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by the_florist 1mo ago
The pot calling the kettle black, methinks. http://flowery.app/words/I%20dare%20say Dictionaries accept both forms, but the two-word phrase predates “daresay,” originating in the 14th century according to the OED.
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by the_florist 1mo ago
As usual, I’m chipping away at my highbrow app for readers and writers. It’s an authoritative dictionary, a reverse dictionary, a spaced repetition system for vocabulary building, an e-book reader, and now a portal to Wikipedia. I dare say
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by the_florist 9mo ago
https://flowery.app/books – An e-book reader and library of selected classics from Standard Ebooks. I’m working on the table-stakes feature of persistence for the bookmark widget, which currently appears after navigating aw
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by the_florist 1y ago
I’m building an e-book reader for the web and PWA platforms: https://flowery.app/books The library of public domain classics is courtesy of Standard Ebooks. I publish a book every Saturday, and refine the EPUB parser and st
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by the_florist 2y ago
Good catch! I am still fleshing out the EPUB parser, so loading of CSS and images (other than the SE logo) is not yet supported. I hard-coded the styling for now, which works well enough thanks to the books’ consistent markup. I also overlo
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by the_florist 2y ago
Many thanks to each of you editors for the sterling work! I was recently inspired to embark on a project to mirror the Standard Ebooks library, starting with a book that you produced, which happens to be my favorite: https://flow
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by the_florist 2y ago
Thanks! I take the “eccentric” label as a compliment. I may have gone overboard with the minimalism. Users had been all the more baffled before I added the tooltips hinting to tap the hearts, so I should probably double down on some sort of
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by the_florist 2y ago
I appreciate the kind words. A lot of painstaking work went into aesthetics. The Stripe integration launched a few days ago, so the app is very much in the red. Paid advertising since the initial release six months ago has shown promising s
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by the_florist 2y ago
You can quickly populate the search box by tapping any word (or highlighting on desktop) in the hybrid dictionary/thesaurus. As I mentioned in another comment though, the ideal workflow would be an integrated ebook reader that lets you
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by the_florist 2y ago
The dictionary preview is limited to the nth letter of the alphabet, where n is the day of the month, as hinted by the search box’s placeholder. Try looking up any word that starts with S, assuming it’s June 19th in your time zone.
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by the_florist 2y ago
The timeless elegance of Caslon. Features to discover vocabulary are on the drawing board. In the short term, a “word-a-day” feature will recommend five words per week, but the time-tested method for a rich vocabulary is reading, so the lon
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by the_florist 2y ago
You look up a word in the dictionary and tap the heart next to its definition (as the tooltip suggests) to save it. The Hearts page ( https://flowery.app/hearts ) is your personal vocabulary list, and the Cards page ( https:&
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by the_florist 2y ago
I decided to roll my own virtual keyboard after a protracted battle with inconsistencies and quirks across mobile browsers. The glaring difference is that the native keyboard slides the viewport upward on iOS (pushing the fixed header off s
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by the_florist 2y ago
Thanks for the constructive criticism! There’s definitely room for improvement. The design was intended to be minimalistic, but perhaps overly so. The preview could indeed be clarified: The letter corresponds to the day of the month, so the
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by the_florist 2y ago
https://flowery.app is exclusively a PWA. It was designed from the ground up to prioritize the “Add to Home Screen” experience on iOS. The web is the ideal platform given the app’s emphasis on text and typography, and a native r
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