'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' is probably the first book in a long time that reminded me why I used to enjoy reading. It's so intimate, so weird, so controversial, so cruel, and yet so honest. It's the author's try at psychoanalyzing himself which often fails or conceals details, and quite surprisingly there is nothing about love which is at last a fresh look at one's priorities. It's quite obvious how his direction of thought is never about affections, but about subordination to and of others while being so shy and educated. This was quite a read, and T.E. Lawrence seems one of the most interesting people I've read about To be honest the book has strong #AndOne's 'Men in Uniform' vibes #lawrenceofarabia #sevenpillarsofwisdom #bookreview #books #telawrence #literature #bookstr image
If there was an open source messaging app as great as Telegram I would immediately switch to it in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, open source apps often lack features that we all know and love in closed proprietary ones, so switching feels more like sacrificing convenience for a feeling of privacy #telegram #opensource
I wonder what people call some unnamed genres of stories. I've heard 'competence porn' for stories like 'The Bear', 'Generation Kill', etc, where characters do their job exceptionally well under stress even if they don't enjoy it or have personal problems, but it's barely googleable. There is also 'every individual scene is great, you can figure out the implied plot yourself' type of storytelling with 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly'. How do I even search for such stories??? I want more!
Here we go: a telegram bot to embed media #github #telegram #bot #telegram_bot #opensource
I just finished working on my first Telegram bot since yesterday. I had literally zero experience with Javascript, bots and serverless deployment, but it wasn't THAT bad. The thing is my friends and I constantly share posts from Reddit, Twitter, Bluesky, TikTok, etc, and it was pretty inconvenient to open browser/apps, considering half of them are blocked, and we have to turn VPN on every time. I knew about embed links (reddit... -> vxreddit...), but I keep forgetting them lmao. That's why I've written an inline bot which replaces a normal link with an embed one, so I don't have to think at all #telegram #javascript