In the course of five months, I've gone from building my first app using AI (Loveable) and then a couple more in Claude Code. And I now have my own LLM running on my laptop. Very slowly and it's not too bright (yet), but there is nowhere to go but up 😁

Someone recommended Tolgee for developing a multi-Polynesian-language app translation system. It looked good until I saw the price 💰😱 Two evenings later I have an home-spun translation maintenance system that handles eight different languages, and you can view and edit any three at a time.

I saw my one of my daughters' grade school teachers, Kahoʻokele Crabbe, from the Hawaiian immersion program in Keaukaha. I wasn't sure he would remember me; I haven't seen him in 25 years. He looked at me for a second, I saw recognition, and he said "Aloha mai, Keoni." He always called me that 🤣

I've wanted to write a book called "Just Enough Music Theory for Hawaiian Musicians" for years. I decided to make it app instead so people could use it as I developed it. It's not ready for sharing yet as it needs more meat. But it is getting there. And it will be bilingual at birth.

I posted a new Hawaiian keyboard on the Chrome Web Store. This is for Chrome OS and not the Chrome browser. I dislike the slash-vowel system for generating the macrons but this is the only way to get it work for now. We are working on getting a system level keyboard in the OS but don't know when.

V2 of my Hawaiian keyboard for Chrome OS has been posted to a Chrome Web Store and is awaiting approval. It sucks that we have to change the way we type in Hawaiian because of the way their extensions work now. Hoping to have a native Chrome OS keyboard built into the system soon. 🤞🏼

Bless St. Tim Berners-Lee.

The honeymoon with Claude Code is over, but the relationship continues. As the complexity of my main project (not the games) increases, I'm finding CC challenged to fix breakage, and sometimes altering parts of the codebase that - from my angle - have nothing to do with what I asked it to do. 🤔

For those trying to cancel their Disney+ account, every Disney help page it gives you gives you the wrong url. The correct one: my.disney.com If you just go to disneyplus.com it gives you the interface for watching movies, no way to access your account. At least that's what it did for to me.

Watch the Dutch kick Disney in their tiny mouse gonads…

Apparently ChatGPT is tired of the question.

I was feeling pretty good about myself until I looked at the keyboard. 😱

It's not an ideal solution, but it seems to be the only one that will work in Chromebook for both binary apps and in Google Suites. More testing to follow but this appears to be solid. No Chromebook Hawaiian keyboard that works like our MacOS and Windows ones until I can get through to Chome folks.

He pō waimārie tēnei. Kua tata rite. 🤗

Puta noa i a Aotearoa kei te whakamānawatia Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori.

A lot of great people doing great work in amazing programs will end because they are discriminatory? Bullshit. He pōmaikaʻi ia mau papahana i ka paeʻāina. In the end, everyone across the archipelago benefits from them. The damaged caused by this will be inestimable.

New day, new features. The old, cluttered keyboard with separate keys for house with and without kahakō/tohutō gone, replaced with a system level press, hold, and drag your finger option. Much cleaner. Also locked the window so that it doesn't move when the player drags their finger.

Sometime last year, the name I suggested for UH's new, Brightspace LMS (Lamakū) was selected. There was a lot of consternation about the switch; people hated it (the system, not the name). I understood how the person who named the Titanic must have felt. Today, I really appreciate the new system.

Is the world ready for the mega, six letter version of this in te reo Māori, ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, and other Reo Moana (eventually)? It really doesn't matter if it's ready for it or not, it's coming 😎 you'll still be able to play the classic five letter version, too.

He ‘ōrite tēnei ki te whakahānūtanga i nā tūmahi Māori. 🧐

A few days ago, I posted "I'm sold on Claude for programming, at least so far." That's over. Claude Code from the command line terminal destroys Claude on the web so badly it's not even funny. It's fixing in seconds things that ChatGPT couldn't fix at all, and that took hours via Claude on the web.

Another day, another tweak. I was tired of looking at such a boring screen.

I'm sold on Claude for programming, at least so far. It helped me enhance my Hawaiian w**dle-like game, it now loads multiple word lists and interface languages, and enables 5 or six letter lists. Also cleaned up the Copilot/ChatGPT code and created a one-step process for adding languages.🤓

I purchased a Pro subscription ($20) on Claude as I've become disillusioned with ChatGTP, both standalone and integration into Github's Copilot. It was going great, but I used up my "5 hours" in 1:30, because when you are having Claude code for you 5 hours is apparently a metaphor for tokens used. 😤

Tino ātaahui te tirohanga mai i tēnei pāka i Kula. Kei te kōrewarewa mai te hau, ka hāneanea te kiri. ☺️

Tonight's word game upgrade included calculating the % of words containing macron vowel combinations, t (wh and ng in Māori), and ‘okina (glottal) in Hawaiian, as I was not seeing as many words with them as I should. Much happier with the results and seeing more words not seen previously. 🤙

Last time I saw Kekuhi was in T.J. Maxx in Hilo late last year. Just saw her in "Chief of War" as Keōua's makuahine. Great casting! Though I seriously doubt she is old enough to be Cliff Curtis' mother 😉

I really miss the Saturday and Sunday markets we patronized during our time in Aotearoa earlier this year. Wonderful people and amazing food and items for sale. We have a few on Maui but they pale in contrast. The one near Tākina (near the Pōneke waterfront) was probably the best.

The more I use ChatGPT for my projects, the more I wonder how I did without it. No more editing translations in JSON structures. GPT exports those in clean and easy-to-edit text files, each language's translation appearing sequentially. When I'm done editing, it converts that text back to a JSON. 🧨

You could fill a book with what is wrong with Lee's ludicrous statement about Hawaiian education. This is a start.

Speaking of Hawaiian immersion, this is also unforgivable. No student should be denied the oppprtunity to get a Hawaiian immersion education, and the DOE has a responsibility to provide it.

While working on the multilanguage side of my word game, my brain exploded with a thought that has shut me down for a while. What about the iwi and regions that don't use macrons but double vowels instead, and have other dialectic differences? Different word lists and different language interfaces.

I'm getting a pretty good at this, solved four puzzles in a row. Still playing whack-a-bug with a few features but still it's coming along nicely. I need to find someone who can help review and edit my Māori interface translation because I'm not that good (yet). 😁

A few days I grumbled about how bad ChatGPT 5 was and some of the crazy replies it was giving me. I put it on timeout for a week, came back, and boy is it on task now. It took me about an hour with its help to completely overhaul my dictionary file parsing and it's now producing beautiful output. 🔥

The inaccuracy of this story boggles my mind. Kamehameha School had nothing to do with the establishment of the Hawaiian immersion schools. This is not meant to slight them because I have incredible admiration for what they do for Hawaiian students. Aloha Pauahi, but give credit where credit is due.

My daughter left a fish tank behind when she moved to a new place recently. It only had two fish - both neon tetras. One day I noticed one flopping on the bottom without its pelvic fins. It died a few days later. I posthumously named it "Roy." I named the remaining fish… wait for it… "Kilroy." 🥁 😆

New day, new feature. #pangakupu #nanehuaʻōlelo

Kei te whakamua haere tāku taupānga panga kupu Māori. 🤙🏼

Aloha, mahalo, ʻāina, uka, kai, kapu, wai, mauna. Eight Hawaiian words that are so pervasive here only a racist, ideogical idiot would suggest such a thing here. 🤔

"A quick glimpse of the ChatGPT subreddit (which is not affiliated with OpenAI) shows scathing reviews of GPT-5. Since the model began rolling out, the subreddit has filled with posts calling GPT-5 a "disaster," "horrible," and the "biggest piece of garbage even as a paid user." Agreed.

My ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi word game is coming along nicely. Feedback from testers has been great. Bilingual interface. too. Could a reo Māori version be far behind? 😎

ChatGTP 5 is driving me bonkers. I'm using it to process a lot of Hawaiian language texts, including a complex dictionary file with lots of HTML. I was making great progress with the project until they launched this model. Now each chat bogs down after only five minutes and I need a new chat. [MORE]

Seriously? The US weather service named a weather system east of us "Maui." After the demigod trickster. And yes I know that is Māui, but doubt they know that. Checking our hurriicane supplies tonight…

I'm figuring out that as I get older, when I am burnt out doing one thing (like my job), I don't need rest. I need to do something different. I realized that is how I got my second MA and first book done simultaneously while teaching at the uni. Good to figure out as I'm trending toward retirement 🧐

Seen in my doctor's office #wisdom

I've been working on a new "Word Finder" game but using ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i instead of English. Once I have it wrapped up I'll consider a te reo Māori version. Anyone know if one already exists? The word length and number of words is currently restricted for testing,

He rangi pai tēnei i tātahi. #mauinokaoi #kamaolekuuaina

I'm at the point in life where style points don't count for much and field of vision rules.

Final tsunami update: while the islands experienced tsunami activity, it wasn't a fast-moving tsunami like Hawai‘i has experienced in the past. There were sea level rises between 2-6 ft around the state. Low-lying areas of Kahului were flooded, but no reports of significant damage anywhere.

The way it should be done. Unholy Trinity, take note.