Today is my 🏋️‍♂️ LIFTVERSARY I started lifting exactly 6 years ago today I was super skinny at the time, only 57kg (125lbs) I signed up for a gym at the beginning of December 2019, but I was so scared I kept postponing my first workout I was so intimidated that the first time I went for a workout I only ran on the treadmill I chose the treadmill because it was the only thing in the gym I knew how to use. It was a safe place and I mostly used it so I could look at the rest of the gym from there, and try to figure out how things worked, how people were actually using the equipment It took me a couple days until I went in and actually started lifting weights I have everything logged: the first thing I ever did was bench press with 4kg dumbbells (8 lbs) and I remember my arms were shaking (!!!) I was so weak and thin I couldn't even lift four kilos without my entire body shaking Then I started eating A LOT, way more than my skinny body wanted And I kept lifting heavier every session, so every workout I felt less and less weak until the shaking went away The following year I went on to gain ~15kg (33 lbs) Covid hit shortly after I started lifting, and all gyms closed down, so I had to improvise a gym at home with water jugs just to keep the habit and the early gains Then I started nomading, traveled to Portugal, then Thailand, all while gyms were still closed down, so I had to train at home and in hotel rooms with TRX straps for months I also had to endure through a nasty leg infection in Koh Samui Thailand that got me hospitalized for a week and limping for a while. Still I kept on deadlifting shortly after surgery I had two or three year-long hiatuses here and there, generally correlated with injuries / traveling / moving countries (life is difficult!) but the overall trend is up and to the right!!! I'm now the strongest and heaviest I've ever been, and still a long way to go too! The first pic is me in my second week at the gym. The second pic is from yesterday I've gained ~30kg (66 lbs) total since I started back in 2019, I'm now 84kg (185 lbs)

My 💎 Ruby gems have been downloaded more than 200k times now 🎉

Been getting a lot of this lately For very mundane reasons This instance: I asked Codex to seed me a couple demo accounts with demo data to test my app

I started taking 🎾 tennis lessons and I kinda hate it I feel like I learn nothing We’re a group of 4 players. We do the same 3-4 drills over and over, lesson after lesson When I ask why they say it’s because “it’s the bread and butter” That’s the same type of answer I used to get when I was a kid learning English in school and I asked why we kept repeating the exact same grammar exercises year after year I learned no English at all doing those exercises. I only started learning when I forced myself to consume content in English write down my own thoughts in English In the same way, I feel I learn more tennis just by playing matches, or practicing by myself The drills go way too fast for me to process anything. I haven’t finished hitting my current ball and the next one is already coming at me. I don’t even get to see where my balls land because I immediately need to take care of the next ball, so I get no visual feedback for any of my shots. And as soon as I complete all my shots, I need to quickly run out of the court, because the next person in line is already in position to hit his first ball I spend more brain cycles being aware of the social mechanics of the drills than anything else “Whose turn is it? Is it my turn? What was the next step in the circuit again? Where did the coach say I need to be relative to the cones again? Was that ball for me too?” Now I’m not completely new to tennis. I took tennis lessons as a kid. Didn’t play for most of my adult life and forgot everything. Then I picked it up again 3 years ago, and lately I have been playing a few times per month quite regularly. I’d say I’m completely self-taught. And apparently that means I don’t do things by the book and I make coaches raise their eyebrows. My grip was odd. I was hitting too flat. I was not playing “modern” tennis. The lessons served me in correctly identifying all that and I guess that’s valuable. But I’m now fixing all that in the same way I’ve learned everything in my life: individual, deliberate, unguided practice, all by myself. I book an empty court and it’s just me and my racket; and my phone to record myself. I don’t get much out of the lessons other than the feeling that I’m absolutely retarded. I don’t look forward to the next lesson. I secretly wish it gets cancelled due to bad weather or something. And I’ve only been going for a month and a half. I’ve never felt this way towards tennis, definitely not towards playing matches. I’m always down for a match. I always have fun, especially if my opponent is way better than me and makes me feel like a noob I guess tennis lessons are making me hate tennis? Is this how tennis lessons are supposed to feel like? Do I just need to push through and give it time? Am I too autistic for group lessons? What am I doing wrong?

Life is extremely simple: - Eat well - Sleep well - Exercise - Do meaningful work - Hang out with friends regularly Fuck up just one of those and you’ll feel miserable. Nail all 5 and the odds you’ll need “therapy” plummet to ~zero

The 🔴🔵 red/blue button question is just libertarianism vs collectivism The question really is: do you think you can save yourself, or will you wait for someone else to come and save you? It’s ultimately a question about locus of control. The psychological substrate of collectivism is the absence of internal locus. Collectivists believe they’re victims of their circumstances, so there’s nothing they can do to change their situation. Even if the solution is as simple as pressing a damn button. It’s a real-world instance of the hopeless rats experiment. They really don’t think they can be saved, so they surrender to death On a societal level, this is a symptom of how deep the collectivist virus has infiltrated people’s minds So many people bought into the propaganda that Nanny State will come and save them They refuse to believe in themselves. They haven’t exercised individual freedoms for so long their entire free will is atrophied and superseded by the collectivist mindset So many people are suffering unnecessarily because they refuse to do something as simple as pressing a button to save their lives

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Please fix this at some point @nikitabier I get many spam messages every day I see old ones get correctly identified and deleted after a few days, but it'd be nice to have all these auto-flagged as spam and go straight to a spam inbox like Gmail so they don't pollute the inbox

What are flat Earthers going to do as space exploration becomes cheaper and more abundant? Half serious question

Made BBQ today with @levelsio and @marckohlbrugge

I need to make a demo app to test my new Rust LicenseSeat SDK But it takes me now roughly the same amount of time to make a demo app than it takes me to make a production-ready app So I'm making a real app instead With the excuse of testing the SDK Crazy times

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