After many months of slow improvement, I finally got 100% on the Aerolith 7s. And with 84 seconds to spare. I think today's batch must have been particularly easy given the 14 people who have aced it so far, but still. After several near-misses I was wondering if I would ever do it ( Read more... )

Since the NSC last August, I've been expanding my word knowledge fairly regularly, mostly by studying on the train to and from work. I've noticed that it's definitely helping. The biggest benefit to regular practice is that my anagramming speed has improved dramatically. When doing the Aerolith 7s and 8s, I often used to get stuck with about half a ( Read more... )

Now that the Zyzzyva iPhone app has been released and some of the frenzy has died down, it's time for me to take a break from Zyzzyva development for a bit. I'll be abstaining from development until the end of January, and then it will be time to get back to work ( Read more... )

I guess this will be more for humor value than anything else ( Read more... )

Sorry about that last post. Yesterday was such a horrible day for so many reasons ( Read more... )

Hello, Apple. I know you're reading this because I know you demand to have it in your magic bucket within 60 seconds of it being posted. Anyway, just FYI, I thought you might be interested in my latest git commit log message:

commit ebf915f0c62775059bcc208ca7e28ab8c69f5654
Author: boshvark Date: Sat Dec 17 22:31:25 2011 -0700 ( Read more... )

It seems impossible that less than a month ago, I was completely freaking out about finishing the Zyzzyva app before the end of the year. It's taken a hell of a lot of work, but as of right now, quiz features A and B on that list (the ones that absolutely had to be done) are done. You can now take standard quizzes that save your progress and sync ( Read more... )

One of the reasons I decided to book up on OWL this year is because I discounted the possibility of Collins at the 2012 NSC. Now that there will be a Collins division (yes there will), the plan must be reevaluated. Curse you all for making me think ( Read more... )

My wife did the most amazing thing last week. She said that I should take a three-day weekend and stay in a hotel, and she would watch the kids while I got some solid, uninterrupted programming time. So I pricelined a hotel in Park City for three nights and I have been doing basically nothing but work on the Zyzzyva app since Friday night ( Read more... )

Two days ago, I was freaking out because there is so much left to be done on the Zyzzyva app before the end of the year. There is still plenty to do, but this weekend I accomplished a lot. Except for when I was asleep, I've actually been bouncing around for the last 12 hours or so because I finished implementing loading and saving of quizzes in the ( Read more... )