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Cake day: July 21st, 2023

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  • Unless I can read them like a book or they personally ask me for help, I won’t do anything. Some people just let the world around them think whatever it wants to think and they just keep their life, their goals and their progress to themselves. Now I’m not saying that this must be the case for your friends or that they definitely on’t need your help. But they definitely don’t need advice from online strangers like us as the only image of them we know is the one you painted.



  • “Coding” is a huge world and in my opinion in today’s world the term “coder” is too abstract to mean anything in practice (other than someone who writes code among other things). What we mostly share is really just the basics. You can improve your fundamental knowledge that will help you learn, understand and navigate through the differences quicker.

    But not just from field to field or job to job, but even from just one task to another task, a coding session can be totally different from another. The “actual typing of code” is just one mechanism.

    If I understand you correctly and you’re specifically interested in the act of typing code and understanding what it does, then maybe you might be more into coding puzzles or you could learn more about algorithm design. Else, if your goal is to see more output by coding, then progress and experience is the only way. I don’t have ADHD, but I have difficulties in finishing personal coding projects, too. Coding for work definitely helped with that. Before that, the biggest improvement I found was to use more Git (/version control in general). Helped me a lot to organize and see my progress.


  • India has the “masala” genre, a blend of multiple genres; basically what comes to the mind of the average person when they think about Indian movies. I don’t think they create “pleasure” for anybody. They mainly exist, because it’s a low-efforts template for Indian producers to target the masses.

    However once you get used to this genre and accept that there will be a few toilet breaks and tiresome tropes, you unlock the gate to some movies that are otherwise fantastic. It’s quite similar to starting to watch pro wrestling or shōnen anime.








  • I switched to Linux, because my very first confrontation to buy a Windows license myself weirded me out. It was quite casual. My exposure to Linux came from a few software development related videos. The workflows I saw looked much more efficient and fulfilling. To be honest, with a dying laptop running on Windows 8.1 I had an extra terrible experience anyway. So when I built my PC and I realized that legally purchasing a Windows license looked like browsing the black market, I decided to save my money and just try Ubuntu. I definitely had the luxury of being able to simply dive in.




  • Probably not supposed to work, but in a browser I have some of the premium features mentioned from playing whatever I want, changing the queue to creating playlists - all with a free account. I tried it with different browsers, different accounts and even without uBlock - just works. I still don’t understand why and how. If it is a bug, I hope that they don’t notice/fix it :D