gleb @gleb@merveilles.town

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I started this journey because I wanted to learn declarative UI programming and build a few native apps for myself. But the further I go, the more concerned I get. Maybe I should stop spenging my time on it?

I've been learning SwiftUI for the last few months and I feel… guilty about it. This framework is very limited to Apple's ecosystem, and I don't like the direction the company is going. I still find a joy when using some of their products, and especially when using software made by other small developers which runs only on Apple (like Things3)

Just realised that Marius deleted his account from this instance. Will be missing him.

Published some photos on my semi abandoned website. I will keep posting new photos there because I no longer have an Instagram account.

https://skibitsky.com/photos/cities

Yesterday we watched “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind” for the first time. I still have Ohmus’ song in my head.

Sovietwave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2mD5hv0eMc

#theStudio

I feel like I have to take a week off to escape everything and just read the whole WikiWikiWeb

http://wiki.c2.com

Switched to Dvorak layout yesterday. Typing speed decreased drastically, but I already feel how well thought out it is when typing in English.

Remembering how much I did with knowledge I had makes me wonder if my current approach to development is really efficient.

Found this old photo made by 15 yo me. I was working on inventory for our online survival game while travelling to Riga. There was no uGUI back then, the UI was developed 100% with code. Since I wasn’t an experienced developer, I had inventory drawing and logic (both local and network!) all in one place with hardcoded number and string values. Moreover, I used Atom without IntelliSense and C# highlighting (but with nice material theme!).

I have to work with Steam, SteamVR and Windows at work. While Windows is getting better, the Steam is... oh... I wonder how they keep it working for so long with all these hacks and bugs

Keyboard heatmap after the day of work. I may move red and orange keys to the centre and blue to the edges to increase typing speed. But this will make my muscle memory incompatible with any other keyboard 🤔

"Programming is the second literacy. The first one gives you knowledge: the second allows you to implement it in practice."

My colleague couldn’t open PDF documents from Zip archive that I sent her. I spent some time reasearching… And it turns out that every major operating system ignores Zip specs and uses different encoding for file names. I had to remove Lithuanian Ą and Ū from file names to make my Zip archive Windows-compatible. That’s insane!

https://marcosc.com/2008/12/zip-files-and-encoding-i-hate-you/

Just discovered Teddit. It's a lightweight JS-free frontend for Reddit.

https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit