<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[POMODIARY | A company using AI to advance society]]></title><description><![CDATA[POMODIARY, a company using AI to advance society, has one hundred applications that will either change society or simply change your life.]]></description><link>https://pomodiary.com/</link><image><url>https://pomodiary.com/opengraph-image.png</url><title>POMODIARY | A company using AI to advance society</title><link>https://pomodiary.com/</link></image><generator>PHP 9.0</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:23:46 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://pomodiary.com/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><item><title><![CDATA[A Beginner's Guide to Reading the Tao Te Ching]]></title><description><![CDATA[What the Tao Te Ching 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ledger, example plain-language entries, and safety habits that keep records accurate.]]></description><link>https://pomodiary.com/blog/ai-agent-bookkeeping-natural-language</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ai-agent-bookkeeping-natural-language</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five Traditional Folk Board Games: Rules, Strategy and a Little History]]></title><description><![CDATA[How to play Tiger and Goats, Cannons and Soldiers, Watermelon Chess, Jungle and Gomoku, with beginner strategy tips and brief notes on their history.]]></description><link>https://pomodiary.com/blog/traditional-folk-games-rules</link><guid isPermaLink="false">traditional-folk-games-rules</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Build Habits with Pomodoro Sessions and Daily Check-Ins]]></title><description><![CDATA[A practical system for turning focus sessions into lasting habits: designing goals, tracking time per 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use.]]></description><link>https://pomodiary.com/blog/tesla-custom-lock-sound-guide</link><guid isPermaLink="false">tesla-custom-lock-sound-guide</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Turn a Photo into a Fuse Bead Pattern That Actually Works]]></title><description><![CDATA[Choosing an image, picking a grid size, reducing the palette, deciding on dithering and cleaning up by hand: a step-by-step method for photo bead patterns.]]></description><link>https://pomodiary.com/blog/turn-a-photo-into-a-bead-pattern</link><guid isPermaLink="false">turn-a-photo-into-a-bead-pattern</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Type Japanese: A Practical IME Guide for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android]]></title><description><![CDATA[Set up a Japanese input method on any device, learn the romaji rules for っ, ん and small kana, convert to kanji quickly, and avoid common typing gotchas.]]></description><link>https://pomodiary.com/blog/japanese-ime-typing-guide</link><guid isPermaLink="false">japanese-ime-typing-guide</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japanese Dictation Practice: A Step-by-Step Listening Routine]]></title><description><![CDATA[A practical Japanese dictation (書き取り) routine: choosing audio, chunking sentences, shadowing versus dictation, analysing errors and tracking real progress.]]></description><link>https://pomodiary.com/blog/japanese-dictation-practice</link><guid isPermaLink="false">japanese-dictation-practice</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn Japanese by Typing: Why Active Production Beats Passive Review]]></title><description><![CDATA[How typing Japanese (romaji to kana to kanji) strengthens reading, spelling and recall, plus a practical routine using typing, fill-in and dictation 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Beijing.]]></description><link>https://pomodiary.com/blog/where-chinese-emperors-came-from</link><guid isPermaLink="false">where-chinese-emperors-came-from</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wu Wei Explained: What "Non-Action" Really Means in the Tao Te Ching]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wu wei is not "doing nothing". We read the key lines of the Tao Te Ching in Chinese, translate them closely, and show what the idea means in practice.]]></description><link>https://pomodiary.com/blog/wu-wei-explained</link><guid isPermaLink="false">wu-wei-explained</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[は vs が: A Practical Guide to Japanese Topic and Subject Particles]]></title><description><![CDATA[An example-driven guide to the Japanese particles は and が: topic versus subject, new versus known information, contrast, and common learner errors.]]></description><link>https://pomodiary.com/blog/japanese-particles-wa-vs-ga</link><guid isPermaLink="false">japanese-particles-wa-vs-ga</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Turned Watching Ants Haul Insects as a Kid into 20 New Game Levels]]></title><description><![CDATA[Crumb Colony chapter six adds 20 insect levels where the key box hides deep in the tray. How I used bots to build levels you cannot solve by logic alone.]]></description><link>https://pomodiary.com/blog/crumb-colony-chapter-six-insects</link><guid isPermaLink="false">crumb-colony-chapter-six-insects</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A 100K-Download App Sat Quiet for Two Years. After a 13-Day Revamp, It Started Earning Again]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pomodoro Diary had 100K+ downloads but no real update in a year or two. We merged 53 PRs in 13 days to rebuild it, and paid orders started coming back in.]]></description><link>https://pomodiary.com/blog/pomodoro-diary-revamp-13-days</link><guid isPermaLink="false">pomodoro-diary-revamp-13-days</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Made a Little Game About Ants Carrying Pixel Art Home, One Bite at a Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Crumb Colony is a free browser puzzle game: release colored ants and watch them carry a pixel-art dish to their nest, bite by bite, across 20 solvable levels.]]></description><link>https://pomodiary.com/blog/crumb-colony-launch-ants-carry-pixel-art</link><guid isPermaLink="false">crumb-colony-launch-ants-carry-pixel-art</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Asked AI to Stop a Dev Server. 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Change the view, make it rain or turn to night over Hangzhou, Dali and more.]]></description><link>https://pomodiary.com/blog/guanqi-cities-between-mountains-and-rivers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">guanqi-cities-between-mountains-and-rivers</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Built a Bead Pattern Generator That Turns Photos into Patterns in Seconds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Drop in a photo, pick a bead brand and get an exact, color-coded pattern plus a shopping list in 30 seconds. How Bitbead matches colors and skips backdrops.]]></description><link>https://pomodiary.com/blog/bitbead-launch-photo-to-bead-pattern</link><guid isPermaLink="false">bitbead-launch-photo-to-bead-pattern</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bringing Nearly Lost Folk Games Back, Stroke by Stroke: Making the Folk Game Hall]]></title><description><![CDATA[How I rebuilt Chinese games once scratched in the dirt, like Cannons vs. Soldiers and Tigers and Sheep, as a free web game hall with real textures and smart AI.]]></description><link>https://pomodiary.com/blog/folk-game-hall-making-of</link><guid isPermaLink="false">folk-game-hall-making-of</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Museum Map in Xi'an Made Me Lay Tang Dynasty Chang'an Over the Modern City]]></title><description><![CDATA[A map in the Shaanxi History Museum inspired a web map that overlays Tang Dynasty Chang'an, ward by ward, on the streets of modern Xi'an. 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