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Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

123 points by foxes 7y ago

For a break from some of the more negative content recently, let's hear what you have succeeded at.

tohieungoi 7y ago
If your father rich, you too =))
pickle-wizard 7y ago
Last weekend I set a deadlift personal best of 405lbs. I am pretty happy as I was stuck at 385 for the longest time. My next goal is to drop 45 lbs and get to a deadlift of 500, so that I can lift twice my weight.
chasd00 7y ago
1. My 9 year old is on track for his first ever straight A report card. 2. My wife rejoined the workforce after being a stay-at-home mom and feels supported. 3. I survived yet another Dallas, Texas Summer
langitbiru 7y ago
This year I finally found a flexible and comfortable job. I work only 25 hours per week (more or less). The income does not make me super rich (like FAANG engineers) but I live comfortably with the money. I consider this situation as my recent success because I have a lot of time to work on other things (research, moonshot projects, online businesses). I just published a book about blockchain this year. Last week I released an opensource blockchain project. Later I want to build an online educational business (something like pyimagesearch.com, egghead.io) but this time it is not about blockchain anymore. :) In the future (maybe 2 years later) I want to do some research on drone. Edited: Add more details.
- jamesb93 7y ago
  Is the work fulfilling?
  - langitbiru 7y ago
    Yes. It's about programming education. Low stress job.
    - pickle-wizard 7y ago
      A low stress job is so nice. For the first time in my career I have a low stress job. I feel like a totally different person. I big difference I've noticed is that I watch a lot less TV now. I used come home burned out and would just crash in front of the TV.
    - jamesb93 7y ago
      How did you go about finding a low stress position? I'm super interested in working just enough to live so I can actually enjoy my life.
      - langitbiru 7y ago
        By random luck. But of course, the skills that I have built for many years played a role too.
- foxes 7y ago
  Sounds wholesome, I think if you have good self motivation you can always do interesting things in your own time. Sometimes I feel like you have to make it a bit of a routine, but it pays off.
rglover 7y ago
Thank you for posting this! A recent success has been getting more video content out around my niche (developing a product): https://youtube.com/cleverbeagle https://youtube.com/cleverbeagle How about you OP?
- foxes 7y ago
  Recently, we understood some interesting mathematics and proved an interesting result. Also my running has picked up so I'm feeling really fit.
  - rglover 7y ago
    What sort of math? Academic/research or applied? Nice job on running :) Do you have a specific routine or goals you try to hit?
Dumblydorr 7y ago
Professionally, I won a poster award at a conference, mostly for my slick R ggplot visualizations analyzing delirium in elderly hospitalized patients. I've never won an award for my research or coding, so that was a joyful moment. Especially, given that 2 months earlier, I was crying under my desk on my 30th birthday due to work pressures and feeling totally lost trying to build huge datasets with SQL as a beginner. Personally, I was asked to join two different folk bands, playing piano and singing. To any classically trained musicians, I'd recommend trying folk, there are great opportunities for your trained technical skills and playing with others (rather than solo) has been very uplifting to my musical happiness.
- johnborkowski 7y ago
  Can you share a link to the visualizations? Edit: Also, congrats!
tyleo 7y ago
I’m trying to do 30 yoga classes this month. It’s not a success yet but I’m on track to hit the target. I set this one month fitness goal because I thought it would be immediately achievable and healthy.
- wallflower 7y ago
  Congrats! At the very least, you are or could be breaking even or better on the all-access monthly membership at your favorite yoga studio.
affyboi 7y ago
I recently published a paper (http://graphics.pixar.com/library/OrthogonalArraySampling2019/index.html http://graphics.pixar.com/library/OrthogonalArraySampling201...). I had some serious doubts when I was starting out, and it was a pretty tough endeavor. In the end, we made it! I got to present at EGSR which was really exciting too.
AwesomeFaic 7y ago
Hit 500 Instagram followers on a blog I manage tech & marketing for. Started last year. Aiming for 1000 by EOY.
nikivi 7y ago
Most recent success and one that is ongoing is my focus and actual following through on completing my 12 daily habits. https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing/habits https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing/habits It includes core things like sleeping for 8 hours, exercising, eating wholefood plant based diet, drinking water, tea, focusing on one task at a time and setting and following through goals. As for goals, I am genuinely in love with my Focus board I made a while back. Makes navigating life so much easier when you know where you want to go and can deconstruct the goals into actions. https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing Aside from all that I feel like the time I spent optimizing my workflow by learning great tools immensely valuable. I am now at the stage where I build my own tools to solve my own problems. And it feels great. There is still like 2 people out 7 billion that abuse Karabiner to the extent that I do. In some ways it's sad how so many people are missing out on its power. On the other it gives me great leverage. Just need to use it wisely. Another success has been writing in my journal openly for the last 2 years, every month. Been a huge mind cleanser. Here is most recent entry. https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/looking-back/2019/2019-august https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/looking-back/2019/2019-augus...
- mig4ng 7y ago
  Hi nikivi, Just a suggestion, but if you love creating your own tools and optimizing your workflow you might consider switching to linux with some tiling window manager and other improvements. To be honest this might be one of the reasons not many people abuse Karabiner. Cheers! Keep the good work but do not forget to rest as well!
  - nikivi 7y ago
    Would be hard for me to move as I rely on some software that is mac only for my productivity. I use Linux as deployment environment. Trying to find time to learn Nix & NixOS. :)
- __blockcipher__ 7y ago
  At the risk of being a bit off topic, it cracked me up that "DMT Breakthrough" is listed as one of your monthly goals. Since I'm already off topic, I've always found the binary "either I broke through or I didn't" notion to fall a bit flat. I've talked to friends who described a "breakthrough" experience that to me literally sounded like a very low strength DMT trip. And people have all these weird criteria like "oh if you saw beings it was a breakthrough". Anyway, despite disliking the arbitrarity of the term, speaking personally out of 30-40 trips I would describe about 2 of those experiences as a breakthrough. For me the biggest recurring motif is watching a new type of space being created in my mind's eye, composed of twisting/interlocking hyperdimensional fabric of sorts. Everything is made of these fibers. On another trip, I was "tapped" on the head by a floating orb that proceeded to direct my attention to a hypercube in which it felt like I could see what felt like an infinite number of lower-order spaces (but still >= 4D if I had to put a number on it). [/off topic rambling] To bring it back on topic, I find your 12 daily habits really inspiring and much more "focused" and actionable (yet still flexible) than some of the more "standard" list of habits I've come across. Thanks for sharing :)
willismichael 7y ago
I started a very niche open source pet project to scratch an itch (I'm a musician that uses Linux, and I wanted a decent Linux native hall-style reverb plugin). Somebody from halfway around the world jumped in and built a GUI for it. Now a small handful of people from around the world rave about how much they love it. https://github.com/michaelwillis/dragonfly-reverb https://github.com/michaelwillis/dragonfly-reverb
- BookPage 7y ago
  Cool project! I have a couple of questions: 1. Do you do your production in Linux? If so what hardware interfaces and DAW are you finding works for you? 2. Did you have audio programming experience before starting this project? I really want to learn more about audio signal processing but am not sure where to start. Thanks!
  - CameronNemo 7y ago
    >hardware interfaces Most USB interfaces can do class compliant audio, you can thank the popularity of the ipad for that one. >DAW Libre: LMMS, Ardour Proprietary: Bitwig Studio, Harrison Mixbus
    - willismichael 7y ago
      Proprietary also includes REAPER now. It's not very expensive, and I know musicians that have done some very impressive stuff with it.
  - willismichael 7y ago
    1. I'm using a first-gen Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 and Ardour. 2. I didn't have any experience with DSP programming before this project. I mostly just wrapped an existing library, but I'm getting more comfortable with the idea of delving more into the algorithms now. If you're interested in trying something, a colleague and I are considering modernizing Rakarrack (an aging guitar effects bundle), you could jump in before we get started developing it. Here's our fledgling github repo: https://github.com/rkrv2/rkrv2 https://github.com/rkrv2/rkrv2 Edit: Also check out the forum at https://linuxmusicians.com https://linuxmusicians.com if you want to discuss Linux audio/music production.
neha_t 7y ago
Lots of past failures under the belt, but I just started tasting success today only! My simple word game "Word Hookup" is showing on the US app store's Today page, in the "5 New Games We Love" category. Until last week I had a handful of downloads, and the number is now increasing exponentially. Loving it :) https://www.wordhookup.com https://www.wordhookup.com
- cvaidya1986 7y ago
  Congratulations! :)
CryoLogic 7y ago
I launched https://www.anim8.io https://www.anim8.io earlier this year. It's an alternative to YouTube/Patreon for animators. It has better monetization options for them, and will have easier sorting/filtering of animations + I am working on some tools like in-browser frame editor. No advertising, all word of mouth and about 40k people are using it each month which is cool. Our Discord should hit 1,000 animators and fans soon too!
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zhdc1 7y ago
First user for an API I recently went live with. Pushed out an app today that makes it significantly easier to do a part of my job. Two academic papers in the pipeline.
- merlinsbrain 7y ago
  Are you in school or publishing while in the industry? Always wondered how to do the latter without a PhD and working with a Big N in their research org.
dpflan 7y ago
I'm in Georgia Tech's OMSCS program: in my Knowledge-Based AI course, my final project that created an agent to solve Raven's Progressive Matrices performed in the top 10 of all submissions and hence earned bonus points for my overall grade (the performance boost was a surprise). > Coures Page: http://lucylabs.gatech.edu/kbai/summer-2019/ http://lucylabs.gatech.edu/kbai/summer-2019/ > Project Overview: http://lucylabs.gatech.edu/kbai/summer-2019/project-overview/ http://lucylabs.gatech.edu/kbai/summer-2019/project-overview... > RPMs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices
littleblah 7y ago
Thanks for asking this question :) Couple of them for me 1. Professionally: Moving to an awesome core tech team (chance to work with internals of a database) 2. Personally: Wrote a blog post which received very high attention here on HN... shameless plug (sorry): https://littleblah.com/post/2019-09-01-senior-engineer-checklist/ https://littleblah.com/post/2019-09-01-senior-engineer-check... 3. Health wise: Successfully used internmittent fasting to lose 8KG, and then maintain it for 9 months straight. 4. Finally, if all goes well, a baby on the way in our family!
- mav3rick 7y ago
  Congratulations ! Really motivating.
- ra7 7y ago
  That's fantastic! Did you have a background working with database internals before?
  - littleblah 7y ago
    A little, yes.
grumpy8 7y ago
Reached 2500 in overwatch, been hard stuck around 1900 for a few seasons
- wilsonnb3 7y ago
  I was going to post the same thing! Just peeked over 2500 on tanks last night, hoping to the same for DPS soon. I'm still down around 1900 on support, though.
  - sugarpile 7y ago
    Trying playing Moira -- she's broken right now. Highest I've ever been previously is just over 3k on tank and I'm sitting around 3300 right now just from playing Moira. Right click orbs only and use your ult on cooldown. Good luck!
aantix 7y ago
Getting https://baseline.red https://baseline.red up and running. A simpler, alternative APM for Rails apps.
fillskills 7y ago
Assembled a great team to work on Climate Change. Got lucky that most of them are friends and were super interested in the concept
- jlevers 7y ago
  What aspect of climate change are you focusing on, specifically?
chooseaname 7y ago
I intermittent fasted twice this week. Thanks for asking!
dshanahan 7y ago
I just passed 100 consecutive days of workouts! At least a one mile run or 20 minute Peloton ride every day. Lower impact days allow for 'active rest'. Was a tough start, too, with a calf sprain almost right away, on Day 5. Even managed to fit in workouts on international travel days!
- yjv 7y ago
  Congratulations. This is no easy feat. I have started and failed several times trying to work out regularly. It’s not easy to break the cycle of excuses. Any tips would you like to share ?
outime 7y ago
I finally found a somewhat cure for my long-time shoulder pain which also helped to develop costochondritis. After several medical tests and lots of hours invested into researching the problem myself (as doctors just provided NSAIDs and PT didn't help much) I was able to be almost pain free after such long time. Physical illnesses, even if only mildly disabling, do affect your day-to-day mood very negatively.
- stevenmays 7y ago
  What'd you do? The only thing that seems to help me is hanging on a pullup bar for intervals of a minute or so. A hang a day keeps the pain away. =)
  - outime 7y ago
    Dead hangs are great but unfortunately I can't have such setup at my current location. It didn't offer any lasting fix either. What worked for me best was: - Myofascial release of pec minor/major with theracane (generic one bought in a well-known chinese webshop). - Doorway stretches. - A physical device that's rock-shaped on which you lay down and safely stretches the sternum/ribs area. - I avoid smartphone use whenever possible, and try to use the mouse with the left hand (or no mouse at all if possible). I might be forgetting something but that's more or less what helped me. It's sometimes challenging to find where you need to work on since many times treating the location where the pain is originating may not be the real source. For example: pec minor may be totally tight, which causes pain when breathing in the shoulder blades/sternum/ribs, you go to the PT and PT massages for example the shoulder blades but in reality that'll do nothing since it's just the end of the chain. But on a positive note, you get to learn a lot about anatomy :)
    - wallflower 7y ago
      +100 for doorway stretches and the wisdom that what hurts in our lower extremities may be because of the start of the chain (shoulders, back). Thanks for sharing this with those who may not have yet come to this important realization.
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kriscius 7y ago
I found a job 8)
godelmachine 7y ago
Got promoted to Senior Engineer. Made Support Lead of an important assignment, leading a team of 7 Engineers. If anyone would like to advise me on how to be a good Support Lead, I am eager to hear and act. PS - Support Lead is also Operations Lead
- wallflower 7y ago
  Congrats! I always regurgitate this article for those who want to become excellent Lead/Senior. https://allarsblog.com/2018/03/16/confessions-of-an-unreal-engine-4-engineering-firefighter/ https://allarsblog.com/2018/03/16/confessions-of-an-unreal-e...
  - godelmachine 7y ago
    Thanks. Will go through it and follow in letter and spirit.
murph-almighty 7y ago
1) After a string of tricky life events (death of a relative, breakup of a serious relationship), I moved out of my family home closer to work. 2) I managed to pay off my college debt to external services (I still owe money to my parents, but it's interest free) 3) I got promoted to a senior level at work, got rotated to a different team, and put on a high visibility project. 4) I started doing improv comedy on the side! It was something I'd flirted with in college but didn't really take `seriously` Not everything is perfect, and I have some bad days, but my life between the start of this year and now has drastically changed and in a lot of ways for the better.
enobrev 7y ago
Nights and Weekends: Ran "smurf-tube" conduit from my attic to my basement and built a network cabinet out of 2x4s on casters. This one is ongoing. Day: Got our static map server (mapnik-based) to generate x/y/z tiles properly so we can use it with leaflet.js for interactive maps.
froindt 7y ago
YTD I've reduced the time required for a monthly reporting process by over 16 hours by making better work instructions and automation enhancements. It's still quite manual, but not as much as it used to be. While I only found the article recently, I naturally ended up in a similar work flow to this great article on incremental improvement. https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3197520 https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3197520 It's not all beautiful - I had a lot of hiccups along the way, but I can probably get another 5-10 hour/month reduction by the end of the year. I can use that newfound time for literally anything else!
NortySpock 7y ago
Finally shipped a game project that I'd been working on for fun, last week. My son did the graphics. It was a lot of fun learning JavaScript quirks as well as some game-relevant design patterns like a staticly allocated array for particle effects. https://nortyspock.github.io/Viktor/ https://nortyspock.github.io/Viktor/
rblion 7y ago
Cut out drinking, weed, meat, sugar, processed foods. Wake up every day around 5am and dive into deep work. Got rid of my iPhone and replaced it with a flip phone. Deactivated Facebook, barely check Instagram anymore. Dropped about 25 pounds without working out much, feel great. Eliminated anyone who is parasitic towards me, saved a lot of energy and time. Scaled my agency/consultancy without any marketing, just referrals and word-of-mouth. Collected a TB of nature/wildlife photos from my travels, written a lot of posts for a blog I am launching soon that covers a range of topics from minimalism, plant-based lifestyle, deep work, web development, UX design, creative service, entheogens, dhyana. Mapped out an UX and schema for a platform that I will submit to YC. If rejected, try crowdfunding. Consolidated my life goals and bucket list down a lot after realizing a lot of things lately. I have never felt more whole, grounded, centered, focused, organized, stable before. :)
- manglav 7y ago
  Congratulations! What was your framework for prioritizing which changes to tacke first, and implementing these changes?
  - rblion 7y ago
    Thanks! Honestly, I just realized that life is short and most people go to their death beds without realizing their full potential because they are occupied with social concerns. Many people drop the quality of their life by living an unhealthy lifestyle that is disconnected from nature. This all really set in for me after my grandmother, who I was very close to, passed away in December after having a stroke in November. I helped take care of her because she took care of me when I was a boy. Also, my 43-year-old cousin passed away from ovarian cancer in July. Got news of a kid I met only once being murdered during a robbery, he was only 24. These realizations are put into practice with each breath, thought, word, and deed with the Eightfold Path that Buddha laid out 2,500 years ago. It's as relevant today as it was back then.
    - shhshahassa 7y ago
      Yet you have time to brag on hacker news haha
stillbourne 7y ago
Learning DDD
Eyght 7y ago
Work: I just completed a big project, moving platform and host for one of our e-commerce stores, without messing up. I consider this a major win because I had to do everything on my own, from re-building the old system on the new framework to converting all the data. Self: I just completed my third year of walking 7 miles every day. I feel strong, sleep well and I'm way more productive both at home and at work.
- bigmit37 7y ago
  How long does it take you to walk 7 miles? Walking threadmill?
hnruss 7y ago
My wife and I recently paid off all of our credit cards and started saving up for a house. We started trying to pay off our credit cards about 4 years ago, so it feels like a big accomplishment.
- chasd00 7y ago
  it's a huge accomplishment, congratulations
TheAceOfHearts 7y ago
I've succeeded in improving my health through diet and exercise. A few months back I started weight training and I've managed to build enough discipline to become someone who works out regularly. My longer-term goal is to try and exercise at least 15 minutes every day, because currently I can only manage between 4 to 6 days out of a week. The number of health benefits I've experienced already is so crazy that I feel incredibly foolish for having waited so long to start doing this. My dietary changes have been gradual and they generally feel sustainable. At the beginning of this year I was overweight and today I'm a normal weight. I never would've imagined this of myself, but I've learned to love salads and have started eating them regularly.
jmstfv 7y ago
After many months of working on a product, I finally managed to (soft) launch it a few days ago. It definitely took way longer and turned out to be way harder than I expected it to be (it usually does). Surprisingly, I really enjoyed working on the static site side of things even though it is dead simple: just good ol' HTML and CSS. No frameworks, no complicated builds, no third party trackers, and almost no JS. As a result, I managed to bring down the page load time to less than 500 ms (3kb when gzipped). https://tryhexadecimal.com https://tryhexadecimal.com
garysahota93 7y ago
I'm a first time entrepreneur and am officially launching our closed beta next week! Super excited about that! :)
non-entity 7y ago
I accepted an offer today, it's a bit lower than I hoped for, but it will still help me with some financial hardships
ryanklee 7y ago
Self-taught, second profession, 38-years old, after just 1.5 years into my SWE career, lots of hard, deliberate work in an uncharted CI/CD space, and I've landed a role as a Site Reliability Engineer for a major player in the health insurance data domain. 105k base salary, typical benefits package, in a medium-COL US region. This puts me well-ahead of what I thought were already pretty aggressive goals I had set for myself. The team I'm going to be working with looks like an excellent group of people, pleasant, hard-working, with an engineering-oriented mindset. I'll be working with a great set of technologies/infrastructure, applying interesting, useful techniques, and at a non-trivial scale. I'm pretty excited to be doing what I'm doing and making good money doing it. Big change from 2 years ago, where I was not excited to be doing what I was doing, and making not great money doing it. Quit drinking. Go to the gym. It can work wonders.
- fyfy18 7y ago
  Out of interest, what were you doing before and why did you switch?
  - ryanklee 7y ago
    I was freelance copywriter. I decided to switch because the dynamics of the market for writers are brutal, and I didn't have the passion for it. I switched to software engineering because there was I good strong likelihood I have a knack for it (turns out I do), that I was going to really enjoy it (turns out I love it deeply), and that there's good money in it (confirmed). It was a calculated decision, though not a difficult one, and maybe the best I've made in my life so far.
pgug 7y ago
I finished my masters degree. I had never thought it would happen, I was so sure I would be kicked out or commit suicide before I got to the point where I would actually finish. But I did it, I now have a degree.
tweetious 7y ago
quit smoking
photonios 7y ago
- Bought a place with a garden close to the city center (Europe). - Proposed to my girlfriend. Getting married next year. Not my success, but my future wife's; She got a job as head of QC for a large company. Life is pretty sweet right now :-)
contingencies 7y ago
Obtained industrial premises for a robotics business I conceived 4 years ago and began to invest in significant hardware for insourced manufacturing and further acceleration of future R&D. Received unprompted, personal email regarding direct corporate investment from billionaire investor chairing multibillion conglomerate. Initial hires (and one fire) toward daily operations management delegation.
akg_67 7y ago
I passed N3 level of Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT). Whole life I have been doing mostly technical and engineering work, even hobbies and side interests were mostly technical-oriented. I would never have imagined to pick up another spoken language to learn. I am enjoying the process of language learning though sometime struggle with it. Even wife has been surprised how seriously I have taken to learning Japanese. The only drawback is that I haven't done anything technology related for a while.
- wallflower 7y ago
  Congratulations! As the Spanish saying goes: los idiomas se aprenden en la cuna o en la cama ("languages are learned either in the cradle or in bed"). I can only imagine it has made your relationship stronger. > The only drawback is that I haven't done anything technology related for a while. While the vast majority of technology content is in English, consider seeking out to read/listen or even starting a podcast, blog, meetup in Japanese around your technology interests.
bleeeeghh 7y ago
My daughter :)
hanamizuki 7y ago
Using old-school SWOT analysis to make my team understand our situation and strategy, then using strategy map to make our goal really clear, then using OKR to implement the plan.
wallflower 7y ago
I quit a few Slacks by removing them from my mobile devices. I never use the Desktop Electron app. None of them were work related, and I was a fairly active participant in all of them. They served as a virtual water cooler for fast-food type human interaction for times when I did not leave the house. Fast-food because it was no real substitute for real social interaction. I would banter with the best of them. This is something that I still dream of doing well in real life situations like parties but it is easy in a virtual medium for me. I would also share, read way too many, and regurgitate interesting articles that were of interest to the people there and get a dopamine hit if it was liked. After an initial one week period of really wanting to pop in to see what was “going on” and later to see “what I missed”, I don’t think I miss it. Yes, I may miss some very interesting intellectual and not so intellectual banter and even “under the radar” articles to post here, and I think the trade benefit of less distraction and more focus is well, well worth it. To generalize, if you say that X is a distraction to you, get X off your phone. It is much, much harder to be sucked in with the mobile web experience than with their mobile apps. For Slack, it was sufficient to remove them as “teams”, and I dislike their pushing of a frictionless (re)team add. I can manage that though, especially since my desire to “pop in” to those water cooler Slacks decreased exponentially.
jyu 7y ago
My lifestyle business is hitting its goals this year netting me much more than my previous job compensation last year. Consistently sleep 7.5 to 9 hours a night, which makes meditating at least 30 minutes more fruitful. Going mushroom foraging several times this month, which is a great excuse to go hiking outdoors. All these changes have reduced my day to day stress and anxiety levels dramatically.
- rosspackard 7y ago
  Would you share anything about your lifestyle business? What industry? How long you worked on it, etc?
  - jyu 7y ago
    The goings on with someone else's lifestyle business does not affect my own; nor does my business affect yours. I started about 2 years ago, it's the same stack I used at my job since customers don't care what stack you use as long as they get value from it. I have tried to start businesses of various kinds for several years with varying success. This is the first one that hit big and seems sustainable.
elamje 7y ago
I successfully quit my job without getting a new one lined up. I wanted to have an experience similar to the Recurse center, and focus on Rust and Clojure, however I also wanted to start a company, so I made my own version of Recurse and quit my job! I’ll keep HN posted with the details, but so far I’m making a lot of progress on the company’s tech!
csian 7y ago
nice.
nickmose 7y ago
Collect a group of people, practice English writing build a tech website: http://coderscat.com http://coderscat.com
adreamingsoul 7y ago
I finally shared a preview of a documentary short to a friend of mine who is a feature film director. I’ve been working on this project for a couple years now, and it’s my first project for the big screen. Their feedback was nice to hear, and I’m glad to have finally shown them my work.
drakonka 7y ago
Got my Swedish citizenship and managed to get my passport just in time to travel this week! Signed a contract for a first-hand apartment rental (relatively tough to get here, I got lucky). Partaking in a very interesting sponsorship program at work. Got promoted this year. Met an amazing person that I'm having fun exploring and experimenting with. Visited a new, interesting country twice and am about to visit another one soon. Maintained my workout routine. Maintained my intermittent fasting routine in a surprisingly easy and consistent way.

123 points by foxes 7y ago

For a break from some of the more negative content recently, let's hear what you have succeeded at.

tohieungoi 7y ago

If your father rich, you too =))

pickle-wizard 7y ago

Last weekend I set a deadlift personal best of 405lbs. I am pretty happy as I was stuck at 385 for the longest time. My next goal is to drop 45 lbs and get to a deadlift of 500, so that I can lift twice my weight.

chasd00 7y ago

1. My 9 year old is on track for his first ever straight A report card. 2. My wife rejoined the workforce after being a stay-at-home mom and feels supported. 3. I survived yet another Dallas, Texas Summer

langitbiru 7y ago

This year I finally found a flexible and comfortable job. I work only 25 hours per week (more or less). The income does not make me super rich (like FAANG engineers) but I live comfortably with the money. I consider this situation as my recent success because I have a lot of time to work on other things (research, moonshot projects, online businesses). I just published a book about blockchain this year. Last week I released an opensource blockchain project. Later I want to build an online educational business (something like pyimagesearch.com, egghead.io) but this time it is not about blockchain anymore. :) In the future (maybe 2 years later) I want to do some research on drone. Edited: Add more details.

jamesb93 7y ago
Is the work fulfilling?
- langitbiru 7y ago
  Yes. It's about programming education. Low stress job.
  - pickle-wizard 7y ago
    A low stress job is so nice. For the first time in my career I have a low stress job. I feel like a totally different person. I big difference I've noticed is that I watch a lot less TV now. I used come home burned out and would just crash in front of the TV.
  - jamesb93 7y ago
    How did you go about finding a low stress position? I'm super interested in working just enough to live so I can actually enjoy my life.
    - langitbiru 7y ago
      By random luck. But of course, the skills that I have built for many years played a role too.
foxes 7y ago
Sounds wholesome, I think if you have good self motivation you can always do interesting things in your own time. Sometimes I feel like you have to make it a bit of a routine, but it pays off.

rglover 7y ago

Thank you for posting this! A recent success has been getting more video content out around my niche (developing a product): https://youtube.com/cleverbeagle https://youtube.com/cleverbeagle How about you OP?

foxes 7y ago
Recently, we understood some interesting mathematics and proved an interesting result. Also my running has picked up so I'm feeling really fit.
- rglover 7y ago
  What sort of math? Academic/research or applied? Nice job on running :) Do you have a specific routine or goals you try to hit?

Dumblydorr 7y ago

Professionally, I won a poster award at a conference, mostly for my slick R ggplot visualizations analyzing delirium in elderly hospitalized patients. I've never won an award for my research or coding, so that was a joyful moment. Especially, given that 2 months earlier, I was crying under my desk on my 30th birthday due to work pressures and feeling totally lost trying to build huge datasets with SQL as a beginner. Personally, I was asked to join two different folk bands, playing piano and singing. To any classically trained musicians, I'd recommend trying folk, there are great opportunities for your trained technical skills and playing with others (rather than solo) has been very uplifting to my musical happiness.

johnborkowski 7y ago
Can you share a link to the visualizations? Edit: Also, congrats!

tyleo 7y ago

I’m trying to do 30 yoga classes this month. It’s not a success yet but I’m on track to hit the target. I set this one month fitness goal because I thought it would be immediately achievable and healthy.

wallflower 7y ago
Congrats! At the very least, you are or could be breaking even or better on the all-access monthly membership at your favorite yoga studio.

affyboi 7y ago

I recently published a paper (http://graphics.pixar.com/library/OrthogonalArraySampling2019/index.html http://graphics.pixar.com/library/OrthogonalArraySampling201...). I had some serious doubts when I was starting out, and it was a pretty tough endeavor. In the end, we made it! I got to present at EGSR which was really exciting too.

AwesomeFaic 7y ago

Hit 500 Instagram followers on a blog I manage tech & marketing for. Started last year. Aiming for 1000 by EOY.

nikivi 7y ago

Most recent success and one that is ongoing is my focus and actual following through on completing my 12 daily habits. https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing/habits https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing/habits It includes core things like sleeping for 8 hours, exercising, eating wholefood plant based diet, drinking water, tea, focusing on one task at a time and setting and following through goals. As for goals, I am genuinely in love with my Focus board I made a while back. Makes navigating life so much easier when you know where you want to go and can deconstruct the goals into actions. https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing Aside from all that I feel like the time I spent optimizing my workflow by learning great tools immensely valuable. I am now at the stage where I build my own tools to solve my own problems. And it feels great. There is still like 2 people out 7 billion that abuse Karabiner to the extent that I do. In some ways it's sad how so many people are missing out on its power. On the other it gives me great leverage. Just need to use it wisely. Another success has been writing in my journal openly for the last 2 years, every month. Been a huge mind cleanser. Here is most recent entry. https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/looking-back/2019/2019-august https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/looking-back/2019/2019-augus...

mig4ng 7y ago
Hi nikivi, Just a suggestion, but if you love creating your own tools and optimizing your workflow you might consider switching to linux with some tiling window manager and other improvements. To be honest this might be one of the reasons not many people abuse Karabiner. Cheers! Keep the good work but do not forget to rest as well!
- nikivi 7y ago
  Would be hard for me to move as I rely on some software that is mac only for my productivity. I use Linux as deployment environment. Trying to find time to learn Nix & NixOS. :)
__blockcipher__ 7y ago
At the risk of being a bit off topic, it cracked me up that "DMT Breakthrough" is listed as one of your monthly goals. Since I'm already off topic, I've always found the binary "either I broke through or I didn't" notion to fall a bit flat. I've talked to friends who described a "breakthrough" experience that to me literally sounded like a very low strength DMT trip. And people have all these weird criteria like "oh if you saw beings it was a breakthrough". Anyway, despite disliking the arbitrarity of the term, speaking personally out of 30-40 trips I would describe about 2 of those experiences as a breakthrough. For me the biggest recurring motif is watching a new type of space being created in my mind's eye, composed of twisting/interlocking hyperdimensional fabric of sorts. Everything is made of these fibers. On another trip, I was "tapped" on the head by a floating orb that proceeded to direct my attention to a hypercube in which it felt like I could see what felt like an infinite number of lower-order spaces (but still >= 4D if I had to put a number on it). [/off topic rambling] To bring it back on topic, I find your 12 daily habits really inspiring and much more "focused" and actionable (yet still flexible) than some of the more "standard" list of habits I've come across. Thanks for sharing :)

willismichael 7y ago

I started a very niche open source pet project to scratch an itch (I'm a musician that uses Linux, and I wanted a decent Linux native hall-style reverb plugin). Somebody from halfway around the world jumped in and built a GUI for it. Now a small handful of people from around the world rave about how much they love it. https://github.com/michaelwillis/dragonfly-reverb https://github.com/michaelwillis/dragonfly-reverb

BookPage 7y ago
Cool project! I have a couple of questions: 1. Do you do your production in Linux? If so what hardware interfaces and DAW are you finding works for you? 2. Did you have audio programming experience before starting this project? I really want to learn more about audio signal processing but am not sure where to start. Thanks!
- CameronNemo 7y ago
  >hardware interfaces Most USB interfaces can do class compliant audio, you can thank the popularity of the ipad for that one. >DAW Libre: LMMS, Ardour Proprietary: Bitwig Studio, Harrison Mixbus
  - willismichael 7y ago
    Proprietary also includes REAPER now. It's not very expensive, and I know musicians that have done some very impressive stuff with it.
- willismichael 7y ago
  1. I'm using a first-gen Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 and Ardour. 2. I didn't have any experience with DSP programming before this project. I mostly just wrapped an existing library, but I'm getting more comfortable with the idea of delving more into the algorithms now. If you're interested in trying something, a colleague and I are considering modernizing Rakarrack (an aging guitar effects bundle), you could jump in before we get started developing it. Here's our fledgling github repo: https://github.com/rkrv2/rkrv2 https://github.com/rkrv2/rkrv2 Edit: Also check out the forum at https://linuxmusicians.com https://linuxmusicians.com if you want to discuss Linux audio/music production.

neha_t 7y ago

Lots of past failures under the belt, but I just started tasting success today only! My simple word game "Word Hookup" is showing on the US app store's Today page, in the "5 New Games We Love" category. Until last week I had a handful of downloads, and the number is now increasing exponentially. Loving it :) https://www.wordhookup.com https://www.wordhookup.com

cvaidya1986 7y ago
Congratulations! :)

CryoLogic 7y ago

I launched https://www.anim8.io https://www.anim8.io earlier this year. It's an alternative to YouTube/Patreon for animators. It has better monetization options for them, and will have easier sorting/filtering of animations + I am working on some tools like in-browser frame editor. No advertising, all word of mouth and about 40k people are using it each month which is cool. Our Discord should hit 1,000 animators and fans soon too!

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zhdc1 7y ago

First user for an API I recently went live with. Pushed out an app today that makes it significantly easier to do a part of my job. Two academic papers in the pipeline.

merlinsbrain 7y ago
Are you in school or publishing while in the industry? Always wondered how to do the latter without a PhD and working with a Big N in their research org.

dpflan 7y ago

I'm in Georgia Tech's OMSCS program: in my Knowledge-Based AI course, my final project that created an agent to solve Raven's Progressive Matrices performed in the top 10 of all submissions and hence earned bonus points for my overall grade (the performance boost was a surprise). > Coures Page: http://lucylabs.gatech.edu/kbai/summer-2019/ http://lucylabs.gatech.edu/kbai/summer-2019/ > Project Overview: http://lucylabs.gatech.edu/kbai/summer-2019/project-overview/ http://lucylabs.gatech.edu/kbai/summer-2019/project-overview... > RPMs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices

littleblah 7y ago

Thanks for asking this question :) Couple of them for me 1. Professionally: Moving to an awesome core tech team (chance to work with internals of a database) 2. Personally: Wrote a blog post which received very high attention here on HN... shameless plug (sorry): https://littleblah.com/post/2019-09-01-senior-engineer-checklist/ https://littleblah.com/post/2019-09-01-senior-engineer-check... 3. Health wise: Successfully used internmittent fasting to lose 8KG, and then maintain it for 9 months straight. 4. Finally, if all goes well, a baby on the way in our family!

mav3rick 7y ago
Congratulations ! Really motivating.
ra7 7y ago
That's fantastic! Did you have a background working with database internals before?
- littleblah 7y ago
  A little, yes.

grumpy8 7y ago

Reached 2500 in overwatch, been hard stuck around 1900 for a few seasons

wilsonnb3 7y ago
I was going to post the same thing! Just peeked over 2500 on tanks last night, hoping to the same for DPS soon. I'm still down around 1900 on support, though.
- sugarpile 7y ago
  Trying playing Moira -- she's broken right now. Highest I've ever been previously is just over 3k on tank and I'm sitting around 3300 right now just from playing Moira. Right click orbs only and use your ult on cooldown. Good luck!

aantix 7y ago

Getting https://baseline.red https://baseline.red up and running. A simpler, alternative APM for Rails apps.

fillskills 7y ago

Assembled a great team to work on Climate Change. Got lucky that most of them are friends and were super interested in the concept

jlevers 7y ago
What aspect of climate change are you focusing on, specifically?

chooseaname 7y ago

I intermittent fasted twice this week. Thanks for asking!

dshanahan 7y ago

I just passed 100 consecutive days of workouts! At least a one mile run or 20 minute Peloton ride every day. Lower impact days allow for 'active rest'. Was a tough start, too, with a calf sprain almost right away, on Day 5. Even managed to fit in workouts on international travel days!

yjv 7y ago
Congratulations. This is no easy feat. I have started and failed several times trying to work out regularly. It’s not easy to break the cycle of excuses. Any tips would you like to share ?

outime 7y ago

I finally found a somewhat cure for my long-time shoulder pain which also helped to develop costochondritis. After several medical tests and lots of hours invested into researching the problem myself (as doctors just provided NSAIDs and PT didn't help much) I was able to be almost pain free after such long time. Physical illnesses, even if only mildly disabling, do affect your day-to-day mood very negatively.

stevenmays 7y ago
What'd you do? The only thing that seems to help me is hanging on a pullup bar for intervals of a minute or so. A hang a day keeps the pain away. =)
- outime 7y ago
  Dead hangs are great but unfortunately I can't have such setup at my current location. It didn't offer any lasting fix either. What worked for me best was: - Myofascial release of pec minor/major with theracane (generic one bought in a well-known chinese webshop). - Doorway stretches. - A physical device that's rock-shaped on which you lay down and safely stretches the sternum/ribs area. - I avoid smartphone use whenever possible, and try to use the mouse with the left hand (or no mouse at all if possible). I might be forgetting something but that's more or less what helped me. It's sometimes challenging to find where you need to work on since many times treating the location where the pain is originating may not be the real source. For example: pec minor may be totally tight, which causes pain when breathing in the shoulder blades/sternum/ribs, you go to the PT and PT massages for example the shoulder blades but in reality that'll do nothing since it's just the end of the chain. But on a positive note, you get to learn a lot about anatomy :)
  - wallflower 7y ago
    +100 for doorway stretches and the wisdom that what hurts in our lower extremities may be because of the start of the chain (shoulders, back). Thanks for sharing this with those who may not have yet come to this important realization.
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kriscius 7y ago

I found a job 8)

godelmachine 7y ago

Got promoted to Senior Engineer. Made Support Lead of an important assignment, leading a team of 7 Engineers. If anyone would like to advise me on how to be a good Support Lead, I am eager to hear and act. PS - Support Lead is also Operations Lead

wallflower 7y ago
Congrats! I always regurgitate this article for those who want to become excellent Lead/Senior. https://allarsblog.com/2018/03/16/confessions-of-an-unreal-engine-4-engineering-firefighter/ https://allarsblog.com/2018/03/16/confessions-of-an-unreal-e...
- godelmachine 7y ago
  Thanks. Will go through it and follow in letter and spirit.

murph-almighty 7y ago

1) After a string of tricky life events (death of a relative, breakup of a serious relationship), I moved out of my family home closer to work. 2) I managed to pay off my college debt to external services (I still owe money to my parents, but it's interest free) 3) I got promoted to a senior level at work, got rotated to a different team, and put on a high visibility project. 4) I started doing improv comedy on the side! It was something I'd flirted with in college but didn't really take `seriously` Not everything is perfect, and I have some bad days, but my life between the start of this year and now has drastically changed and in a lot of ways for the better.

enobrev 7y ago

Nights and Weekends: Ran "smurf-tube" conduit from my attic to my basement and built a network cabinet out of 2x4s on casters. This one is ongoing. Day: Got our static map server (mapnik-based) to generate x/y/z tiles properly so we can use it with leaflet.js for interactive maps.

froindt 7y ago

YTD I've reduced the time required for a monthly reporting process by over 16 hours by making better work instructions and automation enhancements. It's still quite manual, but not as much as it used to be. While I only found the article recently, I naturally ended up in a similar work flow to this great article on incremental improvement. https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3197520 https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3197520 It's not all beautiful - I had a lot of hiccups along the way, but I can probably get another 5-10 hour/month reduction by the end of the year. I can use that newfound time for literally anything else!

NortySpock 7y ago

Finally shipped a game project that I'd been working on for fun, last week. My son did the graphics. It was a lot of fun learning JavaScript quirks as well as some game-relevant design patterns like a staticly allocated array for particle effects. https://nortyspock.github.io/Viktor/ https://nortyspock.github.io/Viktor/

rblion 7y ago

Cut out drinking, weed, meat, sugar, processed foods. Wake up every day around 5am and dive into deep work. Got rid of my iPhone and replaced it with a flip phone. Deactivated Facebook, barely check Instagram anymore. Dropped about 25 pounds without working out much, feel great. Eliminated anyone who is parasitic towards me, saved a lot of energy and time. Scaled my agency/consultancy without any marketing, just referrals and word-of-mouth. Collected a TB of nature/wildlife photos from my travels, written a lot of posts for a blog I am launching soon that covers a range of topics from minimalism, plant-based lifestyle, deep work, web development, UX design, creative service, entheogens, dhyana. Mapped out an UX and schema for a platform that I will submit to YC. If rejected, try crowdfunding. Consolidated my life goals and bucket list down a lot after realizing a lot of things lately. I have never felt more whole, grounded, centered, focused, organized, stable before. :)

manglav 7y ago
Congratulations! What was your framework for prioritizing which changes to tacke first, and implementing these changes?
- rblion 7y ago
  Thanks! Honestly, I just realized that life is short and most people go to their death beds without realizing their full potential because they are occupied with social concerns. Many people drop the quality of their life by living an unhealthy lifestyle that is disconnected from nature. This all really set in for me after my grandmother, who I was very close to, passed away in December after having a stroke in November. I helped take care of her because she took care of me when I was a boy. Also, my 43-year-old cousin passed away from ovarian cancer in July. Got news of a kid I met only once being murdered during a robbery, he was only 24. These realizations are put into practice with each breath, thought, word, and deed with the Eightfold Path that Buddha laid out 2,500 years ago. It's as relevant today as it was back then.
  - shhshahassa 7y ago
    Yet you have time to brag on hacker news haha

stillbourne 7y ago

Learning DDD

Eyght 7y ago

Work: I just completed a big project, moving platform and host for one of our e-commerce stores, without messing up. I consider this a major win because I had to do everything on my own, from re-building the old system on the new framework to converting all the data. Self: I just completed my third year of walking 7 miles every day. I feel strong, sleep well and I'm way more productive both at home and at work.

bigmit37 7y ago
How long does it take you to walk 7 miles? Walking threadmill?

hnruss 7y ago

My wife and I recently paid off all of our credit cards and started saving up for a house. We started trying to pay off our credit cards about 4 years ago, so it feels like a big accomplishment.

chasd00 7y ago
it's a huge accomplishment, congratulations

TheAceOfHearts 7y ago

I've succeeded in improving my health through diet and exercise. A few months back I started weight training and I've managed to build enough discipline to become someone who works out regularly. My longer-term goal is to try and exercise at least 15 minutes every day, because currently I can only manage between 4 to 6 days out of a week. The number of health benefits I've experienced already is so crazy that I feel incredibly foolish for having waited so long to start doing this. My dietary changes have been gradual and they generally feel sustainable. At the beginning of this year I was overweight and today I'm a normal weight. I never would've imagined this of myself, but I've learned to love salads and have started eating them regularly.

jmstfv 7y ago

After many months of working on a product, I finally managed to (soft) launch it a few days ago. It definitely took way longer and turned out to be way harder than I expected it to be (it usually does). Surprisingly, I really enjoyed working on the static site side of things even though it is dead simple: just good ol' HTML and CSS. No frameworks, no complicated builds, no third party trackers, and almost no JS. As a result, I managed to bring down the page load time to less than 500 ms (3kb when gzipped). https://tryhexadecimal.com https://tryhexadecimal.com

garysahota93 7y ago

I'm a first time entrepreneur and am officially launching our closed beta next week! Super excited about that! :)

non-entity 7y ago

I accepted an offer today, it's a bit lower than I hoped for, but it will still help me with some financial hardships

ryanklee 7y ago

Self-taught, second profession, 38-years old, after just 1.5 years into my SWE career, lots of hard, deliberate work in an uncharted CI/CD space, and I've landed a role as a Site Reliability Engineer for a major player in the health insurance data domain. 105k base salary, typical benefits package, in a medium-COL US region. This puts me well-ahead of what I thought were already pretty aggressive goals I had set for myself. The team I'm going to be working with looks like an excellent group of people, pleasant, hard-working, with an engineering-oriented mindset. I'll be working with a great set of technologies/infrastructure, applying interesting, useful techniques, and at a non-trivial scale. I'm pretty excited to be doing what I'm doing and making good money doing it. Big change from 2 years ago, where I was not excited to be doing what I was doing, and making not great money doing it. Quit drinking. Go to the gym. It can work wonders.

fyfy18 7y ago
Out of interest, what were you doing before and why did you switch?
- ryanklee 7y ago
  I was freelance copywriter. I decided to switch because the dynamics of the market for writers are brutal, and I didn't have the passion for it. I switched to software engineering because there was I good strong likelihood I have a knack for it (turns out I do), that I was going to really enjoy it (turns out I love it deeply), and that there's good money in it (confirmed). It was a calculated decision, though not a difficult one, and maybe the best I've made in my life so far.

pgug 7y ago

I finished my masters degree. I had never thought it would happen, I was so sure I would be kicked out or commit suicide before I got to the point where I would actually finish. But I did it, I now have a degree.

tweetious 7y ago

quit smoking

photonios 7y ago

- Bought a place with a garden close to the city center (Europe). - Proposed to my girlfriend. Getting married next year. Not my success, but my future wife's; She got a job as head of QC for a large company. Life is pretty sweet right now :-)

contingencies 7y ago

Obtained industrial premises for a robotics business I conceived 4 years ago and began to invest in significant hardware for insourced manufacturing and further acceleration of future R&D. Received unprompted, personal email regarding direct corporate investment from billionaire investor chairing multibillion conglomerate. Initial hires (and one fire) toward daily operations management delegation.

akg_67 7y ago

I passed N3 level of Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT). Whole life I have been doing mostly technical and engineering work, even hobbies and side interests were mostly technical-oriented. I would never have imagined to pick up another spoken language to learn. I am enjoying the process of language learning though sometime struggle with it. Even wife has been surprised how seriously I have taken to learning Japanese. The only drawback is that I haven't done anything technology related for a while.

wallflower 7y ago
Congratulations! As the Spanish saying goes: los idiomas se aprenden en la cuna o en la cama ("languages are learned either in the cradle or in bed"). I can only imagine it has made your relationship stronger. > The only drawback is that I haven't done anything technology related for a while. While the vast majority of technology content is in English, consider seeking out to read/listen or even starting a podcast, blog, meetup in Japanese around your technology interests.

bleeeeghh 7y ago

My daughter :)

hanamizuki 7y ago

Using old-school SWOT analysis to make my team understand our situation and strategy, then using strategy map to make our goal really clear, then using OKR to implement the plan.

wallflower 7y ago

I quit a few Slacks by removing them from my mobile devices. I never use the Desktop Electron app. None of them were work related, and I was a fairly active participant in all of them. They served as a virtual water cooler for fast-food type human interaction for times when I did not leave the house. Fast-food because it was no real substitute for real social interaction. I would banter with the best of them. This is something that I still dream of doing well in real life situations like parties but it is easy in a virtual medium for me. I would also share, read way too many, and regurgitate interesting articles that were of interest to the people there and get a dopamine hit if it was liked. After an initial one week period of really wanting to pop in to see what was “going on” and later to see “what I missed”, I don’t think I miss it. Yes, I may miss some very interesting intellectual and not so intellectual banter and even “under the radar” articles to post here, and I think the trade benefit of less distraction and more focus is well, well worth it. To generalize, if you say that X is a distraction to you, get X off your phone. It is much, much harder to be sucked in with the mobile web experience than with their mobile apps. For Slack, it was sufficient to remove them as “teams”, and I dislike their pushing of a frictionless (re)team add. I can manage that though, especially since my desire to “pop in” to those water cooler Slacks decreased exponentially.

jyu 7y ago

My lifestyle business is hitting its goals this year netting me much more than my previous job compensation last year. Consistently sleep 7.5 to 9 hours a night, which makes meditating at least 30 minutes more fruitful. Going mushroom foraging several times this month, which is a great excuse to go hiking outdoors. All these changes have reduced my day to day stress and anxiety levels dramatically.

rosspackard 7y ago
Would you share anything about your lifestyle business? What industry? How long you worked on it, etc?
- jyu 7y ago
  The goings on with someone else's lifestyle business does not affect my own; nor does my business affect yours. I started about 2 years ago, it's the same stack I used at my job since customers don't care what stack you use as long as they get value from it. I have tried to start businesses of various kinds for several years with varying success. This is the first one that hit big and seems sustainable.

elamje 7y ago

I successfully quit my job without getting a new one lined up. I wanted to have an experience similar to the Recurse center, and focus on Rust and Clojure, however I also wanted to start a company, so I made my own version of Recurse and quit my job! I’ll keep HN posted with the details, but so far I’m making a lot of progress on the company’s tech!

csian 7y ago

nice.

nickmose 7y ago

Collect a group of people, practice English writing build a tech website: http://coderscat.com http://coderscat.com

adreamingsoul 7y ago

I finally shared a preview of a documentary short to a friend of mine who is a feature film director. I’ve been working on this project for a couple years now, and it’s my first project for the big screen. Their feedback was nice to hear, and I’m glad to have finally shown them my work.

drakonka 7y ago

Got my Swedish citizenship and managed to get my passport just in time to travel this week! Signed a contract for a first-hand apartment rental (relatively tough to get here, I got lucky). Partaking in a very interesting sponsorship program at work. Got promoted this year. Met an amazing person that I'm having fun exploring and experimenting with. Visited a new, interesting country twice and am about to visit another one soon. Maintained my workout routine. Maintained my intermittent fasting routine in a surprisingly easy and consistent way.