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👋 Hey, I created Station. I love writing code, building things and learning languages. Mi parolas Esperanton.
🌍 Manchester, UK
🗣 Followers 194 · Following 387 · Logs 187 · Docked 2 years ago
Spent the last few days renovating the home office. It was a lot of work, but I'm pretty happy with the final result: https://twitter.com/martinrue/status/1538628931468804109
💬 6 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 10 months ago
Keto going well. I'm 8 days in and weight is already down 3.1kg, body fat down by 0.8 percent. Energy levels are good and I'm generally feeling miles better eating no carbs / sugar.
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Of all the things I write as a programmer, I still love writing a little CLI app more than anything else. Handling basic input and output and leaving behind all the web/app UX concerns is just so refreshing.
💬 3 Replies · 12 Thumbs · 10 months ago
Station just hit 700 people! It's really cool to see this place still growing. I should pull out all the sign-up dates and graph it at some point.
💬 4 Replies · 21 Thumbs · 11 months ago
I had some writing inspiration so I wrote something new. 10 Slightly Odd Things I Want To Do: https://martinrue.com/odd-things/
💬 7 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 11 months ago
“Despite the high cost of living it remains popular.”
💬 4 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 11 months ago
Just found out some fiction I wrote for a competition will be published in a book sometime this year. Really happy about that! It's something I had never done before, so I had to give it a go. 🙏
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What's everyone doing this weekend? Anything interesting planned?
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For my Esperanto speaking friends here: one of my favourite words in Esperanto is "ŝanĝiĝi". Here's why, plus a little glimpse into how my brain works. https://twitter.com/martinrue_eo/status/1524381880958783488/photo/1 PS: apologies to linking to "the other site", but images.
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Two strings walk into a bar. The first one says, "I'll have a vodka and coke¶³¾¤§¿ZZüy". "Excuse my friend, he's not null terminated" says the second. -- Never gets old. No, I mean due to trauma: https://martinrue.com/zzuy-a-lesson-in-perseverance/
💬 8 Replies · 9 Thumbs · 11 months ago
Observation: to be really creative I need time to play – time that other goals or distractions have no control over. It seems like a trivial observation, yet it's so easy to fill your calendar and leave no time for that sort of work/behaviour to occur.
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Oops, it turns out I never expected Station to last 1 year :) Sorry about the cert issues folks. We now have a new one that (once trusted) will keep us going the next 10 years. Also happy 1 year anniversary to this cool little corner of the internet. 🎉 PS: Thanks for the heads-up @comatoast @obspogon @haze. 🙏
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After far too long, I spent the whole weekend hanging out with Esperanto speakers at the Brita Kongreso here in the UK (in Wales). It was awesome to be around old and new friends, using only Esperanto for the whole weekend. I forgot how much I love escaping the real world and living in Esperantujo. Really can't wait for IJK in summer, where instead of 60 people it'll be more like 200 . 🙏
💬 4 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 1 year ago
I'm pleased to announce that after a swift and relatively easy board meeting, we've voted unanimously to reject Elon's bid to buy Station.
💬 6 Replies · 21 Thumbs · 1 year ago
It's a "long weekend" here in the UK due to the Easter holidays. I hope those with the benefit of the extra time off work have something/relaxing planned. I'll mostly be coding and settling back into life in the UK after a little time spent living in Spain – I'm still saying "¡la cuenta porfa!" in restaurants here!
💬 0 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Back in the UK after living in the Canaries for the last 3 months. It's great to see people again after so long, but damn, I'm already missing that beautiful weather. It's so rough here that the plane aborted landing on the first attempt.
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I'm going to my first in-person Esperanto meetup in a couple of weeks since before the pandemic and I'm really pleased. It has been ages since I was around a bunch of other speakers, and there should be between 60-80 people! I'm even running a few games of "homlupo" (werewolf).
💬 2 Replies · 7 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Which is your daily OS of choice?
The best thing you can do when learning a new language is to wield it like a maniac everywhere you can. You quickly lose any desire to appear competent and it becomes a lot more fun. It's also amazing how often people will go out of their way to help you when they see you trying.
💬 5 Replies · 7 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Finished 30 days of intermittent fasting today. It's something I do on and off for periods of the year, aiming to give my body a rest from food intake much more than our normal diets allow. There are some really exciting health benefits associated with 16 hour daily intermittent fasting. If anyone is curious, I highly recommend the documentary Eat, Fast and Live Longer.
💬 4 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Station reached 600 users today... another cool milestone for our awesome little microcommunity here. Congrats everyone 🙌
💬 16 Replies · 17 Thumbs · 1 year ago
It's great that after so many years I still love the feeling of sitting down and wiring in for a long evening spent progressing an idea. This kind of creative outlet has been addictively valuable to me since the day I first started coding, and I'm very thankful I can still find it. ☺️
💬 3 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Where are Station's users?
Just 2 posts until Station reaches 2000. Nice little milestone!
💬 2 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Sometimes all you need is a little momentum. It doesn't matter how you start – the only goal sans momentum is to get going. Do anything. Get into motion. Once you're moving everything else is much more prone to lining up. This has been a note to self. Kelkfoje oni bezonas nur iom da movokvanto. Ne gravas kiel, nur ke via celo estu moviĝi. Ion ajn faru. Simple ekmoviĝu. Poste ĉiuj la aliaj aferoj emos malkovriĝi. Tiu ĉi estas noto por la estonta mi.
💬 8 Replies · 13 Thumbs · 1 year ago
What's everyone doing this weekend? Anyone have exciting / unusual plans? I'm hanging out here on the island of Lanzarote and mostly just coding. Simple pleasures :)
💬 6 Replies · 1 Thumb · 1 year ago
Anyone using a Gemini client on iOS they'd recommend? Ideally looking for something easy without having to compile myself. @skyjake While I'm on the subject, do you have longer-term plans to have an App Store release for iOS? Might be a nice way to support development. I'd happily pay premium for it.
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I've just lost 10 minutes to a wonderful version of the I-can't-find-the-sunglasses-that-are-on-my-head problem in which I've been debugging code that randomly stopped playing sound, except it didn't, I just didn't have my headphones on my actual head.
💬 0 Replies · 8 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Happy Monday folks. Hope everyone has an awesome week. I'm working on my own stuff this week, and I'm super excited to have only that as my sole focus. Single-tasking ftw.
💬 0 Replies · 1 Thumb · 1 year ago
"You've already been dead for 4.5 billion years." 👊