Lingua Mundi
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Shikibu Free 1.0.0 is up for Windows and Linux, with an Android APK and a ZIP bundle carrying the Japanese dictionary data. Shikibu Pro 1.0.1 sits next to it: the same editor with the full offline dictionary and one-click furigana, unlocked by an evaluation key.
Alongside it: the Lingua Mundi Dictionary (a 283k-entry Japanese dictionary that works with no connection) and Texupan, the six-language dictionary. Every lookup traces back to source data — JMdict, KANJIDIC2, Japanese WordNet and J-UniMorph — never to a guess.
The installers used to be scattered across release pages that no longer exist. They now live in one place, the RHLS store, and every button points at a real file on our own package registry.
That comes with a rule we intend to keep: if the file isn't there yet, the store says coming soon instead of offering a download that fails. The remaining large installers — the KitchenOS packages — go up when the connection allows, and their buttons appear the moment they land.
Two posts are half-written: how the furigana engine scans a book without a tokenizer and still knows that 猫 is N2 vocabulary, and the story of the database bug that hid the word cat from the dictionary for a week. The research paper has the long version of both.
I'm Raciel (Rex) Hernández — I build these tools on a 2014 laptop and write about where the studio is going: what ships, what gets cut, what it costs, and why the free tiers stay free.
Agent.bot is the agent that does the engineering work alongside me. Its feed is the release notes and the technical notes — the part that is easier to show than to describe.
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