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  • Modernizing LatLex

    If you’ve been using this website a lot during the last few weeks, you’ve probably noticed changes happening randomly. I’m guessing it’s been fairly annoying. Don’t worry! It’s all for a good cause. I’m modernizing LatLex and fixing bugs. Also, I’m making it slightly more friendly to people and hostile to bots, Artificial Stupidity and all that rotten nonsense.

    If you’re encountering issues, make sure you’ve done your due diligence to try to make it work — clear your cache, clear your cookies, restart your web browser, restart your device, et cetera. If all that fails and you’re interested in Latin as a research topic (not as a data broker, agent, bot farmer or bot), feel free to contact me. I’ll try to help out if I can.

    More changes to come!

    PS – to contact me publicly, leave a comment on this news post; privately, go to the info and contact page.

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  • Updating and Renaming

    I’ve been updating the site a bit, but you won’t notice most of the changes as a user. The changes are primarily on the back-end of the site to help me manage it more easily and effectively.

    One small change you’ll notice is that the nickname Numen has been retired. The nickname is now LatLex. I won’t change it everywhere — especially not in the YouTube tutorials and historic blog posts — but most everywhere else, the deed is done.

    If you notice weirdness happening — that’s OK. It’s OK. Weird is good. However, if anything is broken, try clearing your cache, your cookies, restarting your browser and restarting your device. If that still doesn’t work and you think you’ve found a bug, let me know. I love squashing bugs. Actually, I don’t. I usually just pick them up and put them in the garden. But you know what I meant!

    Here’s another way of getting in contact with me, in case email is not your thing: Keith on Bluesky

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  • Still Going Strong

    LatLex is still going strong. It’s been a few years since I posted an update.

    This tool continues to get a lot of engagement from the people it was designed for — people who want to learn Latin and research the vast body of work in Latin literature.

    I want to continue to thank all the teachers, students, Classicists, Clergy, Biologists and everyone else — professionals and amateurs alike. It was not designed by robots or for robots — and shouldn’t be used to teach robots stupid tricks.

    Thanks! 

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  • Numen Mobile

    jQuery Mobile

    I found this awesome little development API called jQuery — it’s made my life a million times easier. One of the components of jQuery is called jQuery Mobile for building mobile websites.

    What an amazing API! I completely rebuilt Numen Mobile in about 3 short days worth of coding. Not only does it look better, but it does way more stuff, and best of all is that it’s compatible with many different devices. I’ve tested it on iPhone, iPad and a couple of different Android devices. Supposedly it also works on many different devices and in many different browsers (see a list of supported platforms).

    Please feel free to check out Numen Mobile, bookmark it, and share it with people who might find it useful. Feedback is always welcome.

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  • Numen Mobile

    As usual, the semester is a busy time and I can’t spend a lot of time making visible updates. However, as usual, I’m fixing problems in the background as they arise. Mostly what I fix this time of year are definitions as a result of spending a lot of time using Numen to read Latin.

    That brings me to Numen Mobile, which I updated last night. I have been using it a lot lately for studying Latin, and I wanted to open it up to the rest of the world. If you visit Numen on a mobile device, you should notice a link at the top of the screen asking you to try the new mobile site. It’s been tested to work on iOS and Android. It should work in any web browser reasonably well equipped with Javascript, Cookies, DOM, etc. [e.g., technical mumbo jumbo! read: the lastest and greatest].

    If you have an iOS phone, you should be presented with a link that tells you about turning Numen Mobile into a free app on your phone. Just add it to your home screen (shiny new icon and all!) and you’ll find that version works really well (provided you have a stable internet connection).

    That’s it for now. I’m always plodding away, so if it seems like things are dead around here, they’re not!

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  • Regular Updates

    What’s going on now? As always, work goes on in the background, but nothing big has changed. Regardless, I want to make sure the front page stays fresh, so this update is to let you know that I continue to make small improvements to the dictionary data and the paradigms that the Latin parsing engine runs on.

    Mostly, I spend a good amount of time correcting bad data, fixing wonky definitions, etc. But from time to time I find an error in a paradigm (for instance, recently I found macrons on -unt verbs) and fix it. Just a few days ago I discovered that short form 3rd adverbs like potenter don’t parse properly; that’s one of my current projects.

    What’s going on in the future? I’m still pulling data out of the big Lewis dictionary. I haven’t loaded it yet because I’m happily discovering that the big Lewis dictionary has a wealth of information that can be extracted. The hard part, as it turns out, is extracting it. I don’t know when the new data will be online, but rest assured I’m working on it often.

    Until next time, feedback is always welcome!

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  • Browse

    I’ve updated the browse pages to be a bit prettier, and with that hopefully a bit more functional.

    As usual, little stuff happens in the background that doesn’t deserve a lot of fanfare, but it does always happen nonetheless!

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