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Building Educational Software for Mandarin Chinese and Interlingua IALA Language-learning software is most useful when it makes structure visible. I’m Ian Blas, a developer based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and I build educational tools around Mandarin Chinese, Interlingua IALA, etymology, morphology, writing systems, and open-source language learning. Two projects, one educational approach My work currently takes two complementary forms. Chety is an educational app for Mandarin Chinese. It approaches characters and words through their structure, etymology, morphology, historical development, and use in context. Schola Interlingua is a free, open-source learning platform for Interlingua IALA. It brings together lessons, readings, review tools, and progress-oriented study on multiple platforms. The languages are different, but the design question is similar: how can software help a learner notice the patterns that make a language readable and memorable? Learning through structure For Mandarin Chinese, a character is not only a unit to memorize. It can open a path into components, historical forms, pronunciation, word formation, and reading. That perspective guides Chety’s tools for exploring characters and vocabulary. For Interlingua IALA, the focus shifts toward transparent vocabulary, reading, morphology, and sustained practice. Schola Interlingua is designed to make that learning path approachable without separating learners from the materials and tools that support it. In both projects, the goal is practical: make language learning more legible. Etymology and morphology are useful when they give learners better ways to connect forms, meanings, and usage. An open educational practice I care about software that can be examined, shared, and improved. Schola Interlingua’s development is available through its GitHub repository , and my broader work can be found on GitHub . I also write and share updates through Medium and Substack . Explore the projects Chety — Chines

This post is my submission for DEV Education Track: Build Apps with Google AI Studio . What I Built For this project, I built DevBrand AI, an AI-powered web application that helps developers create a complete personal branding kit in just a few clicks. Instead of manually writing bios, portfolio headlines, README introductions, or designing graphics, users simply provide their GitHub username, role, tech stack, experience, and preferred design theme. The application then generates everything automatically. Prompt Used I used Google AI Studio's Build apps with Gemini feature with a prompt similar to this: Build a modern React + TypeScript application called DevBrand AI that generates a complete developer branding kit. Use Gemini to generate professional bios, portfolio headlines, GitHub README introductions, project ideas, mission statements, social media introductions, CTAs, and branding recommendations. Use Imagen to generate a modern 3D developer mascot, hero illustration, and portfolio banner. Create a responsive UI using Tailwind CSS with reusable React components, loading animations, copy buttons, and download functionality. Features 🤖 AI-generated developer bio 🎯 Personal tagline 💻 Portfolio headline 📄 GitHub README introduction 💡 Project ideas 🌈 Suggested branding colors 📢 Social media introduction 🚀 Portfolio call-to-action 🎨 AI-generated developer mascot 🖼️ Hero illustration 🌐 Portfolio banner 📋 Copy buttons 📥 Download generated content 📱 Responsive modern interface Demo Screenshots Live Demo App: https://devbrand-ai-706459620449.asia-southeast1.run.app My Experience This project was my first time using the new Build apps with Gemini experience in Google AI Studio, and it was surprisingly fast to go from an idea to a working application. What impressed me most was how the AI generated a well-structured React + TypeScript project instead of just producing a single file. The generated components, services, and overall architecture made the project easy to und

This post is my submission for DEV Education Track: Build Apps with Google AI Studio . What I Built I set out to build the same app as the one mentioned in the Tutorial. Please create an app that generates a unique new Magic the Gathering card, using Imagen for the visuals, and Gemini to create the text descriptions and stats for the card. Apply the "Sophisticated Dark" design theme to the app. Spammed Fix Errors Non-Stop After this other than the Manual Entry option. Demo My Experience You can't trust Gemini Flash even for the Task provided in the Tutorial Standalone at least and well I spammed Fix Errors and they removed the Auto-Fixing of Errors because of idk an infinite loop or something but well the Error Fixing Experience was quite Meh considering I haven't delved into Vue and React in that level yet so I just 'Vibe Coded' and I found out with this experience that Vibe-Coding is UnCool. I think I would do the other course after properly understanding concepts behind it unlike the way I jumped in this One.

This post is my submission for DEV Education Track: Build Apps with Google AI Studio . What I Built I built MascotCraft Studio , an app that generates a cute mascot character for a coding/tutorial brand using Imagen for the visuals and Gemini for the name and personality bio. Here's the prompt I used: "Please create an app that generates a cute mascot character for a coding/tutorial brand, using Imagen for the visuals and Gemini to create a name and short personality description for the mascot. The user should be able to type in a few style keywords (like 'friendly owl', 'cool robot', 'cheerful fox') and get a unique mascot image along with its name and bio." Gemini went well beyond the basic ask — it added a "Character Designer" with quick preset ideas (Wise Python Owl, Cyberpunk JS Fox, Debugging Robo Kitty, and more), color palette options, multiple visual rendering styles (3D Chibi Toy, Minimal Vector, 16-Bit Retro Pixel, Circular Badge), and even a "Studio Gallery Showcase" using localStorage to save and revisit previously generated mascots. Demo 🔗 Live app: https://cute-coding-mascot-generator-924052444918.us-east1.run.app Using the "3D Chibi Toy" style with keywords for a friendly coding octopus, the app generated Octo-Byte — "Asynchronous learning, multi-threaded fun!" A cheerful deep-sea developer who discovered that having eight arms makes multitasking a breeze, whose tech specialty is multi-threaded asynchronous architecture, and whose favorite pastimes include typing on four mechanical keyboards at once. The artwork came out as a glossy 3D chibi-style purple octopus wearing glasses, sitting in front of a tiny code editor. My Experience Watching Gemini's "Thinking" process work through the build was the most interesting part — it planned out the UI sections, color palettes, and visual styles, then added bonus features I never asked for, like the gallery save feature. The whole thing went from a single paragraph prompt to a fully deployed, live web app in