Tertulia is Josh's corner of the internet — a one-person paper from Arlington, Virginia. Philosophy, data systems, too many browser tabs; no algorithms, no ads, no feed but this one.
Everything here is built by hand and open source: the platform runs on Apollo, an authentication library for http4s. The ledger below tracks one running project — Japanese, pointed at the JLPT in December. The numbers come with their definitions attached.
The Ledger ✳ Japanese vocabulary
3291
words known · as of Aug 30, 2026
distinct notes (all decks) where any card has FSRS retrievability ≥ 0.9; fallback: interval ≥ 21d
● derived from an Anki import ◯ entered by hand