Improving What3Words

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 19:28:02 +0000

What3Words is a cool service that takes clunky GPS coordinates like 52.1261450, -106.6589970 and turns them into phrases, like twisty.wedding.runs, that are much easier to both say and remember.

But I’ve got some ideas for how it could be even better.

Go home, Norsk. You're drunk.

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 07:10:13 +0000

My journey with learning Norsk hit an unexpected landmine today, all because of our new curtains.

Having learned a decent amount of French in school, I’m passingly familiar with the notion of gendered nouns. So the masculine, feminine, and neuter categories in Norwegian weren’t a problem. And learning that many people collapse the feminine and masculine into a single common gender came as a welcome simplification. But then we bought the damned curtains.

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Improving What3Words

Go home, Norsk. You're drunk.