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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

Finally received my Planck Ez keyboard! It will take some time to get used to ortholinear layout. My fingers always shift to the left

Unfortunately I may still need to turn it on for banking and digital signature purposes 😞

I realized that my phone was destructing me a lot. It isn’t only about 2-3h of screen time, it’s more about breaking the focus and procrastination. Event thought I don’t use social media much.

I will try to have it turned off for the whole week to make sure that my observations are correct.

Just installed #Gemini browser and surfed the space a bit. It's so fast and clean!

I'm thinking about starting doing some music as an offline hobby. I know close to nothing about the process of making it, only played some guitar 10 years ago.

Any recommendations on where to start with? Teenage engineering pocket operators look like a nice little thing to try

"Syncthing has reminded me how great computers can be if they are not made by corporations. It’s simple, predictable, sane, acts no-nonsense. You can configure it however you like and it always keeps you in control. It’s a pure function and it’s good at that."

https://tonsky.me/blog/syncthing/