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👋 Quit my job and moved to Asia. Building a new language learning app: https://yakk.app
🌍 Bangkok
🗣 Followers 228 · Following 386 · Logs 438 · Docked 3 years ago
Happy Friday! What's everyone up to this weekend?
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Welcome @velartrill. You're Station's 300 member!
💬 2 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 3 years ago
Kirk is about to go back into space. T-10 mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEhdlIor-do
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Question: What's your favourite TED talk and why? Mine is "The art of misdirection" by Apollo Robbins: https://www.ted.com/talks/apollo_robbins_the_art_of_misdirection Why? Because it's awesome (you can only watch it once).
💬 5 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 3 years ago
I love Sundays. The internet is so quiet compared to during the week. It actually feels a little meditative.
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Happy Monday everyone! Hope you all have a productive week. Going to be a busy one over here, but I'd prefer it no other way :)
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The Mandelbrot set is so interesting. If you've not heard of it before, check out this awesome, beautiful visualisation of it. Bonus: watch it for a minute or so and then look at an object in your room. The effects are so fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2XgQOyCCk
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Station just received its 1000th post! Nice work everyone. It's awesome to see this micro community on Station growing and continuing to be full of interesting people and discussions 🙌
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What's everyone up to this week? I'm finishing off a little client work before putting some time into my own project work, which I've neglected far too much lately. Making time to work on my own things is really important – it's an essential part of keeping programming fun for me.
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I saw this on the "other web" and had to share here: 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 then disappears from existence. See, the joke is about Descartes' famous philosophy of "I think, therefore I am", but to explain that part before the rest of the joke would be putting Descartes before the horse.
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It's Friday! Anyone got anything interesting planned for the weekend?
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Curb has a special place in my heart (and the next one is coming in October!), but no sitcom will ever beat Seinfeld for me.
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Two years today since I made a Polish robot speak Esperanto, and it still does: https://parol.martinrue.com If you want to hear it, here's an example taken right out of the English-Hungarian phrasebook: My hovercraft is full of eels: https://parol.martinrue.com/?teksto=Mia kusenveturilo estas plena je angiloj
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Unpopular? opinion: get rid of the feature to minimize windows. I mostly only ever do it by mistake and haven't needed it in forever. If they ever give me the launch codes to macOS, it's *gone*, I tell you!
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I finally got some time to do some Station work! Check "Recent Updates" to see all changes, but the main one is that all Stationeers now have a Tinylog feed. Thanks for the idea @skyjake and @bacardi55. This means users on Station can be "followed" outside of Station, via tools like GTL, like so: https://i.imgur.com/5TktXsz.png Hope everyone's having a great weekend 🙌
💬 6 Replies · 15 Thumbs · 3 years ago
Top-down design is far less enjoyable that bottoms up design. This is not a current status, yet.
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I've officially reached the comically funny stage of how often TypeScript saves my ass. It feels like having a super smart colleague that *really* likes verbose ways of explaining how I'm acting like a psychopath in any given moment.
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I will not leave all my work to the last minute. I will not leave all my work to the last minute. I will not leave all my work to the last minute...
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The adage that travel broadens the mind and can make you a more open-minded, tolerant person, IME is very true. For that reason, I especially like the etomology behind the Icelandic word "heimskur", which means "stupid", or ~"one who hasn't left home".
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Station just reached 200 docked! 👏
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Happy weekend everyone. Anybody doing anything interesting? I'm in a local 10-day quarantine – plenty of time to get back into a personal project!
💬 6 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 3 years ago
I finally got a negative PCR reading yesterday, which means I can fly home. Enjoying one more day in the wonderful city of Barcelona and heading back tomorrow. Good job, body!
💬 4 Replies · 10 Thumbs · 3 years ago
It finally happened. I got it! Symptoms have been pretty bad until now, but today I feel a little better. Hoping that 2 weeks from now I'll be able to test negative so I can fly home.
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Fun little game: how many languages can you idenitfy. Be honest. I got 27. https://baltoslav.eu/adhadaj/index.php?mova=en
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I've been a bit quiet lately as I've been way too busy. Hope everyone's well. Awesome to see Station now has 170 capsuleers!
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It's the weekend! Who's up to anything interesting?
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I finally updated my now page: https://martinrue.com/now. Anyone else have one? Drop me links.
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I'm spending the next month or so in Barcelona, hanging out with a bunch of friends I've met over the years. Our common language is Esperanto, and so today I've been hanging out at bars and coffee shops speaking only in Esperanto. This isn't the first time (last summer I did the same), but it's still such an awesome and surreal feeling to be able to do this.
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Well that's a new one: made dinner plans for tomorrow 1400km away from where I am now
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Current status: just tried to brush a forward slash off my screen. Been a long week.