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Notes from the workshop.

Engineering notes, design decisions, and language-learning ideas from the team building Tokori.

• May 5, 2026

  Why a language tutor should be local-first

  Most AI tutors treat your study state as ephemeral chatbot small talk. Fluency is a multi-year project. Here's the design Tokori took instead.

• April 22, 2026

  Building the level switcher: one click, three readings of the same chapter

  How we wired AI-generated difficulty variants into the reader without making the schema ugly.

• April 12, 2026

  API design choices for a desktop app

  Tokori exposes a local HTTP API. Here's why we picked the conventions we did, and what we didn't borrow from REST orthodoxy.