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🚅 The first warm day of the year and I will spend it mostly on a train to Leipzig, for a family visit.
🌪️ [banging noises]
[the sound of something heavy sliding over the ground, then stopping]
ME (yelling): Everything alright?!
MY KIDS (in sweet innocent angle voices and in unison): Yes dad! Don't come up!
I better check upstairs.
😓 I am out of breath just from climbing the stairs. Not being able to run, or bike, sucks.
The new Setup section for hecto is online here: flenker.blog/hecto-chapter-1/
It revolves around installing Rust, and the updated version explains more about the compliation procedure and build targets.
#rustlang
4 out of 10 pages released.
My wife encouraged me to add a small link to my page asking people who like my work to buy me a coffee or something. Turns out those pages are all designed to lure people into monthly memberships, which is not really what I want. That's mildly disappointing.
It took me 5 years to mention the author of the original tutorial for hecto by name, which is embarrassing. Gotta repeat the Fight Club mantra: Her name is Paige Ruten. Her name is Paige Ruten. Her name is Paige Ruten.
The Introduction, the Changelog and the Appendices of the new tutorial are already live, but no actual #rustlang code in sight yet. Chapters 1 and 2 are pretty much already done, though, I hope to release them soon (need more polishing)
🚅 This morning, my train to work was delayed by one hour. But so was the previous train, so I took that one and arrived on time. Task failed successfully.
I've decided to start publishing pieces of the updated version of hecto as I go along. Here's the changelog to follow me on my quest for the rewrite:
flenker.blog/hecto-change-log/
#rustlang #rust
You heard it here first: I'm working on an update to hecto, the tutorial to build your own text editor in #rust. #rustlang
🌅 First day back at work. Looking forward to it.
💤 Welcome, Daylight Saving Time.
🏊♂️ Swimming with the kids. My eldest only recently learned it and fearlessly jumps into the deep end whenever she can. I'm proud, but I'm dying a little inside every time she disappears under the surface.
The migration is done. My new and shiny blog is now available at flenker.blog .
All relevant posts have been moved to flenker.bearblog.dev .
Next I need to do the actual migration:
flenker.blog -> archive.flenker.blog
bearblog -> flenker.blog
and ensure that the Hecto tutorial can still be reached via the old URLs.
🏝️ A lazy day with absolutely nothing planned. The family and I really needed this.
🫢 While migrating my blog I realized that in around five years I managed to not blog about personal anecdotes even once. What gives?! Stuff like this was literally all I was writing in the 00s!
A short text about times long gone and my favorite instant messenger: philippflenker.com/i-wanted-…
I swear I need to write shorter blog posts.
I migrated most of my blog posts already. Missing: Some old Product Management musings, my beloved Pet Project Sematary, and - of course: hecto.
Looking back at this article from 2019, I wonder why Blockchain was ineffective against Blockchain? Maybe AI will fix it? technologyreview.com/2019/07/2…
How YouTube killed IE6: blog.chriszacharias.com/a-cons…
I just ditched the plan to meticulously keep all old URLs alive upon migrating my blog. According to the few analytics that I have (Google's search performance) I have no traffic besides my hecto tutorial, so I guess it's fine to skip this part.
User Inyerface captures all kinds of UI annoyances from a decade ago, but cookie banners are missing: userinyerface.com/
Old stuff incoming! I am migrating my old blog over to flenker.bearblog.dev , but I won't migrate all tiny microblogging posts. Instead I will post interesting stuff here.