Chinese Boost now has dark mode

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Chinese Boost website now has a dark mode for those who prefer to study Chinese at night. It takes OS or browser configured preferences, and otherwise defaults to light mode.

You can toggle between light and dark mode using the toggle button in the top right corner of the page.

Chinese Boost in light mode.

Chinese Boost in dark mode.

Starting a development blog

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Chinese Boost has been going since 2014, and in that time everything I’ve written here has been about learning Chinese. I thought it would be nice to also have a development blog to write about how Chinese Boost is built and announce new features.

This development blog does not appear in the site’s main RSS feed. It does have a feed of its own if you want to follow it.

The most recent stretch of work has been almost a total rebuild of Chinese Boost. The old Laravel application is gone. Chinese Boost is now a Hugo site, built into static files and published to S3 behind CloudFront. The S3 bucket, CloudFront distribution, DNS and TLS certificate are all defined in CDK.

ChineseBoost Development Blog on Chinese Boost

Chinese Boost now has dark mode

Starting a development blog