Ask HN: What are you excited about working on in 2023?

What I'm excited about is having a plan for learning in 2023.

I've been spending 15 minutes a day on 3blue1brown, and backing that up with khan academy.

I've worked through the NLP Demystified course, posted recently on hacker news, the same way.

Also learning Spanish on Duolingo.

For most of my life, I've done one thing at a time, obsessively. This year I'm going for the slow and steady approach.

Just in general? I guess I'll start with tech:

- Tech: Watch more lightning talks; automate more business & personal processes; try REXX again for fun; maybe dip into Raku (if setup & battery installation isn't annoying--this sometimes gets me with new stacks/langs); maybe play with satellite imagery [1] and try some 10m QRP SSB, see what happens; work on homebrew weather charting system using NOAA data

- Thought Process Changes: Do more second- & third-person journaling; engage with specific growth archetypes I identified in 2022

- Art: Work with pencil more, use the eraser more (have always been a pen & ink person); continue developing my system of designing e-cards

("Working On in 2023" seems to overlap with my personal New York Resolutions so I'll stop before I get into the esoteric stuff. Anyway, there was some stuff that excites me. :-))

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NvyEIuoLnc

For work / (phage therapy): I'm excited to help scale up our process to hundreds of patients this year. I'm excited to put in best data science / data engineering practices to collect all the data in a way that we can generate reports on them and later on feed the data for phage ML projects. (This data is usually either private, improperly stored (e.g. saved across many powerpoint files...), or just not recorded at all. Hopefully we'll anonymize and make it public for others to use.

For fun: I built a HackerNews clone using Airtable as back-end (including account management / login), and it'll be fun to roll it out and see how it fares!

VR. It's come a really long way since I first started learning developing in unreal engine and I'm finally hitting the point where I feel pretty at home in unreal and the rest of that ecosystem.

Going to make stuff and then jack into it like it's the matrix.

Going to be a fun year!!!