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Ask HN: Would you mind sharing any hobbies or activities you enjoy?
Walking, swimming, watching movies and listening to music for me.
- ritabratamaiti 3y agoI like working on side projects (based on whatever is trending in tech at the moment, think LLMs, generative AI etc.) I also like climbing, hiking, bubble tea, and collecting old movies in my native language and upscaling them.
- uqimerioni 3y agoOh so many, great. I have to admit, I've never heard of bubble tea before, but it looks really interesting! Do you prepare them? And are there many different variants or flavors to choose from?
- wiz21c 3y agoCoding like when I was a kid: creatively and without constraint. Cooking. Drawing.
- uqimerioni 3y agoNice, did you receive formal training in drawing, or is it all on your own? Cooking is definitely on my radar.
- wiz21c 3y agoI draw rarely but I think I draw instinctively well (sort of gifted if you want, nothing to be proud of, nothing spectacular neither, just some ease). No doubt if I had training I'd be a decent artist (I'd be mostly interested in drawing anatomy, natural things, etc.). But well, I sort of totally preferred computers the last 40 years so, drawing was not much developped :-) I learned cooking on my own with a book that is given in some schools where they teach catering and cooking. So I got the basics of french cuisine (I'm french speaking). Took me 2-3 years to understand things. I'm more in traditional cuisine, which is old be heavily documented (and hard to master nevertheless :-)). I did it because I wanted to do something else than coding and something that doesn't require spare time: I cook for the family :-) Learning to draw should be more frustrating if you don't "have it", but you can for sure (people undersestimate how good they can draw). OTOH, learning how to cook gives much quicker rewards !
- mikecoles 3y agoWoodturning. Projects involving AVR microcontrollers. Beehive maintenance. Long-range shooting/sporting clays. Coding toy projects to learn new languages or techniques. Amateur radio, mainly antenna building.
- uqimerioni 3y agoI am curious are you building new antennas every time or upgrading and improving? Bees are cool btw.
- lady3jan3 3y agoTabletop roleplaying games, run remotely.
- uqimerioni 3y agoD&D or which one?
- genmud 3y agoDiving, electronics, photography, CAD, milling, welding, shooting and bbq.