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The Arabic keyboard kept slowing me down, so I built a Telegram bot to post Daily Derja by voice instead.

One year in — the dialect changed, the work changed, the Iran war from my first post hasn’t, and I’m still complaining. الحمد لله.

A friend of mine referred me to Eleven Labs. Maybe it will help handle a long-standing problem with haki.

I built a Telegram bot to catch my passing thoughts, then made it gentler — guided by a Talmudic line about being a reed, not a cedar.

A lightweight, city-by-city game for drilling real Levantine Arabic with audio and dialect toggles.

I fed my Daily Derja posts into NotebookLM and asked for Shami vocabulary and style upgrades; here are the best suggestions.

I discuss the change in the site – from the Tunisian dialect – to the Levantine one.

Starting a new kind of post, but I did not finish it yet.

How I use Obsidian to take notes and learn Derja.