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Diagnosing and repairing garbled Cyrillic filenames from Forvo by inspecting character codes and correcting their encoding.

A small command-line tool for placing a Russian stress mark at a specified character position, with argument and pipeline input.

Introducing sterilize-ng, a composable command-line tool for stripping tracking information from URLs.

Using Perl inside a Keyboard Maestro macro to turn copied Wiktionary text into Markdown for Anki cards.

Removing Russian syllabic stress marks on the command line with Perl or sd.

Converting comma-separated vocabulary lists into Markdown bullets with command-line text-processing tools.

A Keyboard Maestro macro that locates an Anki sound file from its field markup and opens it in Audacity for editing.

A read-only workaround for querying a locked Anki database by making a temporary copy when the application is open.

Querying Russian Wiktionary headwords to restore ё where ordinary text uses е instead.

Using Python’s WiktionaryParser to extract and clean English definitions of Russian words for Anki cards.