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Can You Churn Butter?
Someone on LinkedIn admonished a colleague who "ran out of tokens." It's exactly the wrong question. Here's the right one.
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The Pull of the Weasel
Claude Code agrees to run comprehensive end-to-end tests. Then it finds a reason not to. Every single time. Penn Jillette had a name for this.
Krashen's Five Hypotheses, in Plain English
Stephen Krashen proposed five interlocking ideas about language acquisition in the 1980s. Forty years of research has largely confirmed them. Here's what they actually say — without the linguistics degree.
What Is Comprehensible Input?
The term gets thrown around a lot now. It deserves a real explanation — and once you understand it, you'll never look at language learning the same way again.
How LinguaMama Got Built, Part 7: Administrative Silence
The Spanish DNV can be filed from inside Spain, lasts three years, and has a default approval mechanism. We were fifteen kilometers from the border.
How LinguaMama Got Built, Part 6: The Yaris Cross
We got a car. Our visas were canceled. We hired a fixer. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, the hobby project became something else.
How LinguaMama Got Built, Part 5: Tavira
After the visas, the lost passport, the French EV, and the broken chargers, we made it to Tavira. It was worth it.
How LinguaMama Got Built, Part 4: Do Not Get a French Car
We landed in Lisbon at 5:30 AM with everything we owned, one cat, and a rented Citroën. The charger didn't work. My European friends had warned me.
How LinguaMama Got Built, Part 3: You Cannot Come to Portugal
Our attorney said we couldn't come. We were paying for a flat we'd never seen. We rebooked for December 26 and went to see butterflies instead.
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