Artur Paikin

Updated my homepage arturpaikin.com, amber BBS-style, with a text-adventure twist, what do you think?

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.

@nqst It might, windows is good with backwards-compat, but I have no data on the link safety. But my grandfather still uses WinXP, so I could steal it from his machine sometime 😂

@arturi Do you think it will run on Win11? And is the link safe? 🙈

Old Windows Sound Recorder was childhood magic for me. I had so much fun playing with speed changes and effects! I even recorded some silly sounds using earphones instead of a mic 😅 Wanted to show it to my daughter on her Windows 11 laptop, but found a completely different, overcomplicated and boring application... The old one was designed incredibly well.

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.

@kozlovzxc Ну а если комп больше для игр, очень стоит рассмотреть bazzite.gg. Его хвалят, в том числе, в этом любопытном опусе vas3k.club/post/29303/

Буду на выходных вот как раз переезжать на сборный компик как основной девайс, попробуем этот ваш омарчи, ну либо федору мб

Liquid ass не подвела

@andrey_sitnik @kozlovzxc Да, и opinionated дистрибутив звучит tempting, но когда одна из причин отходить от Эппл — это их безаппеляционное мнение «как надо», боюсь прийти в итоге к DHH, который расскажет мне, как правильно жить. И чего-то боюсь каждый день обновляющегося Arch, хватит мне npm.

@arturi @kozlovzxc Мне тоже Федора нравится, но Омарчи тоже топ. Особенно если освоить управление с клавиатуры.

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

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.

people mistake our focus on opensource for altruism no one on the team is that good a person products are good when the people who work on them also use them oss is a way to cover a lot of area your core team cannot

@arturi_ru 📣 Я думаю, выпуск достаточно крутой, чтобы попробовать поднять этот твит, а с ним и видео, наверх еще раз! Если посмотрели, поставьте лайк и оставьте комментарий на Ютубе, пожалуйста!

🎙 Новый выпуск «Артур по диалапу» — в гостях Денис Чужой @fe_city_boy: комик с 3 собаками, Steam Deck’ом и нулём тредов из Тбилиси. Берлин, стендап, Disco Elysium, Overcooked, тур по США, терапия и самоподдержка при тревоге. Лайк, ретвит, обнял! youtube.com/watch?v=YnbZTT…

@sergey_kaplich @aliszu How did you get that dock on Omarchy?

@aliszu 🙌🏻

what's your desktop wallpaper? i need an inspo..

@nqst @dhh @OmarchyLinux And yes, seeing Linux get some of the love from the community and designers as Mac OS has been enjoying for years makes me excited for its future. Always good to have options.

@nqst @dhh @OmarchyLinux Omarchy looks great and is amazing for devs and tinkerers, but a bit too geeky with tiling and keyboard-centric workflows. I really wish more people tried Fedora with Gnome too, it basically works out of the box.

Enthusiasm of @dhh is truly contagious, and I'd been really curious to try @OmarchyLinux. Luckily, we had an old MacBook where I could install it and give it a shot. I remembered my first time trying Linux ~20 years ago. It sounded promising, but some basic things didn't work at all. You could spend the whole day trying to fix them and still end up hitting a wall. But, for some reason, that was exciting! To dive into configs, to dig deep for a solution, and finally to find a fix. Now, I need an external keyboard just to boot the system. The internal speakers don't work. Ah, let's maybe try a Bluetooth speaker? It connects and even starts playing, but then it just rattles and wheezes. Won't watch that TV series tonight. But! I'm impressed by the novelty. The fast installation and pre-configuration are incredibly impressive. Built-in keyboard shortcuts to open apps and tiled windows are really, really exciting. I'm also looking forward to learning new things (looking at you, Neovim). It's also highly customizable. You can change (and break 😄) many more things than you can on macOS. Even better, now is the best time to contribute to a real OS with thousands of users — if you find something you're able to improve. I'm excited about the movement and looking forward to using Omarchy more, at least at home.

@sergey_kaplich Sorta. My Kindle is treated as though it has no Wi-Fi, it has never seen the Internet :-) I connect it with a cable and drop .mobi files or use Calibre to sync books and Instapaper articles. Less convenient, but also more intentional: I carefully choose what I put on it.

@arturi Tbh you look like a person who would de-amazon his kindle. have you done it?

Electronic and paper books When I started working in a publishing house, where I had to read AT LEAST five books a month, I realized there was no way I could do it by carrying paper books with me. After some experimenting, I settled on reading with my Kindle and iPhone. Later, when I left the publishing house but didn’t reduce the number of books I read each month, I still preferred Kindle over paper books. First of all, it’s so convenient when traveling or commuting. Besides, it’s much cheaper (I use Libby, so it’s basically free). And the latest Kindle is an amazing piece of hardware, perfect for reading at night, in the bath, or on the go. I still buy paper books sometimes when I want a physical copy of a favorite book or something with lots of pictures. But in all other cases, I always choose the e-format.

My idea of a true friendship!

@descript After posting this, Descript got back to me reporting that the issue is actually the Underlord (their AI) chocking on Russian transcript. They are working on a fix. See, it wasn’t Linux, it’s just easier to blame Linux than the Underlord.

@descript Hi! I did reach out to support with the link to the project, error id, user id and everything else. I tried the same project on Mac OS and Linux, with Chrome and your latest app.

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.

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 💥