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Happy Monday! I just sent out the second issue of my newsletter Ling-oh! This one is about how to remember things for longer - a pretty helpful skill when learning a new language. If you’re subscribed and have any thoughts, please feel free to share here. 🙏
I made a new video. 5 month update on life in Vietnam: https://youtu.be/bCD1S04futE?si=OnKubLUP2qKWhLgi
Currently editing a new video about Da Nang. It's so fun editing... I love piecing it all together and trying new things. In many ways it's a lot like coding.
Well, the weather for my daughter's birthday at a park isn't working out for Saturday so we're hosting at our place. Time to crazy clean
A personal highlight from today: we were riding at 50kmh down a highway on the bike when a old Vietnamese woman shot up on our left hand side to have a chat. "Where you from?" This country is full of surprises.
I just got recognised in the street due to a YouTube video. I’ve made it. So when does my yacht arrive?
Hey folks! I made some small changes to the public feed. Please read gemini://station.martinrue.com/updates for the full details. I hope this makes sense.
I just introduced someone to the Konami Code (↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A) and how us programmer nerds have ensured that our various employer's websites respect in some amusing way.
I used Discord's 404 page as an example, but which others still exist as working examples?
In case you missed it: I published my first ever newsletter this week. It's all about the wonders of language, and how to learn them better.
If you missed issue 1, fear not, I just uploaded the web version: https://lingoh.news/issues
Upcoming issues:
1. How can we remember better?
2. Does language influence how we think?
3. Hacks to learn a language faster
Enjoy the weekend, folks. ✌️
There's something about "weeks" that hits different. On average, we have 4000 weeks on this planet. Said in days or years, I lose the significance, but "weeks" really lands. Make the most of it, folks.
Well, that feels good! After weeks of work the first Ling-oh! issue just went out. Next one in two weeks. 😎 https://lingoh.news
I've been traveling by train, and while bad cellular-Internet coverage, I've visited Antenna. Antena had been flooded by boring entries some time ago. But today I've enjoyed:
From above things I've jumped some links to
It's was delightful journey through small net. I was there as if I had never been there before.
gemini://redterminal.org/gemlog/2024-06-22-No_LoRaWAN_in_the_near_future.gmi
gemini://idiomdrottning.org/gtd-in-a-connected-world
gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2024/202406/20240620-devterm-and-the-fifty-year-computer.gmi
I watched Inside Out 2 with my kids and spouse today. recommend.
what a surprising and delightful discovery to find my handle mentioned in a post that I randomly browsed on Cosmos. My guide apparently helped and inspired (along with others) someone to write a bookmark CGI script for their first time. neat!
keep it going
Courtesy of a friend, I’ve just discovered the next thing I’m excited to announce publicly, in a nice loud voice, chest out, when the time calls. Here’s a preview. Clears throat:
BEHOLD the field, in which I grow my FUCKS. LAY THINE eyes upon it and THOU SHALT SEE that it is BARREN.
"As a programmer, I'll likely be making off-by-one errors until the day after I die."
took a game in racquetball against the young guy today, 16-14. felt good. I'm drenched in sweat, feeling those endorphins.
I spent the morning in Hội An speaking as much Vietnamese as possible. I had some great chats, and compliments! A lady asked me my age: “Em bao nhiêu tuổi?” Her “em” assumes I’m younger. My “Em ba mươi tám tuổi” (I’m 38) came as a shock. So much fun practising my tiếng Việt!
I finally finished installing bathroom fan after patching the hole I made to make the new one fit. This allowed me to finish painting the ceiling and put the fan cover back on
I also installed a new light in the bathroom. I had a free light that someone gave us, and I wired the whole thing up only to find out my measurements were wrong and it was too wide, since it was rubbing the left wall. I ran out and got a new LED light and installed that.
Between those things and updating Farkle, it's been pretty productive today.
I think the reason creatives/artists support each others' work is because they know how fulfilling it feels to be supported in their own. A compliment, a little of your attention, some feedback, or just a "nice work" is such low energy high impact act. Imagine not using that.
Farkle feature request: weekly high scores.
I have an initial implementation complete, I just have to test it before I push to production.
👋 I just published a little ode to language:
"Language is everywhere and it's an essential part of everything we do. Very few things in our lives aren't, at their core, just an application of language."
https://martinrue.com/an-ode-to-language
What are you up to this week? Share your work, side hustles, projects and interests that are keeping you motivated and feeling good this week.
Dear language fans! I just launched a free newsletter. Ling-oh! is here to bring you a twice-monthly dose of linguistic motivation and discovery. If you're curious, please subscribe! https://lingoh.news
Heuristic that you made good evening choices: the number of times you open Shazam.
Good work takes time. That's a big part of why it's good. I have to remind myself sometimes. To steal an expression a friend of mine used last night: "there's no point screaming at a seed."
The biggest predictor for productivity (and feeling happy) is having large, uninterrupted blocks of time. If I don't get that right, all the smaller factors fade to irrelevant for me.
changing your dietary and exercise habits is hard after finding out you're borderline diabetic. Everything is sugar or carbs. moderation is key but damn I loved those carbs.
I'm also fairly skinny, and I don't eat a lot of sugar, but it's in my family so those carbs got me.
"It turns out my really big problem was thinking I might one day get rid of all my problems."
Look, I'll level with you. I'm fairly sure at least 3 people think I've developed a pet name for my brain. Brian might seem like a weird choice, but it may be easier for me to just run with this now.
replacing a bathroom fan. pulled the old one out. had a manufacturing date of May 1958. It still mostly worked after 66 years. A bit noisy and slow to start, but it worked.
I'm spending my Saturday night studying >100 Vietnamese flashcards due to a hectic past week. What a life!
In all seriousness, it feels great putting in the work to make living in this country such a deeper and more fun experience.
Super cool – a "quine" clock in JS. A quine is a program that has no input and outputs only its own code. https://aem1k.com/qlock
Internet appreciation post. I’m lay on my couch in Vietnam. It’s 21:30. I’m chatting to my mother who’s walking over to the beach in the Dominican Republic. It’s 10:30 in the morning for her. We’re so far apart that she can see the sun and I can’t.
Our voices, encoded into chunks and packeted across a vast distance over the internet via a multitude of devices, cables, signals, etc. means we can chat like we were in the same room.
That’s still wild to me… as a thing that actually works.
Lazy day rewatching Halt and Catch Fire. Such an underrated show.
I was pretty sure my own perception of "popular" is not, in any way, reflective of facts. However my curious gander at the current TIOBE Index quickly confirmed that. Visual Basic 7, Fortran, Delphi and ASM at 10, 11, 12. Wild. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index
Last week I went on a 3-day solo retreat to Hội An to reflect, relax and be with my own thoughts for a while. I made a little video about it: https://youtu.be/nSkcQyXH5yk
Hello from the land border at Lao Bảo between Vietnam and Laos. I’m basically in the middle of nowhere where goats and cows are roaming the streets, but the fact I can get on Station makes me happy.
"It’s easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting."
There is a bit of loneliness in my heart because I'm almost absent in the small net lately. But I'm all right and I'm here. There are several activities which were ate all free time reserved for the small activities.
As I always write the small net is around people who are involved in it. It's easy to fell out the road at the bend. And it's hard to enter it again. Everyone is moving forward. However, we have more and more to catch up.
I've browsed through IRC, mailbox, Antenna, Bongusta, XMPP, Mastodon #geminiprotocol annd #gopher hashtags, Usenet. A lot of all this.
I've been delighted by seeing OFFLFIRSOCH 2024 or smoll.earth. So people are still creating here. They are storms upstairs, and we are in the network edge, the shelter for the most useful knowledge.
I could've beaten today's farkle high score because I had 4 fills in a row on round six. I sandbagged it after because I made the game and I think it looks bad.
Digging holes for shrubs is hard work.
Station's cert has been updated to a v3 cert. I hope everyone made it back alive :)
PSA: At some point in the next week I'm going to replace Station's cert with a new one.
You'll see a warning about Station's cert having changed, that it may no longer be trustworthy, that perhaps its creator has been violently murdered by a hit squad from X due to internal jealously about how superior Station is. All of this is false, except the last last part.
Context: Station currently uses a v1 x509 cert, which makes it harder for folks writing custom Gemini clients, and generally speaking, is just old. Bad call, Martin! So, I'll update it to a newer v3 cert and the world can rejoice in harmony, and peace and success will befall us all.
PSA: Station finally now detects links in replies and shows them below the reply itself. In celebration, please link your favourite books. 👌
Just pushed a little update to my personal site (which, to my shame, is still not on Gemini). I also updated my /now page with some deets of my recent retreat to the beautiful town of Hoi An here in Vietnam. https://martinrue.com
Finished the login / auth portion today. now onto the game itself. the rules are going to present the biggest hurdle so I'll need to plan this one out.
Getting a bit more comfortable with Pascal now as I don't have to look up as much stuff.
That there are around 10⁸² atoms in the universe is a great example of how we can’t think well about large numbers. That looks wrong to me at first glance.
working on a new dice game. This time it's fully in Pascal. I'll be reusing some code from Farkle! but converting from Python code, so it'll be slow going.
Controversial opinion(?) I'm sick of finishing books with a strong sense that they were 300 pages just to appease the publisher/market, not because the author couldn't have been just as effective in 100 pages. I consider Derek Sivers a perfect counter example of this. Few books should need 300 pages.
"Impatience is an argument with reality."
I like this. I think it's even more useful with the qualifier: "You can win the argument, but not always."
Impatience can be useful, but only when your odds of changing reality are high enough. Otherwise embrace it. Patience brings presence.
The camera has really been getting its exercise lately. The fact the camera even survived this one is actually a miracle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvZ5amwkvRc
Bought a new Android phone and want to remove the bloat, spyware and tracking? Check out Universal Android Debloater Next Generation desktop app that makes this process easy with it's built-in debloat lists for various manufacturers. #android #privacy #bloatware
Github
https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation/wiki
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After many visits to Sivers's /now page, I realised his new book (https://sive.rs/u) is in early access. So, naturally, I read the hell out of it. Loved it. Really appreciate the short, provocative style and it left me with plenty of things to mull over.
getting closer to implementing the monthly standings "tournament" board for Farkle. I just need to get the monthly reset working and test it and I should be good. Daily points for the top three finishers:
also need to squash a scoring bug.
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