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👋 Hey, I created Station. I love writing code, building things and learning languages. Mi parolas Esperanton.
🌍 Manchester, UK
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Nothing sets you up for a good night's sleep like 58,603 deletions in your commit.
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I hope everyone's week has started well. Mine certainly hasn't. I was just accused of plagiarism. Their word, not mine.
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And so it begins. After a few months of eating whatever I like, I’m starting another 3 month period of Time Restricted Feeding. Each year I aim to have at least two 2-3 month stints of strict, daily (17-18h) intermittent fasting. It gives my body a rest from the constant energy input that we’re not really meant to get like we do in the modern world. Not to mention some of the other huge benefits (hey autophagy). Looking forward to enjoying hunger and appreciating food again. 👊
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A starry night. A reminder of the shortness of things. We’re all destined for the place we’ve already been for 13.7 billion years. Make it count.
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💡 Idea Mobile coffee stand. Cups have your name on them. Obvious branding of cup signals: I bought this coffee as I'm open to chatting to a stranger – you already have my name, feel free to talk to me. Sell it at train + bus stations, subways, places where people spend time waiting and want some human interaction over HTTP requests. I'm not sure if this is a good idea or a terrible one, but it would at least make a fun experiment.
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My first MAN/LON train of the year and I've drawn the "due to a points failure" card. Proceed directly to cancellation. Do not collect £200. The train system in the UK is shockingly bad. Burn it to the ground and start over. But in all seriousness, please don't set fire to it. It's so hopeless it'd just make me sad about the tragic waste of fire.
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The results of my recent side side project: cadet – a Go library for creating minimal HTTP-RPC servers. https://github.com/martinrue/cadet
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PSA: The OST from the movie The Social Network is a perfect coding playlist. 👍
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"Almost every idea you have is downstream from what you consume." 💡
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It's a new year – a nice time to reflect and focus on goals for 2023, and I'm wondering what's on everyone's agenda. So, what's your main focus for 2023? What do you want to achieve? Let's share our plans/ambitions/dreams and create a little thread full of inspiration and encouragement. Bonus: we can review it next year in 2024 :)
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👋 2023. Looking forward to another year of setting goals, meeting them, spending time with friends, making new friends, going on new adventures, finding new inspirations, failing, laughing. Happy new year, folks. ☺️
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What a lovely surprise! I just received a copy of the book my novella is published in. During the pandemic, a friend inspired me to enter a writing competition to write about the pandemic experience (fiction or non) and I wrote a fictional story called The Hug Club (la brakumklubo) which was selected and included in the final book. 🙏 https://social.martinrue.com/system/media_attachments/files/109/609/420/273/262/378/original/64f20e2b182f45d9.jpeg
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Pretty happy with this little interaction. 👏Con Context: as readers progress through my app's interactive language-learning books, this component lets them collect flashcards for key things they've learned. https://social.martinrue.com/system/media_attachments/files/109/602/013/633/560/869/original/b3228153180d8cf4.mp4
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Anyone else code in their head while doing something else, such as walking home? I catch myself doing it fairly often. I like to think about what I need to do next, how I might go about it, potential issues I’ll run into. I find it really helpful to keep the context, and sometimes the entire program, in my head.
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Merry Christmas everybody. 🎄
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Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?
Happy Festivus to those that celebrate it :)
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Do any of you do any live coding via Twitch? I'm tempted to do some for my current project, and I'm curious about people's experiences. 🤔
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Until now I didn't get time to play with Lagrange on iOS, but after only a few mins it's easily my favourite mobile iOS Gemini client. Awesome work, as always, @skyjake. 🙏 For fellow iOS'ers who haven't checked it out yet, grab the TestFlight release here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/UjdtSEhu
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Wow, you can no longer even mention other social media platforms on Twitter or it’ll be a considered a violation and they’ll suspend your account. Twitter is definitely in a death spiral at this point, no? It’s now by far the least free platform I still (for now) have an account on.
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I don't even know how this happens, but I just discovered: In Braille each rectangle of up to 6 raised dots encodes a character (so 2⁶ values). So "just do it" is the following sequence of 10 blocks (unraised gaps acts as spaces to separate words): ⠚⠥⠎⠞⠀⠙⠕⠀⠊⠞ However, Braille Grade 2 supports special free-standing single-character combinations to stand in for common words. "Just do it" consists entirely of such special words, so it can be written like so: ⠚⠀⠙⠀⠭ ⠧⠀⠉⠕⠕⠇
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Most people don't know this but completely removing caffeine from your diet, at least in some cases, can give you up to an impressive 80% boost in your will not to live.
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Woop! A new milestone! Station just reached 900 users. Who'd have thought this micro community would stick around long enough to even reach 1/10th this number. I wonder if/when we'll hit 1000. 👏
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Feliĉan Zamenhofan tagon al vi ĉiuj. Kia ĝojo esti parto de tiu ĉi monda, mojosa komunumo de frenezuloj (vi ĉiuj – ne mi, kompreneble). Kaj dank' al Esperanto, ĉiuj aliaj lingvoj nun ŝajnas multe tro pezaj, do vi neniam forigos min. Happy Esperanto (Zamenhof) day! What a joy to be part of this global, cool community of crazy people (you all, not me of course). And thanks to Esperanto, every other language is just way too weird and demanding, so you're stuck with me now.
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Having conducted much research on the subject lately, it appears that Kevin seems to know an awful lot about temperature and has achieved fame online for his knowledge.
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Sometimes engaging the discipline to “follow the plan” is really tough. Today most certainly is one of those days, but despite every reason not to train today, I’m on the way to the gym! The harder it is to get into motion, the more being in motion feels good. 💪
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I was out with two Esperanto friends having dinner last night and a couple sat next to us interrupted to ask us which language we were speaking. They had actually heard of Esperanto but thought it was dead. Nope. Definitely not dead.
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The new satisfies operator in TypeScript 4.9 is pretty neat. I'm a fan. Demo here: https://gist.github.com/martinrue/95934a12a18fb0816c62bfb6424c2692
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Random trivia for you: Among Esperanto speakers, there's the word "kabei" (ka-bay-ee). It's named after Kazimierz Bein, who in 1911, having been a very active speaker and translator of the language, suddenly disappeared and never used Esperanto ever again. One day I'd like to kabei from English, pero todavía hablo español como un bebé. No, en realidad, lo hablan mejor.
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Started getting a sore throat during the week but assumed my body would fight it off easily enough. Woke up today feeling like death. Nothing like getting sick to remind us how easily we take being healthy for granted. 🥴