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🌏 Quit my job and moved to Asia 🇹🇭 Currently: Bangkok 👨🏻‍💻 Building a new language learning app: . My newsletter:

https://t.co/h5QZ4WXMl6

Joined December 2008

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Martin

3 months

"Does language influence how we think? What if we redesigned language? Let's talk about mnemonics." I started a free newsletter sharing my thoughts on 👆 and tons more questions about language learning. First issue on Monday. Please subscribe 🙏 #langtwt

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The newsletter for people who love language learning.

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10 years

Knock knock. Race condition. Who's there?

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10 years

http://t.co/v085CGq6vx

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2 months

Here's a useful way to work out whether you should learn a new language. #langtwt

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7 years

Great summary of the history and current position between $BTC and $BCH. Nice work @VinnyLingham .

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7 years

@bitshares BTS is just screaming “buy me” right now.

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2 months

My t-shirt says: If you can read this t-shirt, I already like you. Wearing your target language is such a vibe. #langtwt

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7 years

@fffabs I’m sure you’ve seen it before but I like this one too.

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9 years

“The good news about Erlang can be summed up at this:” http://t.co/WyIjk7NuVb

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5 years

First day at @CoopDigital today and impressed at how collaborative everyone is. Jumped into a team and was able to start contributing straight away. First real experience mobbing too, and I’m pleasantly surprised how effective and enjoyable it was to work that way.

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11 days

Some X-rated #langtwt content for you all. I'm currently carrying around 5 of them. There's even an Esperanto book here too!

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4 years

@paulg Linking any given social situation to the respective Seinfeld episode.

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4 years

Following my @BarCampMCR talk on the subject, I turned my talk about my personal engineering axioms into a blog post, here it is!

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My Engineering Axioms

A few months back I gave a talk in which I shared a list of my personal engineering axioms – things that, over the years, I've come to think of as generally true and useful to have in mind when...

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2 years

HackerNews is down. If someone could completely misunderstand this tweet and call me worthless, that'd really make up for it. Thanks.

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3 years

10 days ago I tested positive hours before my flight back from Barcelona. Since then I've never felt so ill in my life. Today, finally, I feel like I'm back to a solid 80% and, really, it's such a joy to just feel healthy again.

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4 years

I’m back! Literally 3 minutes after stepping outside the station someone says to me “Got the time our kid?”... and I just can’t think of a more Mancunian welcome back than that. 🐝

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4 years

"Never spend 15 minutes doing something by hand that you can fail to automate in 8 hours."

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20 days

Yep, only been here half a day and Bangkok is awesome. 🇹🇭

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4 years

"If you could sacrifice one programming language to appease the gods, which would you choose and why JavaScript?"

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2 months

Here's a stupid meme I made in Esperanto. It's a play on the language's grammar. Let me explain. 🦑 "Loligo" is the Esperanto word for squid. But –igi is also the way you turn an intransitive verb into a transitive one. Eg: ridi = to laugh, ridigi = to make <someone> laugh.

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7 years

@hus_hmd @ruby_gem Reminds me of the sleep sort.

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4 years

Moved to Barcelona for a bit, because why not. If anyone has tips on the best gyms and/or coffee shops, I’m all orejas :)

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1 month

One of the coolest things about life in Đà Nẵng is how easy it is to meet new friends and do random stuff together. Today we went to a fake French town they built here. So much fun, and amazing views!

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9 days

My fellow coworkers are plants today.

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10 years

1 habit of successful people: they don’t read “10 habits of highly successful people” posts.

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10 years

@ben_nuttall Just heard two pensioners on the bus talking about their Raspberry Pis. One of them is building a game.

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6 years

The degree to which I love languages and want to learn them all has just reached a new high – I now want to learn “lang Belta”

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3 years

Not getting your StackOverflow questions answered? Got questions sitting around collecting nothing but internet dust? Simply make a second account and post a blatantly incorrect answer. Watch as hundreds of thousands of programmers from around the world descend on your question.

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2 months

I've been talking a lot about Esperanto this morning, so why stop now. Here's something fun for learners to try and understand (and has a nice message inside). #langtwt

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4 years

Them: "So about that bug fix from yesterday..." Me: "Yeah... is there a problem?"

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11 days

So I was watching @lindiebee 's YouTube video about Thai resources and I thought: "Wait, I'm in Bangkok! I bet I can find these books!" I blame (read as: thank) her for this! 😁 I can't wait to dive in and start. The beginning of a new language project is so exciting! #langtwt

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6 years

I have a project with a few thousand users. Very few people know I made it. As I resolve about 1 support issue/week, and see people continue to sign up and use the site, I’m humbled. There’s a deep satisfaction in being a background agent, making it happen for free.

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5 years

The guy at that desk is committing a ridiculous amount of code.

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2 years

I need this chair in my life.

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7 years

It’s pretty awesome how many people are learning Esperanto with @duolingo alone. 1.5M people from Spanish and English, and Portuguese content just about to launch. That makes it more popular than Chinese, Greek, Czech, Romanian, Welsh.

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5 years

Nice... somebody wrote a book about my code.

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7 years

Correction. You can move any sum of money in $DASH to anyone, anywhere in the world with full confirmation in 1-3s and it’ll cost you $0.095, not $0.95 as I originally stated. Who wants 1/12th the current $BTC fee when you can have 1/130th.

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7 years

@martinrue @UpholdInc Correction: they moved the decimal point down one more. That's 9.5 cents now.

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5 years

Cool... that made it onto the Hacker News front page. 🙌

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5 years

A few days ago I finished a little side project, which takes Esperanto text and speaks it (TTS). If you’re curious: I blogged about where the idea came from, how it works, and included a little demo of the speech it produces. How Does Esperanto Sound?

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3 years

Google won't be happy until there's violence.

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6 years

I’m thinking about doing a “Why you should learn Esperanto” talk at @BarCampMCR on Saturday, talking about how the language is a gateway to making international friends and other cool things. 👍 or 👎?

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6 years

Awesome! My #Esperanto post is number one on Hacker News right now.

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1 year

I've been gradually making my way though "How to Do Great Work" by @paulg . Very motivating, and full of great points. Here's some I noted.

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9 years

TIL: git-rev-parse can handle relative/humanised dates/times, meaning you can do, for e.g.: git reset --hard master@{"10 minutes ago"}

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2 years

Tested out ChatGPT with Esperanto, and it produced a perfectly written story. Impressive. 👏

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2 years

"Sometimes when I'm writing JavaScript I want to throw up my hands and say "this is bullshit!" but I'm never really sure what this refers to."

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5 years

It was my last day at @CoopDigital today, and honestly, what an awesome bunch of people! Learned loads and definitely going to miss working with everyone.

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2 years

All this fearmongering about the eventual takeover by AI is distracting us from the real risks. Is anyone keeping an eye on the cardboard?

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3 years

Finally got to see inside the Sagrada Família. Super impressive.

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3 years

JavaScript is 26 years old today. Crazy. Feels more like NaN years to me.

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2 years

I need to take responsibility and stop allowing others to ruin my day when I’m almost prize-winningly capable of doing it on my own. 🧠

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11 years

“What I deal with as a web developer on a daily basis, portrayed as a house”

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2 years

The real victims in all of this are hard-working comedy show writers. How are they supposed to compete with the actual events coming out of this government. Honestly, just halt all new comedy shows. There are levels, and Parliament are smashing it out of the park right now.

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5 years

Hey, I made a new thing. Parol is an Esperanto speech robot. It takes Esperanto text and phonetically converts it to Polish, so it can be passed into a Polish TTS to produce (surprisingly good) Esperanto speech. A pretty useful hack, if I do say so myself.

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2 months

A day where I speak more Esperanto than English is a good day. I like good days. #langtwt

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30 days

I woke up to the awesome news that my 5-year DTV visa was approved for Thailand! 👏 🇹🇭

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5 years

Protip.

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4 years

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7 years

With platinum sponsor @Dashpay :)

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Ran Neuner

7 years

Just to give you an idea of the size of the conference in Miami!

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3 years

I feel seen.

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5 years

It’s been a while since I worked from here. NTP was probably the first ever coffee shop I worked from in Manchester.

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2 years

I just found out that some fiction I wrote for a competition will be published in a book sometime this year. Really happy about that! It's something I had never done before, so had to give it a go. 🙏

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22 days

@SantPolyglot Esperanto. It turned out to be one of my most used now :)

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1 month

It's Esperanto Day today. Feliĉan Esperanto-Tagon al ĉiuj, kiuj ŝatas la lingvon! Got any questions about the language? It's one of most used ones, so ask away! #langtwt

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4 years

Years ago a made a little vanilla JS messenger for users of an Esperanto social site. It has sat there for years, ticking over without issues, helping a small group of people. I take such joy from being able to build things like that and see people get value from it over time. 🙌

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10 days

And the winner for "Strangest Reason to Learn Thai" goes to... 🥁 #langtwt

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7 months

I love a good meme defibrillation.

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3 years

"How a VPN works" 😁

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7 years

I’m happiest when I’m creating something. Whatever it is. Always be creating.

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8 years

I write line of code. IDE displays warning. I expand the warning. “Foo declared but not used.” Well, maybe it would be, if you chilled out.

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6 years

Some talks didn’t make the cut at #BCMCR8 today.

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3 years

Thursdaying properly.

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4 years

Frankly, I � it.

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3 years

“Why have you got no work done today?” “Sorry, what? Can’t hear you from up here.”

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4 years

Today I'm working from a siesta coffee shop. Work until you get tired, then take a nap in one of the sleep pods. Spanish hipster vibe: 10/10.

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3 years

TIL: the oldest lightbulb (Centennial Light Bulb) has been almost continuously on since 1901. It's now 120 years old. It has been in Fire Station 6, Livermore, California since 1976 where it still burns. Impressive considering my code probably won't even make it until next week.

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3 years

Struggling today. It's almost as if drinking wine from 19:30 until 04:30 this morning was a bad idea or something.

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3 years

“Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.”

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5 years

I’m jealous of this wall’s activity on GitHub.

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9 years

Otto — the successor to Vagrant

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6 years

Want a free co-working space, with free coffee, free soft drinks, and free bits (lots of them)? I have no idea how this is possible, but B Works is impressive. I hope they manage to keep it sustainable.

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4 years

I was meant to fly back to Manchester yesterday but it was Friday the 13th and everything so I just decided to stay another month instead.

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6 years

Had an idea to build a small helpful tool on my train ride from Prague to Vienna. I’m half way into solving the problem already. I love coding for the ability to do that – to let your imagination run away and become an idea you can go ahead and build. That’ll never get old. 👨‍💻

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11 months

Returning to write code after a week off.

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5 years

One of the reasons I always default to Berlin for a working getaway is the sheer number of cool places to work from, from co-working spaces to coffee shops. Today’s was the Michelberger.

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3 years

New co-working space. So good to be around people again and even see some friendly faces.

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4 years

Recently I've hidden several easter eggs in the work I've been doing. They're very small, and probably won't ever be discovered, but the pleasure from doing that is irrationally high.

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2 years

Hi, my name is Martin and I didn't write any code this weekend.

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3 years

If you don't hear from me again, I'm somewhere at the bottom of the atlantic. My laptop has unpushed changes.

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3 years

Actually never been to Beehive before but it’s a pretty nice co-working space.

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3 years

Woke up to find the app now has 25 people using it. It's super niche, so that's a bit surprising. I can't even describe how good it is to just build something for the pure joy of building things, but then see people dig and use your work. ☺️

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Martin

3 years

What've you been upto this week, Martin? Oh not much, just making a text-based social network for the gemini network: gemini://station.martinrue.com

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2 years

I've tried (and mostly succeeded) in speaking only in Spanish to people here in Lanzarote. Had several compliments from folks too, which is super encouraging. Love it when people are supportive and help you once they realise that you’re learning. Very grateful for that. #langtwt

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1 year

Who knew playing with light could be so much fun.

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8 years

Really like Invasion’s space near Media City. It’s just a natural result of out-growing lego :)

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9 years

GitHub: synchronising lunch time across Europe.

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4 years

Closed the laptop lid and went for a stroll instead, and so glad I did.

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4 years

git commit -m "Quick fix"

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4 years

I almost never comment on politics, but I have to say, I feel proud that @AndyBurnhamGM represents Manchester right now. He's a voice we need more of.

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4 years

But speaking of translation mistakes, this one will always have a special place in my heart.

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4 years

"Why should I hire a software engineer if I can just copy and paste code from Stack Overflow?"

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2 months

5 years ago I had just arrived at SES – a week-long gathering of Esperanto speakers in Slovakia. I could barely speak the language then, and now I sometimes dream in it. Wild.

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Something I enjoy doing when trying to practise a language is translate famous quotes that I like. Anyone else do this? #langtwt I'll give you an example I especially enjoyed.

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