Built @uppy_io, living off grid on a house boat. Into interactive fiction, indie web, Linux, vintage tech, blogging and podcasting.
London
Joined March 2007
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Updated my homepage arturpaikin.com, amber BBS-style, with a text-adventure twist, what do you think?
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Плыву на лодке-доме на север Лондона, чтобы достать её из воды и покрасить дно, но тут ВНЕЗАПНО двигатель решил умереть посреди реки. Что было дальше — в новом эпизоде: youtube.com/watch?v=7pg7Kfc_…
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Here are two push notifications: one from Ukrainian @monobankua, another from Polish Bank Millennium. Both serve millions of customers.
People get these notifications every time they use their card. I wonder how many of these are sent each day!
Monobank's notification is thoughtful. The amount paid is right in the title. The merchant name is there. The remaining balance is easy to spot. There's even an emoji showing the transaction category.
Bank Millennium's notification, on the other hand, is full of clutter. To find out how much you've paid, you have to dig through a block of stiff, robotic text. The message fills almost all the available space, yet the signal-to-noise ratio is ridiculously small.
It's a design task to make such notifications look good. Yet designers are often not even asked to work on such things. Sometimes a developer has the eye to make it great. Sometimes they feel that a designer's help is needed and reach out for collaboration. There are other possible scenarios — but to make it right, there must be at least one person who genuinely cares.
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Our country’s first ever Men’s Health Strategy.
A proud moment - especially for the men, boys and organisations that helped us write it.
Physical health, mental health and groundbreaking partnerships that will help reach men and boys on our terms, on our turf, to build change.
👨 Today we're launching our landmark Men's Health Strategy.
This action plan will tackle the specific health challenges faced by men and boys.
Men's health has been overlooked for too long. We're changing that by meeting men where they are.
More: gov.uk/government/news/gover…
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Hey all!
I'm looking for a job that combines my engineering and marketing skills.
Check out the details and send to HR → kaplich.me/hire-sergey
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It’s amazing how most wooden toy train sets share a common track standard. You can mix tracks and cars from IKEA, Brio, or even Chinese brands.
Funny, considering how people can’t agree on a single standard in far more important things.
What’s needed to fish a phone out of the canal? 3 developers, one long stick, a pocket light, a condom, some duck tape, an inflatable flamingo called Roberto, a piece of rope and strong magnets.
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Finding my place at the crossroads of marketing and tech
I started my professional career in marketing as a copywriter, then grew into a Senior Content Marketer and later became Head of Content.
At that stage, I burned out and decided I no longer wanted to work in marketing, so I learned how to code.
After some time, I found a job as a web developer in a marketing department, where I could use both of my skills: coding and marketing.
But I wanted more.
I worked hard, and eventually I transitioned to the engineering team.
It was fun, and I learned a lot: how engineering teams work, what quality code actually looks like, and why it is important to ask questions, have mentors, and be a mentor yourself.
But after some reflection, I realized I don’t dislike marketing as much anymore. I discovered that the intersection between marketing and coding is actually where I feel the most comfortable.
Now I’m focused on finding a role that combines both worlds.
Some companies call it Marketing Engineer, Web Developer, Website Manager, Front-End Developer in Marketing, Digital Experience Engineer, Growth Engineer, and so on
My goal is to help businesses spread their message with modern technologies.
If you’re looking for someone like that, or if you know companies who might need me, please DM me
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I bought @descript to help me generate a few automated reels from my podcast video. Really wanted to like it, but it keeps crashing whenever I ask AI to do anything, and all the support can offer is “we don’t support Linux” (it’s a web browser app). Tried on Mac — same crash.
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Yep. Fortunately, it’s available on the Steam Deck app (reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comme…), which for some reason is only for the Steam Deck, which runs Linux, so the app should be available for “desktops” as well. TL;DR: fuck arbitrary restrictions and stupid content policies.
I was about to play Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 on GeForce Now, but NVIDIA made 4K Windows-only (they don’t tell you that when you pay for GeForce Now Ultimate).
Had to hack my setup to get the 4K I paid for.
reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/co…
Highly recommend working with @transloadit, been there, speaking from experience:
Please share:
I'm looking for a senior backend developer for @transloadit. Someone who:
- loves writing in @typescript
- fearlessly engages and refactors our 15 year old @nodejs API codebase
- is happy to leverage AI/Cursor, but will take care vetting its results and will take ownership of them
- wants to work remote and has a 4hr time overlap with CE(S)T
- has strong affinity with open source
We're a small crew of developers working on big things, like the nr 1 file uploader in the world, and changing HTTP itself. No official vacancy yet, but some words about working for Transloadit: transloadit.com/jobs/
Let me know if you're a fit, and if not I would appreciate you hitting Repost <3
My beloved @FrameworkPuter became almost unusable since the AMD graphic issues started with recent updates: discussion.fedoraproject.org…, gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/a….
Is the team aware of this? Thanks!
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