Back in 2013, I was an avid developer for Apple platforms and created a bookmark manager for macOS, and iOS (both on iPhone and iPad) called Momiji. The pendulum kept swinging back and forth for me between relying on bookmarks and relying on web search to find the sites and pages I wanted to revisit, but I had finally decided to put my full weight behind bookmarks.
Despite the skeumorphic phase its author was going through, Momiji had its modicum of success. But, as we all know, it's a mere handful of apps in the App Store which walk away with the lion's share of users. Around the same time, I had become extremely busy for this and that reason, and pursuing further development was becoming progressively harder, and unfortunately the app was shuttered.
Fast forward 13 years and a lot has changed.
]]>RakudaTokenizer is a Java/Kotlin library for tokenizing Japanese text.
The code is open source and hosted over at Codeberg where the challenges of Japanese text tokenization are described as well as how RakudaTokenizer works to address it.
This release adds 500+ new terms to the lexicon for a total of nearly 14,000 terms.
]]>What's special about it is that all the projects I have ever worked on in my 30 years career are playing a part in preparing me for what I'm working on now. This is very much the culmination of all the experiences I have had until this moment.
While the first release is not yet ready, and there isn't too much I can communicate yet, I can say two things:
Development of the software has reached the point where the largest risks have been identified and addressed, and what remains are the dozens of smaller tickets. I'm very much looking forward to releasing this soon.
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