Jacob W. Peterson
@jacobwpeterson.com
Manuscripts and JavaScript | PhD, NT Textual Criticism, U. of Edinburgh | Software Engineer | Trail Ultrarunner | Immigrant
📍: Edinburgh, Scotland
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Xeirographa
A guided learning platform for reading Greek manuscripts with interactive transcription exercises.
xeirographa.com
My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources.
Please share and give feedback!
xeirographa.com
Please share and give feedback!
xeirographa.com
In a world dark with despair, a spot of light and hope for us: our daughter, Eleanor Freya, was born happy and healthy yesterday
January 11, 2026 at 9:43 AM
In a world dark with despair, a spot of light and hope for us: our daughter, Eleanor Freya, was born happy and healthy yesterday
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My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources.
Please share and give feedback!
xeirographa.com
Please share and give feedback!
xeirographa.com
Xeirographa
A guided learning platform for reading Greek manuscripts with interactive transcription exercises.
xeirographa.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources.
Please share and give feedback!
xeirographa.com
Please share and give feedback!
xeirographa.com
Had to look up to make sure I wasn’t using it incorrectly in either the US or UK! I regularly garble US and UK English with a little Scots thrown in for fun
December 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Had to look up to make sure I wasn’t using it incorrectly in either the US or UK! I regularly garble US and UK English with a little Scots thrown in for fun
My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources.
Please share and give feedback!
xeirographa.com
Please share and give feedback!
xeirographa.com
Xeirographa
A guided learning platform for reading Greek manuscripts with interactive transcription exercises.
xeirographa.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
And I should have an onboarding flow added tonight with all the information from this thread that you’ll see the first time you visit the lessons page
December 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
And I should have an onboarding flow added tonight with all the information from this thread that you’ll see the first time you visit the lessons page
That's it! It's free. I take none of your data. All of your answers are stored locally on your internet browser.
If you spot issues, as I'm certain there will be some, I can be reached through the contact form or on here.
If you spot issues, as I'm certain there will be some, I can be reached through the contact form or on here.
December 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
That's it! It's free. I take none of your data. All of your answers are stored locally on your internet browser.
If you spot issues, as I'm certain there will be some, I can be reached through the contact form or on here.
If you spot issues, as I'm certain there will be some, I can be reached through the contact form or on here.
Then it's just a matter of making it through all the lessons
At the top of the page, you can click the "Gear" icon to toggle settings for Dark mode, plus font size and contrast options for users with vision-based accessibility concerns.
There's also an option to reset all your answers
At the top of the page, you can click the "Gear" icon to toggle settings for Dark mode, plus font size and contrast options for users with vision-based accessibility concerns.
There's also an option to reset all your answers
December 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Then it's just a matter of making it through all the lessons
At the top of the page, you can click the "Gear" icon to toggle settings for Dark mode, plus font size and contrast options for users with vision-based accessibility concerns.
There's also an option to reset all your answers
At the top of the page, you can click the "Gear" icon to toggle settings for Dark mode, plus font size and contrast options for users with vision-based accessibility concerns.
There's also an option to reset all your answers
If you're a teacher and having students do this for a class, at the end of each lesson is the option to download a report. This basically creates a PDF of the right hand side of the page
December 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
If you're a teacher and having students do this for a class, at the end of each lesson is the option to download a report. This basically creates a PDF of the right hand side of the page
Get the right number of letters, but still have something wrong? Now the help tooltip will give you the locations of incorrect letters.
December 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Get the right number of letters, but still have something wrong? Now the help tooltip will give you the locations of incorrect letters.
If your answer is too short or too long, you'll also get a helpful message. Trying to force people to make honest guesses, it only says short or long after three attempts. Before that, it just says "Answer is incorrect"
December 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
If your answer is too short or too long, you'll also get a helpful message. Trying to force people to make honest guesses, it only says short or long after three attempts. Before that, it just says "Answer is incorrect"
Clicking the "Check" button at the end of the line evaluates the answer. Here, it's correct and you see the check-circle. But what happens when things go wrong? Forget to switch your keyboard? It will let you know (and link you to the section of the guide on setting up keyboards)
December 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Clicking the "Check" button at the end of the line evaluates the answer. Here, it's correct and you see the check-circle. But what happens when things go wrong? Forget to switch your keyboard? It will let you know (and link you to the section of the guide on setting up keyboards)
When you encounter new concepts or tricky sections, there is some help given under the line. For some concepts, this also links to a longer discussion in the glossary
December 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When you encounter new concepts or tricky sections, there is some help given under the line. For some concepts, this also links to a longer discussion in the glossary
Within that right side, you can click to require the answer to be correctly spaced. By default, you can input continuous text. There's also a quick link to the guide. Below that, a progress tracker. In this lesson the first line is a title, so the user gets special instructions
December 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Within that right side, you can click to require the answer to be correctly spaced. By default, you can input continuous text. There's also a quick link to the guide. Below that, a progress tracker. In this lesson the first line is a title, so the user gets special instructions
So how does this work? Here's lesson 1. On the left, a Mirador viewer using @iiif.bsky.social manifests. On the right, the transcription area. At the top, a general introduction to the lesson, often highlighting pitfalls or oddities about that page, and instructions about the following exercises
December 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
So how does this work? Here's lesson 1. On the left, a Mirador viewer using @iiif.bsky.social manifests. On the right, the transcription area. At the top, a general introduction to the lesson, often highlighting pitfalls or oddities about that page, and instructions about the following exercises
The basic premise is a guided set of lessons starting with easy-to-read majuscule manuscripts before working up to difficult cursive minuscule texts. Ideally, each lesson introduces only one or two new concepts, which then reappear in subsequent lessons tho of course in different forms.
December 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The basic premise is a guided set of lessons starting with easy-to-read majuscule manuscripts before working up to difficult cursive minuscule texts. Ideally, each lesson introduces only one or two new concepts, which then reappear in subsequent lessons tho of course in different forms.
Thanks! And do let me know how you get on, what might be confusing, or what could be better! I’m hoping to add a few comments to my original post later tonight with some explainers
December 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Thanks! And do let me know how you get on, what might be confusing, or what could be better! I’m hoping to add a few comments to my original post later tonight with some explainers
My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources.
Please share and give feedback!
xeirographa.com
Please share and give feedback!
xeirographa.com
Xeirographa
A guided learning platform for reading Greek manuscripts with interactive transcription exercises.
xeirographa.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources.
Please share and give feedback!
xeirographa.com
Please share and give feedback!
xeirographa.com
For those of you with personal Microsoft accounts you’ll likely have received notice of a large price increase hitting soon (due to AI). If you go through the cancellation flow, they offer a “classic” plan without AI for you to swap to at your existing price
December 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
For those of you with personal Microsoft accounts you’ll likely have received notice of a large price increase hitting soon (due to AI). If you go through the cancellation flow, they offer a “classic” plan without AI for you to swap to at your existing price
Half convinced these birds at the hospital are speaking Hebrew
December 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Half convinced these birds at the hospital are speaking Hebrew
Reposted by Jacob W. Peterson
The Letter to the Hebrews according to the Oldest Papyrus polumeros.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Letter to the Hebrews according to the Oldest Papyrus
I want to thank Jordi Cervera for the gift of this beautiful book: Rodolf Puigdollers i Noblom and Jordi Cervera i Valls. La Carta als Heb...
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December 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The Letter to the Hebrews according to the Oldest Papyrus polumeros.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
Still in beta (hoping to finish over Xmas), but I have a site for practicing reading difference scripts and also linked resources under Help -> Online resources
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Xeirographa
Learn to read manuscripts
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November 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Still in beta (hoping to finish over Xmas), but I have a site for practicing reading difference scripts and also linked resources under Help -> Online resources
xeirographa.com
xeirographa.com
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“To Hell We Ride” and “Burn Burn” at least seem appropriate
Genuinely thought the other bandmates had pulled all their music
Genuinely thought the other bandmates had pulled all their music
October 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
“To Hell We Ride” and “Burn Burn” at least seem appropriate
Genuinely thought the other bandmates had pulled all their music
Genuinely thought the other bandmates had pulled all their music
I migrated all domain registrations and hosting (not Wordpress, tho) of my various sites to @cloudflare.social last year. No regrets
October 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I migrated all domain registrations and hosting (not Wordpress, tho) of my various sites to @cloudflare.social last year. No regrets
Excellent, congrats! We’ll have to grab some waffles and pints next time I’m over
August 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Excellent, congrats! We’ll have to grab some waffles and pints next time I’m over