Remind me of some quotes:

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Recently, I came back home after 2.5 years of studying and working abroad. Home (family, friends, scene, etc.) didn’t change much, but I definitely felt something off that it was hard to describe. I grew out of it, I suppose.

Reddit is already blocking some Proton VPN IPs…

Seriously, Youtube Shorts, Tiktok, Facebook stories can go to hell.

Let’s build the Internet again, starting from Lemmy, Mastodon, etc. One step at a time.

Clojure. It’s just fun to write.

Firstly, it’s functional and “Lispy”. My code is super expressive. Writing code is like writing prose where I can choose a word (function) from a large vocabulary [1]. I can focus on high-level concepts and modifying states instead of fighting with low-level logic.

Secondly, it runs on JVM - an already robust and performant platform.

And there are so many good things that I cannot simply write in some words. The father of Clojure, Rich Hickey, is a genius in expressing Clojure’s design. You should check out some of his talks [2].

Too bad that Clojure is too “niche” that I haven’t got a chance to make a living by writing Clojure, yet. But learning it is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my career. Yes, it’s that good.

[1] https://clojuredocs.org/

[2] https://github.com/tallesl/Rich-Hickey-fanclub

Let’s be honest, even if you finish that 600-page book, you might not “crack” the algorithm interview. The inteview requires you to grind the question, or simply a lot of practices.

I usually check in with myself:

• Am I growing in my career?
• Am I happy with my current workplace: people, culture, flexibility?
• Am I valued to the company, i.e. my opinions are considered and regarded to some certain?

If one or two of these conditions failed, I would consider moving. After all, if I went to a workplace and I didn’t find any joy or recognition, the paycheck wouldn’t make me stay.

And when it starts raining outside when you prepare to go to bed. Pure bliss :)

There’s something so therapeutic in the nature sound.

True, on my feed there are too much posts from “Meme” even that I don’t interact with it often. So I unsubscribed the community. Maybe I would consider subscribing it back when the recommendation system is a bit better.

Also recommend. Some audio lessons are interesting.

AWS (Route53 specifically). Not common but my personal lab runs on AWS so it’s nice to have a place for everything.

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insert Thanos stone meme.

We self host an instance to share knowledge about self-hosting that instance.

Wow you’re self-hosting a password manager! Don’t you feel scared if something went wrong?

I’m also running Adguard as my DNS-level adblocker on my Pi 3. Feels way more content than Pihole.

Could you list some of your “stuffs” that you run on your k3s? I’m curious.

Well, obvious reason: you can’t edit an outdated video with easy effort. But with text you can.

But for a tech talk or demo, I’d still prefer a video than written text.

Take a walk/run in the nature. Works everytime.

+1 for Go and Input fonts. You have the same stack as me.

What, but they still have YouTube Shorts.

I feel this as well - the responsibility to make the communities more lively. Well, it’s not much but it’s mine.

I can’t stand chaining comments (with one word in each comment). It’s fun to see them once in a while, but they appear as often as spams now.