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Non-technical skills

* (Continue) Dancing - Beginning of 2023, I got into street style dance and movement (including stretching which I've done now for the past 223 days) helped me get through one of the most challenging periods of my life (i.e. divorced with a child, moved from U.S. to London to single raise my daughter). Dance has now taken its life of its own and I'm finding myself competing in dance "battles" as a way to test and grow my mental fortitude.

Technical skills

* UI Design - as a low level (i.e. C developer), I currently lack the skills to make my own little toy web apps more aesthetically pleasing for not just me, but to share with others

* Photography and videography - want to increase my current level(s) since I started a YouTube channel documenting my dance journey and also create little reels for community events

* (maybe) Rust or C++

[0] - Example of dance related YouTube shorts I make: https://youtube.com/shorts/cI2LAe-MMrw

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I got into Dancing after a breakup as well.

I would advise to learn couple dancing as: * Zouk (and if you are already doing street style dance, you will love black zouk) * Bachata (there are so many Bachata dancers around the world, that any country or trip you do, you can go into Bachata socials and make local friends all over the world) * Tango (it is the hardest dance to learn, but it has the best connection of all)

And definetly go into dance congresses. There are multiple dance congresses on Europe, but if you can go to some of the best dance congresses like zoukmx or into brazilian zouk congresses during January in Rio de Janeiro, it will be a life experience.

Check on youtube "zoukmx social" and "black zouk"

Never thought I would see zoukMX mentioned on Hacker News. Funny, because I've signed up for next year for 1st time! Definitely recommend couple dancing in general as well and dance congresses. I've met so many people and shared so many experiences ever since I started dancing and going to congresses.

Cool to see more dancers on HN! I'm gettin into it more myself, I was wondering if you could share the software you used in some of your shorts to practice dance?

Totally! Feel free to message me either on Instagram (@memattchung) or email: matt@mattchung.me

I'm assuming you are referring to the software that I wrote that blurts out certain (house dance) moves to help practice foundation and transitions?

> as a low level (i.e. C developer), I currently lack the skills to make my own little toy web apps more aesthetically pleasing for not just me, but to share with others

How did you get interested in opposite ends of the tech stack?

My career (over the span of 15 years) has been non-linear. I started with web development initially and slowly worked my way down the stack, writing C while at was at AWS (virtual private cloud).

Would love to help you learn rust. What’s the best way to reach out?

Thanks so much for the thought! Email would be great: matt@mattchung.me

I also see your details in your HN profile so will ping you separately

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