Dustin Coates BlogThe blog of Dustin Coates.https://www.dcoates.com/Mentava review - how my opinion of the early reading app has changed a year laterhttps://www.dcoates.com/posts/mentava-review-follow-up/https://www.dcoates.com/posts/mentava-review-follow-up/My experience teaching my daughter to read with the iOS app Mentava and how my opinion has changed in the past year.Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:22:00 GMTSh*t Coding - Where sh*t posting and vibe coding meethttps://www.dcoates.com/posts/shit-coding/https://www.dcoates.com/posts/shit-coding/Let's not take ourselves too seriously here.Fri, 04 Jul 2025 15:23:00 GMTThis Isn't a Post About Keyboard Layoutshttps://www.dcoates.com/posts/learning-tactile-skill/https://www.dcoates.com/posts/learning-tactile-skill/I switch to Colemak, but this isn't about keyboard layouts.Tue, 25 Mar 2025 19:22:00 GMTPublic Speaking Book(s) Review - The Presentation Coach, Lend Me Your Ears, & The Elements of Eloquencehttps://www.dcoates.com/posts/public-speaking-books-review/https://www.dcoates.com/posts/public-speaking-books-review/Wherein I look at public speaking advice from three books - The Presentation Coach, Lend Me Your Ears, and The Elements of Eloquence.Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:22:00 GMTBoyhood is a different movie ten years laterhttps://www.dcoates.com/posts/boyhood-movie-ten-years-later/https://www.dcoates.com/posts/boyhood-movie-ten-years-later/Boyhood is perhaps my favorite movie. I was surprised to find how much it had changed since my last viewing.Sun, 22 Dec 2024 19:22:00 GMTThe Last 90 Days - Quitting My Job In Francehttps://www.dcoates.com/posts/last-90-days/https://www.dcoates.com/posts/last-90-days/In France, you are expected to give 3 months notice when quitting a job. How does that work in practice?Fri, 22 Nov 2024 19:22:00 GMTLa Bible comme la littérature - entre les ligneshttps://www.dcoates.com/posts/bible-entre-les-lignes/https://www.dcoates.com/posts/bible-entre-les-lignes/Deux exemples de La Bible des histoires riches en détails omis.Wed, 07 Aug 2024 19:32:00 GMTLes breakfast tacos à Parishttps://www.dcoates.com/posts/breakfast-tacos-paris/https://www.dcoates.com/posts/breakfast-tacos-paris/Comment je cuisine des breakfast tacos loin du Texas.Wed, 26 Jun 2024 19:25:00 GMTMentava review - my first experience using the learning to read apphttps://www.dcoates.com/posts/mentava-review/https://www.dcoates.com/posts/mentava-review/My experience teaching my daughter to read with the iOS app Mentava and why it didn't work for us.Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:22:00 GMTUsing LLMs to learn foreign language vocabularyhttps://www.dcoates.com/posts/using-llms-learn-foreign-language-vocabulary/https://www.dcoates.com/posts/using-llms-learn-foreign-language-vocabulary/How I prioritize my vocabulary learning using LLMs.Fri, 14 Jun 2024 15:22:00 GMTMisplaced Nostalgiahttps://www.dcoates.com/posts/misplaced-nostalgia/https://www.dcoates.com/posts/misplaced-nostalgia/Nostalgia and its folly.Wed, 13 Mar 2024 20:12:00 GMTLearning a Language When You're Bad at Learning Languageshttps://www.dcoates.com/posts/learning-language-bad-languages/https://www.dcoates.com/posts/learning-language-bad-languages/How I, the person the worst at second languages, managed to learn French to a fairly decent point.Sun, 25 Feb 2024 12:12:00 GMTMy 2023 Year in Reviewhttps://www.dcoates.com/posts/year-in-review-2023/https://www.dcoates.com/posts/year-in-review-2023/I look back at my 2023.Thu, 28 Dec 2023 15:22:00 GMT