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🌪️ [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.


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😓 I am out of breath just from climbing the stairs. Not being able to run, or bike, sucks.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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)


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🚅 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.


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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


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You heard it here first: I'm working on an update to hecto, the tutorial to build your own text editor in #rust. #rustlang


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🌅 First day back at work. Looking forward to it.


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💤 Welcome, Daylight Saving Time.


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🏊‍♂️ 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.


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The migration is done. My new and shiny blog is now available at flenker.blog .


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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.


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🏝️ A lazy day with absolutely nothing planned. The family and I really needed this.


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🫢 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!


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A short text about times long gone and my favorite instant messenger: philippflenker.com/i-wanted-…


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I swear I need to write shorter blog posts.


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I migrated most of my blog posts already. Missing: Some old Product Management musings, my beloved Pet Project Sematary, and - of course: hecto.


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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…


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How YouTube killed IE6: blog.chriszacharias.com/a-cons…


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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.


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User Inyerface captures all kinds of UI annoyances from a decade ago, but cookie banners are missing: userinyerface.com/


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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.


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„When I started Reynholm Industries, I had just two things in my possession: a dream and 6 million pounds!“

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