Keola Donaghy
@keoladonaghy.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Music UH Maui College, haku mele/composer, Ethnomusicologist, Pacific and Indigenous languages. ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi au, e pīahi reo Tahiti, ā, he tauira reo Māori anō hoki. Aloha, 'ia ora na, kia ora, 안녕하세요, agus dia duit!
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Keola Donaghy
@keoladonaghy.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Aloha kākou, I'm an Associate Professor of Music, Chair of Humanities at UH Maui College, and run both Music Studies and the Institute of Hawaiian Music. I'm also a haku mele (composer of Hawaiian poetry), engineer, producer mostly guitarist but also play play a few other instruments.
In the course of five months, I've gone from building my first app using AI (Loveable) and then a couple more in Claude Code. And I now have my own LLM running on my laptop. Very slowly and it's not too bright (yet), but there is nowhere to go but up 😁
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
In the course of five months, I've gone from building my first app using AI (Loveable) and then a couple more in Claude Code. And I now have my own LLM running on my laptop. Very slowly and it's not too bright (yet), but there is nowhere to go but up 😁
Someone recommended Tolgee for developing a multi-Polynesian-language app translation system. It looked good until I saw the price 💰😱 Two evenings later I have an home-spun translation maintenance system that handles eight different languages, and you can view and edit any three at a time.
October 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Someone recommended Tolgee for developing a multi-Polynesian-language app translation system. It looked good until I saw the price 💰😱 Two evenings later I have an home-spun translation maintenance system that handles eight different languages, and you can view and edit any three at a time.
I saw my one of my daughters' grade school teachers, Kahoʻokele Crabbe, from the Hawaiian immersion program in Keaukaha. I wasn't sure he would remember me; I haven't seen him in 25 years. He looked at me for a second, I saw recognition, and he said "Aloha mai, Keoni." He always called me that 🤣
October 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I saw my one of my daughters' grade school teachers, Kahoʻokele Crabbe, from the Hawaiian immersion program in Keaukaha. I wasn't sure he would remember me; I haven't seen him in 25 years. He looked at me for a second, I saw recognition, and he said "Aloha mai, Keoni." He always called me that 🤣
I've wanted to write a book called "Just Enough Music Theory for Hawaiian Musicians" for years. I decided to make it app instead so people could use it as I developed it. It's not ready for sharing yet as it needs more meat. But it is getting there. And it will be bilingual at birth.
October 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I've wanted to write a book called "Just Enough Music Theory for Hawaiian Musicians" for years. I decided to make it app instead so people could use it as I developed it. It's not ready for sharing yet as it needs more meat. But it is getting there. And it will be bilingual at birth.
I posted a new Hawaiian keyboard on the Chrome Web Store. This is for Chrome OS and not the Chrome browser. I dislike the slash-vowel system for generating the macrons but this is the only way to get it work for now. We are working on getting a system level keyboard in the OS but don't know when.
Hawaiian Keyboard (/vowel) - Chrome Web Store
Hawaiian (Slash-Vowel)
chromewebstore.google.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I posted a new Hawaiian keyboard on the Chrome Web Store. This is for Chrome OS and not the Chrome browser. I dislike the slash-vowel system for generating the macrons but this is the only way to get it work for now. We are working on getting a system level keyboard in the OS but don't know when.
V2 of my Hawaiian keyboard for Chrome OS has been posted to a Chrome Web Store and is awaiting approval. It sucks that we have to change the way we type in Hawaiian because of the way their extensions work now. Hoping to have a native Chrome OS keyboard built into the system soon. 🤞🏼
September 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
V2 of my Hawaiian keyboard for Chrome OS has been posted to a Chrome Web Store and is awaiting approval. It sucks that we have to change the way we type in Hawaiian because of the way their extensions work now. Hoping to have a native Chrome OS keyboard built into the system soon. 🤞🏼
Bless St. Tim Berners-Lee.
Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee
My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Bless St. Tim Berners-Lee.
The honeymoon with Claude Code is over, but the relationship continues. As the complexity of my main project (not the games) increases, I'm finding CC challenged to fix breakage, and sometimes altering parts of the codebase that - from my angle - have nothing to do with what I asked it to do. 🤔
September 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The honeymoon with Claude Code is over, but the relationship continues. As the complexity of my main project (not the games) increases, I'm finding CC challenged to fix breakage, and sometimes altering parts of the codebase that - from my angle - have nothing to do with what I asked it to do. 🤔
For those trying to cancel their Disney+ account, every Disney help page it gives you gives you the wrong url. The correct one: my.disney.com If you just go to disneyplus.com it gives you the interface for watching movies, no way to access your account. At least that's what it did for to me.
MyDisney Account
MyDisney lets you seamlessly log in to services and experiences across The Walt Disney Family of Companies, such as Disney+, ESPN, Walt Disney World, and more.
my.disney.com
September 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
For those trying to cancel their Disney+ account, every Disney help page it gives you gives you the wrong url. The correct one: my.disney.com If you just go to disneyplus.com it gives you the interface for watching movies, no way to access your account. At least that's what it did for to me.
Reposted by Keola Donaghy
Watch the Dutch kick Disney in their tiny mouse gonads…
September 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Watch the Dutch kick Disney in their tiny mouse gonads…
Apparently ChatGPT is tired of the question.
September 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Apparently ChatGPT is tired of the question.
I was feeling pretty good about myself until I looked at the keyboard. 😱
September 16, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I was feeling pretty good about myself until I looked at the keyboard. 😱
It's not an ideal solution, but it seems to be the only one that will work in Chromebook for both binary apps and in Google Suites. More testing to follow but this appears to be solid. No Chromebook Hawaiian keyboard that works like our MacOS and Windows ones until I can get through to Chome folks.
September 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
It's not an ideal solution, but it seems to be the only one that will work in Chromebook for both binary apps and in Google Suites. More testing to follow but this appears to be solid. No Chromebook Hawaiian keyboard that works like our MacOS and Windows ones until I can get through to Chome folks.
He pō waimārie tēnei. Kua tata rite. 🤗
September 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
He pō waimārie tēnei. Kua tata rite. 🤗
Reposted by Keola Donaghy
Puta noa i a Aotearoa kei te whakamānawatia Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori.
Ao ake rā te rima tekau tau o Aotearoa e whakanui ana i Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori
Puta noa i a Aotearoa kei te whakamānawatia Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori.
www.teaonews.co.nz
September 14, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Puta noa i a Aotearoa kei te whakamānawatia Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori.
A lot of great people doing great work in amazing programs will end because they are discriminatory? Bullshit. He pōmaikaʻi ia mau papahana i ka paeʻāina. In the end, everyone across the archipelago benefits from them. The damaged caused by this will be inestimable.
Hawaii universities to lose federal funding in grants
HONOLULU (KHON2) — On Wednesday, Sept. 10, the U.S. Department of Education announced that funding will end for several minority-serving institution grant programs. This includes programs tha…
www.khon2.com
September 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
A lot of great people doing great work in amazing programs will end because they are discriminatory? Bullshit. He pōmaikaʻi ia mau papahana i ka paeʻāina. In the end, everyone across the archipelago benefits from them. The damaged caused by this will be inestimable.
New day, new features. The old, cluttered keyboard with separate keys for house with and without kahakō/tohutō gone, replaced with a system level press, hold, and drag your finger option. Much cleaner. Also locked the window so that it doesn't move when the player drags their finger.
September 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
New day, new features. The old, cluttered keyboard with separate keys for house with and without kahakō/tohutō gone, replaced with a system level press, hold, and drag your finger option. Much cleaner. Also locked the window so that it doesn't move when the player drags their finger.
Sometime last year, the name I suggested for UH's new, Brightspace LMS (Lamakū) was selected. There was a lot of consternation about the switch; people hated it (the system, not the name). I understood how the person who named the Titanic must have felt. Today, I really appreciate the new system.
September 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Sometime last year, the name I suggested for UH's new, Brightspace LMS (Lamakū) was selected. There was a lot of consternation about the switch; people hated it (the system, not the name). I understood how the person who named the Titanic must have felt. Today, I really appreciate the new system.
Is the world ready for the mega, six letter version of this in te reo Māori, ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, and other Reo Moana (eventually)? It really doesn't matter if it's ready for it or not, it's coming 😎 you'll still be able to play the classic five letter version, too.
September 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Is the world ready for the mega, six letter version of this in te reo Māori, ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, and other Reo Moana (eventually)? It really doesn't matter if it's ready for it or not, it's coming 😎 you'll still be able to play the classic five letter version, too.
He ‘ōrite tēnei ki te whakahānūtanga i nā tūmahi Māori. 🧐
September 4, 2025 at 5:38 AM
He ‘ōrite tēnei ki te whakahānūtanga i nā tūmahi Māori. 🧐
A few days ago, I posted "I'm sold on Claude for programming, at least so far." That's over. Claude Code from the command line terminal destroys Claude on the web so badly it's not even funny. It's fixing in seconds things that ChatGPT couldn't fix at all, and that took hours via Claude on the web.
September 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
A few days ago, I posted "I'm sold on Claude for programming, at least so far." That's over. Claude Code from the command line terminal destroys Claude on the web so badly it's not even funny. It's fixing in seconds things that ChatGPT couldn't fix at all, and that took hours via Claude on the web.
Another day, another tweak. I was tired of looking at such a boring screen.
September 2, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Another day, another tweak. I was tired of looking at such a boring screen.
I'm sold on Claude for programming, at least so far. It helped me enhance my Hawaiian w**dle-like game, it now loads multiple word lists and interface languages, and enables 5 or six letter lists. Also cleaned up the Copilot/ChatGPT code and created a one-step process for adding languages.🤓
August 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I'm sold on Claude for programming, at least so far. It helped me enhance my Hawaiian w**dle-like game, it now loads multiple word lists and interface languages, and enables 5 or six letter lists. Also cleaned up the Copilot/ChatGPT code and created a one-step process for adding languages.🤓
I purchased a Pro subscription ($20) on Claude as I've become disillusioned with ChatGTP, both standalone and integration into Github's Copilot. It was going great, but I used up my "5 hours" in 1:30, because when you are having Claude code for you 5 hours is apparently a metaphor for tokens used. 😤
August 31, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I purchased a Pro subscription ($20) on Claude as I've become disillusioned with ChatGTP, both standalone and integration into Github's Copilot. It was going great, but I used up my "5 hours" in 1:30, because when you are having Claude code for you 5 hours is apparently a metaphor for tokens used. 😤
Tino ātaahui te tirohanga mai i tēnei pāka i Kula. Kei te kōrewarewa mai te hau, ka hāneanea te kiri. ☺️
August 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Tino ātaahui te tirohanga mai i tēnei pāka i Kula. Kei te kōrewarewa mai te hau, ka hāneanea te kiri. ☺️