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👋 Quit my job and moved to Asia. Building a new language learning app: https://yakk.app
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"As a principal engineer, how do you make sure your company stays at the forefront of innovation?" "I don't. I make sure we don't." https://www.ntietz.com/blog/forefront-of-innovation
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I wrote a little post about my top 5 good-energy feelings doing the work I do. 1: When you fix a hard bug 2: When you find your voice in writing 3: When you break through creative resistance 4: When you receive good feedback 5: When you see traction https://martinrue.com/creativity-top-5 I'm very curious to hear others' additions. This is definitely not an exhaustive list. 🙏
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“People respect you more when you’re chasing something than when you have it.” What are you chasing?
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Black Friday: The perfect opportunity, whether you like it or not, to discover who has your email address.
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The real question among all the recent news is "which filing cabinet at OpenAI contains the USB stick labelled 'AGI code'?" Silicon Valley nailed it.
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It's my last day at my job today. Some exciting changes for me coming up. Wrote about it here: https://martinrue.com/carving-my-own-path
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Cool to see @marginalia on HN number one spot repping Gemini (a little). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38276951
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I have a bit of good news to share, but for once I'm sitting on it, telling nobody, and enjoying the presence of it. I never let things truly sink in, so I'm trying something new.
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As the weather is getting a bit colder now, don't forget that laptops easily double up as portable radiators. Just fire off enough background "yes /dev/null &" processes until your legs are nice and toasty, then "killall yes". You're welcome.
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Speaking of vlogs: I just uploaded another! Here's what I got up to in Valencia and Barcelona last week: https://youtu.be/A-2fu2JAhMw
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Downside of going from 1080p to 4k in my vlogs: now I desperately want a better laptop. Upside: I'm a bit warmer.
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2023 is 84% complete. Who feels like they achieved their goal(s) so far this year?
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Last night I was at Barcelona's monthly Esperanto social event (in a bar) and a 10 year old boy came along with his Mum. He'd started learning on Duo a few months back and could already speak well enough to us to tell us about himself and how he discovered Esperanto. Really cool.
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I had dinner with my friend and her Mum last night. Her Mum (80) speaks only Spanish and my friend and I only have Esperanto in common. It was amazing. Absolute chaos... y creo que mi español mejoró al menos un poquito por eso!
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I hope everyone's having a great start to the week. I've taken a little break to hang out in Barcelona and make some progress on some personal projects. What's everyone else up to?
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New vlog! This was a fun one to make. Hugely impressed with the quality of the video captured by the DJI Mini 4. https://youtu.be/QK4wTZM0-24?si=e_93-d3GWscSQkmX
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This is what happens when you have too much free time. Creative Writing Systems for Esperanto: https://martinrue.com/esperanto-writing-systems
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Today's shower thought: creativity is a muscle https://martinrue.com/creativity-muscle
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I've been working full-time for the past year and a half saving every penny I can so I can escape the working world (well, at least the version where I work on other people's shit) and go live in SE Asia. I'm getting really close now and it's an unbeliavably freeing feeling. I'm curious... is anyone else doing something similar?
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"A life well lived is a series of personal obsessions shared without expectation of an audience." 👏
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So, what's everyone doing this weekend? Anyone got anything interesting planned?
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I hardly ever read fiction books, but I just finished reading The Shadow of the Wind (in English as my Spanish isn't good enough yet) and I absolutely loved it. Lots of unexpected references to parts of Barcelona I know, too, which added to the experience. Anyone else read it?
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I'm going to demo Station in a training session in an hour. Say hello if you see this :)
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I've been doing a lot of teaching recently and it's a great reminder of: if you think you know something, try teaching it. Teaching is learning in disguise.
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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.