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👋 Quit my job and moved to Asia. Building a new language learning app: https://yakk.app
🌍 Đà Nẵng, Việt Nam
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Life changed a lot recently, so here’s a little “now” update. https://martinrue.com/now
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My apartment in BKK has a Japanese toilet. I've never spent so much time in the bathroom.
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Today is my last day in Vietnam, but I'm actually not coming back to Europe any time soon. I made a video explaining why: https://youtu.be/_Ob78fOc5iw
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I posted yesterday about finally launching Yakk's Vietnamese course. A few people have already bought it, read it, and said some unbelievably nice things. Thank you! You don't know how much it means. Here's a little video I made about launching it: https://youtu.be/I0Wx0-itYa8
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Really happy that, after a few months of hard work, I've finally finished the latest course for https://yakk.app, "Nomad Vietnamese". If you're into languages and want to learn some basic Vietnamese, please take a look :)
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I woke up to the awesome news that my 5-year DTV visa was approved for Thailand!
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Almost everywhere in Vietnam has a "bike guy" (usually an older man) responsible for organising all the motorbikes. Last night, I spoke to my bike guy outside of my favourite restaurant in Vietnamese for about 10 minutes. That's basically all the Vietnamese I know. It was so awesome. It's such a deep joy to start speaking in a new language you're learning. That feeling will never get old for me. I also got lots of numbers practice when he asked me "Em bao nhiêu tuổi?" (How old are you) and I asked him to guess. 🤣
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Recently I've been thinking about (and enjoying) the benefits of "slow". Here are some thoughts: https://martinrue.com/embrace-slowness
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Over breakfast this morning, my girlfriend said "is my chair moving?" I looked at her like she was crazy. Then 3 seconds later the entire room started shaking. We promptly exxited the building to find everyone outside wondering if another was coming. It's been a few hours now and I think everything is cool.
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Does language influence how we think? https://lingoh.news/does-language-influence-how-we-think
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Feliĉan Esperanto-Tagon al ĉiuj el la Esperantistoj ĉi tie en Gemini :)
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I can't tell you how often people just stare at me in the street. It was weird at first, but I've gotten used to it now. It's kind of cool – I sometimes throw a "Chào chị! Hôm nay chị khỏe không?" and they love it.
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I'm happy to report that, while the world burns down due to Crowdstrike nuking a fucking ton of Windows machines running everything from news channels to airlines, Station doesn't come within a kilometer of a Windows kernel, so we're all good over here. :)
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For fellow coders: I just made a quick video showing my new vim setup. I decided to move back to vim after years of using VSCode and setting up (neo)vim was super easy, so I wanted to share: https://youtu.be/5HDzrAMSXUA
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Waking up and taking your mechanical keyboard to a coworking space is waking up and choosing violence.
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🃏 Here's a fun one for you. Take a deck of cards. Shuffle them randomly. There's no chance any human alive (or ever alive) has seen the sequence of cards you just made. The maths: number of combinations of 52 unique cards = 52! = 8×10⁶⁷ (more than the total atoms on earth)
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I've been playing with neovim again today. Think I might move back to using vim over my recent years with VSCode. The speed boost alone will be worth it.
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For anyone interested in my recent writing on language and tips for learning, both past issues of my newsletter are online now: https://lingoh.news/issues If you have any thoughts, please feel free to share :)
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Here's my Vietnamese progress after 45 study hours: https://mstdn.social/@martinrue/112766888678790939 Sorry, fat web link because video.
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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. 🙏
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I made a new video. 5 month update on life in Vietnam: https://youtu.be/bCD1S04futE?si=OnKubLUP2qKWhLgi
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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.
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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.
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I just got recognised in the street due to a YouTube video. I’ve made it. So when does my yacht arrive?
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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.
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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?
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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. ✌️
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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.
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Well, that feels good! After weeks of work the first Ling-oh! issue just went out. Next one in two weeks. 😎 https://lingoh.news
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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.