gleb @gleb@merveilles.town

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/

Hi Merveilles!

My name is Gleb. I'm a developer from Vilnius exploring the new technologies such as VR and Blockchain and their use cases in education and gaming.

In my free time I read and learn to become better generalist. I’ve recently started building my knowledge repository (which will be published sometime next year). This journey led me to open source, then Unix and command line software, then “software as an art”, and now I'm here! Glad to become part of the community :)

#introduction