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Ask HN: What are you learning?

• p2detar 7y ago
  I’ve started getting into Go. Looks good so far. Working on a side project, which is my best way to get into something new.
  • _____smurf_____ 7y ago
    what are your resources to learn the lang?
    • p2detar 7y ago
      I read “Effective Go”[0], but what really helps me is browsing through the sources of various Go projects and libs in Github. I also keep a tab of Go’s packages docs open [1]. And of course there’s StackOverflow. In general I prefer learning from source code rather than books. 0 - https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html 1 - https://golang.org/pkg/ https://golang.org/pkg/
      • _spoonman 7y ago
        I’m learning go, too. Check this resource out. https://quii.gitbook.io/learn-go-with-tests/ https://quii.gitbook.io/learn-go-with-tests/
    • pizza234 7y ago
      Although the question is not directed at me, I've found exercise websites to be extremely valuable. I value learning/gathering experience by reading code, but I find the hands-on approach more stimulating. My favourite resource right now is exercism.io. Although some tracks have too much of a high students/mentors ratio to be effective/practical in mentored mode (or to activate the mode at all), going through all the exercises (and community solution) is still a very effective way to learn a language (along with a textbook, of course). Codewars is another interesting idea, however, it's much more grounded on computer science, which is not very well suited to just learning a language.
    • wegymoo 7y ago
      I've been using this https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVEltXlEeWglGINo25GxVfvSSylLVg4r1 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVEltXlEeWglGINo25GxV... It seems like after the pandemic there will be a lot of new gophers
    • eu 7y ago
      Black Hat Go is a good one
  • codegeek 7y ago
    Checkout the work of Alex Edwards [0] and his book on Go [1]. Great guy and he even helped me with a consulting project. [0] https://alexedwards.net https://alexedwards.net [1] https://lets-go.alexedwards.net/ https://lets-go.alexedwards.net/
    • maxioatic 7y ago
      I bought his Let's Go book last week. Pretty good so far and if you're building a web app, I'll throw my recommendation in too.
• rangerranvir 7y ago
  Trying to learn Machine learning and writing about it. Latest post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22786374 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22786374
• wasi0013 7y ago
  Exploring Elixir & Phoenix. Solved some AOC & exercism problems with it, and wrote a BF compiler. So far, enjoying every bit of it. The language itself is beautiful! Codes are available on my Github[1] account :). [1] https://github.com/wasi0013/ https://github.com/wasi0013/
  • AlchemistCamp 7y ago
    What inspired the BF compiler project?
    • wasi0013 7y ago
      I thought it will be easy to implement and also a bit of nostalgia. I was a 2nd/3rd semester CS student at that time when I saw BF code for the first time on a Competitive programming platform named SPOJ[0]. Later, I found it again on a code golfing website[1]. I thought it would be fun to learn as the language only had 8 commands! I learned it and wrote a tutorial[2] on my native language for my best friend so that we could have some fun together with it :D [0] http://spoj.com/ http://spoj.com/ [1] http://golf.shinh.org/ http://golf.shinh.org/ [2] https://github.com/wasi0013/Bangla-Brainfuck-tutorial/blob/master/Bangla-Brainfuck-Tutorial.md https://github.com/wasi0013/Bangla-Brainfuck-tutorial/blob/m...
  • deathtrader666 7y ago
    What is "AOC"?
    • atulatul 7y ago
      maybe adventofcode?
      • wasi0013 7y ago
        Yes, I meant the Advent of Code.
  • rufius 7y ago
    I’ve been doing the same in fact. I’ve always had a soft spot for Erlang (and now Elixir). I wrote a pretty large Erlang app back in college for a distributed system in a Biology research project. I’ve been enjoying working with it - taking a little break but definitely enjoying Phoenix as well. It’s been refreshing to work through a “big” web framework that feels straightforward to reason about.
• zests 7y ago
  Computer networking. I’m reading through TCP/IP illustrated. Also learning about Linux. I used macOS for about a year and thought that I knew “Linux” but now I’m seeing how far the rabbit hole goes. I installed arch linux and am currently just customizing it and immersing myself in the community. Eventually I’ll pick up a systems or operating systems book.
  • BenjiWiebe 7y ago
    For playing with both networking and Linux, you should really look into dn42. It's pretty much an internet sandbox.
• rodolphoarruda 7y ago
  Infosec history. I'm just entered the PC era, so things tend to be more interesting from now on.
  • CalRobert 7y ago
    Is this purely technical or including the stories, people and politics around it as well?
• 38932ur98u 7y ago
  Ukulele/music theory and spanish
• tomxor 7y ago
  ... Don't laugh: C I learnt programming mainly through various scripting languages, some of which had some relatively simple visual output available, which I personally found invaluable for learning and visualizing. I realized that better visual output was the main thing holding me back from doing more in C since there are so many options, often complex, involving much boilerplate. So my mini project is essentially exploring the simplest, most minimal possible ways of drawing pixels on the screen in Linux. So far tried fbdev (but doesn't work well with X), now playing with XCB.
  • DizzyDoo 7y ago
    Out of interest, why would people laugh at someone learning C? I know plenty of people using C in all manner of domains, choosing it over C++ or Rust for fair and sensible reasons - I'm not a C person myself, but it certainly seems extremely useful to have in the toolkit!
    • shrimp_emoji 7y ago
      >choosing it over C++ or Rust for fair and sensible reasons I don't think such reasons exist. I don't think C/C++ should be used when superior alternatives exist (Rust). It's like smoking; you're just hurting yourself. Unless you're being like the programming equivalent of a steam engine enthusiast or a historian. (In a world where most of the industry is still using steam engines cuz we're in too deep and must ride the inertial tide for at least a few decades.)
      • wyck 7y ago
        whoosh..
      • tomnj 7y ago
        There are plenty of reasons to still learn C even if better alternatives exist for most new projects. There’s so much important software out there in C (and C++), for example the Linux kernel.
• OzzyB 7y ago
  Flutter -- and I'm in love -- it's like being a Flash developer/designer from 2006 all over again :)
  • kirubakaran 7y ago
    So, soon to be obsolete, abandoned by s/Adobe/Google/g? :-p Just kidding, I'm building the mobile client for https://histre.com/ https://histre.com/ in Flutter and I love it. Google, please don't kill it yet.
    • OzzyB 7y ago
      Ha! Let's hope not, in fact let's pray that it becomes the de facto standard for Android dev :D
      • StrauXX 7y ago
        How much "better"/different is flutter compared to native Android development in your experience? I am currently being forced to do learn native Android development with Java and hate every second of it.
        • blululu 7y ago
          This is more a matter of taste than anything else. Compared to the Java I would say it's much cleaner (Personally I don't care for Java). Compared to Kotlin, it is more different. Flutter uses a declarative programming model so it is conceptually very different in terms of how you think about an application. There are a lot of nice things about this model for basic applications, but things get complicated for certain applications (AR/3d for instance). Also it is also open sourced (BSD) so the fear of Google dropping it is not as grave as the company's proprietary 1p product offerings.
        • OzzyB 7y ago
          Ok, let me try: - The tooling is excellent -- you can get a basic app running without much fuss; use VScode and the right plugins are you're golden. - It's "Widgets All The Way Down" -- just wrap your widgets (objects) to add functionality/positioning/etc (it might seem like you're in "nesting hell" but it's actually quite intuitive and you don't need to manage tons of separate Components across tons of files which is nice). - The layout engine is actually well thought out -- it might take a while to get used to it (it's not like CSS there are no negative margins for example) but once you do it's intuitive and easy to get layouts built fast. Remember everything is a Widget and that's ok, from your app root object to your button. - It has the best parts of React -- Flutter's "setState" works much in the same way and only updates Widgets which need to etc. - It's a "game engine built for mobile dev"; you hear this statement a lot and it's really what makes it's powerful. It renders super fast and animations/tweens/etc are easy to implement allowing you to design UI elements the way you want (hence my Flash comparison lol). - At some point you will need to manage state, save yourself the search and just settle w/ BLOC, again there's plugins to help with the boilerplate, i.e. code-generation (which is also a thing and actually helpful). - The package/ecosystem (pub.dev) is pretty young but the core stuff you'll need is all there. The main packages I've settled on are: Moor (sqlite), Bloc (state), Chooper (Api client) and JsonSerializer. UI packages are pretty hit-miss but you'll probably just write your own anyway. - The SDK has tons of prebuilt Widgets that are actually useful and cover most of what you need to make a modern UI, and yes you can make a "native" Android/iOS UI look and feel if you want. I recommend watching the Flutter's Youtube channel series "Widget of the Week". - Dart is a fine language, I love the way it's implemented async/await for example, should be no problem picking up if you have Javascript/Java experience. The great benefit is that it's only being used by Flutter so there's a nice symbiosis between the two with a strong focus on making a language geared towards interactive/ui/frontend work. - No Android XML! Hope that helps some xD
• AndreasBackx 7y ago
  I'm currently trying to get into game development and Rust so I'm trying out Amethyst: https://book.amethyst.rs/master/ https://book.amethyst.rs/master/. I wanted to follow along with a roguelike game tutorial for Rust, but there was a problem. I would love to make some games that you can play co-op with some friends as I feel like there aren't enough games like it out there.
  • AlchemistCamp 7y ago
    Nice! I just did a simple roguelike in Rust a few months ago. I somewhat regret not looking at what it would take to make is work with wasm from the beginning, though.
    • AndreasBackx 7y ago
      Did you happen to use this? https://bfnightly.bracketproductions.com/rustbook/ https://bfnightly.bracketproductions.com/rustbook/ If not, what did you use?
      • AlchemistCamp 7y ago
        I learned from this tutorial, which is a bit simpler: https://tomassedovic.github.io/roguelike-tutorial/ https://tomassedovic.github.io/roguelike-tutorial/ I have been wanting to go through the tutorial you shared when I get the time, though!
• melenaboija 7y ago
  Trying to improve some of my intuition in linear algebra, more specifically in matrix decomposition and SVD. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-065-matrix-methods-in-data-analysis-signal-processing-and-machine-learning-spring-2018/video-lectures/lecture-6-singular-value-decomposition-svd/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-065-matrix-method...
  • rassibassi 7y ago
    Had similar intentions half a year ago, it really clicked for me after watching the linear dynamical systems lecture by Boyd. How rank of a matrix, matrix norm and singular values relate was an eye opener. Thereafter it was easy to connect singular values and the stability/robustness of a system intuitively. Great teacher, I can only recommend :) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL06960BA52D0DB32B https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL06960BA52D0DB32B
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• mr_puzzled 7y ago
  I want to learn how to build a phone, maybe something like the pine64 and librem phones. I'm a web dev so it's..challenging. How do I learn to: * understand the hardware components required in a phone? * understand the software components required? postmarketos and plasma mobile maybe? * How do I even start to build a prototype? What components would I use? Maybe start with using a raspberry pi to make a DIY phone? I know this is an open ended question, so any pointers would be appreciated.
  • mettamage 7y ago
    If you really have no clue about anything, then I might be able to help a tiny bit. Get basic hardware knowledge by doing nand2tetris [1]. It's about building a computer from the transistor up, all the way until you create your own tetris game. The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware (manufacturing hardware in Shenzen) [2] This guy shows a cool couple of YouTube videos on hacking iPhones in Shenzen [3]. Hacking as in exploring and tweaking, not as in breaking in. [1] https://www.nand2tetris.org/ https://www.nand2tetris.org/ [2] https://www.amazon.com/Hardware-Hacker-Adventures-Making-Breaking-ebook/dp/B06XDHKV94 https://www.amazon.com/Hardware-Hacker-Adventures-Making-Bre... [3] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO8DQrSp5yEP937qNqTooOw/videos?view=0&sort=p&flow=grid https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO8DQrSp5yEP937qNqTooOw/vid...
    • sloaken 7y ago
      Thanks, I have ordered the book and plan to start the nand2tetris. I really loved the way the guy explained the HDL. Very clear, I look forward to learning it and doing a lot with it.
• REALiSTiC 7y ago
  Systems Thinking, mainly through reading Russell Ackoff's books. The Art of Problem Solving is good, Turning Learning Right Side Up is eye-opening (and definitely one of my favorite books lately) and currently reading Redesigning Society. Highly recommended.
  • phatle 7y ago
    I'm reading this subject too. Thinking in Systems: A Primer is also a good book. Highly recommended.
    • REALiSTiC 7y ago
      I started it couple of months ago, but couldn't get past the first few chapters. It was too dry for my taste. Even though she's a brilliant scientist (I'd recommend checking her classic The Limit to Growth), it seemed like the earlier resources about the topic are much better explained rather than the newer stuff.
  • raleighm 7y ago
    I recommend Systemantics also. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics
• nukeu666 7y ago
  German, should lower the barrier to emigrate
  • CalRobert 7y ago
    From where are you emigrating? It's not Germany, but if you happen to be from the US the Dutch American Friendship Treaty is worth a look. Relatively attainable bar, especially for people in tech.
    • nukeu666 7y ago
      India, most migrations happen through intra-company transfers but that's not going to happen in a small startup where I work right now
• naikus 7y ago
  Sketching on paper. There is a great free resource for learning how to sketch. https://drawabox.com/ https://drawabox.com/
  • brujo696 7y ago
    Eternal love to drawabox
  • tmaly 7y ago
    wow this looks good. I will have to try this with my daughter. Thank you for sharing.
  • sh87 7y ago
    Had never heard of drawabox. Loved their description[0]. Resonated so deeply with me. > Drawabox's goal is to provide beginners with a strong foundation, and to equip them with the things a lot of other courses and tutorials tend to take for granted. > It is not going to make you a professional on its own, but it will teach you how to practice, how to use the resources available to you on the internet, and equip you with the tools and skills you need to take advantage of them [0]:https://drawabox.com/lesson/0/1/whatis https://drawabox.com/lesson/0/1/whatis
• withinboredom 7y ago
  I've been trying to build real systems with Microsoft's Durable Functions. I've been utterly fascinated by the patterns that have emerged on some of them.
  • w3mmpp 7y ago
    What are those patterns? I've used Azure functions a lot but never had (I think) a use case for durable ones.
    • withinboredom 7y ago
      I’ve come up with the following: Watchdog Pattern: A orchestration needs to succeed. A watchdog entity checks up on it to make sure that failures are reported and dealt with appropriately (ie, refunding a payment if it fails catastrophically) Circuit Breakers: Polly has their own implementation, but I found it easy enough to implement my own (don’t recommend in production, just use Polly) No database: it’s a bit slow to get things done, but it’s amazing to create entities that don’t need to store state in a database. Paired with the watch dog pattern or preloading, you can have entities running “in memory” which may be faster than a dB lookup or the data could be projected to a db for analysis. I’ve been exploring this most recently. Aggregate entities: these just count things, or store references to important entities that they count. This works amazingly well instead of COUNT DISTINCT queries.
• krat0sprakhar 7y ago
  I built an expense tracker app using Flutter a while ago that I've been using for a year. It has really helped me in understanding where my money is going. To build it quick, it uses Google Sheets as a backend and BigQuery for running sql queries over the data. While everything works, it's quite slow so I'm looking at building the API server with rust warp and sqlite to store all transactions.
  • saha26 7y ago
    How easy are you using flutter to use so far? I have been thinking about learning about flutter for a long time, but still unsure about how much support is there in terms of 3rd party libraries, and whether that can hinder development at some point.
• StrauXX 7y ago
  Clojure! I played around with common lisp a bit a some months ago, though I basically used none of the lisp specific features like macros. After reading a few blog posts on functional programming and "the lisp way" I have decided to buy a book on Clojure. My end goal (for now) is to build a basic website with a backend.
  • gotts 7y ago
    Try out https://github.com/fulcrologic/fulcro-template https://github.com/fulcrologic/fulcro-template full stack Clojure web app template powered by Fulcro.
    • iimblack 7y ago
      Fulcro is huge and might be a lot if you're just starting to learn Clojure too. IMO Luminus is a pretty nice option that lets you start simple and add more complicated pieces as you require.
  • heatmiser 7y ago
    what book are you working through?
• manish_gill 7y ago
  Graph Algorithms and Distributed Systems
• inetsee 7y ago
  I've been meaning to try and learn Lojban for quite a while. Now that almost all of my distractions are shut down for the forseeable future, maybe I'll be able to make some progress. I have acquired copies of "English Through Pictures" by I. A. Richards, and I thought I'd do something similar, only for Lojban. If I do make significant progress with that, maybe I'll post it somewhere.
• my_green_book 7y ago
  I am learning how to write. After seeing a few people with blog, I realize the importance of writing. It makes you think clearer and understand a subject deeper.
  • input_sh 7y ago
    Honestly, there's not much to learn there, you just need regular exercise to become better and better at it. May I suggest setting yourself a fixed schedule (let's say, one article published every two weeks or so) and sticking through it? Your initial articles will probably suck, but you'll gradually improve in the upcoming months.
  • awinter-py 7y ago
    here's how I got started writing: 1. take notes on a topic that has continuing relevance for you (like, you're learning something over a few days or weeks) 2. wait for your project to hit a milestone or for your notes to hit a critical mass 3. reorder your notes into sections, discard bad ones, and flesh them out with text 4. pick the best line, that's your title 5. print it out and leave it under your pillow 6. edit the next day 7. publish
• lugermorph 7y ago
  how to make fonts :)
  • rassibassi 7y ago
    Friend of mine created a parameterised font for his master thesis. We hooked it up to a face expression sentiment analyser (pre trained DNN). It works in the browser with your webcam, better to use a laptop or pc :) http://facetype3000.herokuapp.com/ http://facetype3000.herokuapp.com/
• snarfy 7y ago
  Synthesizers and modular synths.
  • whitehouse3 7y ago
    I bought Omnisphere and a 25-key MIDI controller yesterday. I wanted for years to learn digital music production, but didn’t because I was busy. This quarantine gave me the chance to dedicate real time to it.
    • arvinsim 7y ago
      Any reason why you chose Omnisphere in particular?
      • whitehouse3 7y ago
        I like those "Watch me make a beat" videos on YouTube. And the ones I enjoyed the most used Omnisphere for strings/pads.
    • snarfy 7y ago
      What production software are you trying? I bought a seinberg audio interface that came with cubase ai, so I've been playing with that. Cubase has come a long way - I remember when it was new software. Even before Cubase I remember playing with trackers like fast tracker 2, so I also bought a copy of Renoise. If you are a programmer you might like making music with a tracker over a traditional DAW.
      • whitehouse3 7y ago
        I bought Reaper after using its unlimited free version for years. My background is voiceover and podcast recording and Reaper is good for that. I'm sure it has limits but I haven't reached them yet. It has a macro interface for scripting and many of their first-class plugins can bee configured with Javascript.
• mettamage 7y ago
  I'm learning pentesting for fun. I'm mainly active on hackthebox.eu. I might get my OSCP one day, for fun as well. I do still think the certificate comes in handy despite the fact that I'm applying for web developer positions at the moment. I'm happy I'm learning this though, I'm already noticing that I develop differently, because the little I've learned about pentesting taught me that true cyber criminals are hungry to break into your systems, and they only need one shot, one small misconfiguration and they're in. Or at least, that's how it works on hackthebox ^^ I'm also doing some OSINT (open-source intelligence) by simply giving myself assignments. The assignments on hackthebox.eu were not all that great and OSINT is one of the few disciplines that you can do in the real world without permission, since it's all about accessing public data. I flip back and forth between the 2 disciplines. I don't know why it attracts me. It just does. I also notice that learning this stuff is completely different from programming. And to an extent it's one of the few ways that gives me the feeling that I'm "living and moving around" in cyberspace as opposed to "constructing" (i.e. programming) in cyberspace. I guess typing cd and ls on a lot of Linux and Windows practice boxes give that effect. And the cool thing is, you learn a lot quicker about all kinds of services. For example, I never knew about rsyslog, logger or the mqtt protocol (Linux boxes). I never knew about Kerberos, Active Directory and smb (Windows boxes). I'm happy I did some master courses in cyber security beforehand. While I'm really new to a lot of things, I've gained a lot of what psychologist call crystalized intelligence in this area. So it's all quite easy(ish) to understand. Things get harder when I have to reverse engineer binaries or debug in x64 assembly. It's still doable though.
  • eqqn 7y ago
    I am also learning pentesting, for the cert and to have some methodology in my job ( somewhere between devops/compliance/security). First week into PWK course, I used hackthebox and thecybermentor's practical pentesting course to build up confidence to attempt getting that long wanted OSCP title.
    • mettamage 7y ago
      Awesome! I've heard that OSCP is a lot more CVE based than hackthebox. It apparently also has a lot more rabbit holes compared to hackthebox. I haven't checked out thecybermentor yet, but a friend of mine has and he seemed to like it as well.
• mrwnmonm 7y ago
  Algorithms, wrote just one in the last two years and I know that I won't write many in the next job, but you know, you have to study it for the interview.
• timrichard 7y ago
  I'm learning Go from scratch. I dabbled four years ago, but not much has stuck from then. Also, Final Cut Pro which I've been meaning to do for some time. It's great fun.
• wreath 7y ago
  The mechanics behind the basic barbell movements (working on becoming a Strength Coach on the side). I'm about to order tools for leather work as well. I want to make a leather wallet and a sunglasses case.
• hackandtrip 7y ago
  Looking at some llvm code, in particular the clang's OpenMP implementation Getting familiar with OpenMP - MPI (are those used in real life?)
• ascendantlogic 7y ago
  I've been devops/infra for the last few years and my web dev skills have fallen into disrepair. So I'm doing a side project with Django REST API, Golang Job Runners and React SPA to bring myself back up to par.
  • mettamage 7y ago
    How would you describe the difference between working in devops vs working in web dev?
    • ascendantlogic 7y ago
      My days right now are full of Chef, Terraform, Bash, etc. The coding I am doing is usually scripts and utilities. It's more about glue and automation vs actual product/feature dev.
      • BenjiWiebe 7y ago
        That's the job I want.
• awinter-py 7y ago
  VR hand tracking SDK and am reading 50k word TOS (not sure 'learning' is the verb there but *)
• Lazze2k5 7y ago
  WebGL and animations, put together a NPM package to load GLTF files and show them with animations and materials. Quite tricky to get right but fun. Planning to use it for a game idea I have. https://github.com/larsjarlvik/webgl-gltf https://github.com/larsjarlvik/webgl-gltf Demo: https://larsjarlvik.github.io/?model=robot https://larsjarlvik.github.io/?model=robot
• tta 7y ago
  I’m reading the Raft paper: https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf
  • gsjbjt 7y ago
    Implementing it is the fun part! You might like going through the Raft lab in MIT's distributed systems course: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/labs/lab-raft.html https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/labs/lab-raft.html + Jon Gjengset's writeup on some of the "gotcha"s: https://thesquareplanet.com/blog/students-guide-to-raft/ https://thesquareplanet.com/blog/students-guide-to-raft/
    • fmonteiro 7y ago
      Nice, I didn't know that course and I noticed that I can follow along the course, the classes are recorded. Do you think it's something worth investing to someone interested in distributed systems? The only downside is that I can't have my lab exercises validated.
      • gsjbjt 7y ago
        Yeah, it's an excellent course. That is typically the unfortunate downside of self-studying courses, but AFAIK the tests aren't that sophisticated - you can mostly test it yourself just by running the test suite over and over again, making sure that it _really_ works 100% of the time and not just 98% of the time (given the nondeterministic nature of distributed systems failures). This is basically what students would do before submitting their labs, and most people got a full score if they ran it enough times :P
    • tta 7y ago
      This is great, thank you!
• abdullahkhalids 7y ago
  Trying to learn quantum machine learning. I am currently a physics professor, but considering moving to industry.
• codegeek 7y ago
  A bootstrapped SAAS founder who sucks at Marketing. So I have decided to invest time learning everything about Marketing and Digital Marketing. From the ground up. Btw on that note, has anyone heard of Demand Curve which teaches Marketing courses ? I like some of their stuff online and thinking about taking their Premium Course.
  • jlbnjmn 7y ago
    I do in-house marketing and digital marketing. What challenges are you facing? (I don't have a course to sell you and my services are not available for hire.)
    • codegeek 7y ago
      Thx for asking. oo, where do I start ? I guess setting up an overall strategy before any actual tactical execution. We do close to 1M in revenue already and have inbound traffic already but I got to this point somehow without any real planning. We write a few blog posts, content etc, got social profiles where we post, were lucky to get a few great backlinks and have built some relationships with influencers in our industry. But what do we now ? I have no real strategy here. Should we run ads ? Where ? Why google and not linkedin or vice versa ?
      • 58x14 7y ago
        There’s two divergent approaches to learning, sometimes referred to as top-down or bottom-up. Top-down begins with broad context, such as the history of programming languages, the advent of objects and classes, and eventually zoom in to modern languages, syntax and functions. Bottom-up works inversely; maybe you’re given a Python sandbox, a hello world, and a cheat sheet. You explore what you can do and build on those low-level operators to create foundations that frame wider context. Effective learning is always a mix of both. Everyone learns somewhere on the spectrum, maybe bouncing around depending on motivation and experience. With respect to your goal of learning marketing, you’ve identified your path of study: strategy. And just like your SaaS product was created out of an understanding of functions and needs in a space, so too should your research explore the functions available to your business and how they’ll affect your pipeline. Simplified: you have a tool, and since you have revenue, you know people want it. Your goal is to find questions to ask and answer them, and use that feedback to make decisions regarding your marketing strategy. -What is my biggest source of traffic to my site? Where do they spend the most time? What causes them to click buy? How can I use these data to optimize my funnel? -What is my total marketing cost divided by the number of paying users (CPA)? What’s their expected lifetime value? What do other products in my space cost? -What do my customers and affiliates describe my product as? What problems disappear once they subscribe? How does this translate to value for decision makers? Do my enterprise sales represent 80% of MRR or 10%? Should I use multiple approaches to entities of different scale? The questions you’re asking are the right ones. And like any other field, they multiply and become more specific - but if you bear in mind the top-down goal (spend less, charge more) of a business, things will crystallize quickly.
• michaelanckaert 7y ago
  Common Lisp and Clojure!
• simonsarris 7y ago
  I've been clearing land all day and bought 50lbs of buckwheat. I intend to try sowing/harvesting by hand. I will use this mostly for breads and pastries. This is something of an experiment. Building skills, I'm almost finished a chicken coop. I made a dry stone arch bridge but it failed because the frame sank, I will try again. I am learning carving to make wooden animal toys for my child, who will be born in July (I have made a bear and a fox, soon an elephant, but they still need to be sanded). I would like to learn timber framing and make a small cabin on the land but it may be too expensive, now. I'm trying to make an animated village for my site background with HTML Canvas, and originally I was making it procedurally, but its too ugly, so I will have to learn some digital illustration until it's beautiful.
  • doctoboggan 7y ago
    You should look into Fabric.js, it makes working with an html canvas much easier, especially if you are animating it.
  • CalRobert 7y ago
    If you have any pictures available (especially of this bridge) I'd be curious to see. Are you tilling? Doing raised beds? We're planting a bit this year and dealing with weeds, etc. has been a hassle (also, most of the no-dig crowd seem to basically advocate using many tons of compost, which is great but not something you can assume a steady supply of)
    • simonsarris 7y ago
      There are lots of photos in this thread for the stone: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1234186085200207872?s=19p https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1234186085200207872?s... We're making semi raised beds up the hill: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1246544902193909769?s=19 https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1246544902193909769?s... With house compost and composted manure from a local farmer. The lower garden is mostly no till with added compost. We're not really sure what we're doing! So I can't really give advice. I usually document what I'm working on on Twitter as a micro blog
• oscbco 7y ago
  C++. I want to make Node.js addons
• davidwparker 7y ago
  1. Woodworking / carpentry. Making custom slide out shelves for our pantry. 2. Flutter. Love it. 3. Cooking (I know how to cook already, but want to level up)- via Masterclass and a few books.
• tuckerpo 7y ago
  I bought a used copy of the old dragon compiler book (written by Aho from Bell Labs and some others). Would like to take a crack at a C compiler.
• Balgair 7y ago
  Going through the Western cannon. Specifically the Syntopicon and a rejiggering of it. I've always thought the work was an absolute masterpiece, but utterly inaccessible and the holotype for the word jargon. So, I'm trying to write vignettes of the work, with characters that personify the 'great ideas' in the Syntopicon. Something like Godel, Escher, Bach. Hopefully, this personification will be more accessible and readable than a gigantic listing of page numbers and linking information. Thus far, yeah, just wrapping my head about the linking documents is tough, but there is a lot of 'meat' on the bones and turning ideas into people is surprisingly fun. I doubt I'll ever finish the project, but it's a great deep dive into the Western Cannon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_Wor...
• pankajdoharey 7y ago
  Machine Learning using fast.ai courses i would say they are really good and fast way for programmers to get onboard without going through all those boring statistics classes.
  • noobrunner 7y ago
    Have heard lot of good stuff about fast.ai courses. I am doing cs231n again. This time taking my time to understand the math and theory in much more detail
    • pankajdoharey 7y ago
      Nice suggestion i might try those once i finish fast.ai
• pknerd 7y ago
  Go and Rust.
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• tsuru 7y ago
  Projective Geometric Algebra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX4H_ctggYo&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX4H_ctggYo&feature=youtu.be
• KingFelix 7y ago
  Multiple ways to build a device that could simulate consciousness / the brain.
• ZeroClickOk 7y ago
  Blazor (https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor)
• ericax 7y ago
  World-building. After reading about storytelling, I realized that I'm as fascinated to a well-crafted world as good plots and characters. There's not much to read about, as a fiction world can contain as much detail as the real world. I'm spending time looking at the fiction worlds that I like and taking them apart. As an exercise, imagining places and races is also interesting. You'll be amazed by the amount of details required to fill the gaps in order to "see" something in your head.
  • bob90 7y ago
    If you speak French, there is a conference by one of Ubisoft's creative directors about the Might and Magic world building techniques and choices on the BNF's Fantasy podcast.
  • selfish-duck 7y ago
    Although you said there is not much literature around the subject, did you find anything? This has always been one of my favorite aspects of The Elder's Scrolls and, of course, Tolkien.
    • ericax 7y ago
      As a reference book, the Planet Construction Kit is good and comprehensive. Although reading reference books like this can be a bit dry, it helps you recognize the elements that an author makes up for his or her world when you see them.
    • NortySpock 7y ago
      Not literature, but a YouTube playlist. Edgar from Artefexian does short videos on realistic worldbuilding and constructed languages. https://youtu.be/J5xU-8Kb63Y https://youtu.be/J5xU-8Kb63Y How to build a classical solar system
  • iratewizard 7y ago
    You would probably have fun building a hard magic system. Hard magic being a system that has strict rules for how things work. Soft magic being Gandalf style where how it works and how it's limited is unknown.
• _spoonman 7y ago
  Golang! https://quii.gitbook.io/learn-go-with-tests/ https://quii.gitbook.io/learn-go-with-tests/
  • wegymoo 7y ago
    me too! If you haven't already I highly recommend gophercises https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVEltXlEeWglGINo25GxVfvSSylLVg4r1 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVEltXlEeWglGINo25GxV... lots of useable examples
• koeng 7y ago
  Prolog. I think that genetic logic can largely be expressed in Prolog to enable doing some crazy stuff that hasn’t been explored yet. It’s crazy to me that synthetic biology hasn’t really used logical programming yet for gene design.
  • biot 7y ago
    I’m fascinated by what this might look like. Have you written anything on this concept?
    • koeng 7y ago
      Not yet, I was in the middle of building a script to convert metacyc (https://metacyc.org/ https://metacyc.org/) to a Prolog database when COVID-19 hit - now I'm distracted figuring out the logistics of doing local production of diagnostic enzymes. I've written something for the biotech crowd (to get DNA synthesis from FreeGenes), so it uses some odd vernacular and definitely isn't perfect for tech crowd - no actual code implementing it yet, but has some useful historical context of how this lands in with everything else. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1odf8q7ir9NsS0zPvArEg0j0WepEAOGAATOkvQpZgW7s/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/document/d/1odf8q7ir9NsS0zPvArEg0j0W...
  • Twisol 7y ago
    Logic programming is badly underapplied in general, I think. Most of the amazing work in this area never seems to have gotten far out of academia (if at all) -- Prolog being the almost singular exception. Would be awesome to see some motivating examples for this application. It sounds really cool!
    • koeng 7y ago
      In synthetic biology, the application is super clear. Let's say we want to make cocaine (or related compounds) in yeast (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11588-w https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11588-w). Well, we know the biosynthetic pathway to get to that molecule (https://biocyc.org/META/new-image?type=PATHWAY&object=PWY-5843 https://biocyc.org/META/new-image?type=PATHWAY&object=PWY-58...), and we know the biosynthetic pathways in yeast that intersect with that pathway. In the tropane paper, they express 15 new genes and did 7 disruptions. There should be a way to declare "I want this end product" and a system knowledgeable about the proteins associated with the reactions necessary to get there should be able to fit the puzzle of "ok, if you express these proteins you get that end product, and if you knock down these genes in the organism it should increase your production". This generalized system should be applicable to nearly any biosynthetic pathway, and I think there is definitely a profitable niche at being good at that.
• chaboo 7y ago
  UI Design using Figma for my SaaS landing page
  • bluedevil2k 7y ago
    I would recommend just going to a site like themeforest.net and buying a theme you like. I did that, searched for “bootstrap 4” under their landing page, and quickly built a site that would look better than anything I could ever do.
• Havoc 7y ago
  HTML/React/JS. Amateur hour I know, but all my previous efforts have been compiled code not web
  • realthing 7y ago
    Web is compiled
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• linux_devil 7y ago
  Node JS
• PopeDotNinja 7y ago
  I'm writing an HTTP client + server in Elixir. I wanted to see if I could make all of the tests run in parallel using TLS. Working well so far!
• DavidSJ 7y ago
  Reading: The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by Keynes. Studying: The Molecular Biology of the Cell by Alberts et al and Advanced Macroeconomics by Romer.
  • viburnum 7y ago
    Geoff Mann wrote an excellent free guide to the GT. I had just finished reading Keynes when I came across it and reading it really made it “stick.” https://www.versobooks.com/books/2499-the-general-theory-of-employment-interest-and-money https://www.versobooks.com/books/2499-the-general-theory-of-...
    • jmeister 7y ago
      Thanks!
• conroy 7y ago
  SQL. I'm writing a compiler for SQL that parses DDL (CREATE TABLE, etc.) and queries and outputs type-safe Go. It currently supports PostgreSQL, but the plan is to support more engines and more output programming languages. https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc
• nicolashahn 7y ago
  Stanford's CS143 Compilers course: https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:StanfordOnline+SOE.YCSCS1+1T2020/course/ https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:StanfordOnline+SOE... I've always been interested in making things that make other things, and compilers definitely fall into that category. In the middle of the second assignment, the parser. It's a lot to consume, but I feel like the theory isn't particularly difficult, about half my learning has been getting to know the tools (so far: flex, bison). I've also spent an annoying amount of time on updating and configuring the VM, I guess that's a bonus lesson in Linux sysadmin-ing. It's also my first experience with C++, which seems useful to know. I also started this course on web security: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs253/ https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs253/. The first assignment was a lot of fun, the material is fresh, and it definitely seems like very useful information for anyone in the web stack. I'm also learning a bunch of new cooking recipes, but who isn't nowadays.
  • HanQi 7y ago
    Thanks for your recommendation !I am pretty interested in web security partly because I want to start my own start up in two years, and I want to make sure my customer's data is safe. I am also interested in compilers but just can't bear C++, so I plan to take this course :https://www.coursera.org/learn/nand2tetris2 https://www.coursera.org/learn/nand2tetris2. It doesn't limit languages you can use .So I plan to write the compiler by Racket(which can also sharpen my functional programming skill).
  • blintz 7y ago
    TA'd this class! It's a great intro, if a little dated. The best assignment, in my opinion, is the last (code generation). It's also the easiest to do independently, since you can just see if your compiled programs produce the same output as the ones compiled with the reference compiler. The class assignments are missing a more thorough look at optimization. Might have to rely more on the lectures for that.
• doctoboggan 7y ago
  I am learning Vue. I built a basic tool to help my wife track how much time she spends on Telehealth calls, you can see it here: https://telehealth-tracker.onrender.com https://telehealth-tracker.onrender.com She is a family medicine doctor and now virtually 100% of her time now doing phone calls instead of clinic visits. She wants to do a QI project and needed to be able to track the amount of time her and her colleagues spend on various parts of the Telehealth visit.
  • gtirloni 7y ago
    May I ask what resources did you use to learn it?
    • doctoboggan 7y ago
      I mostly just followed the tutorial on their website and read through their documentation.
• elil17 7y ago
  How to be happier! I'm taking "The Science of Wellbeing" on Coursera
  • fmonteiro 7y ago
    Same. Do you know where I can find notes on the course? I took some notes but I would like to have a summary of everything so I can remember it every once in a while. Amazing course btw.
• nfrankel 7y ago
  Upping my game on Big Data (and incidentally ML) in the Cloud with "Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals" (https://app.pluralsight.com/paths/skill/big-data-foundations https://app.pluralsight.com/paths/skill/big-data-foundations)
• wegymoo 7y ago
  I'm learning Go, git (and how to contribute to an opensource project/code with other people), also learning more about electricity and specifically the movements of ions. I have trouble finding resources on this though everything seems to be either really beginner level or way to high level for what I am looking for.
• avip 7y ago
  Gardening.
• mattlondon 7y ago
  Porting http://imrannazar.com/GameBoy-Emulation-in-JavaScript http://imrannazar.com/GameBoy-Emulation-in-JavaScript to Typescript as a way to learn about how to write an emulator, as well as taking advantage of newer JavaScript APIs (e.g. requestAnimationFrame, ArrayBuffer etc) that were not available when this series of articles was written in 2010. We had a gameboy as a kid, but the ZX Spectrum (also Z80 CPU-based) meant more to me so hope to take what I learn from the great articles from imrannazar.com and apply to writing a ZX Speccy emulator (the gameboy had dedicated-hardware for sprites etc so not everything will be transferable). Yes both gameboy & spectrum emulators in javascript have been done already, but this is just for personal learning/fun/itch-scratching. It has been quite instructive both from a remembering-fundamental-cs-classes/how-computers-really-work perspective, as well as modern javascript
• formalsystem 7y ago
  Video editing (Adobe Premiere Pro + After Effects) and Video streaming (OBS + Twitch). I figure it's gonna be a while before we get back to normal. People will continue to crave attention and video is a more scalable way to disseminate your knowledge vs traditional meetings or Zoom calls. I'm specifically looking at doing more analytical video game streams and educational Machine Learning content for the advanced n00bs. Who we view as charismatic will change quite a bit in the near future since we can endlessly edit and improve our message before we share it with others.
• jozi9 7y ago
  Decided to reverse my long-time TODO list and start from the bottom because I realised I'd never get there otherwise. It feels so good so I advise everyone to go and do the same. For me it looks like this, I'm working on a bootstrapped simple SaaS tool for devops (docker container monitoring): - Clojure so I'm learning FP and Lisp - Clojurescript/Reagent so I'm learning SPA/react - MongoDB so I'm learning NoSQL - Vim so I'm learning editing like a boss - SaaS so I'm learning marketing (SEO/Blogging to start with)
• aklemm 7y ago
  How to run as much Fediverse and and IndieWeb software as I can. I want to understand the entire scope of what is possible today for a fully personal federated cloud, homepage, and social network. Along the way I want to understand what holes there may be and what approaches could bring more people onboard. So far I’m having success and fun with Pleroma and Matrix.
• urxvtcd 7y ago
  I watched all but one of Lamport's videos on formal specification with TLA+, though I yet have to tackle some project with it. Right now I got my hands on Tufte's "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" as per some HNer recommendation (thank you!). Yeah, I lose interest quickly, eh. There's so much cool things to learn that in the end I learn nothing well. Bummer. edit: grammar, spelling
  • sp527 7y ago
    If you consider how knowledge decays, your strategy makes more sense. You get to something like Pareto proficiency in a subject and can then ‘reactivate’ that knowledge more easily in the future, should it be required. You are also of course aware of that knowledge in the first place, which may be even more important. In the timeless Rumsfeldian: you have pushed back a bit at the unknown unknowns. The alternative path of deeply learning something you may never apply (e.g. what happens to many PhDs) seems inherently less desirable, in my opinion.
  • tunesmith 7y ago
    I'm at about the same place with the TLA+ videos. I finished them a year ago and didn't feel like I could start a project yet, I more feel like I should watch them a second time. I have an actor system project on the side that I've felt tempted to model using TLA+.
• runetech 7y ago
  Clojure, Fulcro and Kafka Streams. All 3 are a mind expansion coming from other tech. Cannot recommend them enough :-) https://clojure.org/ https://clojure.org/ https://fulcro.fulcrologic.com/ https://fulcro.fulcrologic.com/ https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/streams/ https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/streams/
  • gotts 7y ago
    I'm a big fan of the first two but why KS mentioned in this group of 3? What's so special about it in this combo? Or is it unrelated?
• simonw 7y ago
  Spanish and how to play the guitar.
• tomnj 7y ago
  Haskell and compilers at the same time! Following Appel’s awesome Modern Compiler Implementation in ML: https://github.com/tdp2110/HaskellTiger https://github.com/tdp2110/HaskellTiger
• lobo_tuerto 7y ago
  Elixir and Phoenix! It's been a long time coming, but finally doing it now. After coming to grips with functional programming concepts (introductory in Ruby, more advanced in JavaScript) I decided to explore Elixir and what I found really surprised me in the right way. So I've decided to dedicate myself to become very fluent in it.
  • AlchemistCamp 7y ago
    Excellent! If I may self-promote a tiny bit, I've made over 100 free Elixir screencasts on YT over the past couple years, with over 98% upvotes. Helping people in your situation was why I started the channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1nKbzZiRtY&list=PLFhQVxlaKQEl_-IPHs3TVLJDH64_ddSQP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1nKbzZiRtY&list=PLFhQVxlaKQ...
  • huntermeyer 7y ago
    Here's a great course from Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-elixir-and-phoenix-bootcamp-and-tutorial/ https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-elixir-and-phoenix...
• math 7y ago
  rust. the ownership system it embodies seems important and I want to understand it deeply. also, the language has momentum.
• _prototype_ 7y ago
  Web app development using clojure/clojurescript. Also learning clojure itself. So far its been an absolute joy/blast. I'm really wanting to use this professionally but the amount of jobs using this tech stack is incredibly non existent. Hopefully that changes soon
  • danpli 7y ago
    If you happen to get stuck on setting up a ClojureScript dev environment (like I did when starting out with the official docs), check out this write-up: https://danplisetsky.github.io/posts/2020-03-26-getting-started-with-clojurescript/ https://danplisetsky.github.io/posts/2020-03-26-getting-star...
    • _prototype_ 7y ago
      Excellent, thanks for the link!
• heyharmon 7y ago
  Learning Laravel and using it to build a platform to help manage some of the labor intensive activities at my web design and development agency.
• truebosko 7y ago
  I'm learning how to build 3d environments using three.js, specifically react-three-fiber Fun way to jump back into React while also learning new concepts!
• funfunfunction 7y ago
  How to solve the rubrik’s cube that’s been sitting on my desk for three years.
• brainlessdev 7y ago
  I'm learning how to build a backend for a web app using TypeORM, GraphQL and Apollo Server. I'm a frontend developer. Also, I've been toying with OBS Studio to learn how to make more professional video recordings to showcase applications at work, or bug reproductions, documentation, etc.
  • selfish-duck 7y ago
    Hey, I recommend checking out type-graphql and especially Nexus to work with GraphQL on server-side. If you want to go serious about GraphQL I also recommend reading Production-ready GraphQL. I've been working with gql for 4 years now but this book really deepened how I think about modelling my schemas, queries and mutations. All the best on your learning journey!
    • brainlessdev 7y ago
      Thank you! In fact I have been using type-graphql for this project. I'll make a note to check out Nexus. Some other contenders to go into my tech stack were Hasura, Prisma and Postgraphile, but I wanted something a little bit closer to the vanilla GraphQL experience...
      • selfish-duck 7y ago
        Agree with you. The more vanilla GraphQL you go in the beginning, the more you'll be able to choose abstraction you want on top of that. If I had to give you just one tip to design your schema: favor simple queries and mutations that do just one thing instead of trying to generalize your use-cases. For example if you want your client to be able to retrieve your Products by id and by name, instead of going for `product(id: String, name: String)` go for `productById(id: String!)` and `productByName(name: String!)` You'll end up with more fields on Query but the Product type stays the same, the arguments are clearer (just one that is required) and you'll get simpler resolvers. To generalize: forget about REST best practices, think about you queries and mutations as functions and write them with the according best practices you would apply to functions. Funny thing I noticed about gql is front-end developers are generally more comfortable than back-end ones geting the grasp of it as its DNA is really client-focused. Sorry for the long reply :)
• Jahak 7y ago
  C++
• voodootrucker 7y ago
  I've been learning a combination of data analytics / ML and embedded C++ development, and some protocol reverse engineering and python. It's a lot of fun after spending years in the web to go back to systems work. It's still arbitrary and frustrating some times, but for some reason debugging kernel code seems like more honest work than messing around with webpack config yet again.
• leovander 7y ago
  Reading Land of Lisp[0]. [0] http://landoflisp.com/ http://landoflisp.com/
  • pvaldes 7y ago
    great book...
  • sloaken 7y ago
    Loved the website, ordered the book. Any boo that could make a song has got to be good .... right?!? Well at least deserves to have me try.
• dnr 7y ago
  Tensorflow (v2), numpy, and related stuff for image processing. I kind of ignored the whole deep learning revolution, though I had a very basic understanding of NNs from a long time ago. It's fun to play with, and I'm getting an intuition for what sorts of problems NNs are likely to help with.
• colinjoy 7y ago
  awk. One too many times have I though to myself that a just little bit of awk might go a long way to help with extracting information from a pile of data. Now working my way through Effective awk programming. So far, no regrets. https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/index.html#SEC_Contents https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/index.htm...
• ElFitz 7y ago
  Model Thinking, from coursera. A funny coincidence; last week I reached the... SIS epidemiology model! Rarely so relevant. It's quite interesting. Two of the things that fascinated me most so far are emergent properties (such as in cellular automata models), and what he calls the models' "fertility". As an example, with a few adjustments (ie the "recovery rate" becomes a "churn rate", etc) the SIS model could be adapted in marketing, viral or not, to measure an existing campaign's efficiency, or try to predict the means a future one might require based on different assumptions and goals. Also acted as a nice statistics 101 refresher / intro
  • sonabinu 7y ago
    I'm reading the 'Model Thinker'. That's a great course.
• jlarocco 7y ago
  I enjoy learning, so I try to learn new things as part of my day to day routine to keep things interesting. I just started following OCW's Finance Theory class and I'm starting to read the text book on corporate finance and watching a lecture a day during lunch. I've always been interested in economics, so this is just learning for learning's sake. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-401-finance-theory-i-fall-2008/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-40... I'm just about done reading "A Look at Boulder: From Settlement to City," about the history of Boulder County, CO. Again, in this case I'm interested in local history, so I'm just reading it before bed for fun. Two weeks ago I installed FreeBSD on a spare hard drive, and I've been reading through the handbook and learning how to do various tasks as they come up. I'm writing a Spotify client in Common Lisp, so I'm learning about the Spotify API and architecture. The beginnings of the library are on Github, but right now it's really just a utility library for making API calls, and not much of a client. This started as the thought, "It'd be neat to have a library to control Spotify from the REPL," and is turning into a full client because spotify-tui is the only client I can find on FreeBSD. https://github.com/jl2/cl-spotify/ https://github.com/jl2/cl-spotify/ At work I've been helping the test team write functional tests for some Windows software, which I haven't used in years, so the past week I was re-learning "just enough" about Windows and Python's win32com library, and learning about AutoIt for the first time. I've been learning to track stand on my bike - it's something to do during stoplights. And I impulse bought a pot roast on Friday, so today or tomorrow I'm going to learn how to cook one.
• EnderMB 7y ago
  I'll probably get a lot of shit for this, but LeetCode. I've recently been furloughed, and I think that redundancies aren't too far away. There aren't many companies hiring in my area at the moment, and if I'm going to move it's going to be for a big company, so I'm dusting off the CV and am applying to some Big N companies. A recruiter recently reached out to me, and I've got an interview with one Big N company coming up soon, so am using my new-found free time to study and, at the very least, be a bit more employable at the end of this pandemic.
  • __s 7y ago
    > I'll probably get a lot of shit for this, but LeetCode. Don't hate the player; hate the game. gl
  • CalRobert 7y ago
    Can't imagine getting shit for studying up on what's likely to help you get a job. I'd be doing the same if I were in your situation (though if laid off I'm hoping to start my own thing).
  • why-el 7y ago
    No sane person will hate on your studying, you are doing what you gotta do to survive, good luck out there friend.
  • typon 7y ago
    I don't hate you I pity you. Applied for Big N jobs last year, had to study leetcode for 1 month and I hated my life. I was legit depressed. I was already so busy at work and coming home to do leetcode just killed all motivation and happiness in my life. Did well enough to get to on site interviews but didn't get a full time offer from any of them. Such is life :(
    • dominotw 7y ago
      I used to hate leetcode with passion because i associated it with being a failure in career. I started leetcoding just for enjoyment and not for landing a FAANG job, when i had no interviews coming up. I started enjoying it a little bit and now i do it for "fun" and don't have an anatagonist realationship to it. Like someone said, once you overcome something you have keep overcoming it, so you can never be successful if your strategy is overcoming.
• greenyouse 7y ago
  I started hacking on a browser extension to inject source-maps into requests using HTTP headers this week. It's a dev tools extension which should allow full source-maps to be used in production sites without the usual comment at the end of the file. I've never done dev tools browser extensions before so it's fun to learn about.
• ferchoriverar 7y ago
  Design User Interface
• woohoo7676 7y ago
  Learning some Vue.js - struggled a bit to get into React (nothing against React, might try it again later), but I find Vue+Typescript with class components works well for me as a .NET dev. Web dev tooling really has come a long way in the past few years!
• bartread 7y ago
  Gulp 4 because, grr, excessive breaking changes from 3.9.1. Also how to fix my car. I'm currently refreshing all the coolant pipes since once ruptured the other day. It's not that hard, but some of the pipes are difficult to get to, and I'm procrastinating about disassembling essentially the entire front end of the vehicle in order to be able to access the radiator and replace pipes attached to it. I've already replaced the ruptured pipe no problem but, since all the pipes are the same age, I figure it's only a matter of time before another splits.
• rolae 7y ago
  Refactoring Ruby I am a UX person, but often dabbled in Ruby on Rails. Currently for the the first time working on a more serious app and now reading the book refactoring ruby, is very illuminating, going through my code again and rereading makes me see many mistakes and possible improvements.
• Nabi 7y ago
  Audio programming and all jungles surrounding it - C++, plugin frameworks, Fourier transform, filters design etc. Step by step, often hard but also rewarding.
  • CameronNemo 7y ago
    You might be interested to check out sushi, which is a headless DAW written in C++.
    • Nabi 7y ago
      Thanks! Haven’t heard about it before, will check. Although I’v heard about Elk - looks like by the same guys. Recently started playing around with Bela as it has Eurorack kits.
• mmphosis 7y ago
  X (x.org) xlib xcb running on Void Linux (development.) Also reading The Animators Survival Kit.
• pkghost 7y ago
  I (quixotically) rolled my own uptime monitor with curl and twilio's CLI, and then wrote a minimal jenkin's clone with a git hook, a little bit of bash, and systemd: github.com/cameron/push-to-systemd. My current project also involves learning elm and postgraphile, which is shaping up to be a wonderful stack.
• selfish-duck 7y ago
  GraphQL (advanced). Already been using it for 4 years now (yes back when there was no tooling nor best practices) but I decided to go further in the schema design thinking and bought Production-Ready GraphQL to help with it. Strongly recommend the book as it goes quite deep on the subject. Also experimenting with my 4th home-brewed beer. "Soft skill"-wise I spend time helping people with good (so I hope) advice and recommendations and a bit of interview mentoring to enter the software development industry. Makes you learn a lot about yourself and how you can motivate and help people big time with only a tiny amount of your time and energy, just sharing stuff you know.
• starpilot 7y ago
  Data structures & algorithms, for the first time, because I want to transition from being a data scientist to a ML engineer.
• CalRobert 7y ago
  SQLAlchemy. Old school but I haven't found a better ORM for my use case - though I keep thinking there's got to be something like an open-source LookML, which is what I want in the long term. Also, lime plastering traditional (100+ year old) buildings, and trying to get a fruit orchard going without rabbits eating the trees.
• anfractuosity 7y ago
  I'm working on learning KiCad + FPGAs, I've been making a little PCB, I can plug into my FPGA board (via a PMOD interface), to drive some WS2812B lighting strips via VHDL. I've sent the PCB off to a fab, who will do the SMD assembly part too for me :) Will be a couple of weeks before it arrives I think. I need to work on an SPI interface next in VHDL which will need to interface with BRAM which will act as the 'framebuffer'.
  • shock 7y ago
    I've recently started learning KiCad too. Which fab did you send your PCB to?
    • anfractuosity 7y ago
      I used JLCPCB, it cost around £20 for 5 boards with the assembly (it's definitely cheaper without assembly), my board is pretty simple assembly-wise, a level converter, resistors, capacitors and diodes. Re. kicad, I played with the push and shove routing feature for my board, which I found really nifty.
• jakeinspace 7y ago
  Getting back into regular guitar practice (mostly classical). Also trying to broaden my musical horizons a bit: playing around with some virtual synths and my analog synth. I'm currently shopping for a hollow body or solid body electric guitar and amp, since I want to start getting into blues guitar. Hoping that I can meld some of the music production/synth stuff with guitar practice by laying down some backing synth+beat tracks and recording some guitar licks on top, hoping my little preamp buffer sounds okay. I'm also starting a Coursera course in audio signal processing. Lets me scratch the technical itch a bit while not distracting from music. My goal for later this year is to build a guitar pedal or 2 from scratch.
  • zuppy 7y ago
    Just ordered my first guitar and audio interface yesterday. Any tips for really starting from 0? I will be looking for some online courses, but there’s so much information online that it is hard for me to find out which is good for absolute beginners and which is not.
    • shorts_theory 7y ago
      As a beginner, I really like Justin Guitar (https://www.justinguitar.com/site-map-and-lesson-structure https://www.justinguitar.com/site-map-and-lesson-structure). But I'd love to know what other great resources are out there!
    • colkassad 7y ago
      Not sure what exists out there, I started over 25 years ago. A good first step is to learn chords, starting with major and minor versions of each chord. Get comfortable switching between them. This is where most people quit as a lot of chords are not friendly to untrained fingers. What can help with this is a concept called the "1, 4, 5" rule (it's actually called the I, IV, V rule but let's keep it simple). Basically, you start in a key, say the key of A, assign that to 1. The 4th and 5th chords from that starting chord always sound good with the 1st. So for the key of A, the 4th and 5th are D and E. Notes start over after G, so if 4 and 5 go past, like with G, you start over at A. In the key of G, the 4th and 5th are C and D respectively, for example. This is at the heart of blues music. For me, the easiest three-chord progression for my fingers to learn was G, C, and D. There are a lot of little "rules" like that in music theory and it can be fun to learn them and experiment. If you find that you are really getting into it, I recommend dropping $300 or so on a decent acoustic guitar. There is something to be said about an instrument you can just pick up and play and not have to worry about wires and interfaces.
• baby 7y ago
  I'm writing a book at the moment[1], which means all my learning is focused on the table of content I made up a year ago. But if I had time on my hand I would learn about: * Adobe after effect not to only to edit videos but to animate! * Illustrator, because it's the basis of any graphics * Blender, because I want to learn about 3D graphics and this seems to be the reference * Unity, a gaming engine, because I've always wanted to make a FPS game * Phaser, an HTML5 gaming engine, because I want to make a multiplayer game with websockets. I'm thinking of starting with an online board game though. [1]: https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-cryptography?a_aid=Realworldcrypto https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-cryptography?a_aid=...
  • weavie 7y ago
    I'm really enjoying the book!
  • tmaly 7y ago
    learning Adobe After Effects, Premier, and Animate are on my list. I use to use Flash quite a bit back in 2002.
• dorchadas 7y ago
  Right now, I'm learning math. I met a PhD via Discord who is giving me problems to work and checking my solutions. It's been quite fun so far, working on Real Analysis and Abstract Algebra. I'm also doing baking; baked my first loaf of bread yesterday. Really interested to learn (and eat!) more. I'm tempted to pick up a cheap instrument and learn one as well, or delve back into Python some more. Or drawing. My main issue is focusing now, sadly. Any tips there would be appreciated.
  • justwalt 7y ago
    I have a similar problem. I do what interests me in the moment and I don’t make myself feel bad when I don’t make the progress I wanted on something else. I think I’m happiest that way.
  • hhsuey 7y ago
    My advice would be to define in multiple realms what you consider to be strongly focused, while both realizable and healthy in the long-term.
  • behnamoh 7y ago
    I'm curious, how could someone find a PhD/researcher on Discord, esp. for this kind of purpose?
    • dorchadas 7y ago
      I found them on /r/math, actually, but they linked me to Discord.
      • behnamoh 7y ago
        thanks!
  • jaw 7y ago
    Focus has been an issue for me too. I think it helps to view yourself as having a limited number of focus 'slots', but to view each focus as just a medium-term commitment (a few months or years). So e.g. you're not choosing an instrument _instead_ of drawing, you're just choosing to learn the instrument _first_. Setting specific goals for each month, which I track on Trello, has helped me a lot. It encourages me to make concrete progress and not tackle too many things at once, but reduces FOMO since I know I can always go a totally different direction the next month if I want. (I blogged a little about focus: https://brokensandals.net/three-books-on-focus/ https://brokensandals.net/three-books-on-focus/)
• dade_ 7y ago
  https://www.fast.ai/ https://www.fast.ai/ Practical deep learning for coders. Also Synapse Matrix homeserver.
• qtcake 7y ago
  I've been scoping out new (to me) infrastructure tech. Nomad, Spinnaker, Packer to name a few. It's been very enlightening.
• tluyben2 7y ago
  I am trying to understanding more about why programming is so complex (it is some kind of calling after 25+ years of programming). I am doing this learning via working on projects in a diverse range of technologies (asp.net with c# & f#, js & typescript & purescript + node, js + typescript + react(native), haskell and clojure) and by working on proofs in tla+/agda/idris. My paid work is currently (inherited projects in) c#, so I try to mix environments by experimenting (and studying the runtimes / compilers at the same time) with little tools/libs [0] (not for production, but I keep wondering if there are ways to bring things that help me from in language A to language B). [0] https://github.com/tluyben/PoorMansRefinementTypes https://github.com/tluyben/PoorMansRefinementTypes
• echelon 7y ago
  Photogrammetry. I'm (re)learning OpenCV and OpenGL since I haven't used them since college. Working on this is also forcing me to learn the FFI corners of Rust I was unfamiliar with. I'm combining Kinect (k4a) depth sensor data to build real time 360 degree point clouds.
  • canada_dry 7y ago
    Interesting project. Hope you'll post to github with whatever you get working.
• mbrameld 7y ago
  I'm learning to teach people how to fly helicopters. I got my private pilot license, instrument rating, and commercial pilot license over the last couple years and now I'm knocking out the flight instructor rating. Tech-wise I'm digging into machine learning, particularly around natural language processing and sentiment analysis.
• mikro 7y ago
  I am learning game development in Godot, specifically with the intention of making an Oculus Quest VR game. I just finished the initial tutorial yesterday: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.2/getting_started/step_by_step/your_first_game.html https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.2/getting_started/step_by_... Alongside that, I am also watching Disney's Imagineering-in-a-Box, which describes how they develop lands and rides for their theme parks: https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2020/03/enjoy-a-one-of-a-kind-learning-experience-from-disney-imagineers/ https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2020/03/enjoy-a-one-o... I recently finished Stanford's CS231N Computer Vision course from 2017 (watching YouTube + 3 Jupyter Notebook assignments). Also highly recommended. http://cs231n.stanford.edu/syllabus.html http://cs231n.stanford.edu/syllabus.html
  • sergeyfilippov 7y ago
    thanks for Disney's Imagineering-in-a-Box!
  • ftl64 7y ago
    you seem like a very avid learner! can you recommend a couple of courses you've enjoyed going through, or the ones that were most interesting and challenging?
  • mrfusion 7y ago
    Wow I want to do that too! Are there any existing godot based quest games so I can get an idea what the final product would look like?
    • mikro 7y ago
      There is a tutorial from Feb 28th which contains a finished project. https://github.com/GodotVR/godot_openvr_fps/releases https://github.com/GodotVR/godot_openvr_fps/releases
  • bee123 7y ago
    Hey, I'm doing that too, learning DirectX to build megaman-clone and learn more about game development. I planned to learn Godot after that. shall you create a discord chanel? I'd love to join
• xzel 7y ago
  Nim! There was thread here about its new release. I hadn't given any time to looking at the syntax so I finally did because of that thread. Looks awesome. It doesn't look like hackerrank or leetcode support nim so I'll be trying out the different compiling outputs as well.
• ktzar 7y ago
  How to deal with my kids 7 days a week!
• XCSme 7y ago
  I'm learning how to play the piano and also trying to learn more music theory so my guitar playing is not just randomly playing notes or just following online tabs. I am also going to soon start marketing my project [0] so I am reading a lot about launching products, pricing and how to attract attention. [0] https://www.usertrack.net/features.php https://www.usertrack.net/features.php
• hudvin 7y ago
  Deutsch some ancient history NLP / Deep Learning
• bamboozled 7y ago
  Basic Math and Pre-Alebra. I'm learning it in a way where I actually understand how things work rather than just the way I was blindly taught in high-school. Sounds boring but it's pretty interesting.
• gerdesj 7y ago
  I'm learning how to keep my employees interested. We are a small IT consultancy, 20 years books and always had three months loot in the bank just in case. I could never have predicted this thing but I've always wanted to sleep at night so insisted on a war chest. Damn I'm boring but as it turns out boring is quite handy now. We have furloughed (UK) a few troops. We top up the extra 20%. The calls on the helpdesk are decreasing but at some point I will need to find more work for the kids. I see a major programme of updates in the near future. BIOS, switches etc etc etc ad nauseam. If it fails to move it will be updated. We do rather a lot of that anyway but to ensure that contracts are fulfilled, we need to be seen to be doing something. Any other employers here like to pitch in (be careful for obvious reasons)?
  • gcheong 7y ago
    Do you think now would be a good time to explore ideas for productizing any aspects of your business?
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• DrNuke 7y ago
  I was a poet and translator as a young adult and went back to the art to blow off steam https://poeticnopoetry.wordpress.com/ https://poeticnopoetry.wordpress.com/
• aerovistae 7y ago
  Learning the bond market, figuring out the different characteristics of all the different types of bonds, what the risks are, what the potential for gain is. I trade options on equities regularly and recently a friend has been looking for help on figuring out how to handle a large amount of money they came into, so I figured brushing up on bond investing would be helpful since their risk tolerance is substantially lower than mine.
  • mathisonturing 7y ago
    What resource are you using for bonds and what did you use for learning options? I've become interested in stocks/trading recently and have been wanting to understand it well enough before losing all my money. I started Financial Markets [0]. Just finished Week 1 and it seems a little too broad/dry so far. Any recommendations are welcome. [0] https://www.coursera.org/learn/financial-markets-global https://www.coursera.org/learn/financial-markets-global
    • aerovistae 7y ago
      I taught myself by reading a lot of articles online, basically. I start by googling something basic and clicking the first 4-6 results and reading them, opening a lot of extra tabs for things they link to as I go. If anything is unclear, I repeat the process, googling the unclear thing. I take notes as I go. Slowly a general understanding emerges and then I can flesh it out by seeking specific details once I know what I don't know. And by reading and comparing multiple resources I get a very full and objective understanding. Investopedia has been the single most helpful site by a wide margin. Their content is top notch. When I hit on something I can't find the answer to, I ask the customer service at my brokerage (Etrade) and they're very helpful. But if it's a very specific question, I've found I'm best off asking to speak to their customer service team for that specific thing, like their bond desk or futures desk, etc.
  • g_langenderfer 7y ago
    Buy SPY and save a bunch of time
• coherentpony 7y ago
  I'm very much a software person, so I decided to learn more about hardware and the design of circuits. Pretty cool stuff.
• hhsuey 7y ago
  Taking a math course that attempts to teach some of the ways mathematicians approach their profession, which I hear is quite different than learning math or doing math the way it is taught in schools or utilized by other types of professionals (e.g. engineers). The class is called "Introduction to Mathematical Thinking" by Keith Devlin, and it's on coursera.org.
  • noobrunner 7y ago
    Interesting. how useful you think it is for regular techies or let's say aspiring ML engineers ?
• AlchemistCamp 7y ago
  I've been getting interested in Tailwind CSS recently. I'm also spending some time learning more about tools I already use a lot—Elixir, Postgres, VIM, Git, etc.
• narag 7y ago
  Music edition/production with Reaper: https://www.reaper.fm/ https://www.reaper.fm/ They've been so kind to issue a temporary free license to help with the isolation. Their license model is very liberal anyway, but the gesture was well appreciated. I own a Yamaha E363 keyboard and a Stratocaster, now I've bought a Behringer U-Phoria UMC204HD soundcard and an Audio-Technica AT2020 mic to complete the budget home studio. Amazon.es is working faster actually. However I wish they kept orders bundled, instead of delivering them apiece. There are many videos linked from Reaper website, but as a Spanish speaker I prefer this guy, that's absolutely great: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEkUr7EAx4LwIv2gp2pwvPQ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEkUr7EAx4LwIv2gp2pwvPQ I'm also going to learn to airbrush. I've had the gear for some time, but now I'm seriously putting the time.
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  • cableshaft 7y ago
    Thanks for the heads up about Reaper! I've been meaning to get back into music production.
  • kitotik 7y ago
    A very cool, overlooked, and timely feature of Reaper is NinJam which is a way to “jam” with people remotely through a fixed time-delay. It’s been around for at least 15 years, but looks like the author has recently started updating the feature again. Check it out!
    • arbol 7y ago
      That's such a good idea! How are the latencies worked out?
      • kitotik 7y ago
        You set a preconfigured time - I think it defaults to 1 bar. It takes some practice and getting used to, and obviously isn’t quite the same as being in the same room, but it works well enough to stumble upon some great serendipitous moments like any good jam session :)
• thomas 7y ago
  Been spending a lot of my time geeking out about fountain pens. Shocking amounts of information out there! Like this cartridge guide https://unsharpen.com/fountain-pen-cartridge-guide/ https://unsharpen.com/fountain-pen-cartridge-guide/ Also learning about email parsing. Not something I had thought about before but there is a lot to learn and lots of edge cases.
• _Understated_ 7y ago
  Signalr. I built a web based chat site for my family to keep in touch. I'm opening it up to everyone shortly... next few days I hope I'm looking to add video calls too. No libraries, just .NET, HTML and JS
• epoch_100 7y ago
  I've been spending a lot of my time learning about how to do RegEx at scale. It's a surprisingly fun problem! The impetus has been a media monitoring side project[0] that I've been trying to get off the ground. I should probably spend more time learning about marketing, but I just keep coming back to RegEx optimization. [0] https://lensant.com https://lensant.com
• geoelkh 7y ago
  react/redux
• zeouter 7y ago
  Unity & GameDev. After work I'm a bit drained so it's slow but nice.
• gaze 7y ago
  APL! I wanted something completely nutty that would change my way of thinking. The characters are kinda fun and you pick them up after really drilling them for 3 days or so. Then you begin to learn to read trains and things. It’s a really fun language. That and I’m learning condensed matter theory from Altland. Can’t recommend this text highly enough.
• sneak 7y ago
  Did a deep dive on go templating systems to start adding more frontend web interfaces to my projects beyond simple json apis. Settled on pongo2, which has django-style multiple inheritance, which is IMO essential to keeping an html template hierarchy organized. With it, I’m writing an ActivityPub spider (code is messy and not fully organized yet): https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/feta https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/feta and also an HN transparency tool that highlights things for me to read that get nuked from the frontpage: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/orangesite https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/orangesite (live at https://orangesite.sneak.cloud https://orangesite.sneak.cloud ) Next up: rust. I have about 4 go projects I want to finish first, and having a good templating system means they will be somewhat polished when I shelve them.
• cognitoMagneto 7y ago
  I am trying to learn more about distributed systems. Any one have a recommendation for a MOOC or a book that could help? I am specifically looking to understand frameworks such as Dask or Ray and how to build a similar system from scratch. Thanks!
  • maxioatic 7y ago
    I haven't done much in Dask and never heard of Ray, so might not be applicable directly. But a general book about distributed systems that I highly recommend and one you'll see often referred to on HN is Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Seriously great book and one I often go back to for fundamentals about distributed systems.
    • cognitoMagneto 7y ago
      I appreciate it, will look up that book
  • jshc 7y ago
    Not sure if this is specific to your ask but I've been enjoying this class. It covers many fundamental concepts. https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/schedule.html https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/schedule.html
    • cognitoMagneto 7y ago
      Thanks, will look into this
• noobrunner 7y ago
  I am doing Coursera 'Intro to Genetics & Evolution' and fascinated by it. Have been in tech for several years doing mostly same old things, so found this a refreshing change. The instructor is very good
• thomasmore 7y ago
  Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto no. 2
  • tunesmith 7y ago
    I've been tempted to get back into Concerti, previously I learned the Ravel G major and a movement of Prokofiev #3. I should look into if there's a good way to make a piano-less orchestral track "listen" to what I'm playing and play along.
• sunsetSamurai 7y ago
  I'm studying DS and Algorithms, I am a self taught developer and I'm trying to fill some gaps in my general CS knowledge. There's a project I want to work on but I feel a bit overwhelmed and don't know where I should start, I'd appreciate some advice here. I want to create shogi(Japanese chess) server, similar to lichess, the thing is that I've never done anything similar to this, I've been reading about web sockets, this seems like a good place to start. I plan to use elixir for the backend, is this a good choice? Lichess uses scala, should I use this instead?
  • paladin314159 7y ago
    I built kfchess.com (https://github.com/paladin8/kfchess https://github.com/paladin8/kfchess), which might be a helpful reference. It's by no means amazing code (I hacked it together quickly in my spare time), but it uses https://github.com/socketio/socket.io https://github.com/socketio/socket.io for real-time client-server communication. It's a relatively simple library to build on top of. As for the backend, I would recommend whatever you're most familiar with. It doesn't make that much of a difference and you'll be way more productive in a language you know. Love the idea of a Shogi site by the way!
    • sunsetSamurai 7y ago
      Your project looks really cool, I'll take a look at your repo, I'm sure I can learn a lot from it. I am gladd you like my idea, there's a few good platforms to play shogi already, like 81dojo on the web and shogiwars on mobile, but none of them are open source. So I wanna do an open source version similar to lichess.
  • bigbassroller 7y ago
    I think Elixir would be an excellent choice. Once you have a sip, you’ll never want to go back. Might I recommend this book: https://pragprog.com/book/lhelph/functional-web-development-with-elixir-otp-and-phoenix https://pragprog.com/book/lhelph/functional-web-development-... there might be some overlap with your Shogi game idea to get you started.
• odyssey7 7y ago
  I'm getting into PureScript and Haskell, with the intention of using them in real-world projects.
• Myzis 7y ago
  Studying webpack to understand how vue and react manage their packages :)
• Myzis 7y ago
  Studying webpack to understand how react manage their packages :)
• tunesmith 7y ago
  From being an enterprise programmer, I'm try to learn how to scale back and deploy single-author websites to prod. At work we do modern stuff, but I've got this 12-year-old LAMP website, a collaborative creative writing site, that I'm deploying to prod just by logging in to the linode and doing git fetch / git pull. It feels so wrong but it's so easy. Still too paranoid to make the site public though, for now it's just me and my friends.
• jackhalford 7y ago
  Been getting back into physics for the past few months. I've started reading the Landau&Lifschitz books and have been making flashcards out of the problem sets. I'm also following MITs online math courses to get back up to speed.
• mtreis86 7y ago
  I am trying to wrap my head around NP Completeness, so I have been watching some open course lectures, reading Garey and Johnson, and going on many walks.
• cushychicken 7y ago
  I've had a lot of fun learning offshoots from the function generator I'm working on building. (http://cushychicken.github.io/bfunc-quickstart/ http://cushychicken.github.io/bfunc-quickstart/ if interested.) - Started learning about building versioning into firmware. Found some great posts from the Memfault Interrupt blog on GNU build IDs, and another one from the Embedded Artistry blog on adding more generic versioning. - Also learning about analog drivers and generic analog design techniques from designing the output stage of the next board revision. - Learning the most from building prototypes and selling them to people. It's given me a crash course in writing good, useful docs, and getting people up to speed quickly. If you want to get involved, there's definitely more boards, and plenty of stuff to be done. Feel free to email me at <hn_username> at gmail dot com to see about arranging a board for you!
• agentultra 7y ago
  I've been working through the Abstract Algebra course at Harvard: http://matterhorn.dce.harvard.edu/engage/ui/index.html#/1999/01/82345 http://matterhorn.dce.harvard.edu/engage/ui/index.html#/1999... as well as Bartoz's Category Theory courses. I've put that a temporary hold for the last couple of weeks to brush up on algorithms; I'm working through some select chapters of Concrete Mathematics, Programming in the 1990s, How to Solve It, and Algorithms. I find I'm not satisfactory at solving leetcode-style problems in what industry considers a sufficient amount of time so I'm working on improving my skills there. And I'm making progress on my own side projects as well. I'm testing the waters with trying to record my work on video to see if streaming might be a thing I could do.
• herbps10 7y ago
  French. I use Anki for building vocabulary, and practice over Skype. The innerFrench YouTube channel has also been a great resource.
• blinkingled 7y ago
  Trying to learn some oratory and/or one on one communication skills and not having much of a clue where to start! My problems - I feel like I fail to quickly assess the other person and fail to adjust my communication - so I am either way too technical in the lingo or way too much of a layman talk that makes it feel like I am being insincere! I also fail to give up the 'problem solving' angle in communication - like I have to remind myself constantly that communication is rarely transactional or a means to an end. I am realizing what I am missing is that I fail to take interest in other people and their viewpoints and with some concrete strategies and practice I could do better. It's never been a problem as such - the few times it was a problem I managed to retry and resolve, but I want to bring joy and ease into my in-person communications.
  • gerdesj 7y ago
    Go easy on the sauce and simply listen.
    • blinkingled 7y ago
      Yeah - starting to incorporate the listen part but that is leading to awkward pauses as I listen too much - which is next on my list to tune :D Jerry rigging this is hard - I think a more relaxed, in the moment and self-forgiving approach is needed.
• spurgu 7y ago
  Morse code. Started today by learning the alphabet in half an hour using a Google creative project[0] and quickly realized the challenge will be thinking in the sound/rhythm of the letters (instantly hearing/deciphering them) so I found a video[1] and then watched another video[1] which confirmed my hunch that it's better to focus on the sound than the notation. Now I have GBoard w/ morse as my default keyboard on the mobile. Works well enough for short messages (and typing in URLs with autocomplete). Edit: And I've been learning Spanish for months already so that's still active. [0] https://morse.withgoogle.com/learn/ https://morse.withgoogle.com/learn/ [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_qQZ92onhU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_qQZ92onhU [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8tPkb98Fkk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8tPkb98Fkk
  • IggleSniggle 7y ago
    omg. This was AWESOME! Thank you for sharing this. I just finished that tutorial and it was great. Very well done- Never done Morse before and 1.5 hrs later Im writing this comment (including punctuation...very slowly...but musically) via morse! I think my favorite moments were learning that v uses the motif from Beethovens Vth and `!` = Candy+mustache
    • spurgu 7y ago
      > v uses the motif from Beethovens Vth Brilliant observation, this one will be impossible to forget now! edit: And I'm glad you found it useful! I've always wanted to learn Morse but never found the time/inspiration before that little learning app, which made the dive in so easy!
• cortesoft 7y ago
  I am learning that I couldn't cut it as a stay at home parent.
• maxioatic 7y ago
  Golang! More specifically, trying to build a static site that has all the indexes of my programming books indexed and searchable using Bleve. Edit: If anyone has tips on how to extract text from indexes of books that'd be great. Currently thinking of using OpenCV as I'm comfortable with it.
• Medicalidiot 7y ago
  I'm studying for the USMLE, so just general medicine.
• Aweorih 7y ago
  Game development with the unreal engine in combination with 3D modelling in blender. I'd also like to learn some c++ when I'm more familiar with UE. While using blender I discovered that you can script there with python which was also on my long todo list. It's a bit slow since so much at once after work but still a lot of fun. I began to learn this because some friends and I wanted to make a car racing game.
• paladin314159 7y ago
  Japanese. I took a year of Japanese in college 10 years ago, but never really followed up on it (other than watching anime). I started up again about 6 months ago and have been impressed by the number of online resources that are available now to the extent that self-study is easy (motivation aside).
• cordite 7y ago
  I am reading A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography [1] by Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup, it's a work-in-progress theory and math heavy book. However it gives a deep understanding of what's going on and what can be assembled together. Unlike other crypto books, it isn't just glorifying DES, AES, and RSA. [1] https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/cryptobook/BonehShoup_0_4.pdf https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/cryptobook/BonehShoup_0_4....
• droithomme 7y ago
  Growing a lot of food and practicing my marksmanship skills.
  • jmeister 7y ago
    Your comment shows up last and it’s the only one that is funny
• cs702 7y ago
  * Learning and building a more intuitive understanding of Projective Geometric Algebra (PGA). Looks very disruptive for all kinds of computer graphics applications. PGA replaces the use of Vectors, Quaternions, Dual Quaternions, and the entire machinery of Linear Algebra with a single unified, elegant framework that "just works." Feels a bit like magic. * Exploring and playing with new capsule routing algorithms in deep learning models for vision and language tasks. Particularly intrigued by routing algorithms in which output capsules seek to "explain" (generate/predict) their input data (e.g., EM matrix routing, Heinsen routing).
  • jlelonm 7y ago
    What makes it so disruptive?
    • cs702 7y ago
      The following video has a good, developer-friendly introduction to the subject that should answer your question. Take a look in particular at the code snippets that are sprinkled throughout the video and notice how much cleaner, shorter, simpler, less computationally costly, and "universal"/"exception-free" the code becomes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX4H_ctggYo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX4H_ctggYo
  • adamnemecek 7y ago
    Enki (the speaker in the video you posted below) is running a community called bivector for all GA people https://bivector.net/ https://bivector.net/. Join the discord https://discord.gg/vGY6pPk https://discord.gg/vGY6pPk. Check out a demo https://observablehq.com/@enkimute/animated-orbits https://observablehq.com/@enkimute/animated-orbits
    • cs702 7y ago
      Yes. These links are shown in the video :-)
• erynvorn 7y ago
  Python, to catch up with some of my projects. I'd like to do some web searching and work on Kaggle. com where I understand Python is necessary.
• copacopab 7y ago
  Data Science via https://www.codecademy.com/learn/paths/data-science https://www.codecademy.com/learn/paths/data-science (really want to get good at web scraping!) and Figma via Youtube videos. Anyone have any fav tutorials on Figma?
• metasaval 7y ago
  It's a basic one, but learning an instrument! Namely, the drums. I've tried guitar and bass before, but neither stuck. I'd been thinking of getting a e-drum kit for a while now, and the quarantine gave me a good excuse. I'm loving it so far, just playing along to songs I like, but since I'm self-learning I can already tell my technique and drum kit setup is off. I keep having to adjust the drums, the snare especially, and haven't found the optimal position for everything yet. But it's grabbed me more than any instrument before, and I'm having a blast. The kit I got for those curious: https://www.guitarcenter.com/Alesis/Nitro-Mesh-8-Piece-Electronic-Drum-Set.gc https://www.guitarcenter.com/Alesis/Nitro-Mesh-8-Piece-Elect... Throne: https://www.guitarcenter.com/ROC-N-SOC/Nitro-Throne-Tan-1500000149907.gc?rNtt=roc-n-soc&index=1 https://www.guitarcenter.com/ROC-N-SOC/Nitro-Throne-Tan-1500...
• vojtamolda 7y ago
  Swift for TensorFlow https://www.tensorflow.org/swift/ https://www.tensorflow.org/swift/
• fastlearner 7y ago
  I have been purchasing iOS app templates written in modern Swift with Firebase backend. Reading through the source code and customizing it for a fun project. Since I am already proficient in backend stuff with Google Cloud this lets me quickly learn various things involved in app development.
• straumat 7y ago
  I'm learning about trading bots. It allows me to learn new things about software développement (réactive streams forum example), mathematics, machine learning and deep learning I made it as a side project : https://github.com/cassandre-tech/cassandre-trading-bot https://github.com/cassandre-tech/cassandre-trading-bot And i am writing a guide about what i learned : https://trading-bot.cassandre.tech/ https://trading-bot.cassandre.tech/
  • sfmau 7y ago
    This is incredible - Thanks for sharing. Kudos for using the latest goodies provided in spring-boot. I had an older version but wasn't using reactive. Definitely, this looks promising.
    • straumat 7y ago
      Thanks a lot for your message :) I'm glad you like it.
  • z023bs 7y ago
    was your bot profitable? have you done real trading with it yet?
    • straumat 7y ago
      Hello :) Well, my bot in fact allows you to build your own strategy quickly so my bot does not include strategy. I'm starting to build a strategy with my bot and ta4j... using kucoin sandbox right now. For the moment, still learning, not yet profitable :)
  • Advaith 7y ago
    this is interesting! thanks for sharing
    • straumat 7y ago
      My pleasure :)
• jacobush 7y ago
  Learning how to do darkroom printing.
• lhtr 7y ago
  TLA+ and Alloy.
• hmert 7y ago
  Go + graphsql: we have build https://iban.im https://iban.im and open-sourced https://github.com/monocash/iban.im https://github.com/monocash/iban.im
• Twisol 7y ago
  I'm working through Aluffi's Algebra: Chapter Zero, which covers abstract algebra (groups, fields, vector spaces, etc.) with category theoretic foundations. I took undergraduate algebra several years ago, and I'm really interested in category theory from a compositionality perspective, so this is a good opportunity to brush up on both topics. Aluffi is really well-written. It assumes some degree of mathematical maturity (so it's well-positioned for a second pass of the material), but has a generally conversational tone without being imprecise. The exercises are excellent, too, if occasionally difficult using only the machinery introduced up to that point. (Again, well-suited to readers taking a second pass at algebra.) Why am I doing this? Leonard Susskind puts it well in this video [1]. To put it in my own words: our senses evolved for the physical world around us, and some of the most technical activities we do today are wildly underserved by our natural senses. That's why we build things like microscopes and telescopes and whatnot -- to extend our senses into new domains. Mathematical intuition is almost another sense in its own right: you gain the ability to perceive abstractions and relationships in ways that are just not well-described by sight or touch. I both enjoy this sense and find it valuable, so of course I'm going to continue honing it :) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bgZmBAnhdg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bgZmBAnhdg
  • BinaryIdiot 7y ago
    This really reminds me, it's been two decades now since I've taken _any_ Algebra. I'd really love to go re-learn it from the basics on up. I mean, I still remember a lot of it here and there but some sort of refresher course up to doing more advanced would be awesome. Any recommendations?
    • xelxebar 7y ago
      Hell yes! I love hearing about people interested in abstract algebra and wholly support your endeavor! Here is a pretty decent resource on relevant texts: http://www.cargalmathbooks.com/#Abstract%20Algebra http://www.cargalmathbooks.com/#Abstract%20Algebra That page in general is pretty gold for math texts in general. Also, #math on freenode has lots of algebra-strong users on it, though depending on your luck some can be less helpful than others. I love chatting about this kind of thing with people, so if you would like an ad hoc mentor/study-buddy I would be more than happy to help. Feel free to email me at the address in my profile. Good luck!
• jacobedawson 7y ago
  I'm doing Harvard's CS50 (2020) and working through Steven Cochan's Programming in C (4th edition) alongside it. Coming from a JavaScript / front-end background learning about pointers and manual memory management is eye-opening.
• foxh0und 7y ago
  AWS, and finally getting stuck into The Pragmatic Programmer.
• horizontech-dev 7y ago
  Spent the weekend mentoring students who are building projects using React and Python.
• fuddle 7y ago
  I'm learning Rust language, I'm reading through the official Rust book at the moment. I have to say the book very well written and easy to follow. I'm looking forward to using Rust full time sometime in the future.
• dceddia 7y ago
  Building a guitar! It's my first attempt at building an instrument. It's going well so far, mostly using threads from TDPRI as guidance and a body template from there as well. I opted to buy a neck from Warmoth since building a neck seemed especially intimidating and requires more special tools. Today I finished soldering the electronics, bolted the neck on, strung it up and it actually works! Now to take it apart and work on the finish... lots of sanding ahead. (I'm pretty sure it's uncommon to put the whole thing together before finishing, and then take it all apart again, including the electronics... but I wanted to know nothing would be terribly wrong before I spend hours more on finishing!) TDPRI's Tele Home Depot is a great source of info- https://www.tdpri.com/forums/tele-home-depot.46/ https://www.tdpri.com/forums/tele-home-depot.46/ My own build thread: https://www.tdpri.com/threads/first-build.1011061/ https://www.tdpri.com/threads/first-build.1011061/
  • sunsetSamurai 7y ago
    this is so cool, I've been meaning to get a bass guitar and start learning, but I'm always busy doing something else.
    • dceddia 7y ago
      Pick one up! There’s no time like the present :) It’s a long-term learning thing anyway, definitely one of those “best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago” things.
  • focodev 7y ago
    So cool!
  • myguysi 7y ago
    That’s awesome! I did the same a couple of years ago (took about 1 year to complete) and it’s one of the things I’m most proud of, so I hope it feels as fulfilling for you too!
    • dceddia 7y ago
      Cool! Thanks! I'm most worried about the finishing part, honestly. What did you end up doing for it? I keep debating between whether to leave the wood visible (with Tru Oil or wipe-on polyurethane), or paint it (lacquer, super labor intensive, slow, expensive), or dye/stain it and use a clear finish on top of that.
• accidentalrebel 7y ago
  I'm learning how to make a game engine. I initially was following along with Handmade Hero a series that I have been going back to frequently over the past few years. https://handmadehero.org https://handmadehero.org The series is great but I wanted something more guided so I am eyeing purchasing Game Coding Complete. It teaches the internals of a game engine and uses DirectX for rendering. https://www.amazon.com/Game-Coding-Complete-Fourth-McShaffry/dp/1133776574 https://www.amazon.com/Game-Coding-Complete-Fourth-McShaffry... Because deliveries are on lock down in my country the book will have to wait. So right now I have gone through SDL tutorials (there was a recent update to the LazyFoo SDL tutorial) and am currently finishing OpenGL. http://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/SDL/index.php http://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/SDL/index.php https://learnopengl.com/ https://learnopengl.com/ Finally, I've been checking out repositories of open source game engines and poking around their codes. interesting ones are below: Godot - Probably a lot of people already know about this one https://github.com/godotengine/godot https://github.com/godotengine/godot Pyxel - A fantasy game engine similar to Pico8 written in Python, uses SDL https://github.com/kitao/pyxel https://github.com/kitao/pyxel Wicked Engine - Haven't poked around much with this yet but the screenshots looks gorgeous https://github.com/turanszkij/WickedEngine/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/turanszkij/WickedEngine/blob/master/READM... Finally here's the video that got me interested in game engines. I saw this years ago but saw it again recently while researching. It's a 2.5d game engine that makes great use of lighting while combining 2d sprites and 3d models. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q6ISVaM5Ww https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q6ISVaM5Ww Here's a second video that shows off a winter weather which boggled my mind when I first saw it. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vtYvNEmmHXE# https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vtYvNEmmHXE# Sorry for the dump, was excited to share these.
• aaron-santos 7y ago
  I'm porting Rodrigo Pombo's wonderful Build your own React[1] code to Clojure(script). It really helps understand what's going on under the hood. The goal is to replace a half-assed React-like implementation I currently have with something that works much better. [1] https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/ https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/
  • johnbellone 7y ago
    I’ve been looking for a good real world project that uses Clojure to learn. I’ve only written basic backend services with it but love it.
    • aaron-santos 7y ago
      I got hooked on Overtone and then switched over to hacking on a roguelike in Clojure. It's a fantastic language. :)
      • johnbellone 7y ago
        Protojure is a project I’ve been following that is promising. I need a few hours to write some protobufs and test out a skeleton. But I haven’t done too much frontend development with Clojurescript. Am definitely interested in working on that.
• lazyjones 7y ago
  Production engineering (I'm an IT guy, mostly retired and dabbling in real estate, also a Tesla fan, I suppose). Manufacturing is fascinating and I'd love to own a small factory at some point, profitable or not!
• madmax108 7y ago
  The current COVID scene has given me a new sense of what I want to be learning, and I'm using the enthusiasm to pick up a few things that have been on my bucket list for a while now: I'm learning: - Spanish with Duolingo Visited Spain last year for a few weeks. Loved the people, the culture and the food. And really really wanted to pick up a new language. - Music production/mixing with Ableton Live This has been something I've wanted to play with for a very long time, and thankfully there are so many resources on the internet to get started. Music has always been a constant part of my life, and production is basically coding with notes and sounds! :) - Just started getting my beak wet with investing in the stock market I've always been skeptical of investing my $$$ in the stock market, more so being the first generation in my family earning enough to afford (what my parents would call) "luxuries". But I want to be more invested (literally and figuratively) in making my money work for me. Thankfully, have built up more savings than I need for years and given the stock market scene right now, it feels like the right time to dip my feet in for the long term. I dunno how much of this will last over the next few months, especially once we start going back to office to work (I'm a person who LOVES going to office even though we have unlimited WFH), but one can hope! :)
• j-rom 7y ago
  Django. I'm building a side project to help learn it. I've been wanting to spend more time on side projects and now seems like a good opportunity to dive into them.
  • damoday 7y ago
    What are you making? I like django, seems easier initially than something like PHP-Laravel
    • j-rom 7y ago
      I'm building a web app that gives suggestions on what activities people can do during quarantine / at home. Getting Django set up and working was pretty straight forward. I think the only difficult part was dealing with the dependencies and the python versions.
• hkhanna 7y ago
  Reading SICP[0] while taking the original MIT 6.001 course online[1]. I'm hoping to develop a DSL for certain applications in government and law someday. [0] The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson, Sussman and Sussman [1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
• DrKabab 7y ago
  Learning a lot about CTFs and pentesting, most through tryhackme.com Highly recommend it
• stormtroper1721 7y ago
  I made a list a few weeks ago: 1. Finish my ml research project 2. Learn rust 3. Start a blog 4. Learn Lin alg and stats 5. Go through all of the deep learning book (goodfellow et al.) 6. Start working with GANs or RL from: https://twitter.com/stormtroper1721/status/1242152940862722053 https://twitter.com/stormtroper1721/status/12421529408627220... Other than that, I'm working on building my own Numpy-like array lib in Rust. I'd be glad to chat about it if anyone's interested
• newbie578 7y ago
  Trying to learn Flutter! I started learning Android but a lot of people shared their experience and it just doesn't seem worth it going all in on Android, especially considering that for most of my projects "native" experience is not a must (i.e. social app for sharing book opinions (i.e. a Goodreads which doesn't suck). I am also impressed by the data, Flutter and Dart a growing incredibly, and I would like to be riding the early waves. If anyone has any ideas, tips or experiences, please do share!
• joeyjojo 7y ago
  I am learning music production through a course on monthly.com, by Andrew Huang. I'm learning a lot of cool tricks and have made a lot of progress in my music production skills so far. It is challenging though as I am creating my music on a Synthstrom Deluge instead of a typical DAW. Most of the concepts so far (1 week in) are still applicable although it requires a bit of creativity to apply certain concepts.
• jypepin 7y ago
  I just built my first mechanical keyboard which I wanted to do for years but never jumped shipped - The soldering scared me. It was easier and more fun than expected! I also just bought a house and am looking into putting drywall in the garage.
  • amatecha 7y ago
    Nice, I've built a few keyboards now -- first I practiced making a couple "gherkin" keyboards [0] for fun and then an alps64 [1] using some Alps SKCM Cream Damped switches I harvested from a dead Apple Extended Keyboard II. Probably my favorite build!! It gets a lot of comments from coworkers :) [0] http://www.40percent.club/2016/11/gherkin.html http://www.40percent.club/2016/11/gherkin.html [1] https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=69740.0 https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=69740.0
• meken 7y ago
  I’m taking a Japanese class right now. Thinking about wanting to get to the level where I can play video games in Japanese to learn more. I don’t really play video games anymore because I largely find them a waste of time, but it’s an intriguing way to get back into them. I found a YouTube channel called “game grammar” which is really neat.
  • dotmanish 7y ago
    Is it an online Japanese class? Which one and what has been your experience?
• Disruptive_Dave 7y ago
  Bathymetry & swells, specifically for surfing. I've been a recreational surfer and getting back into it now, never took the time to learn how waves are formed and all the things that impact how then end up on our shores
• Russelfuture 7y ago
  Learning Z80 assembler, matrix algebra, reloading (9mm, .45, etc.), how to draft detailed building plans (something that is detailed enough to get a building permit approved), and market "Technical Analysis" - the study of chart patterns to set buy/sell points. This all seems a bit silly, but everything is closed. Also doing a lot of wood cutting and cleanup in the forest. We built a custom designed Z80 SBC ( single board computer), with its own Z80MON monitor, and the genius guy I am working with has managed to put the BASIC interpreter into the monitor. Just got MInipro installed and working on the MACbook, using HomeBrew. I'm trying to get one of those TL866II pROM programmers - first one ordered got bounced by customs. We've ordered second one, paid premium to have it couriered. All the flights are ground-stopped, so it may be a while. I really like the idea of building a whole computer from parts ordered from Mouser, having all the Monitor and interpreter code, and being able to download the code into A ROM chip, plug it in, and link to the thing with Kermit or Screen session from a Linux box, and have it process matrix data from our AI stuff. We live in deep farm country, where self-reliance is pretty hard core. Some farms up the road from ours, are not even on the grid. (They have wind generators and diesel tractors - some even have CNC machines). We still have good internet access, and we are on-grid, but this whole virus-driven economic meltdown has absolutely confirmed our expectations. We are seriously looking at something that will look like the 1930's now. I worked in 8080 Assembler years ago, and I'd forgotten so much. But I've got two Z80 SBC's working now, one with it's own standalone VT-100 emulator board, and a little 40$ Chinese made VGA screen, which actually works pretty good. I can run that config off two lithium-ion batteries. The missing piece is to be able to use an SD-card. We have a prototype of a much more complex SBC that has a sound chip, and an SD card driver chip. It runs full CP/M, but I like the more simple design, since it does ot use surface mount - real old school. And there is this ton of other stuff that must be done. We need to be able to reload, and I have all the dies and such for this. We are also doing a bunch of in-house food preparation, since the electricity is still working, and so we are making different types of food that can be easily frozen. And the price action on the investment portfolios is requiring attention, since we have these predictive algorithms that are offering some insite into where to place trades. The markets are insane, but there are opportunites that do crop up. I realize that most traditional "fundamental" analysis is of little value in this kind of environment, as the automatic algos are running most of the action. We have no chance at all of accessing any "government money", so we are really working our existing systems just to try to bring in some liquidity by quick in and out action. So far this is working, but it is absolutely crazy. We have non-trading long-term positions on the left side of a tradional barbell, and these are just getting slaughtered. It feels like stories I read about in wartime, those First World War stories. Your whole "picture of the world" falls apart, and suddenly, all that crazy, hacky stuff you thought you would never really need or use (like the gas-mask in the garage) - suddenly, it's the stuff that is keeping you alive, and your economic and technical process actually working. So, I am going thru notes, and invoking stuff that we documented back in 1987 ( mkt crash), and in 1998 (Russian Default), and of course the 9/11 stuff, which was short and sharp, and followed by a big pop. But the data this time suggests no - too much has been badly damaged already. So we are mainly working on a plan to survive economically, for the next 12 months. We should be OK, but only because we had these backup Plan B and Plan C's and such. We went to Costco two days ago, and a hundred people were lined up, out into the parking lot, as "social distancing" was being enforced. It's making us pull out the SHTF playbook plans. It could all be summed up as "We are reviewing our strategies for maximum independece, and actively working to enhance our capacity for fully independent action." And I am reviewing all my Linux notes - we have several flavours of Linux boxes, that run the analytic and data management stuff. Need to ensure we can keep on keeping on. So far, it's all ticking along ok, but it's all up to us now. We are learning to be 100% self-supporting, I guess would sum it up. So far, it's working. But it's a new world now. We are all going to need a lot of different skills.
• JacobiX 7y ago
  OCaml, MirageOS and Irmin. Lots of fun, the tooling is better than I was expecting.
• ddrt 7y ago
  Maybe not what I’m learning but I learned a little bit about learning from this ted talk https://youtu.be/5MgBikgcWnY https://youtu.be/5MgBikgcWnY
• openfuture 7y ago
  General topology, Lean and lattice theory. I am also making steady adjustments to my xmonad configuration so I suppose I'm also learning haskell and that particular library ecosystem.
• LouisSayers 7y ago
  I'm not working at the moment (and fortunate enough I can continue that for quite a while) and decided I'd just like to do some learning. I have a CS degree from about 12 years back and have worked as a Fullstack dev for the last 10 years, but after looking at https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/interview/ https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/interview/ realise that I'm really not playing at the same level as a what a lot of others are. There are a lot of gaps in my CS knowledge, so I'm working on my knowledge and skills while learning and improving on coding in Go. As an ENFP I can't just sit and learn one thing at once, so I tend to cycle (with no particular pattern) through the following: Graph Algorithms A combination of learning on edx.org, and also reading through Tim Roughgardens graph algorithms book. Both are quite technical and take me quite a long time to digest the info. Sometimes I digress to dig deeper into things like Big O notation and the mathematical reasoning behind things like why you can drop constants and lower order terms, but on the whole really enjoying the materials. https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:UCSanDiegoX+ALGS202x+2T2017/course/ https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:UCSanDiegoX+ALGS20... https://www.amazon.com.au/Algorithms-Illuminated-Part-Graph-Structures-ebook/dp/B07G6X2XMG https://www.amazon.com.au/Algorithms-Illuminated-Part-Graph-... Operating Systems Udacity's Intro to Operating Systems course (https://classroom.udacity.com/courses/ud923 https://classroom.udacity.com/courses/ud923) Have also downloaded but not yet started reading "Operating Systems Concepts - 10th edition" which you can get from https://www.os-book.com/ https://www.os-book.com/ I've only just started going through these, but essentially I feel like it's an area I'm lacking in terms of my understanding. When people talk about things like the Linux Kernel - before I really had no real idea of what that actually meant, and I feel like even with a few hours doing the course I am starting to have a much better idea of how things are put together. Coding interviews I signed up to https://www.techseries.dev/ https://www.techseries.dev/ and have started going through the problems in CoderPro that came along with the expensive $500-$1000 course. The coderpro course is basically just them going through leetcode questions... they even show that that's what they're doing in some of the videos. The main course is OK, but a bit basic. I also have "Grokking the System Design Interview" course and I find that really good for showing how others actually think about and step through system design questions. I'd highly recommend this https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-design-interview https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-design-.... I also have Cracking the Coding Interview - http://www.crackingthecodinginterview.com/ http://www.crackingthecodinginterview.com/ which I've been using from time to time as well. I highly recommend this book, I find her step by step approach really insightful, and the book covers a crazy amount of material (it's a big book - Gayle Laakmann Mcdowell is a friggin machine). Go Programming I've been learning Go and using it to code up coding challenges. For Learning Go I've got a hard copy of "The Go Programming Language" which is really good and thorough - https://www.amazon.com.au/Programming-Language-Addison-Wesley-Professional-Computing-ebook/dp/B0184N7WWS https://www.amazon.com.au/Programming-Language-Addison-Wesle... I also did a course on Udemy https://www.udemy.com/course/go-golang-programming-course https://www.udemy.com/course/go-golang-programming-course which I highly recommend for getting up to speed quickly. I also started going through Todd Mcleod's Go Clinic on Lynda - that was really good, but I didn't want to pay a monthly subscription so put that on pause for now. The GoClinic course is here https://www.lynda.com/Go-tutorials/Code-Clinic-Go/439416-2.html https://www.lynda.com/Go-tutorials/Code-Clinic-Go/439416-2.h...
• mud_dauber 7y ago
  DevOps tools. VirtualBox, Vagrant, Ansible & Jenkins. Good list?
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• jakecodes 7y ago
  I’m taking weekends and evening off so I don’t burn out. I’m working on learning a piano piece by a composer named Kapustin. If you haven’t listen to him I highly suggest him. Since I got my degree in piano performance, I’ve not learned any big pieces and I’m excited that I’m finally doing it.
• 0x262d 7y ago
  Marxism In Our Time, an article by Leon Trotsky. A summary of Marx's theory of capitalism, specifically as it pertained to the great depression in the United States, when incredibly high profits and a surging stock market were accompanied by massive inequality and then it all crashed, causing widespread poverty and social unrest despite society's technical and material ability to provide for everyone. I think it will be very relevant soon. https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1939/04/marxism.htm https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1939/04/marxism.htm
• rmdashrfstar 7y ago
  Russian, Rust, and Domain-Driven Design. Lots to go! Lots of depth to these three rabbit holes, and only two have some overlap.
• jimmaswell 7y ago
  vue.js for a potential upcoming job requirement. Seems easy enough, but not sure I'd want to use it personally.
• kristopolous 7y ago
  The business side: How do you find your customers, position a product, and create demand. What about new markets, segmentation, downstream and upstream? Bad technology that gets this part right almost always does phenomenally, astoundingly, inconceivably better than great technology that gets it wrong. I'm tired of building things that only I and a few people really like, like some underground band only a few people know. It's nonsense, I gotta learn how to do the human part better.
  • jlelonm 7y ago
    What are some resources you’re using to learn that stuff?
    • Beefin 7y ago
      indiehackers is great for guides there
    • kristopolous 7y ago
      Here's some books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma https://www.davidow.com/books/marketing-high-technology/ https://www.davidow.com/books/marketing-high-technology/ https://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steve-Blank/dp/0989200507 https://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steve-Blank/dp/09... Each of those books are projects (the order I put them in is more or less recommended) ... that's probably a couple months of careful study. If you want to intersperse it with light reading, the following non-fiction novels are really good examples of the principles in practice (in not always obvious ways): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine You can get used copies on ebay for about $3 each. Thoughtfully engaging with the material is likely worth 1,000 times that. Also the commonly cited Reid Hoffman, Seth Godin and Peter Thiel books I think are mostly a waste of time. Al Ries is ok (and quick) and Jim Collins is good if you're trying to turn around a 5,000 person company, but oh, if only I was so lucky. Anyway, if you want to come back after reading those, I can give additional recommendations
• enhdless 7y ago
  I'm trying to learn to draw. I feel comfortable enough with my technical skills where I feel like I can pick up a new language or framework with relative ease, so I want to switch gears and improve my drawing and visual communication skills. I believe that any project can benefit from a compelling visual component. For now, I've been trying to start slow and just have fun; for example, telling myself to do three quick sketches of my dog every day and keep up a habit. Eventually I'd like to follow some more structured exercises and resources, like https://drawabox.com/ https://drawabox.com/.
  • Krizzu 7y ago
    I actually started Drawabox for the same reason, and I must say that I like that change of mindset. It's feels good to start digging into something that is not directly related to software.
  • Areading314 7y ago
    Learning to draw is something anyone can do and is incredibly rewarding. It activates a huge part of your brain (visual) that starts firing when you see all sorts of scenes, faces, patterns, colors in real life. Try the book "drawing on the right side of the brain". Another good one is the Bargue sculpture drawing course.
    • enhdless 7y ago
      Thanks for your recommendations!
    • throw1234651234 7y ago
      Yea, right, until you try to get perspective correct. If you understand this, you are a genius: https://crafts.stackexchange.com/questions/3316/how-to-measure-the-distance-to-horizon-line-one-point-perspective https://crafts.stackexchange.com/questions/3316/how-to-measu...
      • Areading314 7y ago
        Don't worry about perspective drawing. This is a much more technical subject, separate from the skill of "drawing what you see".
• oblib 7y ago
  I've been watching youtube videos about ancient cultures and sites. Some of them are lectures that are very well down, others go off on some pretty silly tangents but the videos of the sites they show are often pretty good and that's as close as I'll ever get to visiting most of them so I focus on that when they get to talking about aliens building them and what not. I think I've about exhausted that line though. I've also spent a bit of time watching youtube videos on a channel called "RÜNGE CARS". This guy hand forms aluminum bodies and builds his own chassis and they're pretty cool cars he making. The craftsmanship is impressive and so is the process. He pretty much takes you through it step by step. I still have quite a few of those to take in. Aside from that CouchDB 3.0 was release just a couple weeks ago so I'm learning about what's new and how it applies to my work. They're doing some impressive work on that.
  • Beefin 7y ago
    ancient cultures videos sound cool, and recs?
    • sddhrthrt 7y ago
      +1
      • brutus1213 7y ago
        I am a fan of old history docs. Search for mesopotamia on youtube for a fascinating one. I also like medieval ones. Check out A history of Britain. Any recs on your side? No aliens pls :)
• janderson3 7y ago
  Toki Pona. It it's a constructed language that has recently hit the front page of HN a couple of times. It's been fun. Helps reorganize your thoughts a little bit and it's good practice for learning a more complicated language.
• darrmit 7y ago
  I’m a product manager working on a large distributed platform and spent the weekend trying to deploy the various microservices that make up the platform to a dev machine using Docker. I wasn’t totally successful but had a blast doing it!
• platelminto 7y ago
  I'm studying Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists [1] - until I found this book, I thought anything covering quantum would be too physics oriented. As the title implies, this book is nothing like that, covering all the mathematics needed (matrices and relevant operations) to then understand various topics within QC ranging from Algorithms to Programming Languages to Cryptography, all in largely self-contained chapters. I'm currently working through the Algorithms chapter, which builds up from Deutsch's Algorithm [2] all the way to Shor's Factoring Algorithm [3], but I will definitely end up going through most of the chapters. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computing-Computer-Scientists-Yanofsky/dp/0521879965 https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computing-Computer-Scientists... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch%E2%80%93Jozsa_algorithm#Deutsch's_algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch%E2%80%93Jozsa_algorith... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm
• amerkhalid 7y ago
  Game dev. Being trapped inside, nothing is better escape than video games. We are watching a lot of TV but there are not many shows or movies that get you jumping off your couch in frustration or excitement like video games do. So started playing a lot more video games than usual. Got Dreams on PS4 which ignited my childhood dream of making video games. Now I am playing with Unity, Unreal, Swift, Xamarin, and more.
• jefftk 7y ago
  I'm learning how electronic music works and trying to merge it with the kinds of live music I've mostly played before. Sort of like, if someone were inventing the organ now, what would they do? Here's where I am so far: https://www.jefftk.com/p/rhythm-stage-setup-v3 https://www.jefftk.com/p/rhythm-stage-setup-v3
• vagabond_appen 7y ago
  I've bee learning- - Korean. I've meaning to learn it for a long time, but due to exams, never been able to do so. - I want to get into Bug Bounties, I have going through hacker101 and TryHackMe rooms.
• happyrock 7y ago
  Clojure!
• nihilazo 7y ago
  I'm learning sewing! It's very far off usual HN things but it's nice to do something completely different to what you usually do.
• chairfield 7y ago
  I'm learning how to level up my more fundamental life skills: nutrition, exercise, and character. Character I'm learning through the study of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People which I'm working through with a friend. For exercise, I'm enjoying learning a safe kettlebell program with the book Simple and Sinister. With nutrition, I'm just trying to cook/prepare all my own meals while keeping the ingredients healthy. I've spent so much time studying skills more directly related to my work as a software engineer, or hobbies like photography, that this shift is both challenging and refreshing. I think it'll make a huge difference in the long run.
  • lifthearth 7y ago
    I have been pursuing similar goals. Except for exercise I've been learning rope dart and also have the goal of being more clean and being better at organizing my spaces. I have also found that focusing on the fundamentals has done wonders for my health, energy levels, and mood. I wish I had taken time to figure this stuff out better years ago.
  • mettamage 7y ago
    > I've spent so much time studying skills more directly related to my work as a software engineer, or hobbies like photography, that this shift is both challenging and refreshing. I think it'll make a huge difference in the long run. It did for me. My path seems to be flipped. I did this stuff in my late teens and early twenties and after that I decided to get into software.
  • Kezzo 7y ago
    For nutrition and diet I can highly recommend "How Not To Die" by Dr. Michael Gregger: https://nutritionfacts.org/book/ https://nutritionfacts.org/book/
    • Amesharea 7y ago
      Isn't he completely anti-meat / pro-vegan? His research is cherry picked to a large part and he usually cites epidemiological studies. At least he did when I got into nutrition. Reading multiple books and doing research yourself is to recommend, at least there's one book with a whole website about the research used in each topic. ---> Boundless by Ben Greenfield.
• xutopia 7y ago
  How to make croissants.
• indytechcook 7y ago
  Finally getting to doing Ben Eaters 8-bit computer build: https://eater.net/8bit https://eater.net/8bit.
• xthetrfd 7y ago
  I am trying to improve my web development skills by writing a chat application. I will implement saving messages to the database next. Also I want to learn something ml-ish probably play with opencv or pytorch.
• TaylorGood 7y ago
  How to run a DTC business. Everything that has tried to stop this has, but I keep pushing forward.
• rc-1140 7y ago
  Trying to develop (ha) some web development skills and I was studying interview questions. I've never done anything web-related outside of making API calls, so I'm reading "The Little ASP.NET Core Book" by Nate Barbettini. I appreciate that the author is focusing on presenting the things one needs to know to do $"{foo}" so far, other materials are either too wordy or are really childish/tasteless. I started doing Leetcode several months ago because I wanted to change jobs soon, but it's really exposing what not having a traditional CS background is costing me. I feel guilty looking at the answers on there and in Cracking the Coding Interview but I genuinely don't know how to make things faster. Seeing some of the answers in CTCI after attempting some of the string related questions made me ask myself "well, why wasn't that talked about in the informational section preceding the questions?"
  • wenc 7y ago
    For ASP.NET Core check out Pluralsight. Got me up to speed in 2 weeks.
• olalonde 7y ago
  Writing my first library/cli in Rust. Never felt so productive in a systems level language but I still quite haven't internalized the variable ownership system and will probably look back at my code in a few months with total disgust. I'm on Rust's discord server (https://discord.gg/rust-lang https://discord.gg/rust-lang) if any fellow learners want to chat.
  • pcvonz 7y ago
    I too started picking up Rust with the goal of trying out embedded development. I'm taking it slow though -- working through the book and a little cli tool. I am also on the discord.
• aeden 7y ago
  I've been learning about Firebase by building something for fun.
• ctrager 7y ago
  Violin duets. Worst case, I can learn both parts, record one part, and then play the duet with myself.
• rdc12 7y ago
  Making my way through the Robotics Specialization (Penn Uni series) on Coursera, almost finished the first course on Aerial Robotics. By the end of the year I hope to have built a autonomous drone, with a custom flight controller (both motor control and sensing).
• _hardwaregeek 7y ago
  I'm learning the ins and outs of WebAssembly. I just picked back up writing my compiler to WASM for my toy programming language (think JS crossed with ML). Right now I'm getting a feel for writing stack based bytecode and implementing basic features like local variables and control flow. It's not much, but I just got factorial to compile in my language which felt totally awesome.
  • enos_feedler 7y ago
    This sounds really neat. Do you have an open source repo for this? Would love to check it out. What framework are you using to write the compiler itself? LLVM, or something else?
    • _hardwaregeek 7y ago
      Here's the repo: https://github.com/nicholaslyang/saber https://github.com/nicholaslyang/saber Fair warning, the code is quite gnarly. I'm not using any frameworks. Took a bit to figure out code generating wasm, but once I got the basic emitter/IR working it got a little easier. Plus you start being able to read the binary format after a bit of practice.
  • cjbprime 7y ago
    Nice! FWIW I've been solving some wasm challenges in infosec Capture The Flag events and it's a nice way to learn the bytecode.
    • _hardwaregeek 7y ago
      Cool! So far I've been reading the spec and looking at the output of wat2wasm.
      • cjbprime 7y ago
        I really like using Firefox's debugger -- you can step through bytecode as if it was JS.
• dullroar 7y ago
  dotnet interactive (aka Jupyter notebook with a C# kernel). Been using it along with XPlot.Plotly to chart various CV datasets from JHU, the NYT, etc,
• werber 7y ago
  I got a tattoo gun. I’ve wanted to learn since the nineties and I’m loving it. Dumb, but I did my first one on myself today and it was so satisfying to accomplish something I’d totally given up on
• pezo1919 7y ago
  Learning about health and covid to maximize chances of survival of me (27) and my parents (53).
• CodeGlitch 7y ago
  Janani Ravi's Machine Learning course on PluralSight[1] It's using scikit-learn, which I've been meaning to pick-up for awhile. Other than that, learning how to use the ELK stack (ElasticSearch, Kibana) for some network-traffic analysis stuff I've been meaning to implement. I think we'll all come out of this period a lot smarter :) [1] https://pluralsight.com https://pluralsight.com
• Lorin 7y ago
  I learned about mutant testing earlier this week (testing your tests by semi-randomized source code modification). Cool talk about the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNMBOj7JUPs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNMBOj7JUPs
• piercebot 7y ago
  Patience.
• troxwalt 7y ago
  How to take care of a toddler from 5 AM - 8 PM while trying to manage work and phone calls. Then how to not fall asleep while I"m working on projects until 1 AM. So learning how to function on 4-6 hours of sleep.
  • divbzero 7y ago
    I have a renewed appreciation of so much that we usually take for granted, chief among those are the contributions of our teachers and child care professionals.
    • golemiprague 7y ago
      Most teachers don't have to deal with toddlers and the ones that do don't have to do another job while taking care of the toddler. It is not such a big deal unlike being a full time housewife which does have to take care of toddlers while doing other house jobs. The economic value of a full time housewife is probably bigger than many of the jobs done by women in the office.
  • afurculita 7y ago
    Same here. Also trying to learn a new language without a dictionary: the toddler's cry, and trying to learn to make myself fall asleep on command, but being awake in the same time.
  • cmdshiftf4 7y ago
    >Then how to not fall asleep while I"m working on projects until 1 AM. So learning how to function on 4-6 hours of sleep. Try to take a ~30 minute nap in the evening somewhere that is quiet and comfortable but not the bed you sleep in. 4 hours isn't sustainable for long, but I've found a nap in the evening is sufficient to let me run effectively on 5-6 hours. I say somewhere that isn't your bed because I've found that if you settle in the bed it can be far more difficult to get moving again, and also you can start to associate the bed with naps and have more difficulty getting to sleep when you mean to later, and staying asleep.
    • 7y ago
• bcrosby95 7y ago
  Been learning Elixir. I loved Erlang and Elixir smooths out a lot of the rough edges for me. Planning to use it for a web-based multiplayer RPG.
• uoaei 7y ago
  Nonlinear optimization algorithms. At work I'm working on anomaly detection using ML at the edge and want to move beyond bog-standard stochastic gradient descent to fit the model(s) in favor of methods that exploit the use of analytical Jacobians / Hessians. So I'm comparing and contrasting the various nonlinear (gradient-based) optimization methods for my use cases and trying to see how fast I can make them run.
• hrnnnnnn 7y ago
  How to build synthesisers using The Grid in bitwig studio. It's a modular construction kit for synths that takes advantage of the fact that it's software, rather than trying to ape physical synth modules.
• focodev 7y ago
  I'm entering my junior year in a CS program and just had my internship opportunities rescinded because of the virus. So I'm home taking a docker / K8s course on Udemy as well as a Spring Boot course.
  • cdiddy2 7y ago
    Aw man, sorry to hear that. Sounds like your making the best of it though!
• war1025 7y ago
  I spent a couple hours this afternoon trying to start a fire with a cheap magnifying glass. If I had a decent tinder bundle I would have succeeded. Amazing how easy it is to get something smoking. Burnt a whole bunch of stuff, just never managed to get to fire.
  • skellera 7y ago
    I used to draw on planks of wood with a magnifying glass when a I was a kid. Could add another thing for you to do!
  • Breza 7y ago
    May I suggest dryer lint as tinder. I keep all of mine in a bucket for just that purpose.
    • war1025 7y ago
      I'll have to give that a try next time. We have some Lamb's Ear [1] in our garden that I had a decent amount of success with, but I used up most of the dead stuff from last year over the course of the afternoon. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stachys_byzantina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stachys_byzantina
• ineedasername 7y ago
  Improving my python skills by implementing programs that utilize an API for an LMS product to better provide analysis of increased use of online learning tools
• Veera_Sivarajan 7y ago
  I'm learning Mandarin and Web Development
• tootie 7y ago
  GCP and Kubernetes so I am better versed in talking a client out of using it.
• eaguyhn 7y ago
  I wanted to do some simple tabulations on COVID19 data so I did some work with Excel and public datasets. Never used Power Query before, so learned that.
• zitterbewegung 7y ago
  Started learning more about AR. Trying to make an app for people to practice social distancing using AR. Basically to visualize how far 1-2m away is .
• tombert 7y ago
  I decided to learn how to digital paint. Art has always been a blind spot to me, and while I’ve played with Photoshop and Krita before, I’ve never really learned how to do art. I’ve had an idea for a comic series kicking around in my head; I figure if I really learn how to use a graphics tablet and Krita and some basic and intermediate art skills it won’t hurt a damn thing.
• jccalhoun 7y ago
  I'm (slowly) rewriting a userscript I wrote a few years ago by adding in some niceties. I'm not a programmer so there is a lot of learning going on here. I also got an apple pencil so I'm learning to draw with it and getting back into drawing which I haven't done much of in 20 years.
• rayhendricks 7y ago
  Right now webdev in general, specifically Angela Yu’s course udemy. Decided that for the flushable future my industry (biotech) is not howling so time to do something more profitable for awhile.
• miqkt 7y ago
  D3 for work, and Russian out of pure (seemingly masochistic) interest. I'm a native English speaker and Russian would be my fourth language. Perhaps I'm simply approaching the limits of my language ability, but the grammar rules with cases that I've learnt so far are doing my head in. It's very discouraging. I don't intend on becoming completely fluent, and so I'm trying to find shortcuts to be fuzzy about the volume of grammar rules to keep in mind.
  • CGamesPlay 7y ago
    I'm also learning Russian at the moment! I'm a native English speaker and am presently dealing with the current global events while cooped up in Siberia. What have you found difficult? What resources are you using? For me, I tried memorizing the rules for cases, but it was a complete waste of time: it was trivia disconnected from any usage of the language. What is (slowly) working for me is focusing on a single phrase with common words (e.g. в сибири, два пива). Aside from the obvious resources (a good app/textbook; Anki), I have really learned a lot of the fiddly bits from this YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/russiangrammar https://www.youtube.com/user/russiangrammar
    • miqkt 7y ago
      Oh wow, stay safe! Thank you for sharing your experiences and the YouTube channel recommendation. I've been alternating between the interactive lessons on http://learnrussian.rt.com/ http://learnrussian.rt.com/ and "The New Penguin Russian Course". I've been enjoying the former a lot more because there's audio to accompany written content, which helps when I try to enunciate words. There are also tests, which helps me measure retention. The latter book feels more like dry reading to me, but coverage seems very comprehensive. I haven't been learning for all that long, but the two things that have been regularly catching me out are: - Knowing which "o" letters in the word are stressed, in order to pronounce it correctly (I default to reading them as "o" when they should instead be "a") - Looking up new words in sentences is a bit harder because they often occur in conjugated forms (i.e. not only verbs, but nouns too)
      • 7y ago
• zaphod420 7y ago
  I'm learning hoon. https://urbit.org/docs/tutorials/hoon/setup/ https://urbit.org/docs/tutorials/hoon/setup/
• duxup 7y ago
  Playing with Firebase. Auth is super handy. On the other hand I didn't anticipate how wired my brain is for SQL...
• namaljayathunga 7y ago
  As my company is going to build a prediction app, I'm Currently learning Data Science, Big Data, Python and Sever Scaling. Because of the Corona situation, I'm currently working at Home. So, I have time to learn more, however, It is boring to learn while home.
• wolfgang000 7y ago
  c# + asp.net core, after working for 3 (painful)years in java I wanted to try the "Java done right", so far it has been a really pleasant experience, not so nice as Python + Django or Ruby + RoR, but light years ahead of spring boot.
• Andow 7y ago
  As a native English monolunguist I'm learning Russian. Rust for a side project I've just started. Music production techniques and how modular synthesis works. I also started skateboarding a couple of months ago after around a 8 year break so I'm getting my flat ground practice on my patio haha (although I'm taking it easy for obvious reasons)
  • zamalek 7y ago
    I'm about 3 weeks into Rust right now. You'll probably want to use it exclusively in short order.
  • mindv0rtex 7y ago
    Let me know if you have any question about Russian (email in profile) :-) And I am a Rust learner too!
  • evsamsonov 7y ago
    Could you say please what is the motivation to learn Russian?
• vladmk 7y ago
  Sales and marketing through starting my agency, everything else is secondary in business.
• tim333 7y ago
  Rails. And also presentation skills by recording myself to camera, replaying and repeating.
  • lunarraid 7y ago
    I'm about 40 hours into learning Rails myself, and talk about hitting wall. Learning from home on your own with no mentor is brutal, especially since there is a very specific thing I am trying to do, so the basic TODO apps just don't cut it.
    • tim333 7y ago
      Rails is actually quite hard in my opinion. I was working through "Getting Started with Rails" where you make a blog with posts they call articles and counting the number of ways the word article pops up in code. I'm up to 14 now, Article, article, articles, Articles @articles, articles_path etc, some of which you type in and some which are magically generated and pluralized, singalized, lower cased or whatever. I guess experienced rails devs know all that stuff backwards but there's a lot of not very obvious things to get your head around.
• tjohns 7y ago
  I just got my private pilot's license in December, so I'm studying for my instrument rating right now. (New pilots are restricted to flying in "visual" conditions - clear weather. The instrument rating allows flying in reduced visibility conditions.)
• davemo 7y ago
  I’ve been working on my music production skills with a learn monthly class from Andrew Huang. It’s been good to push myself into production; I have many years of live music experience but haven’t spent a lot of time recording. I’d classify my style as synth wave meets 80s arena rock for the current track I’ve been working on :) My learning path is here [0] and I’ve also been uploading works in progress to my soundcloud [1] [0] https://learnmonthly.com/u/dave-mosher-e2bc26/andrew-huang-music https://learnmonthly.com/u/dave-mosher-e2bc26/andrew-huang-m... [1] https://m.soundcloud.com/dmosher https://m.soundcloud.com/dmosher
  • hrnnnnnn 7y ago
    Synthwave meets arena rock? If you haven't heard it already you're going to love this! https://youtu.be/98DDgbtE-eU https://youtu.be/98DDgbtE-eU
    • davemo 7y ago
      haha this was epic! thanks for sharing :D
• stevetursi 7y ago
  Spanish, and Category Theory I can't tell yet which is harder. Both are pretty tough.
• master_yoda_1 7y ago
  I have to work harder now? I am not sure how people get time to learn in this quarantine?
• _nothing 7y ago
  The Trickeration Routine, a solo jazz routine by the late Norma Miller, one of the original Whitey's Lindy Hoppers from the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. It's one of the harder group routines out there because unlike the very popular Shim Sham[1], there are no repeating sections. Also just started trying to learn Svelte today. And I'm about to jump on the breadmaking bandwagon. Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIhi4BuDSf4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIhi4BuDSf4 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF9WmOlO4ww https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF9WmOlO4ww
• strategarius 7y ago
  Currently I'm learning video editing on Davinci Resolve. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/ https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/ I collect examples of advanced C++. Noticed the lack of educational content at this subject, and planning a short course, something like "Exceptional C++" style, but on video. In our distributed team we have a practice to make video presentations for colleagues, so I have experience of delivering visual content to tech audience. However, I see that particular course like a high-quality content, with diagrams, animations etc. That's how I found Davinci Resolve, and you know, it's fun to learn it (even it crashes more than production-ready application supposed to). The only thing that buzz me, is not to forget about the initial goal:)
  • Farbklex 7y ago
    Video editing is a very usefull skill. It's rewarding to be able to quickly trim, stitch and edit some clips and maybe throw in some effects here and there. Davinci Resolve is a surprisingly good tool and for a non-professional it would be my no. 1 recommendation.
  • freddref 7y ago
    I edited my first video this weekend after installing kdenlive and watching a couple of tutorials on youtube. Learning even the simplest things in another area can be very empowering and rewarding. https://kdenlive.org https://kdenlive.org Super slow intro to the tool itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIIdOlnpRzQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIIdOlnpRzQ Simple but effective techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX_xMXzr2XY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX_xMXzr2XY
• jiux 7y ago
  My 6 year old daughter and I are building a quadruped walking cat robot. We are both learning a lot of new concepts as we go. Our robot is not operational yet, so I will include a YouTube link below of the creator with a couple of his own completed “cats”. https://youtu.be/OrYmIbtmmJI https://youtu.be/OrYmIbtmmJI
• RocketSyntax 7y ago
  I'd like to learn Node and Plotly next so that I can build some UIs in JupyterLab 2.0
• praveenpenumaka 7y ago
  I'm learning how xgboost and numpy works internally by implementing them in golang
• ch33zer 7y ago
  Quantum Computing for the Very Curious: https://quantum.country/qcvc https://quantum.country/qcvc Wonderful into to the topic and easy to understand. It's my first foray into the field so I really appreciate the Author's writing style.
  • luis8 7y ago
    This is awesome! thank you for sharing it. I was looking for something like this.
• pm2222 7y ago
  Clojure, clj tools, figwheel-main, leiningen, sqlite, https, certificates, csrf, reagent, uberjar, smtp. For one app.
• HanQi 7y ago
  I am taking this course[1]: Programming Languages. It emphasizes on big ideas behind languages and functional programming which is very interesting and enlightening.You will implement a type checker and interpreter through this course(I am struggling ML's pattern matching now but feel quite pleasant ). [1]https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages/ https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages/
  • johndoe42377 7y ago
    One of the best courses ever.
    • guhsnamih 7y ago
      Yes, the only course I ever finished and finished wiser of the scores I must have enrolled in so far.
  • Monkoton1 7y ago
    I took this course with Dan at UW. It was definitely one of my favorite classes. The way he taught made things really interesting.
• state_less 7y ago
  I’m trying to free my mind from the usual grind.
• emmanueloga_ 7y ago
  I started before covid, but I'm learning Clojure, XSLT/XQuery/XPath 3.0, SPARQL, RDF* and SHACL. I look forward building a personal knowledge base combining all these.
• thomashobohm 7y ago
  I'm still in school and am just starting to get into more difficult math; right now I'm learning introductory odes, vector calculus, and introductory analysis. All three are really enjoyable, but in some ways vector calculus and differential equations feel like a review, in that the hardest part of each is just the calculus I've forgotten since Calculus I-III. I find analysis to be the most interesting course because of how novel it is. I remember at the start of the semester, it was so confusing; the concepts weren't difficult to grasp, but I just didn't understand why we were learning what we were learning, or what it had to do with calculus, for which we were supposedly trying to develop some theoretical foundation. But as the weeks went on, I began to appreciate the beauty of the subject, in small increments. I began to understand why the real numbers were constructed just so, and why we needed to understand ideas like compactness before we could talk about ideas like convergence. One quote about analysis that I read online somewhere is that you should study it until it starts to feel "natural." At the time, I guess it sounded true, but I didn't appreciate what it actually meant. Now, I'm starting to. It takes a lot of effort to digest each new lecture, but I'm excited to see what the rest of the course holds, and to graduate to "real analysis" afterwards.
• shivekkhurana 7y ago
  I have lost my contract as a developer and am helping a non-profit [1] streamline their operations. The organization aims to provide food and heath kits to the marginalized. We have already distributed over 600 kits and are on track to reach a 1000 in this week. Each kit is designed to support a family of 4 for 1 month. I was introduced to them by a friend who was helping them build an open platform [2], open in the sense that all processes, donations, procurement and guides are public. Although my core competency is building and managing Saas, I took up the task of setting up their operations. I find a striking similarity b/w managing Saas and not-for-profit distribution. We are relying heavily on Airtable. Despite of being jobless, I feel less worried. The situation on ground is much worse than mine. --- [1] https://karuna2020.org https://karuna2020.org [2] https://open-data.karuna2020.org https://open-data.karuna2020.org
  • square_usual 7y ago
    Thank you for your service!
  • niyazpk 7y ago
    >> For just ₹750, our food and wellness kit can feed a family for a whole month. 750 INR = 9.84 USD It would be nice if you can make it easy to provide donations from outside India.
    • shivekkhurana 7y ago
      We are working on that!
      • manoj_venkat92 7y ago
        Nice work. I'm a indian dev. Let me know if there's any work for me to do.
  • MAMAMassakali 7y ago
    How can I contribute on the software side?
• verandaguy 7y ago
  Norwegian! Originally, I was going to do a hiking and photography tour of Fennoscandia in the Fall. I'm not sure if that'll still come to pass with the ever-looming collapse of society, but at least it's pretty refreshing to learn a new (non-programming) language for the first time in over a decade, and for the first time in my adult life.
  • erikpl 7y ago
    I am a native Norwegian speaker! How is it going so far?
    • verandaguy 7y ago
      I'm slowly going through the Duolingo tree :) Went into it with pretty much zero knowledge of the language, and the thing that caught me most off-guard were some of the non-phonetic spellings, like _jeg_ and _kjøpper_, but else the actual grammar is similar enough to English that it's not causing too many issues!
• adnauseum 7y ago
  I'm continuing to study graph theory and learning Lisp via Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (with the original 1986 lectures).
  • ChicagoBoy11 7y ago
    Lots of joy ahead! Love those lectures.
    • brutus1213 7y ago
      Are those online somewhere?
• robbyyy 7y ago
  Trying to better grok the potential to use audio (focusing on creative expression) as a medium to navigate smartphone apps and digital properties in general.
• akirakurusu 7y ago
  Cantonese - it is an incredibly rich language with tons of regional differences, slang, and history spanning thousands of years, way more rich than modern Mandarin. The fact that it has fewer resources online to learn it has made me more resourceful at finding good books, academic grammar articles, and has gotten me deep into HK pop culture. I'm a native romance language speaker and Cantonese is so fundamentally different in its structure than my language it is a joy to learn. Unfortunately, the CCP is constantly cracking down on the language, with a very political campaign to dismiss it as a "dialect" despite it being mutually unintelligible with Mandarin and having its own independent history.
  • zkid18 7y ago
    What is your background? By the time I lived in HK I found it more difficult to study compare to Mandarin in terms of speaking and listening. Though learning traditional characters seems more exciting. But now I live in Japan, Japanese has more intersections between Cantonese rather than Mandarin
  • qeng-ho 7y ago
    I'm curious; are you studying Cantonese or Taishanese or some other variant? Asking simply because Cantonese is pretty mutually intelligible with Mandarin; I'm a native Mandarin and Cantonese speaker and barring some vocabulary (and pronunciation which is often just slightly "off-sounding" Mandarin), they're almost identical.
    • akirakurusu 7y ago
      Been studying standard HK Cantonese for almost 2 years at this point, can understand a wide variety of written Cantonese, news, stories, but cannot even read a basic mandarin sentence I see on wechat. Cantonese having 6 tones (with 9 in some regional variants). There are over 2200 different syllables in Cantonese, more than twice the number in Mandarin: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Chinese-languages/Standard-Cantonese https://www.britannica.com/topic/Chinese-languages/Standard-.... I'd argue the majority of daily vocabulary is completely different, both in writing and in pronunciation, than its mandarin counterpart, such as some of the most commonly used words 而家，頭先，邊個，喺唔喺係，佢哋，講，有冇，點解，佢同佢講，畀 as in 我講畀佢聽，聽日，尋日，嗰陣時，嗰個，嗰啲， I could go on and on. Even after all this time, I didn't know the characters 是 or 哪里 until learning them a few weeks ago. Likewise, if I were a native mandarin speaker and heard the relatively simple, common sentence 佢哋而家喺邊度呀 spoken to me, I would understand exactly 0% of it. Grammar is significantly different with word placement, nuance of ending particles, usage of adverbial comparisons using Noun + V + 得 + 過 + Noun, using 畀，未。。。添, etc. I cannot understand a shred of mandarin when spoken to me, despite being able to communicate conversationally and understand most of spoken Cantonese from others. https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1211 https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1211. There are varieties of sources analyzing the etymology of words in sinitic languages as well as their grammar structures and phonologies. Both languages are far from being mutually intelligible for monolingual speakers. Perhaps being a native speaker in both has allowed you to have a comprehensive mental-map of their isomorphisms.
• ChicagoBoy11 7y ago
  Unity has made all of their premium ed content free for a few months, so trying to absorb as much of it as I can!
• AnyTimeTraveler 7y ago
  I'm a informatics student and am currently studying online. My focus is on embedded programming and I am currently working on a side-job, where I program an embedded device that is going to act as a wildlife deterrent to protect deer from ending up in wheat fields that are about to be harvested. I have many hobby projects next to that and can never finish any of those, but they are also only motivated by 'oh that might a cool thing'. I have not yet found a side project which solves a problem big enough to motivate me to actually finish it.
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• c0deb0t 7y ago
  High school is out so I am learning SIMD instruction sets, like AVX2 and SSE, and using these to speed up Hamming/Levenshtein distance calculations in Rust. Preliminary testing shows a 20x speedup using vectorized SIMD operations! The end goal is a full Rust library for edit distance routines. Sneak peek of the code: https://twitter.com/daniel_c0deb0t/status/1242248381558190080?s=20 https://twitter.com/daniel_c0deb0t/status/124224838155819008...
  • uoaei 7y ago
    You could also consider providing bioinformatics routines such as global and local sequence alignment. Under the hood they're very similar algorithms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_alignment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_alignment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needleman%E2%80%93Wunsch_algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needleman%E2%80%93Wunsch_algor... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Waterman_algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Waterman_algorit...
    • c0deb0t 7y ago
      Though I probably won't implement the different weighting schemes, I currently have alignment traceback and searching (allow "free shifts" for the pattern string) features.
      • mattclase 7y ago
        Here's another recent SIMD aligner if you're interested: https://github.com/langmead-lab/vargas https://github.com/langmead-lab/vargas
        • c0deb0t 7y ago
          I took a look at the code, and read the paper. It seems that they directly calculate the entire 2D DP array, but use SIMD to allow each cell to contain multiple values, one for each query string. My approach uses anti-diagonals instead, but it is fast for one vs one comparisons, instead of handling multiple query strings. Regardless, my goal was to learn some SIMD and Rust (first time for both), so I did not read many background papers.
• notjustanymike 7y ago
  Engineering manager and tech lead here. Today I made banana bread for the first time and it's delicious!
• asdfzalsd 7y ago
  Reading various biographies! Some of the books on my list are: The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí Doctor Goebbels: His Life and Death I, Claudius by Robert Graves The Agony and the Ecstasy Lust for Life Carl Jung Memories, Dreams and Reflections. Stephen King - On Writing
• joecasson 7y ago
  More about Adobe Premier Pro. I've been doing video editing for a couple of years as a hobby, and I am continually amazed at the depths you can go in video production. I'm also learning that you can only do so much in post. Sometimes, you just need a different shot.
• sonalr 7y ago
  Learning a new language, Received a Rust book for my bday so finally get around that.
• markus_zhang 7y ago
  Trying to adapt WFH as our team tends to work overtime and WFH simply compounds it. On the other hand, trying to figure out what to learn after adaption...
• contingencies 7y ago
  Learning again, albeit temporarily, how not to live like an entrepreneur: it's pleasant, and my body is thanking me.
• jdkee 7y ago
  Finally getting around to some discrete mathematics texts and the foundations of mathematics. All driven by an intense desire to understand the Busy Beaver function.
• gentryb 7y ago
  I've learned a ton about the homeless population and shelter process. I've been a volunteer leading health assessments and triage (via volunteer Telehealth nurses) at our local men's shelter. The shelter has even experienced a complete move in the last week. A few huge points, however: * Homelessness isn't always a choice - and especially in this situation it's causing panic. * Our shelter system needs much greater support, and many organizations need better communication and integration. * Paper is alive and well some places, others are quite a bit better technologically. There is much room for process improvement. * While I am selfishly getting out of my own house and interacting with people, none of them are in anywhere near an ideal situation - and it's affected my mental health somewhat. I'm grateful for personal protective equipment, but reuse does concern me. So much more I could go on about, but I can say during this period I've learned a ton more about homelessness, the process, and have kept people from entering the shelter thanks to our fantastic volunteer nurses who need to practice in a limited capacity for COVID-19 screening. Volunteering is also something that has turned into quite a calling for me right now as well.
  • toss1 7y ago
    >> I'm grateful for personal protective equipment, but reuse does concern me To help with this, studies indicate that you can heat items in the oven at 70C for 30 minutes for effective sterilization without compromising the masks. More detail at [1]. My household is also using this technique on things like incoming mail, etc. Bravo on your work - stay safe! [1] http://www.imcclinics.com/english/index.php/news/view?id=83 http://www.imcclinics.com/english/index.php/news/view?id=83
• raghavankl 7y ago
  Learning React Native, being a backend developer I lost in touch with front end development. It is interesting to explore this realm of the stack.
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• dctaflin 7y ago
  Two things: German and Differential Geometry. German is just because it's fun and it's my best second language by far, so I'd like to get fully fluent. Differential Geometry is a diversion from working through Gravitation by Misner, Thorne, et al. I found I needed more math. Now it has kind of become an end in itself, however. It's the hardest thing I've studied since college (which was a long time ago).
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• iomcr 7y ago
  Crystal Lang - I couldn't find a JS framework I liked that also had good Typescript support, so I took a longshot in building a no-js webapp.
• lifeformed 7y ago
  I've been reading through Bartosz Milewski's Category Theory for Programmers, and trying to do all the challenge questions. https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/ https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...
  • EduardLev 7y ago
    I’m working on this as well. I found a couple of people who posted their solutions online, but some of the questions are tricker than others. Wish there was an answer key!
• bby 7y ago
  Learning to increase my sexual prowess via experimentation.
• devgoth 7y ago
  im learning clojure and building a web app. honestly this is by far the coolest language ive used and i love it. im having so much fun. outside of that im trying to learn polish as well
• lappet 7y ago
  I am learning how to get better at writing short stories in April by participating in Camp Nanowrimo https://nanowrimo.org/what-is-camp-nanowrimo https://nanowrimo.org/what-is-camp-nanowrimo
• welcher 7y ago
  I'm in my junior year of University. My semester is predominantly General Education requirements. Here's a breakdown of what we're learning about: - World Civilization I: At this point in time, the course is following the Cro-Magnon's during the Mesolithic age, specifically around the time that the Neanderthals/Denisovans go extinct and Cro-Magnons evolve into Homo Sapiens Sapiens. This is also around the time that Cro-Magnon-Neanderthal hybrids cross the Beringia Bridge into modern day Alaska. During this time, there's shifts in every single aspect of life on Earth. I've uploaded the most recent lecture notes for those that are interested. https://textuploader.com/14j86 https://textuploader.com/14j86 - Astronomy II: This has been my favorite course this semester (aside from Computer Systems). My professor does an amazing job presenting the concepts and his passion is very apparent as he teaches. Unfortunately, that effect has been greatly reduced, with classes now being online. The other downer about online class is that I won't be able to use the telescopes for lab. Stemming from our previous sections, which covered the Sun, star formation, and star evolution, we're now covering the various models presented throughout time that tried to reason our position within the Milky Way through stargazing. Here's the lecture if you care to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?=AUlr2hlAPcM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?=AUlr2hlAPcM&feature=youtu.be - Technical Writing: Project 2, that accounts for 30% of my grade, was due Friday. The objective was to create documentation for a program or application. I was having a hard time finding a program, application, package, framework, or language I used, that wasn't already documented to a high enough standard (coincidence? :P). I didn't want to replicate any documentation that already existed so I decided to write an Angular library for creating a vertical or horizontal timeline and documentation for it. I turned it in two hours late, so I most likely will not get credit. Publishing my own code for others to use brought me more joy than I would've imagined. - Computer Systems I: The lectures have been covering pipelining, control / data dependencies, forwarding paths, etc. It's extremely fun. In lab, we're programming the Y86-64 ISA using C++. Besides that stuff and my dance class, where we've learned about the dance throughout the 1900s to present, I've been going through a Udemy course on Kubernetes in preparation for my summer internship and CKA.
• nojvek 7y ago
  How to raise a good human, be a good dad and husband. Relationships take a lot of commitment and effort. It took me a while to learn how to communicate effectively with my wife so we’re fighting problems and not each other. Babies really test your patience. They are hard to reason with so I have to keep my emotions in check and always be calm even if she is throwing a massive fit. But sometimes they really get your nerves when they cry non-stop for half an hour.
  • reallydontask 7y ago
    > But sometimes they really get your nerves when they cry non-stop for half an hour. For no apparent reason ... sigh Are you using any resources that you'd care to share?
    • MikeTheGreat 7y ago
      Develop a checklist of stuff to try: 1. Does the diaper need changing? 2. Does the baby want a diaper? 3. Does the baby want to be held? 4. Maybe some clothing is uncomfortable for it? 5. Does the baby need to be burped? 6. etc. Walk through the list until something works or until the baby + you pass out. If you spend 2-5 minutes on each item it'll take maybe 20-30 minutes to go through it. If it doesn't work the first time (and you haven't thought of / noticed anything else while going through the list...) then do it again. It feels good to have a plan, it gives you something to do that might help, and for those occasions when nothing works it at least helps pass the time :)
      • TeMPOraL 7y ago
        7. Is the baby hungry? 8. Is it too cold/too hot for the baby? 9. Does the baby have a rash in the diaper area? 10. Could the baby be teething (may start earlier than 6 months in)? I agree, it's good to memorize or even write down these things. Over time, one learns to move quickly through that list, and which items are more likely at what time. (RE 8. it's easy to worry so much about the baby having it warm that you end up overheating it.)
• ronyfadel 7y ago
  - Brushing up on my spanish since I moved to Latin America. - I’m learning UX design and Sketch to become better at making my own designs for my software.
• mapandey 7y ago
  Datomic https://www.datomic.com https://www.datomic.com
• prashant93y 7y ago
  I am learning Data Structures and Algorithms, and solving problems on LeetCode. The goal is to get selected in FAANG.
• birdyrooster 7y ago
  golang
• non-entity 7y ago
  Trying to figure out how to teach myself EE. It looks like theres basically two suggestions: A) Following the same sort of curriculum a university would teach. I'd have to manage to dredge through the math, but I suppose it's possible but would lead to probably the most competence. Unfortunately however, I was hoping for the big MOOC sites to have more content. EdX has some decent introductory stuff but not much beyond that. B) The other recommended way is the hobbyist way and what I suspect most other software people wouldnauggest which is just building shit that interests you, ignoring first principles. Unfortunately I'm not sure how this would work out, since my projects in any domain seem to be a bit, er, grand and you supposedly need a strong math background to build anything more than basic circuits. I'd dread the math a lot less if it were more cut and dry. I wish I could just jump right to calc, differential equations, linear algebra, etc. But more realistically, it would involve me hunt and picking parts of algebra and embarrassingly even simpler stuff. I was looking at some Khan academy stuff and while it turns out I remember more than I thought, theres still plenty I had forgot even existed. Another alternative that seems good, but not realistic is that there are some community colleges that have professional certificates that teach electronic circuits pretty quickly. Unfortunately this is prohibited by the absolutely fucked "residency requirements" for this state whereby I wont be a resident of my current state for years (at least for tuition purposes, I'm a resident for just about everything in a few months). Also those courses are all in person which, for some unique reasons dont fit my life situation.
  • zargon 7y ago
    What kind of "grand" circuits are we talking about here? As someone who entered EE through the hobbyist approach, there isn't much I'm interested in that has me wishing I had formal EE education background. Do you want to do analog? Because there's hardly any math involved in practical applications of digital electronics.
    • non-entity 7y ago
      The last 2 ideas I had were a ISA SATA card (dont ask) and attempting to build a DOCSIS modem (because issues with my shitty ISP supplied one intrigued me). I actually tried to build a Arduino based EPROM reader for a chip I extracted from an old electronic device, but ran into some issues and am kinda discouraged because that seems like it was pretty basic.
• muralimadhu 7y ago
  Doing a deep learning course through fast.ai. Has been fun so far. For an ML noob, I like how we talk about deploying something end to end right from the first class and work our way backwards to the theory
• sarabande 7y ago
  I'm trying to learn advanced Mandarin (while not living in PRC/Taiwan). I've bought some business Mandarin books whose content I wouldn't have sought out: international trade, shipping, etc.; I come from a tech background. Surprisingly, logistics (and the Mandarin around it) is interesting! Going through some of the "Incoterms" now. It's fun to learn something new and a language at the same time.
  • indecisive_user 7y ago
    What are some of the resources you used to get to your current competency? I took classes back in college so I have _some_ understanding, but I'd love to get to a conversational proficiency.
• tosic 7y ago
  I'm trying to get back into graph drawing [1] while learning to code in rust. I used to do some experiments in graph drawing a while back for my master thesis, but lost track. Now with the ACM archive [2] being open i got inspired to look into this again, even though many of the relevant recent papers would have been available anyway. Not the classics though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_drawing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_drawing [2] https://www.acm.org/articles/bulletins/2020/march/dl-access-during-covid-19 https://www.acm.org/articles/bulletins/2020/march/dl-access-...
• rayxi271828 7y ago
  Probably old news to most here, but: Systems Thinking. Am finishing Donella Meadows book and interested in going deeper into this particular rabbit hole. Also, related, found this in Coursera while looking for courses on Systems Thinking: Big History (https://www.coursera.org/learn/big-history https://www.coursera.org/learn/big-history)
• punchclockhero 7y ago
  Expectations: Ansible and Azure DevOps Reality: armor locations in GTA IV
  • rochak 7y ago
    Hits too close to home
• sudhirkhanger 7y ago
  I am learning Data Structure and Algorithm and I have also started a book club with a friend where we would be reading at least one chapter of a book every week.
• jeanlucas 7y ago
  I'm learning Flutter and Golang, hope to use it soon in a real life scenario; but I don't have any projects to use it in yet.
• ruslanuchan 7y ago
  I've been into literature and philosophy for some time now. I'm following the "Masterpieces of World Literature" course [1] and have finished "Beyond Good and Evil" last month, currently reading Kierkegaard's Either/Or. Aside from that, I'm also participating in Leetcode 30 days of code challenge [2] [1] https://www.edx.org/course/masterpieces-of-world-literature https://www.edx.org/course/masterpieces-of-world-literature [2] https://leetcode.com/explore/featured/card/30-day-leetcoding-challenge/ https://leetcode.com/explore/featured/card/30-day-leetcoding...
  • nequalstim 7y ago
    Same here :) Just started reading At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah Bakewell It has a really nice narrative and tells the story of the aforementioned. Kierkegaard also makes some occurrences.
    • stdlin 7y ago
      if you tend to like that book I would highly recommended Walter Kaufman's Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre and Goethe, Kant, and Hegel
      • david_w 7y ago
        Second this also. Also enjoyed Will To Power as a kind of well of "things well said, which make you think, " even if they're not strictly correct. Bertrand Russell wrote a lot of very accessible Western philosophy overview or survey books which I found orienting: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/a-history-of-western-philosophy_bertrand-russell/263257/ https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/a-history-of-western-philosoph... and https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-problems-of-philosophy_bertrand-russell/286828/ https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-problems-of-philosophy_ber... the former is online here: http://www.ntslibrary.com/PDF%20Books/History%20of%20Western%20Philosophy.pdf http://www.ntslibrary.com/PDF%20Books/History%20of%20Western... About this one he said :(paraphrasing from memory now), "A big book is a big evil. You may ask why then the author proposes to lay before you the present work..." He's a hoot.
• kalyantm 7y ago
  I've started to do yoga. Two weeks in and it's going well actually. Also as a FE Developer, the inner workings of JavaScript
• Quiark 7y ago
  Category theory Quantum Entanglement (lectures by Leonard Susskind at Stanford) creative building in Minecraft :) (I already knew how to make sourdough from before)
• dokka 7y ago
  I bought the cheapest trumpet on ebay($65) and I'm learning the trumpet. It's a lot of fun. I'm slightly annoyed that I'm not programming as much, but this is fun too
• lukego 7y ago
  Soldering and reworking electronics.
• abhchand 7y ago
  Just learning more in depth about websockets. It's been around for a while but i've honestly never had the chance to play around with them. Thinking of putting together a small app as an excuse to play around with websockets
• ublaze 7y ago
  I'm learning how to do web development again. I've only been working on infrastructure tools/services at my job, and I'm re-learning concepts like how to authenticate users, and my first time seriously using React, Django and Typescript. My project is a hosted blog platform where you can edit a Google doc & publish it as a blog post, which is useful for publishing rich blog posts with tables, while keeping features like review/collaboration, tracking changes etc.
  • edwinyzh 7y ago
    Hey! Mine (https://docxmanager.com https://docxmanager.com) is similar but for Microsoft Word on Windows :)
    • ublaze 7y ago
      Super cool! That looks professional. I have a landing page up for people interested in the idea and want updates - https://simpleblog.io/ https://simpleblog.io/
      • edwinyzh 7y ago
        Great! I wish you will be success with your project.
• juped 7y ago
  Studying general relativity, since it's the flagship application of my field of mathematics (differential geometry) and yet I only know the basics. It is, of course, the most elegant scientific theory of all time.
  • jmeister 7y ago
    I’ve been wanting to ask this a differential geometer - what do you think of Sussman and Wisdom’s book as a DE intro for an CS/applied math person? Thanks! https://www.amazon.com/Functional-Differential-Geometry-MIT-Press/dp/0262019345 https://www.amazon.com/Functional-Differential-Geometry-MIT-...
    • juped 7y ago
      Never read it, but the preview pages look pretty neat. I might pick it up for a fun read. Might want to pair it with something like do Carmo's Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces (which is quite accessible) for the mathematical side.
      • jmeister 7y ago
        Thanks for the recommendation. And yes, the lisp book should be fun. Sussman is a legendary CS educator.
• konart 7y ago
  Drawing. I always wanted to learn how to draw.
• tomduncalf 7y ago
  Started working through the Coursera Machine Learning course By Andrew Ng. I’ve always wanted to understand ML better, and this seemed like the ideal opportunity to actually do it, especially as I might have some work coming up using ML. So far, I’m very impressed, very clear presentation style and he does a good job of explaining the fundamentals and maths (which is good as I’m pretty rusty at maths!) while still keeping it fairly concise - my main issue with learning from video is often that it “waffles” a lot and I could get the same knowledge from text much quicker, but it doesn’t feel like that here. I may switch to the deep learning specialisation or try to get my hands dirty with a more hands-on course after I understand the basic concepts but we will see, I’m actually enjoying relearning some maths more than I expected to!
  • aashu_dwivedi 7y ago
    The assignments in the old course are in matlab. There are also unofficial assignments available in python. They can also be submitted for grades in coursera. You might want to have a look at them.
    • tomduncalf 7y ago
      Good tip, thank you!
• pyr0hu 7y ago
  Haven't been able to do some graphics programming with OpenGL so I tried to dust off my knowledge about that and started putting together a simple 3d scene with user inputs, animations, sprites, etc. To increase the fun, I also constrained myself to C99. I really really like the graphical style of Pokemon Black (3d environment with 2d sprites) so I want to replicate that.
• wexomania 7y ago
  I am currently learning about Greedy Meshing and voxel rendering / editing. I want to make games with my nieces, nephews and younger siblings, and are currently working on a voxel editor / drawing tool, so that they can make their own characters and items for the games without having to learn 3d modeling and animation.
• imdhmd 7y ago
  To build a keyboard. /r/mechaniclekeyboards has been a great resource
• Folcon 7y ago
  I'm finally getting around to building a game, I've always been fascinated with paradox style grand strategy games and logistics and management games like openttd. Speaking with some friends, they encouraged me to give it a go, but start with the goal. Which eventually translated to writing a stock market sim first. The concept itself is a multiplayer grand strategy style game set in a fantasy style universe. I've got it working on a calendar system like a paradox game, I'm aiming for it to be running continuously with a leaderboard and periodic resets. I very much want player actions to run within the sim context, IE: The player isn't special in any significant way, they control an entity, whether that's a peep or some other in-game entity. I have a basic demand system for my simulated people working, who buy goods they need from shops local to them and purchasing activity is reported on the market, traders trade against market activity and at present all a player can do is be a trader, running on a Clojure server which uses websockets to update the client. There's a lot of things I want to do, I've got a map generation prototype that I built after reading some of Amit's amazing articles [1], I've been scouring my old rpg source books GM sections to try and work out what a decent set of pieces plugged together would look like, after all I figure they're supposed to create the illusion of a vibrant world for players, so why not flip through them for ideas? However I'm limiting this a bit because I don't want to get bogged down not building stuff! I'm presently doing some initial sanity checking, basically trying to work out what are the current performance characteristics of my sim, IE: Does every entity need to be updated on every tick, does that look "nice" from a player's perspective, or create odd artefacts? Also some simple refactoring to just clean stuff up. The other two problems to solve is keeping everything nicely organised as I really want this to get big in it's interconnected complexity (though perhaps that's a terrible idea), putting together a simple way to monitor the system's running as the game designer. Keeping scope small and focused is hard, enthusiasm gets you to want to add all sorts of wacky stuff. All of the above is subject to change if I figure out a better way of doing it =)... - [1] http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/polygon-map-generation/ http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/...
• jp42 7y ago
  I am working on improving my Signal to Noise ratio. Meaning consistently how to do more and more constructive work than wasting time each day.
  • aashu_dwivedi 7y ago
    How are you going about it?
• hkt 7y ago
  I'm deploying all my self hosted stuff to k8s and setting up with what I need to sell to other people. I think I've managed to pick a setup which is going to scale well horizontally which feels pretty good. It's going pretty well so far, will probably write it up and maybe even look at selling accounts after the fact. It has been a fun skills update.
• Insanity 7y ago
  Since pluralsight is free this month (no affilition), I've decided to take up some machine learning courses on there.
• heyrhett 7y ago
  Fortnite Add me on epic: Rhett800cc
• dharma1 7y ago
  Outside day to day work, right now I am practicing -HDR colour grading in Davinci Resolve -playing cuban congas (that slap is hard) -designing Flutter apps -feeling gratitude every day -how to motivate kids -growing tomatoes from shop bought tomatoes
• humility 7y ago
  Operating Systems, specifically BSD sockets/multi threading. I'm a JavaScript/Node.Js fanatic, figure it's time for me to up my game and go first principles. Operating System Concepts by Silbeschatz, Galvin and Gagne to the rescue.
• ojosilva 7y ago
  Learning how to sing. Our voices are a beautiful, natural instrument we carry everywhere with us, from the shower to lonely business trips to walks in the park. I've always had the desire to put it to work. Singing is also an ancient tradition of bringing melody and lyrics to people. For me it's not about singing like a soul or blues singer (ie Joe Cocker) but more like Chet Baker: get the notes right (pitch) and building them into elegant phrasing, which needs control of tempo and great diaphragm training. Music is undeniably great for your brain, which can include learning and memorizing a ton of lyrics, tempo and pitch. As an art also very appreciated by most people, who really feel grateful by a (good) vocal performance, sometimes more than by any other instrument. Hearing yourself improve and sing well gives a high dose of happiness and confidence builder. It's also an excellent breathing and speaking exercise, which increases your ability to communicate effectively, projecting and modulating your voice effortlessly and making it easier to jump in into a conversation. Also gives your voice the stability to fend off your nerves or anxiety. For an introvert like me it's definitely a very effective tool, it makes me feel like "in the matrix" as far as speaking goes, as my brain thinks ahead of time or just in time, so my mind feels snappier. In other words, I feel like a more spontaneous person since I've started to sing.
  • kkleindev 7y ago
    Would you mind sharing how you 'learn'?
    • fluroblue 7y ago
      Not op though I’ve been doing it for a while now. A crap ton of scales and exercises. Lots of work to develop the many muscles in that area as well as teaching them how to coordinate together.
• machiaweliczny 7y ago
  I am learning Unity basics with Minecraft tutorial[1]. It's quite nice. [1] - https://youtu.be/h66IN1Pndd0 https://youtu.be/h66IN1Pndd0
• gyvastis 7y ago
  I have been fascinated by Machine Learning for a while now but never got around to it until recently. I have landed on Kaggle almost by accident and started doing the courses. Loving it! Give it a go. They also have competitions on different datasets and leaderboards to make it more fun. https://www.kaggle.com/learn/overview https://www.kaggle.com/learn/overview
• Liwink 7y ago
  Learning database systems now. Andy Pavlo made two of his great classes public. Class materials and videos are online. Thomas Neumann's papers are also really good. - https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2019/schedule.html https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2019/schedule.html - https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2020/schedule.html https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2020/schedule.html - https://umbra-db.com/ https://umbra-db.com/ - https://hyper-db.de/ https://hyper-db.de/
• erikpl 7y ago
  Doing this part-time studying + working thing right now, finishing up my first year of Informatics/CS after changing my major. For school, I'm learning networking. Finding it a bit dry, especially learning about packet structures and such. The book we're using, "Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach" by Kurose & Ross[1] is great and the authors' personalities really shine through! For work I'm learning about databases and how to gain access to it from a web app. The world of databases (specifically PostgreSQL) and SQL is entirely new to me. Currently trying to figure out how to best connect my Flask app with my Postgres DB. Currently learning Rust whenever I have the time/motivation. It's a great language with some really clever design choices, but it's a pain in the ass to learn, especially without experience with lower-level languages. The incredible amount of other cool languages, such as Clojure and Elixir, can make it hard to stay focused! Also been meaning to get into vector graphics (Affinity Designer[2] is on sale right now) and philosophy, but you know...the usual excuses. Honestly, the incredible amount of CS-related topics I know nothing about, including some really basic ones, makes it hard to study anything else out of sheer guilt. As for philosophy, if anyone are curious, a book that was recommended to me by a philosophy major buddy is "The Problems of Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell[3]. [1] https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/computer-networking-a-top-down-approach_james-f-kurose_keith-w-ross/260997/#isbn=0136079679&idiq=3908544 https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/computer-networking-a-top-down... [2] https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/ [3] https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-problems-of-philosophy_bertrand-russell/286828/#isbn=1534863443&idiq=36978058 https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-problems-of-philosophy_ber...
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• hypersundays 7y ago
  Currently building something with Svelte. It's not as breezy as I was hoping...
• mister_hn 7y ago
  I am learning Ansible from the 30-days free course of RedHat https://blcsystems.com/red-hat-free-courses/ https://blcsystems.com/red-hat-free-courses/
• epaga 7y ago
  I've been learning lots about orbital mechanics and rocket science thanks to Kerbal Space Program. What a sense of accomplishment with each step * made it to orbit * flew by the moon * crash-landed on the moon * landed on the moon and returned with the stranded astronauts * landed on Mars (stuck there for now sending back science experiment data) * flew by Venus + Mercury * Took a sample of two different asteroids * Shot a little refueling space station into orbit and successfully docked to it with other ships
• curiousigor 7y ago
  Trying to learn or build my skill around music production with Ableton. I've been in a alternative metal band for almost 8 years, but electronic music has always interested me since I have quite a few ideas in regards to melody and stuff like that (I'm the singer in my band). I just applied to a course from Berkeley trough Corusera, and they are really great, but I'm not trying to rush trough, as this is my main way of trying to learn, making me lose interest because of the overflow of information. If anyone has any good books, courses or tutorials on this, that would be a great help too :)
• leonfedden 7y ago
  I have been writing an AI for poker playing. https://github.com/fedden/pluribus-poker-AI https://github.com/fedden/pluribus-poker-AI I've been learning about Counter Factural Regret (CFR) and have been using it to iteratively work towards writing a no limit texas hold'em poker playing AI agent. It's still in the early stages but seen success with simple forms of poker such as Kuhn, and have expanded to a form of short deck poker. I have also been brushing up my web skills by creating a visualiser for the poker state via Flask and Vue.js
• macrolime 7y ago
  Making hardware/gadgets with arduino and 3d printing.
• wozmirek 7y ago
  Gluing + painting models and miniatures! I've been bad at manual artistic things always, so I kinda combined my passion for the history of warfare with that thing I'm lacking and... here I am, gluing German tank models :)
• Gabriel_Martin 7y ago
  Making art with After Effects. If I really get motivated I'll move my experience into doing Interaction design with Lottie and bodymovin, but for now it's just a nice way to blow off steam during this difficult time.
• OldTechSucks 7y ago
  I'm "learning"(calling functions) opencv(using cv2 with python3) to find the coordinates of a string inside image. Even though it's useless in the industry: https://www.reddit.com/r/computervision/comments/axvjfb/do_industries_prefer_opencv_on_c_or_on_python/ https://www.reddit.com/r/computervision/comments/axvjfb/do_i...
• john4532452 7y ago
  Learning probability for strong foundation in ML. The books i am following are "First course in probability by Sheldon Ross" and "Probability and Statistics" Michael J. Evans and Je¤rey S. Rosenthal This is the first time i am studying based on the topics rather than following syllabus. I wanted to understand covariance for calculating similar interest b/w users to suggest the posts viewed by a user in the app i am developing. This took me down the rabbit hole and forced to learn everything required to define covariance. Its talking a lot of time but i feel it's worth it because now i have a strong foundation. Also its nice to follow more than one book because i have no attachment to any of the books. When in college i used to get attached to my notes or the first text book i follow, but studying a topic from many books have no attachment to either and its liberating.
• BWGB 7y ago
  how to cut my own hair :$
• erwinh 7y ago
  Learning about recommender systems both for work-related activities and personal interest. I see a lot of people learning hard mathematics or physics concepts. This is somewhat related to machine learning but also has daily-life implications as it gives some insight into how these social media platforms shape their algorithms for building the social feeds or Netflix recommendations for example :)
• collyw 7y ago
  I really think the idea of constantly learning (something new) is pushed too much in our field. I think we should encourage mastery in fewer topics rather than shallow superficial knowledge of lots of things. It's a balance I know, and we shouldn't be super focused especially early on in our careers. But at my current job we have a huge tech stack and a tiny team, I am constantly learning, but never in any depth, just enough to solve the last bug and then change to something different. It feels very like a very unproductive way of working. Very little of the new tech feels like it actually helps. Kubernetes while we don't actually need to scale for the foreseeable future. NoSQl when we don't actually need to scale. Asynch web servers when synchronous would be fine. A React monstrosity on our frontend, when server side rendering would be perfectly functional for the problems we are trying to solve. Google cloud - fair enough we actually do need that one or something equivalent. Edit: On looking through the other answers I see that a significant number are not tech related which is refreshing to see.
  • freddref 7y ago
    Right, I think the key is learning something new in an area where you know the least. Even getting to know the simplest concepts can go a long way. My favorite example: cropping a photo to improve composition. It's simple and easy to do, but it can have a comparatively large impact on a photo. Learning more and more specialized tech can give diminishing returns.
    • collyw 7y ago
      Yes that makes sense to an extent. The problem is that people were insisting on using MongoDB for problems better suited to a relational DB when it was faishionable, and now that decision lives on 6 years later. Or I see a lot of CV's where people collect web frameworks - which essentially do the same thing. Yet whenever I inherit Django code, it seems to be done by someone with only the most basic knowledge of how to get things done.
• anon012012 7y ago
  Rhetoric, sophistry, debating. Politics. The goal is to establish UBI before the end of the year. If I had been smart enough I would have specialized in AI. I think there's untapped potential for techies and scientists to infiltrate the political landscape. I don't think I'll ever be famous but I'm arguing everyday and pushing hard for people to fight for themselves, and to push the ideas.
• yoshyosh 7y ago
  I'm learning how to make tacos starting with the tortilla. I'm originally from San Diego and have always missed Mexican food whenever I moved abroad. On a recent trip back to San Diego, I went to over a dozen Mexican shops to find particular flours to create tortillas from. I also went to Mexico twice just to find a specific brand of soft wheat flour. In total I think I experimented with atleast 5-6 different flours thus far. Since then I've made over 150 tortillas, learning things like the importance of the ratio of fat/water/flour, the proper heat, feel, and cook time. Rolling it with flour and without, hand patting vs mechanical tortilla presses. Simple mistakes are like the difference between making a cracker and a tortilla. There's also things like the elasticity of the dough the longer it sits so things like heated tortilla presses become important to help it keep its shape, since the heat slightly cooks the tortilla as it's being pressed into shape. Compared to pure mechanical ones where the tortilla will retract back due to no heat forcing it to sit in place. I'm still hoping to invest in a heated press once I return to the States since I can't find them in Amsterdam. Overall I'm enjoying the craft of it all and will be soon moving towards learning the details that go into making sauces and carne asada.
  • kilroy123 7y ago
    Oh man, this is a topic near and dear to my heart! I'm originally from California, but I lived in Mexico for several years. I am dying for some good traditional tacos. (Currently abroad but far from Mexico) The best tortillas I had were the handmade ones, made from organic blue maize.
    • yoshyosh 7y ago
      I want to live in Mexico for a little bit one day. I imagine you came out of that with a taste for tacos that can't be matched anywhere. Were there any spots that you really enjoyed that had the organic blue maize that you liked or was it mostly abundant because Mexico hah? I'll definitely bookmark it :-)
      • kilroy123 7y ago
        I recommend it if possible. I had such an amazing experience living there. It's funny, I never miss the US but I always miss Mexico. I mostly lived in Mexico City, but I've traveled a lot around the country and spent time living in a few other cities for shorter periods of time. I've probably seen more of Mexico than 90%+ of all Mexicans. Some of the best food I've ever had was in a small Pueblo (town) called San Sebastián del Oeste in the state of Jalisco. [1] It's a small "magic town" in the mountains in Jalisco. [2] Most of the best food I've had in Mexico was not in the big cities but in the small towns. Especially, the family-owned places where there's an older Mexican lady cooking up food. Cliché but true. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Sebasti%C3%A1n_del_Oeste https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Sebasti%C3%A1n_del_Oeste [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueblos_M%C3%A1gicos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueblos_M%C3%A1gicos
• coupdejarnac 7y ago
  I've just found someone to teach me how to play the trumpet. I figure I ought to learn how to play an instrument before I get too much older. I've also been brushing up my Chinese and learning Typescript.
• kilroy123 7y ago
  I've been learning a lot about options trading. (Yes, I understand the risks, being margin called, and losing all my money.) To me, it's just a fun and interesting hobby. I've also been reading and learning a lot about dirivities and the overall US financial system. It's pretty wild how things _actually_ work behind the scenes. So much "wealth" has been created coming up with such schemes. The more I learn, the more I worry about us being in some serious uncharted waters, and I think maybe it's all too complicated.
  • lucky518 7y ago
    Would it be okay sharing how you are approaching options trading? What steps would you recommend someone who would like to start with the basics?
    • peterlk 7y ago
      The two ways I got started were: 1) open a Robinhood account with a small amount of money ($100) ought to be enough. Buy in and out of stocks every day for a couple days until you can get approved for their level 2 trading. Then, start playing with options. 2) Open an account on ThinkOrSwim and use their tools to trade a dummy account or use real money. The learning curve of ToS is higher, but it is more powerful The fundamentals are pretty simple, but the strategies for combining simple elements can become very complex. The fundamental questions are: will this "stock" (you can trade options on other financial instruments as well) move up, down, neither, on both? To what extent? Over what time period?
    • itemGrey 7y ago
      I'm also interested in this. Would be great to share some resources.
      • hattori 7y ago
        Golden rule from my perspective, regardless of asset - don't follow analysts (it's all about risk management and if strategy/indicator is public it's highly likely ineffective) and price action is king. Playing with automation as supplement to above is smart investment.
• zelphirkalt 7y ago
  I am revisiting my notes and re-watching lectures about basic machine learning algorithms like linear regression and logistic regression. I am implementing these algorithms, so I need to understand a lot of the details. Here are some notes, which are work in progress: https://notabug.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/machine-learning-notes/src/dev/linear-and-logistic-regression/linear-and-logistic-regression.pdf https://notabug.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/machine-learning-notes/... I try to write it in a way, that does not leave open questions and will be accessible to me and hopefully others years later.
• vishnuvis 7y ago
  Trying to learn Photoshop. Also apart from that working on page speed optimization of website which are in wordpress. Testing on this product page ( https://www.keka.com/hr-software/ https://www.keka.com/hr-software/ ), earlier it was 7sec, now it's 4. Hopefully can do a bit to bring it down to 2.
• nsomaru 7y ago
  Wordpress. The speed at which clients are requesting new stuff is faster than one-man-Django can keep up
• lostsoul8282 7y ago
  I've been dividing my life into different parts - fitness, technology, wisdom, food and love. Fitness, I cannot hit the gym anymore so at home I'm doing body weight training goals. Current goal is 1k squats a day(done), 1k burpees day(70/day right now, It's 1 week in so progress is very fast right now), and a bodyweight program my gym is offering. For tech, I'm learning machine learning applied to a environmental program I'm trying to build which I'm passionate about. Wisdom, this is subjective but I'm going back into old philosophy books. Just finished some work by Stoics and will read the plague by Albert Camus. food, Every other day I'm trying to learn how to cook something new. I tried baking which is awesome, today I will try to make a chilli on a pot(never did that before). Love, this is the hardest but also the easiest in theory. I'm trying to connect to the things that I love but because life got busy, I didn't connect to as much. This included just having conversations with friends, training my dog, loving how my body can do complex movements(squats/burpees), the beauty of technology, or just observing nature.
  • hattori 7y ago
    First of all congrats of mental fortitude to do 1k squats/burpees. That's quite insane. May I offer an opinion here - doing 1k body-weight squats is like doing 'hello world' 1000 times and trying to progress in programming :) Bigger ROI if you fill up a backpack with books and do 100 of them from strength, time (and probably endurance) perspective.
  • foob4r 7y ago
    Can you take a bit more about the environmental program and what you're doing with ML?
  • throw1234651234 7y ago
    1k squats a day How is that tendonitis?
• billfruit 7y ago
  Attempting to learn Latin. Duolingo has a surprisingly good Latin module now.
• shabirgilkar 7y ago
  I'm learning Motion/Animation graphics in Adobe After Effects and 3D design in Cinema 4D Lite.I'm still beginner in both. Just in case you have wonderful resources to share to get me started, please share! For Adobe AE I'm learning on these Youtube channels: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQyoKfULtJaHqSxB80Efw4w https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQyoKfULtJaHqSxB80Efw4w https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC64eec0UYHxflyEWgyZOvLA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC64eec0UYHxflyEWgyZOvLA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP3AIk974-PeB9bg1Mc7wug https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP3AIk974-PeB9bg1Mc7wug For 3D: https://www.3dfordesigners.com/blog?tag=learn+cinema+4d+lite https://www.3dfordesigners.com/blog?tag=learn+cinema+4d+lite
• mildmelon 7y ago
  I've been learning Korean, I recently found out that it is a language that was invented rather than evolving over time. It was created with the intention to be easy to learn. The entire alphabet is 24 characters, whereas Japanese has over 500 and Mandarin has a few thousand. Each of the 24 characters follow very logical rules and build onto each other to build "blocks" of syllables. Each block must start with a consonant in the top-left, always followed by a vowel, and sometimes ends with a consonant. So the block always reads left-right, top-bottom and must always contain at least one consonant and vowel. In addition, each syllable block has a phonetic sound. This means that it's really easy to read and pronounce, since there are no silent letters, with the one exception of single vowel syllable blocks. Which must start with a silent ㅇ(ng), for example the character ㅣ(i). So following the rule of a syllable block needing to start with a consonant you can't have a single ㅣ since it's a vowel, so you need to use ㅇ as a placeholder, thus creating ㅇㅣ(i). Now if you want to create a word, like "child". You can put together the character ㅏ(a) and ㅣ(i). Since you can't have two vowels in the same block, we must use two blocks to create the word. This gives us ㅇㅏㅇㅣ (a-i). The vowels consist entirely of horizontal and vertical lines, with a dash or double dash off to the left, right, top, or bottom. It's a very simple alphabet and an extremely interesting language. If anyone want's to learn more, feel free to checkout the Wiki page on Hangul for the full set of vowels, consonants, and double consonants. It's often said you can learn the Hangul alphabet in 90 minutes. If you want a solid intro course to Hangul, checkout this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5aobqyEaMQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5aobqyEaMQ
  • azepoi 7y ago
    The alphabet was created not the language itself. Hangul is indeed designed for the Korean language, a natural language.
    • mildmelon 7y ago
      You are correct, my mistake. Thank you for the clarification.
• kiliantics 7y ago
  I've been rebuilding the engine of a 1980 Honda motorcycle for the last while. Just following the manual and reading on forums and watching youtube videos. Yesterday, I finally got it fully back together and put it on the bike and reassembled everything else. It didn't start perfectly but it did start, which was really satisfying. There is a little more "debugging" left to do on it but I believe I will get it back in shape eventually. All this from no knowledge of engine mechanics a few months ago, I now feel like I can competently talk about the different parts of a combustion engine and do some basic diagnosis for vehicle problems. Doing this has been one of the best experiences in my life and it was a very cheap bike to buy and I only needed a pretty basic set of tools on top of it. I don't own other vehicles but I bet that, down the line, it will save me a lot of money that I may otherwise have given to mechanics. I would recommend doing this to anyone that has an interest in it, it doesn't take expert knowledge, just a healthy level of gumption :)
• zebrafish 7y ago
  Learning 3D modeling in blender through videos from Grant Abbitt on YouTube. No idea what I'm going to do with that skill, it's just something I've always wanted to learn since Halo: Custom Edition came out on PC.
• tartoran 7y ago
  Im learning Scheme/Racket. I started from HTDP and moving on from there, so far I am loving it, havent been this excited in a while. I am also ramping up on F# and the community is growing and quite nice. I recommend Scott Wlaschin’s Domain Modleling in F# and his website fsharpforfunandprofit. I am learning Latin and Spanish on Duolingo but thats more at the hobby level, about 10 min a day.
• jjice 7y ago
  I've been reading through Lion's Commentary of Unix V6. Very interesting to finally understand how multiple processes and scheduling is done, as that was always a mystery to me. There's a great version where the source and the commentary are side by side: https://warsus.github.io/lions-/ https://warsus.github.io/lions-/
• qxfys 7y ago
  I am learning how wireguard [1] works, and try to prove their claim that it is suitable for small embedded device, i.e. this one [2]. [1] https://www.wireguard.com/ https://www.wireguard.com/ [2] https://github.com/Zolertia/Resources/wiki/Firefly https://github.com/Zolertia/Resources/wiki/Firefly
• dirtybirdnj 7y ago
  Right now I'm learning Gatsby and re-learning React after having done one project with it and putting it down for 12+ months. I'm learning how to rebuild my 3d printer for the third(?) time. Each time something breaks it starts off as blind confusion, and over the weeks I figure it out and then I feel like a genius when it it works. I have a business I want to build, and I'm working on estimating what the cost of the individual items / products are, how long they take, and how long it really "costs" me. I'm working on fixing up the website and improving it. I have a wall of post-it notes in different colors I'm using to track all of this stuff. As a developer I hate time tracking and project management in general but I'm learning a lot by doing it myself. Progress is slow, but at least there is progress.
• dschadd 7y ago
  Cybersecurity! I just started on Hack The Box. I am not sure if I want to go all the way for OSCP. Regardless, it is really fun and I've always wanted to learn how to "hack".
• stevekemp 7y ago
  Currently hacking up a prototype of a puppet-like system for automating host setup. So far I can parse a configuration file, apply rules, handle (manually specified) dependencies, and configure triggers to run on rule-actions. Not a bad state to be in for a few hours work. Of course the big decision is if I continue, and write modules for doing more than I have right now. I suspect the rational answer should be "no". But I kinda like the existing implementation, and being go it is trivial to install/deploy. https://github.com/skx/marionette/ https://github.com/skx/marionette/
• kevstev 7y ago
  I have always felt I have not really understood things from the bottom up in terms of CS- like how do we really get from bits to software? I have been building Ben Eater's 6502 computer, which has been mostly enjoyable (cutting/stripping wires and getting them into the exact right small little hole is tedious at best, hurts my back at worst). I have also been reading Modern Operating Systems by Tanenbaum- though a quite old edition from the early 200s- wondering if its worth putting on hold until I can get my hands on a newer edition. Next up, I'd like to do Ben Eater's 8 bit computer as well as nand2tetris.
• msci100 7y ago
  I'm writing a movie script. It's a horror movie about a guy who renovates foreclosed houses for banks. But one of the houses he goes into has a ghost in it. He has to solve the mystery of why the ghost is there before he can leave. I call it: "Repossessed" Working tagline: "This is for closure."
  • bluetwo 7y ago
    Glad to see you taking on a creative outlet. Hope you are able to get it done before this is all lifted.
• jackfoxy 7y ago
  Mineralogy and working my way through Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
• aspencer8111 7y ago
  How is COBAL not the top answer here?!?!?
• ebiester 7y ago
  As I have a little time on my hands a few things. Non-technical: I'm learning to create music to help satisfy my creative side. I'm starting with the piano, and when I can get to a basic proficiency, I'll slow down and jump to some voice lessons I bought a while back. Then, I'll put it together with reaper, using some of what I learned as a teenager. Technical-Creative: I'm returning to my project to do a deeper dive on what makes programmers bad, mediocre, good, or great, and creating a track that others can follow. While I have the framework already, I am trying to learn a whole set of skills well enough to teach others. Technical: I'm patching up holes in my EcmaScript ecosystem knowledge. I never really took the time to truly grok Shadow Dom, the Redux patterns, and the like, even though I was managing a team who was working in it.
• rmz 7y ago
  * Natural language processing (udacity nanodegree). * Spanish words (duolingo). * Random fields (reading random articles about it :-). * Anonymizing text (side project) * Photography (blogs, videos, and practice https://500px.com/la3lma https://500px.com/la3lma)
• timc3 7y ago
  I am learning Elixir and Phoenix. And to be honest I am not sure I like either. The lack of decent resources (I mainly use Python and JavaScript with some C#) so I am used to reading a lot of blog posts, I don’t really like the documentation and the answers in forums are over verbose. And then there is Ecto which gives me new respect for SQLAlchemy or even solutions in C#. Debugging is a bit rubbish as well and to top it off it’s not typed. Pattern matching is kinda cool though.
  • seneca 7y ago
    The book "Programming Elixir" is by far the best resource I found for learning the language.
    • timc3 7y ago
      I am going to read it, I have heard good things so will put it on the todo list for this week. I usually enjoy learning languages so I don’t know why I am hating on this so much ( last time I felt like this was with Ruby which was mainly due to the community )
  • davidspiess 7y ago
    Maybe give F# a try. It's functional, strongly typed and since you already know .NET and C# the ecosystem and tooling will be familiar to you and could lessen the learning curve.
  • evsamsonov 7y ago
    "Elixir In Action" is a very good book to start also.
• kvimal13 7y ago
  Have started learning French language from duolingo.
• zikani_03 7y ago
  I'm trying to learn Blender for the umpteenth time. Years ago I prefered 3DS Max for 3D modelling and never put serious effort into learning Blender, looking to change that this year esp. with the recent UI/UX changes. As far as programming is concerned; learning how to build Netty servers and navigating large open source codebases quickly.
• zoeey123 7y ago
  Doing MIT 6.006, intro to algorithms
• husarcik 7y ago
  I'm a medical student so I'm currently in a COVID-19 course. Outside that I've decided to work on understanding C/C++ better.
• darkbatman 7y ago
  I am doing deeplearning.ai. The course seems to be really nice.
• cferr 7y ago
  I'm learning how effective I can be without physical access to my equipment. Due to the nature of our environment, I'm estimating about 40%.
• dmux 7y ago
  I've been interested in the Tcl language since 2010 or so but have only written small scripts up to this point in time. I decided it was finally time to dive in so I've been working my way through "The Tcl Programming Language: A Comprehensive Guide" by Ashok P. Nadkarni as well as learning about the Naviserver ecosystem.
• m3kw9 7y ago
  Learning how to read a company’s balance sheet, cash flow, income to see which are at risk of going under. How the stimulus can save but weaken a company’s financial structure during these times
  • hakanito 7y ago
    Any good resources for that?
• znpy 7y ago
  I'm learning LDAP and Oauth2, at the moment. Learning about directory services is empowering, and stuff like keycloak let you build your own single-sign-on solution with very little investment (except for willpower to learn).
• thomas2718 7y ago
  I have a cranky uncle who sends an email newsletter with links. Most of the links are conspiracy theories in my eyes. Some of them are about the climate. So to be able to make reasonable judgements, I've decided to learn about the science of climate. The IPCC makes all their reports available. I've started with the technical summary (84 pages, two-column). Most parts of it are well written and understandable with some basic knowledge of physics and chemistry. Nevertheless, it took several man-days to read it. As there is high confidence that the current warming is caused by humans, I've joined Citizens' Climate Lobby to contribute to the right laws to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions. The same newsletter made me read a book about motivational psychology (The Righteous Mind). A very interesting topic, that I would love to learn more about, if I had more time. Last year I've (re-)read Category Theory for Programmers. I had tried it once before, but gave up after a third, as the notation didn't make much sense to me anymore. I would like to read it again, creating flash cards for the most important concepts along the way.
  • jmeister 7y ago
    To form a balanced opinion, wouldn’t you want to read CC critical literature too?
• jpgvm 7y ago
  I've 2 main things going right now. IRL I am working on my culinary skills. Cooking has always been my passion but doesn't pay bills hence I write code. Been mostly working basics, learning proper knife skills, focusing on doing recipes from scratch and experimenting a bit to gain intuition about how things like emulsification work. On the code side I am building a logs database in Rust. I have previous experience building databases and in particular time series databases so most of the learning here is mostly about Rust which I have used before but not for this type of project. Also getting deeper into regular expressions, query languages (parsing/lexing/AST) and query optimisation than I have in the past. Rust is growing on me more than it did in the past. I think a) because it's a much better language than it was when I used it previously and b) my experiences since I worked with it last have garnered me more respect for it's design decisions and type system. Feeling like I am learning lots of stuff right now despite being trapped inside so that is good. :)
• saber6 7y ago
  I’m learning how much time and effort my significant effort puts into keeping our household in order and clean (we have 4 pets - 2 cats 2 dogs). Anyone who says homemakers don’t work hard is full of shit. (And we don’t even have kids....)
• jamil7 7y ago
  I've been porting parts of a Swift / iOS app to a shared Kotlin Native / Multiplatform library and learning more about Android development, I hope to release an Android version of the my app. I'm also eyeing Flutter and hoping to try it out in the near future.
• HeyLaughingBoy 7y ago
  ASP.NET After a career of mostly embedded systems development, I'm building my first commercial webapp.
• Schwolop 7y ago
  I design board games for fun and unrealistic dreams of making entire hundreds of dollars. But the part I suck at is making art and iconography. So I'm spending some time learning how to drive GIMP and Inkscape. Just this week I have completely finished the game I've been working on for six months now: http://www.drtomallen.com/half-the-battle.html http://www.drtomallen.com/half-the-battle.html (unfortunately the manufacturer is in lock-down, so the only option to play it is to print your own...) I'm still awful at it, but I can now manipulate art from other sources fairly comfortably. And I'm at a point where I can make geometric types of shapes and patterns easily enough from scratch. It's already enough that I look at logos and things differently now, to see how I would go about building them in these tools. Unfortunately, I still dislike this aspect of game design compared to the fun of lying in a hammock and run thought experiments on the actual gameplay systems!
• rxsel 7y ago
  Not very exciting, but I’ve been learning and using vue for a new side project. The side project itself is essentially a platform to enable post-split parents co-parent effectively.
• Cthulhu_ 7y ago
  I got a new job not long ago which has given me a lot of time to both learn and come up with a new application; I'm learning a couple things on-the-job: - Go & its entire ecosystem - Packaging & deployment via RPM - Layout & design a web ui (this was done by someone else in my previous jobs) - Personal project management (I'm a one-man team atm) - Code generation via Swagger - Architecture & technology choices and documenting them as I go - Working from home full-time (not by choice) and staying productive - Warhammer 40K <_<
• feiss 7y ago
  A girl and a baby girl. I'm learning about my patience and how to cope with my anger on limit situations. ️
• status_down 7y ago
  I'm learning about solar PV energy systems. This is an awesome subject to learn.However,I'm having a hard time trying to find basic but comprehensive courses online. Any suggestions?
• meagher 7y ago
  Vim - documenting my progress on Futureland https://futureland.tv/tmm/vim https://futureland.tv/tmm/vim
• tmaly 7y ago
  I am learning how to build a modern computer from parts. I last built one in 2001. I have been working on a course to teach kids how to learn programming with Scratch. I want to learn more of the Adobe CC suit to add more effects to my videos. I want to learn how I can improve my remote skills to better work with my team.
• garfieldnate 7y ago
  I've always had an interest in computer graphics, but never studied it in school. I found Jamis Buck's _The Ray Tracer Challenge_[1] and got totally hooked on creating a ray tracer. The book walks you through creating everything from scratch, starting with matrix multiplication all the way up through reflection/refraction and rendering (a useful subset of) OBJ files. The book gives you test cases in cucumber one at a time, and when the tests pass you have a new feature! It's super addicting. I've been learning Rust while going through it, too (repo: [2]). There's a forum associated with the book where people share images they've created and ask for help, and it's fun to see what other people have tried or what languages they're trying to learn while going through the book. I've enjoyed learning a programming language at the same time as learning an interesting subject so much that I plan on repeating it! [1] http://raytracerchallenge.com/ http://raytracerchallenge.com/ [2] https://github.com/garfieldnate/ray_tracer_challenge https://github.com/garfieldnate/ray_tracer_challenge
• antfarm 7y ago
  Electric bass and music theory.
• sh87 7y ago
  I'm learning to say no.
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