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Ask HN: What are you reading/learning/working on over the holiday break?

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• rukshn 2y ago
  Reading: Before the coffee gets cold book series Learning: GoLang Working on: Making HiCafe.co more stable and building an image generator Happy holidays
• kratom_sandwich 2y ago
  Reading: Fuzzy Logic by Bart Kosko Learning: Professional Scrum Master Working on: my shitty consulting job Happy holidays!
• markus_zhang 2y ago
  Just completed a LC-3 interpreter emulator and tried to wrap my head around dynamic recompilation into x64 code. Still couldn't figure out how to deal with indirect jump as it can potentially jump to every memory address so maybe I'll just map every target instruction to a block of translated code.
• JaggerJo 2y ago
  This is one of the first holidays where I don't feel an urge to program. Feels strange. Guess I'm getting older? Reading: The Snows of Kilimanjaro Project: Logic Gate Editor + Simulator (but I can't really bring myself to work on it much) Frohe Weihnachten!
• wannabebarista 2y ago
  A friend and I are starting to work through Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms.
• zahlman 2y ago
  I'm forcing myself to get back into blogging and coding regularly, doing at least something every day (https://zahlman.github.io/meta/2024/12/20/todo-finish-todo-list.html https://zahlman.github.io/meta/2024/12/20/todo-finish-todo-l...). (There will probably be family here for Christmas; I'll probably just publish something I wrote ahead of time.) >Python was famously created as a Christmas break project I actually haven't heard this story before.
  • wannabebarista 2y ago
    For me, establishing a sort of routine was the best way to get past the frustration of having multiple lingering unfinished projects/posts. I struggled more with determining when to ship a post rather than getting out what I wanted to say. For a routine to be helpful, it doesn't have to be as frequent as weekly. I can imagine that turnaround being the source of a new set of anxieties! I enjoy writing about books and articles I read. Even just putting together lists and some notes at the end of each year helped me organize my thinking tremendously. Here are my recommendations from 2023 [0, 1]; I'm currently cranking out the 2024 lists! [0] https://bcmullins.github.io/interesting-books-2023/ https://bcmullins.github.io/interesting-books-2023/ [1] https://bcmullins.github.io/interesting-articles-2023/ https://bcmullins.github.io/interesting-articles-2023/
    • zahlman 2y ago
      >For a routine to be helpful, it doesn't have to be as frequent as weekly. I agree, but my experience has been that daily habits are easier to form.
  • Anon84 2y ago
    Consider it an early Christmas gift https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102738720 https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10273872...
• purple-leafy 2y ago
  Reading: A Feast for Crows Learning: NandToTetris Working on: Kagi chrome extension
  • chistev 2y ago
    A song of Ice and Fire is a great book. That third book was incredible, and I had watched the show!
    • Anon84 2y ago
      Fingers crossed that it ever gets finished
• lizzas 2y ago
  Got a 3d printer so want to do some tailor made functional prints.
• bonniesimon 2y ago
  Are you guys getting a holiday break? I don't think I have that privilege