{"id":1044,"date":"2025-06-18T21:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T04:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2025-06-18T21:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T04:02:30","slug":"re-introducing-umiaq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/18\/re-introducing-umiaq\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-introducing Umiaq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back we introduced our &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quinapalus.com\/cgi-bin\/qat\">Qat<\/a>-lite&#8221; tool called <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/crosswordnexus\/umiaq\">Umiaq<\/a>. It worked &#8230; okay back then but (a) it was slow (b) it didn&#8217;t have a bunch of functionality and (c) it was in Python, which is a barrier to entry for some people. Still, we thought it had promise because it allowed you to use your own word list, as opposed to using one of Qat&#8217;s built-in lists.<\/p>\n<p>Well, today we&#8217;re fixing a bunch of those problems. <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.github.io\/umiaq\/\">Here&#8217;s our brand-new web interface for Umiaq<\/a>, which runs faster than before, with more functionality. Is it lightning fast? No. Does it have <em>all<\/em> of Qat&#8217;s functionality? No. But it&#8217;s most of the way there, and we think it will get even better with the community involved.<\/p>\n<p>Try it out, let us know what you think, and happy puzzling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back we introduced our &#8220;Qat-lite&#8221; tool called Umiaq. It worked &#8230; okay back then but (a) it was slow (b) it didn&#8217;t have a bunch of functionality and (c) it was in Python, which is a barrier to entry for some people. Still, we thought it had promise because it allowed you to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/18\/re-introducing-umiaq\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Re-introducing Umiaq&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crossword-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}