Anya Dmitrieva
The hard part in each one is the data: six senses in a dictionary entry, every listing from a source that said yes, species × age × season. Getting that right takes years. Using it should take eight seconds — and then you are back in the book, out on the street, looking at the actual bird.
Projects
Learning to identify gulls
In research
A course and an identifier for the hardest common birds in Europe. The teaching unit is not the species but the plumage stage — species by age by season. That is exactly why photo-to-species apps break on gulls.
About the projectCultural life in Paris
On the App Store
What is actually on in Paris tonight — concerts, exhibitions, theatre, screenings — drawn only from sources that agreed to it: open data, official APIs, venues' own newsletters. Save events, build lists, follow artists and venues, and get told the moment tickets open.
About the projectShort breaks through the day
In testing
A small sun who rings two to five times a day, each time with one short break: a stretch, a slow blink, a question to think over. No account, no streaks, nothing about you is recorded. Then he goes quiet until the next ring.
About the projectBilingual e-reader dictionaries
Shipping soon
Bilingual dictionaries for Kindle, Kobo, KOReader and Apple Dictionary. Tap a word in any inflected form and get a real entry: senses grouped by part of speech, gender, conjugation, pronunciation, idioms. Built in both directions at once.
About the projectContact
I am glad to hear from anyone who uses one of these, or who is building something with the same shape. Email is the best way to reach me.