Ask HN: What did you learn in 2019?
What was the process like? How long did it take? Any special methods you used? Would you do it the same way if you did it over again?
- source: I manage a small team of senior SW engineers
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- setting up a minimal serverless ecommerce back end in Go with AWS Lambda, Stripe, Easypost, and Parcel2Go
- video editing with Blender (for a presentation, about a week)
- 3d modeling with Blender (for a book cover, about a month)
Blender would have been impossible for me to learn by any other means than watching video tutorials with Blender open in another window and trying out every little thing as it's demonstrated. Go and AWS required taking baby steps for months.
Oh and if you cook at home all the time it’s pretty easy to not get your RDA of sodium.
EVER.
From anyone.
Seriously, anyone. If your best friend in the entire world hands you a contract, read every word. If your mother gives you a contract, READ EVERY WORD.
> What about mortgage docs?
Yes. 1000% yes. What kind of insane person wouldn't read their mortgage agreement in full? I read the entire PDS of every lender I was considering.
> Credit card agreements?
Yes. Jesus, yes!