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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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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. 🥴
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TIL: There's Esperanto written on the official World Cup football: https://www.adidas.co.uk/al-rihla-pro-football/H57783.html
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So I spent my evening turning a little idea into reality: https://vk.martinrue.com It live pulls the locations of folks signed up to a big Esperanto event this weekend to show how everyone really is spread out all over the world. 👏
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It has been a while (April), so I've written a little /now update: https://martinrue.com/now
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I'm hanging out in the Canary Islands again this week. I spent the first few months of the year here, so it’s really nice to be back. Also deeply enjoying the fact it’s 20° to 24° reliably every single day again – I feel so much better in good weather.
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The UK (Universala Kongreso) is the largest annual Esperanto event and has run every year from 1905 with gaps only during WWII and Covid. Since 2020 there has also been the VK (Virtuala Kongreso), which for 2022 will happen in 2 weeks time. 🤗 I just checked and there are already almost 900 people registered! Esperanto is a small corner of the world for sure, but it sometimes sure feels "big enough". 👏
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For any folks here using Mastodon, you can find me at: @martin@social.martinrue.com.
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Don't forget, folks: Not everything you read on the internet is true – 16th U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln
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Has anybody bought the reMarkable writing tablet? I'm so tempted, but it's also so expensive! Any thoughts?
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I’ve been doing spaced repetition for about 4 years and it’s amazing to see the long term results. I now regularly get flashcards over a year old and my brain has no problem finding them. SRS is the best thing you can do to retain information long-term. 🧠 FYI: I mostly use Anki (🐐) and create flashcards for languages I’m learning. SRS work for anything, of course, not just vocab. I do have a few other decks containing ideas, quotes, and prompts I want to retain as well.
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Reading a new book and came across this quote. Sums it up perfectly for me: Once, when a friend asked him if he envied the ever-growing wealth of the railroad magnate E. H. Harriman, Muir quipped: I am already richer than Harriman. I have all the money I want, and he hasn’t.
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Among all the advice for achieving your goals – "wake up at 5am", "read this book", "do this one weird trick" – what's often missing is: Being great at something requires time. Put in the time. Not just when you're motivated, but also when you're not. Crack that and you stand a chance. </¢¢