maya - Science-Based Productivity Manager (Rust)
Do you need a real productivity manager?
This is not just another app that will repeat the same simplistic functions as always, but a true productivity manager. Align neuroscience concepts with technology and take it to the next level.
miyritsu - Self-hosting bot (Typescript)
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Languages
Rust
I first got interested in Rust after my brother recommended it to me. But I only started using it when I needed to refactor maya, which was originally a bunch of bash scripts. After I started reading Rust's amazing documentation and using its compiler, I discovered the language and fell in love with it. Today I use it for both server, API and CLI as well as frontend code. In all honesty, Rust is simply amazing.
Typescript/Javascript
Like a little grasshopper, I started using Javascript on the web and without typing. It was thanks to it that I developed my initial skills. Today I recognize that I have never worked with as much dirty code as I did in the beginning. But without spitting on the plate that I ate for ages, Javascript is incredible. The ecosystem is beautiful, the developers are incredible and the libraries are extremely useful. I just can't like it without typing, it feels strange to me.
I also learned to use several useful tools for the day-to-day life of the tired developer, such as Jest, Eslint, Prettier, typedoc and commitlint, they are the salvation for the unpredictability of Javascript.
Bash
Like any other obsessed Linux developer, I learned Bash. It was thanks to this wonder that I started to fall in love with automation, and that's where maya came from. Bash is the spice of Linux, tell me you don't use it and I'll spend a whole day laughing at you.
Tools / Libs / Frameworks
Biography
My name is Luna, better known by the nickname "Myna". I am currently 18 years old and I am a self-taught programmer. I come from a family of lawyers, judges and teachers, so although I have had some good influences, I have also had many difficulties due to the financial situation that Brazilian teachers face. One of the best influences I had from my family was the interest in learning, and the best of them was related to my father: computing.
I have been in contact with computers since I was four years old. I have always been fascinated by these incredible machines that simply do what we program them to do. In my late childhood, I had the dream of being that person who creates games, but I was embarrassed to say it — I didn't know that the profession of developer existed rs... —. So, for a while, I thought that I could only program after I went to college. At the beginning of 2020, I found my second passion: Physics. I read Einstein's story and he inspired me. That same year, I started learning HTML when I discovered w3schools, which was a milestone in my life. I discovered that I didn't depend on college, because the internet is my greatest weapon.
I went through many smiles, tears, problems, disappointments, difficulties and achievements in 2021 and 2022, but they weren't as relevant as what happened at the end of this second year. Furthermore, I started using the SuperProductivity task app, because since 2020 I had this need inside me to be productive, to be able to achieve my dreams, so that's when it all really started. On September 23, 2022, I made the biggest decision of my life, which affects me to this day — and believe me, it's the only decision in my life that I'm sure I didn't make and won't regret —. I dropped out of high school.
Don't get me wrong, I didn't abandon knowledge. My life is based on the idea that knowledge is power, I would spend the rest of my life without the things that people love the most, but I wouldn't spend a day without learning. I left an environment that was bad for me, that never welcomed me and always caused me problems. I let go of the idea that you depend on someone holding your hand to walk the path of knowledge. I let go of the idea that I couldn't go it alone, that I would never be someone without college. And I was right.It was on April 30, 2023 that I had the luckiest day of my life, which marked 2023 as my golden year. And ironically, that was a painful day. I was feeling bad, sad and irrational, I made a rash decision to spend money that I couldn't afford on something I wasn't sure about. I signed up for a course called Reservatório de Dopamina. That's when I met my third love: neuroscience.The month before this event, I had started studying English on Duolingo, I was creating the greatest weapon of the human being, the habit. But I didn't know it yet, it was only after that day that I understood what I needed to do to achieve what I wanted. I used SuperProductivity to the limit of its possible use, and little by little I built habits that I still use today. That's when I understood my scientific nature. Not only did I learn about the scientific method and abstract its idea throughout my life, but I also felt the constant need to immortalize what I experienced. If we are just quantities of atoms making more atoms move in an orderly and specific way, why not immortalize this event?At the end of August of that same year, I started migrating my entire workflow to TaskWarrior. And that's when I discovered another love: automation. I started using Bash to automate the large number of tasks I had, since everything in my life existed in the form of tasks. Little by little, I created maya (formerly fypm) a software that I now maintain with the greatest care in the world.A little before that, I met incredible people on the Fhany Server (a Discord community that I managed after being a dev there). At the time, they asked me to create a bot to help them with automation. I knew nothing about creating bots, and I was very stuck in Javascript, and I had never managed a serious project before. It was with this bot, iFhany (currently is "miyritsu"), that I learned important lessons about software development. I improved my knowledge of Javascript and started using Typescript because of typing. I fell in love with the concept of strong typing and little by little I began to understand more about clean code and how to maintain code in the long term. In the midst of all this, I also watched several videos by Fábio Akita, because I wanted to apply the best advice I've ever received: "learn from the masters".
It was at the beginning of 2024 that some essential things changed. I started to really learn Rust. I had already been exposed to the language because of my brother, but I only started to want to master it with determination that year. I didn't expect it, but it was after I started using Rust that all my skills increased exponentially. It didn't matter if they were Linux skills, automation, frontend or peeling potatoes, everything improved. My way of thinking changed, and that's when I discovered the language that makes my eyes shine while I program.
At the same time, I had an insight that caused the reason why this is written here. I've always had a problem with shyness, since I was a child it affected me and still affects me. So I decided that 2024 would be the year I would focus on changing my mind about it. I worked really hard, I went from someone who couldn’t even DM a stranger, to someone who can talk to whoever I need, whenever I need to. Of course, I still have a lot of issues to work through related to this, but my confidence has increased exponentially. I can talk to people from abroad, even if I’m not proficient in the language. I make an effort to talk to people who are smarter than me and I’m always looking for knowledge and networking, it was thanks to all of this that this essential key turned on in my head.I went through a lot of ups and downs in 2024. If 2023 was my golden year, which dictated the old me and the new me, 2024 was the year of war. And now I’m looking for more. I have dreams, ambitions and countless things I want to achieve, my biggest goal in life is to live for the sake of knowledge. I want to get to a point where it doesn’t matter how much money I make, which country I visit or what achievements I have, as long as I’m continually learning. And that’s ironic, isn’t it? This wish comes from a person who dropped out of school.