Resurrecting the Ancient Mnemonics App Genius: A Nostalgic Tech Journey
2025-07-16
While learning Dutch for a move to the Netherlands, the author was disappointed with a language learning app called Green Owl, finding it fun but ultimately useless. He reminisced about Genius, an older spaced repetition app, praising its simplicity and satisfying feedback mechanisms. Since Genius was outdated and incompatible with modern macOS, the author decided to resurrect it. By migrating the SVN repository to Git using git-svn and resolving compatibility issues during compilation, he successfully built and ran Genius. This project not only recovered a beloved learning tool but also provided a valuable learning experience in Mac development and highlighted the preservation of technological history.
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