Oleg Klim

- JavaScript
- (Front-end || full stack) development
- Data, web scraping
- Freelancing

Ukrainian living in the Philippines.
Taking new clients.

[Oleg Klim @scriptnomad]

I made my first YouTube video: https://t.co/UFwbnrrz6y
Should I make more? 😅
It felt really interesting to try this new hobby for the first time. And I already came up with a few things I would do differently and better

[Oleg Klim @scriptnomad]

This sucks, @Bitwage
Out of the blue, location is no longer good, though was good before. Request for further elaboration ghosted

[Oleg Klim @scriptnomad]

@aaron_clarey @PureBloodKiwi But the stupider someone is, the less reluctant to breed.

[Oleg Klim @scriptnomad]

Suffering does not come from the event. It comes from the meaning you attach to the event.

[Oleg Klim @scriptnomad]

It is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

[Fireship @fireship_dev]

PSA

Tomorrow, Dec 1, Google is removing accounts with 2 years of inactivity, including all photos, Drive files, and emails

Microsoft did the same thing to Hotmail and I lost all my emails from high school, still pissed about it

Physically backup data you care about

[Jordan O'Connor @jdnoc]

How to become an early riser (if you're a night owl):

Whenever I bring this up people often tell me:

"oh, but muh circadian rhythm"

lol. You realize you can do whatever you want, right?

The problem most people have is they don't have the discipline to go to sleep when they are tired, and wake up when they are tired.

They crave some end-of-the-day "me time" and don't want to use their time effectively.

The goal is to stop becoming a person who gives energy to the night, and become a person who gives energy to the day.

You're not going to be binging YouTube videos for unlimited hours waking up at 5AM.

You're going to actually use your time to do things that are good for you.

Here's what we're going to do:

- Gradually work back your sleep time and wake time until you reach your desired times.
- Establish a strong cut off point to get a better night's sleep.
- Create a wake-up routine that gets you out of bed before you can decide otherwise.
- Work hard during the day so you're actually tired at night.

So, the way to gradually move your bed time and wake time back is to take about a month and every 3-5 days move your wake time and sleep time back 15 minutes.

So, if you normally go to bed at 1AM and get up at 9AM, tonight, go to bed at 12:45 and get up at 8:45.

If you wanted to get up at 5AM comfortably eventually, then you would need to repeat this step ~11 times (bumping up in 15 minute increments every 3 days would take 33 days).

NOW. As I mentioned above. The problem is people do not have a cut off point. You need to establish a cut off point.

For me, I usually go to bed around 9:30 or 10, and wake at 5AM.

I'm "cutting off" at least by 9, if not 8:30. No more phone, no more watching, starting the bedtime routine.

If you're actually getting up at 5AM you will be tired by the time 9PM rolls around if you are giving energy to the day.

If you really crave distractions, then I recommend reading a physical book before bed with a very small book light (I usually don't make it more than 30 minutes before falling asleep). Or, write in a journal.

The main thing is no screens.

As for waking up - put your alarm clock somewhere you can't reach it from your bed, and make it as annoying as you possibly can.

If it's your phone, charge it across the room.

This makes it so you have to get out of bed to turn it off.

Next, you need some sort of "wake up" routine.

I like to make coffee first thing. I slowly warm up and wake up while it's brewing.

If you want a more rapid ascent, you can splash cold water in your face (or, just immediately jump in the shower). I don't usually immediately jump in the shower, mostly because I would normally work out in the morning, and it doesn't make sense to shower immediately if I'm going to get sweaty a few hours later.

During the day you need to be moving your body, and using your mind.

If you're currently a night owl, you might not realize it, but you're conserving energy during the day so that you can do stuff at night.

We're going to flip it.

Now, we're trying to expend as much energy as we can by 5PM, so that when the evening rolls around we're actually tired.

Working out in the morning instead of the evening helps with this.

And that's basically it!

To recap:

- Gradually work back your sleep time and wake time until you reach your desired times.
- Establish a strong cut off point to get a better night's sleep.
- Create a wake-up routine that gets you out of bed before you can decide otherwise.
- Work hard during the day so you're actually tired at night.

You can do it! Anyone can do it.

It just takes a bit of planning and some intention.

[Oleg Klim @scriptnomad]

@adrian_horning_ How about

const {apiToken} = req.body;

and handle the case if it's undefined?

[Joshua Voydik @joshuavoydik]

Some (re)realizations

- No matter your situation, good sleep makes life so much better. This is because you feel invincible when your body is firing on all cylinders.

- At the end of the day, we’re all just people. The IRS. The CEO. The person without a home. We’re all just people and no one knows what they’re doing.

- Happiness and love are choices. There are billionaires who are unhappy, there are poor people who are happy. Vice versa. Loving others is a choice. Loving yourself is a choice. Happiness doesn’t just happen. Choose wisely.

- Gratefulness is the most direct path to happiness.

- Having something to work on or a hobby makes life better—a project, a passionate career, a sport—just find those things and do them.

- Money comes, money goes. Money is great. Money sucks. Find ways to be yourself without money so that your identity isn’t threatened.

- You can’t be both curious and angry at the same time. Try it, doesn’t work. If you want to be a curious person, try turning the angry reaction into one of curiosity—question why this thing is a particular way. Why does this person believe this thing? Inspect the thing instead of defaulting to judgement.

- Simply getting 10,000 steps or more a day leads to significant weight loss and transforms the body for the better.

- People can change no matter their age.

- Cynicism is the root of hypocrisy. It’s easy to be cynical. Cynics will act hypocritical and excuse bad behavior by saying, “well everyone does it” and “the world is going to shit” which are entirely unhelpful and subjective claims. Don’t trust cynics.

- Skepticism is different than cynicism. Skepticism refuses to believe something because this other person or news source claims for it to be true.

- “DEI” sounds great on the surface but in reality it does more harm than good because if you disagree with DEI practices or claims, you’re automatically branded a bigot/racist/sexist/fill-in-the-blank. Absolutely ridiculous. Trust no organization or institution that doesn’t allow you to question. That’s anti-science. DEI should stand for Division, Exclusion, and Intimidation.

- The world mirrors your internal state. The flaws, the beauty, the good, the bad, the ugly. It’s all within you, without you.

- Nature and the universe have no position on the matter. They just are. You overlay your judgements and anthropomorphize things. That’s what being a human is.

- Stop being fooled by the media—their business model is fueled by advertisers and they don’t have your best interests in mind. They are don’t seek truth.

[Oleg Klim @scriptnomad]

@callmeeugenius @JanuBuilds @DVRichardson @Mbounge_ @pseudokid @DhairyaPurohit @YashGargTech @im__saadii @csaba_kissi @hamzaonX Thank you so much for the inclusion! Very kind @callmeeugenius ❤️

[Oleg Klim @scriptnomad]

@pwang_szn Spot on. And if you're making at least several times more than you're spending, it's quite possible to take breaks occasionally and savor what that life would be like. That way you know what you're working towards

[Oleg Klim @scriptnomad]

@adrian_horning_ Do you use browser automation for this? Or you managed somehow with API or html requests?

[Oleg Klim @scriptnomad]

@btsampson11 Happy if it's helpful! I'd start with an easy mode routine. Consistency over intensity. And try to engineer circumstances in such a way that you can get early positive feedback

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

This is correct and incorrect.

Female superheroes are indeed failing because they have no character arc, but they have no character arc because of PC culture.

Why?

Well, a character arc is some way in which a character grows or changes throughout the story. And, since superhero stories are generally expected to be, well, heroic, this usually means positive change.

For example, a hero might go from incompetent to competent, passive to active, or unlikable to likeable.

The problem here is, for any such arc to happen, the character has to start out as less competent, less active, less likable, less powerful, whatever.

A character cannot grow unless she has some deficiency to grow out of, or undeveloped area to grow into.

Now, Hollywood has no problem with doing this for male characters. It is bang alongside the idea of men sometimes being inadequate. In fact, lately it has been disinclined to show them as anything but.

However, the Hollywood community simply cannot bring itself to portray any woman as lacking in any way, even temporarily. Its female characters can do no wrong and may not ever fail, not even at the beginning for the film.

For a woman to learn a lesson implies there is something she does not already know. For her to gain a skill implies there is something she is not already good at. For her to overcome a threat implies there is something that can overpower her.

Because Hollywood cannot stand any of these ideas, it is now in the habit of hiring toxic female narcissists to play toxic female narcissists, then wondering why no one likes its characters and speculating, disingenuously, that the same generation which watched Aliens and Terminator over and over again has suddenly decided to hate female protagonists.

Of course, they don't believe that for a second. But they hope pretending to will help deflect criticism of their mediocre films.

[Oleg Klim @scriptnomad]

@pwang_szn Thank you for sharing Peter.
I heard good things about the author of the Einstein biography. He's done other biographies too, they say he's good

[Oleg Klim @scriptnomad]

@pwang_szn Read that Transurfing yet? It's the same stuff as "the Secret" movie. Author is Russian, I read it years ago. So it's been translated apparently. IDK your stance on the Secret, but just in case you think it's pseudoscience, "Transurfing" is more of the same

[Oleg Klim @scriptnomad]

@__JohnNosta__ February 30th is another valid option!

[Oleg Klim @scriptnomad]

Sorry for any political posts. It's not really why I'm here.

I blame the algorithm, it surfaces the stuff with most engagement, and it tends to be emotionally charged.

My plan of resistance: deliberately create lists of people to reply to, and not wander out of that gated space

[Oleg Klim @scriptnomad]

@triplebankshot Yeah, ChatGPT never misses out on a chance to lecture you for any misalignment with San Francisco dogmas, even in unrelated ways, when you ask innocuous things