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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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

So instead of pointing a microphone down into the street to detect gun shots, this dude made his own "shot spotter" to instead detect which music tracks are being played. The "bop spotter". I love the internet! https://walzr.com/bop-spotter