Artur Paikin

Built @uppy_io, living off grid on a house boat. Into interactive fiction, indie web, Linux, vintage tech, blogging and podcasting.

[Artur Paikin @arturi]

Updated my homepage https://t.co/j0j4LLsknu, amber BBS-style, with a text-adventure twist, what do you think?

[Alexander Zaytsev @nqst]

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.

[Artur Paikin @arturi]

@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 😂

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

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.

[Artur Paikin @arturi]

@kozlovzxc Ну а если комп больше для игр, очень стоит рассмотреть https://t.co/aBmljrJ98Y. Его хвалят, в том числе, в этом любопытном опусе https://t.co/30NSnjT4oZ

[Artur Paikin @arturi]

@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.

[Sergey Kaplich @sergey_kaplich]

Hey all!
I'm looking for a job that combines my engineering and marketing skills.

Check out the details and send to HR → https://t.co/nrHWuyCUp1

[@[email protected] @sitnikcode]

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.

[Artur Paikin @arturi]

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.

[dax @thdxr]

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

[Artur Paikin @arturi]

@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!

[Artur Paikin @arturi]

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

[Artur Paikin @arturi]

@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.

[Artur Paikin @arturi]

@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.

[Artur Paikin @arturi]

@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.

[Artur Paikin @arturi]

My idea of a true friendship!

[Вастрики @vas3k]

Мы все тут ругаем Германию, и конечно же за дело

Но, кажется, с годами, я сам стал тем самым German Friend из мема. У меня даже тележка есть, нужные инструменты в любое время суток и бус

А еще я тоже решаю любую проблему через волшебное слово ah soooooo

[Artur Paikin @arturi]

@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.

[Artur Paikin @arturi]

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.

[Artur Paikin @arturi]

@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.

[Sergey Kaplich @sergey_kaplich]

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

💥