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Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Instead of talking jobs, what is everyone up to otherwise? Any interesting going on in life or with your hobby project?

Unfinished and novel ideas are of course most interesting, so feel free to share anything you're thinking about!

recreating this, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29073996, for the current times we are in

I’m busy with a math course that will get me up to speed with pre-university math (I never took math seriously in high school). This is because I want to go back to university this year after working full-time for 2 years!

Right now I’m studying integrals.

What resources are you using?

I am taking an online course from wismon.nl (it is a Dutch course). They use the regular high-school textbooks that are used in The Netherlands; "Getal & Ruimte".

This might not be of much use to you if you're not a Dutch speaker, but one thing that seems to work very well for me is just going through the exercises in the textbook! On top of that, there are quite a lot of amazing explanation videos on YouTube if a topic is hard to understand.

You seem motivated, so you won't regret it. University math is great.

I graduated 2 years ago as a information sys engineer(late 20s), but never felt motivated to seek a job, since it's mostly web dev positions that are available in my country. Too many libraries/frameworks availables and JS never felt intuitive to work with.

I'm currently deep diving into python, messing with rust, julia, and music production; exploring the world of ML from a practical standpoint, and planning to get into svelte/firebase sometimes in the future.

It's ski season, so I'm skiing and improving my skiing. Might get PSIA certification as my future "retirement" plan.

Going to start learning Go lang soon.

I've been working on the same uptime monitoring/status page web app for two years (as of next week!), and decided to start building a CLI and API for it: https://github.com/onlineornot/onlineornot

The CLI doesn't really do anything yet, but I'm stoked I managed to get automated releases and CI setup (with preview releases for PRs).

I’m currently trying to make a robot arm work with OpenPnP so I can have it automatically place components. The biggest challenge right now is the down-looking camera - it’s Cartesian offset changes based on the arm’s angle.

I usually read blogs about things I'm interested in. For instance, I'm getting to know more about Blockchain, so this is a blog I usually read if I want to catch up on new things: https://www.ratherlabs.com/blog

So, blog reading is also another option to keep up-to-date.

Working on some open source rust, getting my instrument flying rating, learning a couple human languages.

I think a lot about consciousness. It’s a very rewarding activity I must say. Highly recommended.

Fun and well written sci-fi read in that vein: Blingsight, by Peter Clark - highly recommended!

surprised to see all comments up to now be mostly “learn more tech shit”

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