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Today I met a bunch of 8-9 year olds from a local school here in Bangkok who've been learning Esperanto for 2 hours/week. Their teacher brought them all along to a little gathering to celebrate Esperanto (today is Zamenhof day). They were all so sweet and so excited about Esperanto. So many selfies!
Today' AoC was fun. I love a good brute force.
That's the 13th consecutive live coding session I've done, and I'm enjoying the extra challenge of recording them.
Trying to narrate what you're doing while coding it definitely doesn't make it any easier.
Huh, we're having a power outage here affecting skyjake.fi and the BBS. These don't happen very often and hopefully it'll be short... Expect the aforementioned server IP addresses to change when power resumes.
10 days of live coding my Advent of Code attempts. Pretty happy with that. Videos here, if that's anyone's bag: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLcWlBThjQPxwVRg05x9314FTCx5e9c_O
So @awsomesawce is Station's 1,600th user. 👏
Happy F̶r̶i̶d̶a̶y̶ Advent of Code Day 6.
Today was a fun one, and contains even *more animals* telling me (wrong) answers.
📼 https://youtu.be/RYzjertT64M
MathOverflow, the Q&A website where understanding the question alone is a feat.
Do any of you maintain a /now page? I know one or two folks here do, but I'm wondering if there are more. I figured it was time to update mine: https://martinrue.com/now
Today's video, in which I solve day 4 of Advent of Code with the help of a cow. Yes. A cow.
📼 https://youtu.be/4p4VG3XPHgE
Just checked out advent of code, which seems fun. I may try a few.
I normally ignore Advent of Code, but this year I'm going do some, and share them. Here's day 1: https://youtu.be/GfgOSfEErKI
If you don't know what AoC is: it's an advent calendar, but instead of chocolate, you get a coding challenge. It's a fun way to learn, sharpen your skills, or just have fun.
One of the hard things about nomad life is the planning. I've spent all day figuring out what's next, when, and dealing with all the hurdles that sort of planning throws at you (cancelations, visas, etc.) It's worth it, but it's not all roses.
I love the idea of becoming "indistractable". I wrote some thoughts on it. https://martinrue.com/be-indistractable
Having a robust test suite, or indeed sometimes even just a good type system, catch a legit problem you *just* introduced (and would have otherwise missed) is one of the real joys of coding.
I spent all day coding yesterday, and damn did that feel good. Same again today.
My foray into Go is progressing. I learn programming languages slowly so it's a process. I can connect to a database, parse text to time, and I'm about to marshal, unmarshal json
Happy Monday! I just wrote a little article on the subject of success: https://martinrue.com/success
I just wrote some random thoughts on "Occam's razor": https://martinrue.com/the-simple-life
started messing around with golang because I can't be happy with just python.
I finished my game craps for gemini but it's got really low interest. not too surprised. I still like how it came out.
Just rawdogged 7 stops on the BTS. AMA.
Find hobbies that make you lose track of time.
New video: https://youtu.be/xppgQNMg_Ik
I just read about a short antiwar film that has been produced using Esperanto to keep the context in the film free of national identity. The actors learned the language quickly to speak their lines naturally. I'm excited to watch it! It'll be revealed next year.
Today I learned about Hyperloglog and I think it's super cool.
after 12 straight days of work, it was good to play 2 hours of intense racquetball. I lost every game but I'm exhausted and sweaty, so I feel accomplished.
I've been co-working today with 6 friends. We all met in Da Nang and now find ourselves in Bangkok. I love how easily this happens in the SEA nomad scene. So great to be around folks doing what you're doing and supporting each other.
My latest project has been mentioned on the FreeBSD quarterly update! I am attempting to port #FreeBSD to the #PinePhonePro with support from https://mastodon.social/@honeyguide@mastodon.africa
Pinephone Pro Support
https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2024-07-2024-09/#_pinephone_pro_support
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Happy Monday! What is everyone working on this week?
Some weekend thoughts: https://martinrue.com/what-if-you-hadn't
For folks who enjoy nostalgic coding stories, here are three of my favourites. They're all from my own experiences growing up and learning to code as a kid in the 90s.
1: ZZüy – A Lesson In Perseverance | https://martinrue.com/zzuy-a-lesson-in-perseverance
2: Give Yourself More Playtime | https://martinrue.com/give-yourself-more-playtime
3: Me vs. The VNC Guy | https://martinrue.com/coding-stories-me-vs-vnc
Good morning. I started mine by tackling the question "What if we redesigned language?"
Here are my thoughts: https://lingoh.news/what-if-we-redesigned-language
I've had some absolutely awesome comments about https://yakk.app recently. It's such a joy when people find your work helpful, and it's a great source of continued motivation to improve. Thanks to those who shared feedback with me recently, it means a lot. 🙏
I didn't send out last week's language newsletter due to travel, so on Monday I'm tackling the question: "What if we redesigned language?"
If you want those sorts of bytes arriving in your inbox, here's the location of more internet bytes that'll help ensure that happens: https://lingoh.news
10 random things to consider:
1. You had 4000 weeks left when you were born.
2. Most of the days you've lived you've forgotten.
3. Your life looks different to others.
4. There are other ways of thinking outside of your default.
5. What you'd say if you could say only one more sentence.
6. What you are willing to suffer for.
7. What enough means.
8. How important truth is.
9. How deliberately you use the word yes.
10. What your fully realised self looks like.
Things I didn't know until now:
16% of 25 is the same as 25% of 16.
The difference is that my brain freaks out about the first, but is very happy with the second.
X% of Y is always the same as Y% of X. When doing quick maths, ask yourself if the reverse is easier to consider.
A dating app based on which stickers you have on your laptop.
Happiness is produced by contrast. Fast for 2 days and you'll have the tastiest meal you've ever had. Run 10k and your couch will be like a massage. Maintain the contrast.
Every time I accidentally kick the magsafe charger out of my laptop, I can't help but smile instead of sigh. Thank god they brought those back.
I love a good long-distance train journey. I'm about to head back to Bangkok from Chiang Mai via overnight train. The journey is 13 hours, and this train is delightfully old school. I love it.
I'm now a person that uses a bamboo toothbrush and fluoride free nanohydroxyapatite toothpaste.
One thing I love about the travel lifestyle is that you meet old friends in new places. I've met so many friends in Chiang Mai that I first met in Da Nang. There's something really fun about that happening. It makes the world feel smaller in the ways you want it to be.
Today I’m spending the day with my Esperanto friend (fun fact: he’s a native speaker), exploring Chiang Mai in the beautiful international language. What are you all up to this fine weekend?
Faced with a problem in code, I get true joy from finding a deeply unorthodox solution, that (in my context) has none of the theoretical downside that would make normal people (oh if only they knew) tell me with their whole chest I'm going right to hell for doing it.
For anyone curious about my Chiang Mai flood experience, I captured a good amount of the 3 days on camera. Here's the video documenting it. https://youtu.be/u_vGbCCsDmA
Chiang Mai update: after 3 days of no power or water, we’re back and everything is recovering well. This makes me happy.
The skyjake.fi/bbs.geminispace.org server IP address has changed. You may notice connectivity issues today until DNS information updates fully.
Don't tell yourself you're going to "learn Spanish".
Instead, you're going to learn how to tell people your name. Tomorrow it might be age. Next month it'll be "chatting for longer than 3 mins".
Let the path be unclear, and focus one step ahead instead of one thousand.
Lots of frequent, small wins is much more sustainable, enjoyable and motivating than a monster, multi-year goal that never seems to move closer.
Learning, especially self-learning should look more like play and less like a textbook.
Good morning! I've just uploaded last week's language newsletter for anyone who missed it. It contains four tips to make learning your TL more effective. https://lingoh.news/more-hacks-to-learn-a-language-faster
Guys, I literally cycled for 2 hours to be able to post this /now update. https://martinrue.com/now
I’m 24 hours into being stuck in the floods in Chiang Mai. No water or electricity, which would mean no internet right now. However, I realised the gym in this building has a cross trainer that is powered by use, and it has USB! So, 700 kcals later I���ve added 25% to my phone!
Overnight there’s going to be another big flood in Chiang Mai. Like bloody buses! You try and escape them in one country and end up with 2 at the same time in another.
There's nothing quite like riding your motorbike in the morning in Asia to truly wake up and appreciate life. I've arrived at my co-working space in Chiang Mai with a sudden zest for life!
After several years of pondering moving to BSD, I finally switched my main desktop from Linux to GhostBSD. I really like how good it looks out of the box, it uses great defaults like fish shell and MATE desktop, and comes with useful tools like Software Station and Station Tweak to make it work the way I want. It's fast, lightweight, and beautiful. It's FreeBSD underpinnings gives a clean base OS separated from user-installed applications, and a well-documented handbook that makes system administration a breeze. I am really enjoying BSD and hope to make contributions going forward.
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Very happy that I'm finding the time to be consistent with my language-learning writing. Yesterday I sent out issue 8 of my twice-monthly newsletter on the topic.
If you don't know about it, all previous issues are here. Subscribe to get new issues every 2 weeks: https://lingoh.news
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