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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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“You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin
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This is an excellent breakdown of the UK ATC meltdown the other week and what caused it. I'm sure it'll surprise no experienced programmer at all to learn of the various issues that led to it. https://jameshaydon.github.io/nats-fail
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Some random observations: https://gist.github.com/martinrue/ccc773de83be694683edbaef23a9ecc8
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If you live in the UK and want to get into Esperanto, this free weekend event in October will be great. You can even play Homlupo (Werewolf) with me in the international language. Aimed at every level, even possible to ask for help for hotel costs if you need it. More info: https://esperanto.org.uk/studa-semajnfino
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I wrote some thoughts on the idea of "getting into motion": https://martinrue.com/get-into-motion
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Even though my brain thinks in Esperanto at this point, I occasionally realise I don’t have a word for something. I was chatting to a friend this morning and I needed to say treadmill. To my delight, turns out it’s “kurtapiŝo”, or running carpet.
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If having a coffee in the morning isn't working for you, take 2 weeks of leave and then check your email.
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I recently spent a few days in Venice (in the cool neighbourhoods). Here's what I got up to. Spoiler: it's mostly me being lost and tortured by mosquitoes. https://youtu.be/_caD0XnBNfI
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I tried to capture some difficult thoughts: https://martinrue.com/nothing-matters
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Venice is such a unique city. 🚙 No cars. 🏍️ No motorbikes. 🚲 No bicycles. Everything is a boat. 🛥️ Bus? Vaporetti. 🚤 Taxi? Also a boat. 🚣 Moving house? Do it on a boat. ⛴️ Dump truck? It's a boat. 🚓 Have cool boats! It's rather nice not seeing a single car.
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Okay, I'm off to live with with 220 Esperanto speakers from 52 different countries for a week. Give me another language where I can do that – where everyone experiences the language equally and fairly – and I'll give up Esperanto¹ :) ¹ This is a lie as I have way too many t-shirts.
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Productivity hack: there's no hack. It's hard. Confront it. Take responsibility. Make time. Get started any way you can. Stick with it, even while it feels uncomfortable (creative resistance). Don't expect it to always feel good/happy. Stay focused. Don't quit.
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"Brian, do you have an unpopular opinion?" "Besides cooking salmon in a dishwasher?" It's quality content only on the GoTime podcast!
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I’m in Venice and it’s hot. Charming. But hot. Carrying my life in a backpack probably isn’t helping though.
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🎥 I made a new video! It’s about making time for your projects and goals, and contains a little preview of what I’ve been working on recently. https://youtu.be/EwE3RkJOFV4
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I had a shower thought and now it's a blog post: https://martinrue.com/doing-your-best
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What do we want? Now! When do we want it? Race conditions!
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Today is the "Internacia Tago de Esperanto" (Esperanto Day). The "Unua Libro" (first book), which introduced the language and its grammar, was published 136 years ago today. For anyone curious about why I like Esperanto so much, I made a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QsHxQcZbQU
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Shoutout to @eph for the amount of exrta glyphs I've installed in Lagrange so far due to your language pursuits :)
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Productivity hacks. 1: Never waste 20 minutes doing something by hand that you can fail to automate in 8 hours. 2: Never waste 20 minutes solving a known problem when you can spend 2 weeks finding the general version of it, failing to abstract it, and burdening everyone else.
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Sad to hear Mitnick has passed. A hero of curiosity and intellectual pursuit that defined an era. FREE KEVIN.
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A few of my favourite protocol jokes, part 2. --- If you want to hear my ICMP joke, ping me. Knock knock. Who's there? Ethernet LAN with CSMA/CD. Ethernet LAN with CSMA/CD who? I'll tell you at a random point in the future. I had a bunch of HTTP 301 jokes but I've not been able to find them for a long time. There's a funny story about RFC1918, but it's a bit of an insider joke. The hardest kind of joke to tell is an NTP joke – it's all about timing. Want to hear a SYN flood joke? Want to hear a SYN flood joke? Want to hear a SYN flood joke? Okay, FIN. I couldn't come up with a good DNS joke though, so whois going to give us one?
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A few of my favourite protocol jokes, part 1. If you get all of them, you're officially old. And awesome. --- I have a joke about TCP. Oh yeah, what is it? Want to hear it? Yes. Okay I'll tell it. I'll hear it. I've now begun telling it. I've begun listening. Three UDP packets walk into a bar. First: I'll have a whisky Third: Vodka for me. Second: Just water. Bartender: What you lads having? If you don't get that last UDP joke, nobody cares. My best joke is about token ring, but I can't tell you that one as it's not my turn.
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The next time you forget a word for something, say “Ah, what’s the word for that in English again?” People will assume you’re bilingual instead of stupid.
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A horse walks into a bar and orders a pint. The bartender says “You’re in here pretty often. Do you think you might be an alcoholic?” The horse replies “I don’t think I am”, and immediately vanishes from existence. See, the joke is about Descartes’s philosophical first principle, commonly known as “I think, therefore I am”, but to explain that part first would be putting Descartes before the horse.
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1100 folk on Station as of today! I’m pleased people are still finding Station useful in an ever growing Gemini world. Very happy to keep the lights on while people still find value in this community. 👏
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I had a dream in Esperanto last night. It still feels surreal when that happens. Ege mojose ankoraŭ, tamen.
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Here's a Threads-inspired coding joke for you this glorious Friday. If you know, you know. Knock knock. Race condition. Who's there?
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I've been gradually making my way though PG's latest essay "How to Do Great Work". Very motivating, and full of great points. Here's some I noted. Essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/greatwork.html Notes: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/martinrue/1db57ae5d5b37d8b92ae23566dd100f6/raw/637301496c089620a3df535fee330deeae003b7d/great-work.txt
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