This weekend I started to reactivate my #YouTube channel #Flutter Explained again. Currently, the children are big enough that allows me to get going again a bit more on that topic.

But this time some things should change, for example I want to earn some money this time... Even tough €10-€ 30 / month is nice, it will not keep me long time over water. That is why I started first with "income streams"

Therefore, I set up three things that I actually did not know before.

1. A https://cal.com/ site where people can book my expertise.
2. I created a newsletter with https://app.kit.com
3. There is a site called https://passionfroot.com/ which allows sponsors to get in contact with me.
4. These things are set up and linked in my homepage https://flutter-explained.dev.

Because I only have 4–6 hours per week for the channel and my side hustle I have to make sure that I do not give up, ... again. Therefore, my next step is to prepare at least 4 videos in advance that will be released biweekly, to make sure I actually want that and can do it long term instead of again "failing" delivering regularly.

Wish me luck 😉 and I keep you posted if it was a success or not.

#work #freelance #code #programming #flutter

When playing Helldiver's or Broforce I always thought America would bring democracy to each part of the universe by using force.

I never thought they would have to bring it into their own country.

My repository of the year 2026

https://github.com/skridlevsky/openchaos

Highly recommended if you search a tad #chaos in your life. Also, very entertaining 😉

#code #knowledge #wisdom #chaos #creative #oss #opensource

Yesterday I got sick and had some time to play on my Linux Desktop. After a while, I missed seeing the BTC price at first glance, so I decided to create a GNOME extension for it.

It has the following features:

* Set an alarm for prices
* Switch between EUR and USD
* Color indication if prices rise or drop
* Different visualization modes, only price, price with increase and price with percentage

I learned again a lot, and it made a lot of fun! But as always from a "small side adventure" it escalated to a full day journey with CI / CD, organizing the code made sure that it is available on GNOME extensions website.

And as always as an engineer I found today that there are already a couple of extensions it similarly, and I could just use one of them 😅 . Anyway now we have a new open source solution, if you are interested checkout:

https://codeberg.org/md-weber/btc-ticker-extension

I had some fun with web development and created a small nostr CV site where I can grep the events that are related to professional achievements of that account.

Not sure what features I would like to implement, but I like the idea of a nostr CV. The best part is I learned quite a lot about the nostr protocol and how it actually works under the hood.

Currently, my idea is that you enter a npub public key, and it shows for the relevant person (1), badges (58, 30008), articles (30023) and acknowledgments (1984/122). What would you like to see on a site like this?



#nostr #professional #badges #learning #oss

84 hours of internet outage in #Iran, ...

It is just crazy how hard it is to get your freedom back.

I have family in Iran, I really hope they are well 😟. No information since 12 hours is quite crazy.

I recommended them @bitchat but I guess they were too late to download it. Let's hope that something will change to the better and the country can maybe flourish.

It's crazy how hard it is in Germany to get 50 € of SATs without KyC. You rely on decentralized platforms and transfer money and you need some pre capital.

Very weird that no coiners make it so hard to get even the smallest amount of BTC.

I am now officially a 'real' programmer using n im for my coding and yesterday I had the revelation when it felt the first time as productive as Vscode when not a tad bit more productive.

It is crazy how steep the learning curve is but the benefit of the same env. on my two MacBooks, the Gaming rig, the home server, my wife's laptop, my daughter's laptop and at work is just fantastic 😍

What is your favorite #nvim trick?

Last day of parental leave... Let's see what crazy stuff happened in the last 6 months at work.