Project: FrankenTongues

I’ve always enjoyed the peaceful thinking time afforded me by trips across the long, flat (and straight!) expanses of Canada’s prairie highway network, but as the family’s primary driver, my productivityy en route has always been limited to “thinking about stuff.” One of the dream use-cases for Frankie is to give me a second way to be productive.

So when plans formed last week to make one of those trips this week, I started scrambling. Frankie itself wasn’t quite ready, but the media files were. Could I whip up a way to test my proposed workflow without Frankie?

I’ve been wading through the refactoring swamp on a couple of other projects lately, and it appears to be contagious. Today I decided to pull Frankie’s CLI reader apart and put it back together again. All in service of the new lesson layout.

As I continue to use Frankie in more ways and with different types of content, I’m beginning to see some friction points. Some are just a function of the limited graphics of the TUI interface I’m using at this phase of the project, but some are about the actual information layout itself. Before I start tinkering with it, I want to talk my way through it. And that means: It’s rubber duckie time again!