Martin Rue

AI coding isn't about thinking or understanding less.

Let's take a short tour through the slums of JavaScript.

In 2024 I lived in 3 countries and 5 different cities.

When I say community, I mean social network.

We live in a mega distracting world.

5 traits that disproportionately contribute to success.

More things should not be used than are necessary.

94% of people believe they're above average, but a little bit of delusion is a good thing.

"Had I not..." is a calling.

13 years ago I wrote my first ever article, “Do”.

What I'm doing now

Can slow also be a good thing?

To be more creative we need more inputs.

There's nothing new under the sun.

Language is profound.

While negative visualiation is a profoundly useful mental tool to bring you back into the present, sometimes you just need to tune in.

Don't get fooled into having a plan of what you'll do without a plan of how you'll keep going.

Hearing that someone has enjoyed or found your work useful is an indicator that you're achieving the goal you set out to achieve, and that's an amazing feeling.

It's time to pack a small bag, leave my current world behind and begin overusing the word "nomad".

The problem with an obsessive compulsion to be clean is that the shower is a dangerous source of ideas, and I can't in good faith claim that all of them are sensible.

Creativity is a muscle.

Microdose progress and remind yourself what a tiny dose feels like.

Multe tro facilas vivi pasive, kaj sperti la vivon kvazaŭ ĝi estas la defaŭlta stato, sed estas inverse.

It's far too easy to be passive and experience life as the default, but it's clear to me that it works the other way around.

As squishy, brain-carrying flesh bags we simply cannot operate at 100% consistently.

Station is a micro text-only social network for the Gemini network.

To make progress, you need consistency and to keep upping the pace.

I've always felt that with such a puny serving of breathable days on this rock, it's worth throwing yourself into new, crazy-esque (or even full-blown crazy) things in pursuit of new ideas, better habits, and fresh perspectives.

This question is my secret weapon to create interesting conversations.

I've just finished reading the very enjoyable Almanack of Naval Ravikant.

Let's be honest, silence is not usually considered an exciting subject.

A few months back I gave a talk in which I shared a list of my personal engineering axioms – things that, over the years, I've come to think of as generally true and useful to have in mind when writing code, building things, and working with others.

There are few things more enjoyable to me than the mental solitude that hand-delivers interesting shower thoughts, or that let's me sit in a bustling coffee shop contemplating life.

Today wasn't a failure because I've not reached those states.

I've told a few different coding stories over the years on this blog.

A few days ago I was hanging out in a coffee shop with my Russian friend.

When people hear Esperanto for the first time, they sometimes think they're hearing Italian, or maybe Spanish.

Hey, it's Zamenhofa Tago, otherwise known as Esperanto Book Day.

We ofen hear the advice “get out of your comfort zone”, and in my experience it's good advice to avoid becoming stationary in whatever it is you're trying to get better at.

It's the end of 2017 and right now there's a huge amount of interest in buying [insert any crypto currency coin here].

Anyone who knows me will know that the gym is a fairly big part of my life.

I heard something a few days ago.

I remember my first computer fondly.

It seems like a stupid question – obviously, we read in order to process written material until we understand it.

Whilst walking to work this morning, I noticed myself doing something that I wouldn't normally give a second thought to.

One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from my grandfather.

In the startup world we hear a lot about growth.

Motivation by itself gives us the willingness to do something, but nothing more.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Recently I've been thinking more and more about the zone.