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Hope everyone's having a lovely weekend. I'm spending mine in rural Scotland and it's so stunning!
Remember: The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question. It's to post the wrong answer.
Oh no, Station died. Not bad for years of uptime with no issues... but it turns out I'm human after all. The recent post by @baran revealed a bug in the code that truncates homepage posts to 250 chars if they're longer. All fixed now and we're back. Apologies, folks.
Psss: I launched a new thing today: https://buildmode.club
Interesting observation since being back in the UK for the first time in 2 years. I like all the accents... even Scouse. Like, I really enjoying hearing them all again. A nice reminder that the best way to stop taking *everything* for granted is to withdraw from it for a bit.
I just launched a big update to LangSesh – my language learning app. It now has courses + a conversational learning style. If anyone wants to check it out, I'd love any feedback! https://langsesh.com
One of my favourite memories is sitting on my tiny balcony in El Born in Barcelona writing my first ever short fiction story in Esperanto. Turns out it won a prize a few years later. If anyone wants to practise their Esperanto, you can find it here: https://martinrue.com/brakumklubo.pdf It's about hugs!
If you don't know what the Mandelbrot set is, go look it up. It's cool AF. If I ever got a tattoo, that's what it'd be.
There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery
I get electrocuted by almost every treadmill I’ve used in Southeast Asia. AMA.
One of our earliest skills is breathing, yet so few of us actively try to improve it like other skills. PS: you absolutely can.
Someone made the mistake of asking me to talk about languages, and what I'm building with LangSesh. 90 mins later and there's podcast for all you poor bastards to listen to. But for real, it was cool to talk about the story so far, and share my excitement about it. If that's your thing, you'll find it here: https://trialtopaid.io/episodes/martin-rue-langsesh-from-engineering-manager-to-purpose-driven-saas-nomad Or "Trial to Paid" in ̶S̶p̶o̶t̶i̶f̶y̶ your favourite podcast app.
I was struck by inspiration and wrote something! JavaScript Chose Violence: https://martinrue.com/javascript-chose-violence
Wow, we passed 1800 accounts here and I didn't even notice! Very happy to see this space still attracting people and hosting cool conversations.
I'm 3 weeks into living on Ko Pha-ngan, and what I love most about life here is how simple it is. Every day I get up, jump on the bike, ride along these pretty roads to the gym, refuel, and then jump into LangSesh work for the day. This routine is perfect.
Finally made a new vlog about life on a small Thai island: https://youtu.be/OSqgbb4H9wk
Out of order events is fun so much work to on!
A quick lesson: I used to share my opinions too strongly. It killed what I want: a great conversation. A trick I learned: add an invite by stating how sure you are. "AI won't steal my job. I'm 70% sure." It lets you be wrong. It invites a conversation about the 30% (+ the 70%).
I've not checked in for a while... it has been a hectic week of moving to a new place again and reestablishing a routine, but back to normal service now. How's everyone doing? What's happening?
I just ran into another case of needing to access a local server via a secure, public URL. No problem. Open terminal, and: ssh -p 80 -R0:localhost:5555 a.pinggy.io And like magic, my 0.0.0.0:5555 is on a public https URL. Kudos, Pinggy. Awesome service!
Wandering around the city tonight, I passed a Viet security guard sat in a tiny chair. Those who sit for hours watching bikes. I was in a very local part of the city, where it's rare to find people who look like me. He gave me a smile and fist bumped me. So I said “Anh có khỏe không?” (How are you?). He then got very excited, “khỏe!” (I'm good!) he said, and then invited me to sit and drink with him. Language learning really reveals the world to you in a different way.
Just got an official notice from our condo in Da Nang that we must organise a time to have a flag hung from our balcony in celebration of Vietnam’s reunification day on April 30th. Life’s so different here, I love it.
Folks, after a few months of work, I launched a new app. It's on big fat web (sorry): https://langsesh.com. If you check it out and have any thoughts to share, that'd be amazing. It's not public yet, but sharing here because it's a safe space :)
One of my favourite things about the nomad lifestyle, especially in a place where you've put some time... there's always someone who just wants to hang out. It's 21:30 and I instagram a pic the coffee shop I'm at, and two friends are like "I'm on the way!" It's like 2012 Internet!
My favourite kind of coding is the kind you do just to explore and expand your understanding of a problem or idea. No goal other than to create new "ah-ha" moments and build models of how something should/does/could work.
It's awesome when you meet people on the same journey/path as you. Just met a 45 year old woman who has been traveling in Vietnam for 12 years. It's nice to be reminded that it's not just you taking the slightly unusual path, and maybe you're a *bit* less weird than you thought.
First world problems: I'm having to add a terminal + vim toggle to switch between dark and light schemes as I am working from the beach too much and can't see code in dark mode.
So I moved into a new condo building in Da Nang that's more impressive than my condo in Bangkok was. That's new! I like this version of Vietnam!
A really cool thing happened in my taxi home last night. My driver spoke no English, but noticed I spoke a tiny bit of Vietnamese due to how I greeted him. The 20-min ride turned into the biggest Vietnamese conversation I've had so far. I want much more of this! So cool.
Yesterday was my birthday. I asked you to send me some hard questions, and... damn. You really did: → Who are you? → Are you happy? → One regret + one "I'm glad I did that"? → What would the version of you in ten years say about you now? I made a new video answering these questions + more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9VsPfQMCso