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mttyng··on Maintaining good health at a desk job
Anecdote and warning to the younger devs out there:

I’m not sure about the UV light portion of this article, but I haven’t noticed eye strain since I’ve repositioned my monitor, which this also brings up. For a couple of years I would notice that occasionally throughout “crunch times” at work I would wake up (and go to sleep) with near-nauseating aches in the back of my eyes. Eventually I identified it to looking _down toward_ my monitor/phone rather than _forward to_.

Also, I was extremely active until my mid-twenties; skateboarding, running, resistance training, etc. but over time the passion for what I did became my sole priority and I gained a bit of weight as a result. That, coupled with poor posture at my desk (slouching for days), laid bare some old lower back injuries that I didn’t even know existed. After tolerating it for almost a year I got an MRI and confirmed my lumbar region was in a decent state of atrophy, which was leading to near-constant pain.

I had two options: maintain my current lifestyle or start moving around more and tighten up my lumbar region’s musculature to quell the pain. I chose the latter, lost weight, started a morning routine again, and now I rarely feel pain.

TL;DR: Eventually your body will find something wrong with your desk job. Be proactive and give it what it needs before you’re forced to.

mttyng··on Flutter will change everything, and is an excellent choice for iOS development
Oh, okay. I'm not a mobile developer. I've just started to get my feet wet with it. One of its (expo's) other selling points is "over the air" updates, meaning a user doesn't have to go through the respective app stores. I thought that was a thing with RN too, but I'm not sure.
mttyng··on Flutter will change everything, and is an excellent choice for iOS development
I was recently introduced to https://expo.io/, which, while seeming more flexible (I don't even need to plug my device in to my machine) for app development, seems to have severe limitations for Native APIs.

I couldn't find anything explicit -as far as a quick search went- for Flutter's limitations. Does anyone have experience with it enough to point them out?

mttyng··on Trump Defends ZTE Concession After Sparking Bipartisan Rebuke
What deals? What complications?
mttyng··on Lenovo Accidentally Leaks an Image of Its ‘Retro Thinkpad’
I also just switched from a MBP to a Thinkpad with Arch this year. After some minor hesitation I pulled the trigger and am still very happy with the decision. I got nearly twice the specs of a MBP for a significantly smaller price.

Initially I loaded Cinnamon (I think?) but replaced it with Gnome after some unresolved -to me- issue with my volume buttons. Everything works wonderfully now. And I'm having zero issue with any developmental experimentation (Android, web, traffic analysis, etc.)

Highly recommend the switch.

mttyng··on Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
I watched those lectures in the early stages of my degree and, to confirm what you've stated, they helped me gain a more concrete understanding of the fundamentals of calculus. Highly recommended! Thanks for sharing.
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