data
quality of the most common Kanji resources Kanji apps are build upon.
Refer to the following blogpost for more details:
[2026-02-02_nbdev_restructure](_docs/2026-02-02_nbdev_restructure.html)

### Blog entries

- [2026-02-02_nbdev_restructure](2026-02-02_nbdev_restructure.html)