Small, carefully made software for reading and learning, from an independent studio in Ashland, Oregon.
lila
A personal reading appliance with pixel-perfect typography.
Bring DRM-free EPUB, Markdown or HTML to the lila app on your Mac. It typesets each book once, justified and hyphenated in hand-tuned bitmap type, and shows you the exact pages by running the reader’s own drawing code. Then it puts them on your Xteink reader, over USB or Wi-Fi, and the reader does almost nothing but show a page and turn it.
Pride and Prejudice on the X4, at the screen’s own 480 × 800 pixels.
Magnified: hyphens and the full stop hang just past the margin, so the right edge reads straight.
Plática
Mexican Spanish, as it’s actually spoken.
An iPhone app for real situations with real people, in 36 packs from a first hello to a long sobremesa: the neighbours, the market, the landlady, a Sunday with the family. Lessons teach three phrases at a time, reviews come back right before you’d forget, and you practise out loud, including live role-plays where an AI plays a suegra or a landlady, then try each situation for real.
Subtle Path is Nick Walker. For 25 years I’ve built humane interfaces to information systems: features for Particle, an Editors’ Choice AI news app; mission control for uncrewed ocean vessels; an open-redirect fix in the OAuth 2.0 standard; and augmented reality for helicopter pilots, with two US patents.
lila
