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Ask HN: What will you be working on over xmas?

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Merry xmas everyone. I'll be stuck at home coding most of the day. Who else will be in that situation and what will you be working on?

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I will work with my son to build the new lego set he'll be getting tomorrow.

I'm having some fun writing bot for codingame fall community challenge https://www.codingame.com/contests/fall-challenge-2023

Spend time with family after this exhausted year of a phd. Man it's getting so tough with this toxic environment.

Going through a Svelte course mainly. And studying Statistics using the Professor Leonard lectures on Youtube. That and binge-watching Billions on Amazon Prime.

I will continue going through a series of articles on computer memory subsystems written by Ulrich Drepper [0]. It's a little outdated (2007), but I'm scavenging for useful bits and pieces to pick up and incorporate into my skill set.

[0]: https://lwn.net/Articles/250967/?rss=1

I will be working on Firefly: https://www.firefly-lang.org/

The website is just a sketch, but the language is quite complete, and we have a language server with autocompletion and so on. We're mostly working on tooling an frameworks now.

Working on nothing, but currently reading Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan

I'm updating/rebuilding my openwrt router at home and i’ll be giving smalltalk another shot. It looks interesting albeit of little practical usage.

Today cleaning and repairing a Yamaha RX7 drum machine…and doing some CEU’s. Tomorrow a Roland MC-303 and more CEU’s I think.

I won't be working much, because it's a good time to rest and socialise. I set my vacation responder on.

However I'm cleaning up my home server a bit, mostly to make old code simpler and more legible. It's a relaxing activity.

Try to get Ctrl + Alt to be the "Compose" (Win) key in X, if possible. Just figured out xinit(1) and where the default script runs, so I can source that in ~/.xinitrc. The goal is to get a feedback loop going, so I can make observable changes.

Moving on to my MacBook Air M1 as my full time personal laptop. And repurposing the iMac 2017 (which with cheap 64GB update) to a Linux desktop and server, the latter primarily for Blender CPU rendering.

I’m excited to start working on the Android version of Umami (https://umami.recipes). Like the iOS version, I’m building it 100% native, this time with Jetpack Compose.

I’ll be collecting and cataloguing a bunch of data and curating question-answer pairs over technical documentation, experimenting with GPT-4 for generating QA pairs. A focus on building datasets to represent multiple experts.

Lots of data curation.

Have the week off while my partner has to work unfortunately. I plan on working through the Rust book and start learning the language.

Also, I’m auditing a linear algebra course for fun so will try and get some of that completed.

A mobile app that interprets brain EEG signals (from Muse) to enable patients to notify their caregivers that they need help or are in pain.

I’ll be relearning iOS development and getting up to speed with SwiftUI - any suggestions on good resources would be very welcome!

Working on Icychat monetization. https://icy.chat

Nothing. I'm just waiting for the singularity and no work is required on my part for it to happen.

Working on new features for my side project which I released 2 months ago, its called summify.io

Working on my startup.

https://agilend.net

marketing

sales

tech demos

founder dynamics

What does agilend do?

Niche chat with PDF app and a couple of niche dating apps.

Will finally do some introductory videos for gipeties.com

boot.dev to dual purpose learning backend dev and Vim key bindings

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