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Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?
Happy New Year HN First: Thanks for all great submissions and for
all high quality and interesting comments from all you users here
on HN. Second: Do you have any plans for the new year, new skills
to learn, excited over any new project, looking forward to
something, should you do anything different this year, etc?
Personally I never had any "new year promises", neither this year,
but I have at least a "goal/plan" this year, to do something
different; Consume less, create/learn more. It is so easy just surf
the web consuming stuff because you are bored, that in the end
gives you nothing/little in the end. This year I will try to use
more of my time to try to learn stuff that interest me or can be
useful. I probably will fail miserably, but at least its a plan :)
And now I have said it, on the internet, so best I stick to it :)
Once again Happy New Year
Author : MasterYoda
Score : 176 points
Date : 2021-12-31 09:31 UTC (13 hours ago)
| addictedcs wrote:
| My goal for the next year is just to work fewer hours. Covid
| pushed my work habit to the extreme, and I need to rebalance.
|
| 1. Read more books, less social media/news.
|
| 2. Spend more time with my friends. I haven't seen some of them
| IRL for more than a year.
|
| 3. Exercise more, play tennis with my daughter, spend quality
| time with my kids.
|
| 4. Spend more time with my parents. They've become visibly older
| in the last years, an observation that scares me.
|
| 5. Focus more on marketing for the businesses that I've
| bootstrapped. All the shiny new features that are developed are
| not as important as getting more people to use your product.
|
| 6. Promote open-source project to 1k GitHub stars[1]. I know it
| isn't very meaningful, but it's just nice to receive a bit of
| recognition from the community.
|
| 7. Enjoy life, don't stress about all the little things that
| happen along the way.
|
| Happy new year!
|
| [1] https://github.com/AddictedCS/soundfingerprinting
| gbear605 wrote:
| (Not trying to criticize, just curious)
|
| Are the open source work and the business marketing part of/all
| of the "work" that you want to do less of? If so, what is your
| plan for balancing doing less of it while still trying to
| accomplish those goals?
| addictedcs wrote:
| I'm really not good at marketing. Essentially I have to learn
| how to do it first. I plan to spend more time learning this
| new skill and then applying it. I've been recommended this
| [1] course, and if anyone can recommend something that worked
| for them, that'd be great.
|
| Balancing it with other duties is going to be hard, though I
| will try to explicitly divide my time into "one-week
| marketing / one-week dev work." Inside each week, I will try
| to have days fully reserved for non-work activities.
|
| Programming keeps me in this perpetual cycle of "one more
| thing for today/this week" which locks me in the IDE without
| end in sight. I will postpone any dev work that needs to be
| done until "dev work week" arrives.
|
| [1] - https://devmarketing.xyz
| Kelamir wrote:
| Happy new year everyone. Here are some of mine:
|
| 1. Be the kind of a person to read books(focus on reading instead
| of playing).
|
| 2. Read Japanese. I'm okay at it but I have spent 2 years without
| using it at all.
|
| 3. Get good at programming. I have never gotten far, stuck in
| tutorial hell. But I aspire to manage it this year.
| lighthammer wrote:
| In a previous HN post, there was a discussion about separating
| career work from passion/hobbies. That hit home to me as I have
| been learning a new hobby (camera, audio, software) with trying
| to produce and support my wife's podcast. My goal in 2022 is to
| be better at production with updated equipment, software, and
| editing techniques.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/c/RealLaurenLive/videos
|
| Great discussions if you are into the topics of spirituality,
| health, ET/UFOs, and consciousness.
|
| Happy New Year everyone. May 2022 bring happiness, success, and
| peace to you and your families.
| 0xcafecafe wrote:
| We're about to have our second kid in spring so that is the
| biggest thing to look forward to. In prep for that, planning to
| switch out our sedan for a minivan (due to 2 carseats).
|
| Apart from that, try to keep learning. Pickup something new I
| didn't know, last year it was chess, this year haven't picked
| anything yet (maybe swimming).
| drodil wrote:
| Congrats!
| 0xcafecafe wrote:
| Thanks!
| truly wrote:
| Most reasonable recent sedans have two or three isofix points,
| so I do not see the need for a van when you have two kids. The
| difference in handling and refinement (noise, cabin quality) is
| quite large, although the extra space is nice.
| bjacobt wrote:
| 1. Get customers for my SaaS -https://www.tollspot.com
|
| 2. Make ship able customer test units for my hardware project
| related to #1 - custom PCB, presentable enclosure, remote
| management, etc.
|
| 3. Get comfortable going to trade shows to market 1 & 2 and
| present to group of people (this is going to be difficult due to
| my personality and I've been a developer all my life, so I'm
| terrified of the transition to business side)
|
| Happy New Year!!
| ChrisGammell wrote:
| Looks cool! What hardware platform are you targeting?
| bjacobt wrote:
| Thanks! I'm using the LTE module with ARM Cortex M4 from
| particle.
|
| https://store.particle.io/collections/soms/products/b-series.
| ..
| tluyben2 wrote:
| I didn't want to do new years resolutions this year, but when
| contemplating not doing any, I came up with more than any year
| before this... I have them jotted down in great detail, but
| basically;
|
| 1. Make 100k$ with creating and selling something. I have done
| this a bunch of times before but became complacent working on my
| main project. So that I want to attempt.
|
| 2. Build something VR. The Quest 2 (both because of Immersed
| because someone here on HN said it was great); as a long time
| follower of VR (headsets in the 00s that gave me feelings of
| strokes, vrml, the kickstarter first Rift, psvr etc) this thing
| is a gamechanger and now vr has arrived.
|
| 3. Walk. A lot. This year I did 2021 km so next year 2022 at
| least.
| leetrout wrote:
| Can you share more about other things you have made and sold?
| tluyben2 wrote:
| Most were a while ago (hence the complacent part), but I made
| a hosting panel (those were popular little over 10 years ago)
| and sold that (made well over 100k$ in a few months), hosting
| company hosting millions of sites/apps, a proprietary CMS
| company, a company that sold games related stuff, a dating
| site, a PoS system+hardware and a bunch more things. They
| were all side projects at the time besides the CMS company
| (which managed to get to 400 staff before I sold) and all ran
| almost automatically after the onramp efforts. Also, and this
| seems a weirdo thing here on HN, if I had partners/co-
| founders (and with most I did), for almost all of these goes
| that I have never seen or even voice talked with them. I did
| not know them before, we met online and just assumed trust.
| We made good money just over text chat. And that's how I ran
| the CMS Corp as well (as cofounder/cto). I want to do that
| again in 2022.
| bitcoinmoney wrote:
| Sweet deal. How much did you make in total?
| spodek wrote:
| Building on the success of my podcast, This Sustainable Life,
| where I've led globally renowned people (you'll know many:
| https://joshuaspodek.com/leadership-and-the-environment-top-...)
|
| 1. Keep building the podcast
|
| 2. Publish my next book, on sustainability leadership (in
| conversations with big publishers already)
|
| 3. Continue my mission: to help change American (and global)
| culture on sustainability and stewardship from expecting
| deprivation, sacrifice, burden, and chore to expecting rewarding
| emotions and lifestyles, as I see happen with everyone I lead to
| act for their intrinsic motivations.
|
| In my case the emotions have been joy, fun, freedom, connection,
| meaning, and purpose.
| beyondcompute wrote:
| Consume less = exclude myself from certain kinds of social
| relationships with other people, show less appreciation to the
| labor of inventors, engineers and people who make stuff with
| their hands (appreciation in action, not just in words)?
|
| Everyone is entitled to live the way they prefer (within certain
| limits), of course! :) But I would want to "consume better"
| instead of "consuming less".
|
| Consume things made sustainably, buy quality products made by
| small/family businesses, purchase more services rather than
| goods, avoid consuming things made by big corporations under
| regimes that go against the values I believe in, support
| technologies that move humanity closer to the future that appears
| to be "a better future", etc.. I hope that this does not sound
| too contrarian and does not offend anybody! Peace and happy New
| Year to everyone!
| pawelmurias wrote:
| I was under the impression he was trying to consume less online
| content rather then less goods.
| rakejake wrote:
| Yep. My hobbies are very low energy and inexpensive, but I end
| up spending a decent amount of money and energy in traveling. I
| want to cut that down substantially starting starting next
| year.
| NextHendrix wrote:
| Show less appreciation?
| nojs wrote:
| I think they meant consuming less means showing less
| appreciation, since by consuming you're purchasing something
| somebody made which is a form of showing appreciation.
| davidkuennen wrote:
| My goal is to simply live as if every day'd be a new year
| kmarc wrote:
| * learn languages
|
| * don't spend free time on professional development.
|
| I have a great job and very good salary right now, but it pisses
| me off how slowly I can pick up basic words/sentences when I
| travel. I'm very bad at learning (speaking mostly) a new
| language, and I figured right now my career doesn't need me to be
| better at random new tech, but my soul needs some help when it
| comes to communicating in a different country :-D
| levesque wrote:
| I love that one of your goals is to not spend personal time on
| professional development, I feel like this is such a
| controversial topic right now.
| lvl100 wrote:
| Help save the world from total destruction.
| phtrivier wrote:
| Any specific first step in mind ?
| scollet wrote:
| Time machine
| mysterydip wrote:
| 1. Get my card game finished and playable multiplayer on the web.
|
| 2. Take what I learned from 1 (and hopefully some momentum) and
| get a beta of my multiplayer sandbox game on the web.
|
| 3. I have too much stuff. I'm trimming down my hobbies to focus
| on a few I'll actually have time for.
| ratww wrote:
| My plan is keep learning too. I used the holiday days to work on
| my 3D renderer and brushing up on 3D tech. I just figured out an
| O(N) way of applying the shadow-map in post-processing. Now I am
| implementing Screen Space Reflections, and the next step is
| "Geometry Images" (similar to Nanite).
| zoontek wrote:
| 1. Stop shipping open source libs for a bit, focus on maintenance
| of the existing ones
|
| 2. Ship a SaaS I started working on
|
| 3. Improve my sleep
|
| 4. Improve my cooking skills
|
| 5. Read more books
|
| 6. Watch fewer, but better movies
|
| 7. Make a few talks
|
| 9. Spend more time with my family / my friends. Spend less with
| the kind who are not really your friends after all
|
| 10. Disconnect even more from social medias
|
| 11. Learn something new (could be anything)
| themantalope wrote:
| 1. Finish pilot #1 for my startup, start pilot #2
|
| 2. Publish 2 papers
|
| 3. Go through all board prep material (one pass before 2023)
|
| 4. Eat less dairy (cut meat out last year)
|
| [edit for formatting]
| andy_ppp wrote:
| I'm planning to build spin classes ("peloton") for smart trainers
| (I just bought a Wahoo Kickr Core - more trainer than I'll ever
| need and 1000x more comfortable than the Watt Bike in the gym).
|
| If anyone fancies helping let me know, email in bio!
| mazokum wrote:
| Happy New Year!
|
| I am in the same line as you, I don't have any "new year
| promises" but I will try to focus on my health: eating better and
| training more.
|
| This is discussed in a video I think is specially relevant today:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE
| splittingTimes wrote:
| I will watch you :). Can we request topics?
| negative_zero wrote:
| Happy New Year everyone!
|
| 2022 is when I'll be trying my hand at bootstrapping and also
| working on my reoccurring back pain.
| hermannj314 wrote:
| Happy New Year!
|
| My family and myself love New Year Resolutions and make
| traditions of declaring them to one another.
|
| It is usually a full day of past year review and next year
| planning, that outputs an annual budget (time and money) to align
| everyone in the household with everyone's personal goals. We
| decide on volunteer commitments, income targets, expense budgets,
| vacation plans, subscriptions and activities.
|
| And all of this is enveloped and guided by a personal goal
| setting conversation.
|
| I have daily, weekly, monthly and annual rituals, but the New
| Year ritual is my favorite as it is fun, extremely strategic and
| the whole household comes together to encourage one another to
| dream and support one another.
|
| This year, our household will be learning French together so we
| can plan an extended vacation to France this summer, I would like
| to finally publish my video game, and I hope to continue reducing
| my use of a car so we can become a 1-car household.
| throwawayboise wrote:
| Declutter my house and life.
|
| I don't think I am a "hoarder" but I am sort of a slob. I like
| the feeling when my house is organized but it seems to take a
| tremendous amount of time and effort for me keep it that way, and
| I think I have too much stuff (especially clothes) so it's hard
| to keep it all under control.
|
| I think this will take some deliberate work to change habits
| (e.g. start small with something like "never go to bed with dirty
| dishes in the sink") and move from there. Others advocate a
| wholesale, all-at-once getting rid of things that you don't have
| a place for (de-cluttering) but I'm not sure that establishes the
| changes needed to prevent it happening again.
| alyssaxuu wrote:
| Happy New Year!
|
| For 2022 I think my goal is actually to figure out what my life
| goals should be, in terms of career path and also more on the
| personal side, I am a bit lost right now.
|
| Work-wise, for the past 3/4 years I have been doing the same
| thing, building websites and extensions non-stop (I think I've
| made like 30 so far, although I've gotten rid of a lot of them
| over the years), and it's gotten a bit boring. I don't know if I
| should just stick to a couple of products to grow and monetize
| them, or maybe do something else entirely (AR/iOS/Mac apps/Game
| development...), but I just don't find it rewarding or exciting
| anymore sadly. I feel like career-wise it all went too quickly,
| I'm 21 and I've already worked for several startups with a lot of
| ownership (leading the design + product side in some of them), so
| I don't really have much ambition anymore, it feels like I've
| topped it already in a way (also in terms of salary and comp).
|
| On the personal side, I just feel a bit lost in general. I
| recently moved to London, but I still don't really know where I
| belong. I've always thought about moving somewhere like SF, LA,
| or NYC, I know people in all these places and I constantly feel a
| lot of FOMO. It's just hard to decide where to live (especially
| when working fully remote and having no family ties whatsoever),
| hopefully I figure it out soon enough.
| dr_dshiv wrote:
| 1. Pursue science for the joy of it 2. Develop new measures of
| interpersonal synchrony and resonance 3. Be deliberate about my
| lifestyle. Take time and invest in myself.
| gentryb wrote:
| Going back to COVID testing for a bit before I jump back into my
| technical side. There is some serious need, and I have a good
| amount of experience last year. It's now been a 2 year swap
| toward volunteering and medical work. Never expected to see
| things spike this fast.
|
| Looking forward to working myself out of a job and getting back
| to my technical roots.
| dont__panic wrote:
| My career is at the point where I make enough money to
| comfortably buy anything (non-crazy expensive) I'll ever want to
| buy. Except a house, of course -- it would be obscene to afford a
| decent one of those in a major US city. I hate living in major
| cities anyway, and covid has made it essentially impossible to
| build a friend group in a new city.
|
| So my plan is to move closer to family, but into a walkable small
| town where I can establish a community, volunteer, and really set
| down some roots. I plan to de-emphasize work when possible to
| grow more into my hobbies: espresso, bike touring, and reading.
| Hopefully push one of the novels floating around in my head into
| a full-blown book, or at least a solid start on one. Life is too
| short to spend all of your effort on work in a city that you only
| live in because of work.
| caseyw wrote:
| I have three.
|
| 1. Spend more time with my family. I have a 1 year old daughter,
| and boy the time flies watching her grow. I'm slowing down my
| career and investing in her.
|
| 2. Becoming healthy by continued devotion to eating for fuel,
| being mindful of my activity level and enjoying this beautiful
| world we all inhabit.
|
| 3. Showing gratitude and love for my fellow humans.
|
| Have a Happy New Year all, I hope you make it happen this year!
| wvlia5 wrote:
| * move to NYC
|
| * buy EUC
|
| * fix hair
|
| * fix teeth
|
| * earn 200k
|
| * invest with stable returns >10%
|
| * socialize
| reactspa wrote:
| What's EUC please? Thanks.
| [deleted]
| zh3 wrote:
| I'm guessing Eurocoin [0]
|
| [0] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/eurocoin/
| wvlia5 wrote:
| Electric UniCycle
| sidcool wrote:
| My aim is doing a digital detox, letting go the FOMO of knowing
| everything current. Letting go HN and Reddit and YT videos.
| Letting myself be bored and not driven and ambitious all the
| time.
| meekaaku wrote:
| - Get closer to nature. Just completed PADI Openwater with my son
| few days ago. So hopefully more of diving/nature stuff.
|
| - Shift more to sales/marketing and a bit less on dev in my
| current work.
|
| - Side hustles in SaaS/ecommerce/blockchain
|
| - Read more
| Aulig wrote:
| Keep up my existing good habits and improve on those that I'm not
| quite happy with yet. E.g. meditating regularly and getting into
| a regular sleep schedule.
|
| Apart from that just business goals. I want to finish automating
| all the day to day tasks, which I'm really close to, finally.
| Then go on vacation, which I haven't done in the past 5 years.
| Aside from that growing the business of course, which should be
| easier once the day to day tasks are taken care of automatically.
| throwacctz wrote:
| My goal is find a financially stable way to continue paying for
| my in-law's cancer treatment. Since the start of 2020 the cost of
| treatment has eclipsed the combined income of my spouse and I.
| We're need to find a way to continue paying in the long-term
| without going further into debt. Chemo medication is so expensive
| and in this part of the world local health insurance doesn't help
| with these costs.
| OtomotO wrote:
| I am so terribly sorry you have to go through this.
|
| I've lost people to cancer, but at least we never had to worry
| about going into debt due to the treatment.
|
| I wish you all the best. Fighting cancer is hard enough,
| without another Damocles sword over your head
| don-code wrote:
| I'm looking to recover from two years of pandemic-induced
| silence.
|
| In the years prior, I was a pretty active member of several
| communities, to the point where I could be attending several a
| week. Many of these have disbanded entirely; some briefly moved
| online before collapsing due to lack of involvement. I haven't
| given a meetup or conference talk since early 2020.
|
| There are other, larger communities that have managed to stay
| afloat (disclaimer: I help organize one of them, DevOpsDays
| Boston), but their barriers to entry are much higher - formal
| CFPs and vetting versus Slack pings to meetup organizers. So my
| plan is to realize that's not an excuse, and act accordingly.
| exdsq wrote:
| Train for a Half Ironman! And I enrolled in a part time degree so
| I'll finally start working on ticking that off :)
| youknowhoe wrote:
| I have two
|
| * Build muscle
|
| * Kickstart my love life
|
| I had success with the former in 2021 but the latter was a bust.
| I intend to keep trying.
|
| If a late bloomer has something to share, I'd love to hear that.
| oars wrote:
| Nothing to share directly, but I just want to point out 2021
| was not a great year for finding love. Don't be so hard on
| yourself. Keep trying in 2022, it will be much better.
|
| And you're already making it easier for your future yourself by
| building muscle. Keep training hard. I wish you all the best.
| youknowhoe wrote:
| Thanks for the wishes! I'll persist on.
| levesque wrote:
| Relationships are hard, they require constant effort. Beyond
| being an attractive human being (i.e. take care of yourself,
| physically and mentally), it's all about emotional intelligence
| and communication.
| Winterflow3r wrote:
| I was a late bloomer in the latter (like very late due to being
| overweight for most of my teens and early 20s) and I don't have
| any big wisdom to share except don't lowet your standards and
| let people treat you like crap just because you think you're
| getting on the train very late in the game.
| youknowhoe wrote:
| Thanks for sharing!
| richardcrossley wrote:
| I had the opportunity to travel and I met my better half as a
| result of that trip.
|
| My advice, do something that takes you a bit out of your depth,
| you could meet new people as a result.
| nomadiccoder wrote:
| I recently read Atomic Habits by James Clear, and also listened
| to some process philosophy from Steven West's Philosophize This.
| One takeaway that I had was on the danger of setting goals. I am
| trying to build a mindset of 'becoming' or to embrace the journey
| of the goal rather than really trying to achieve a specific
| milestone.
|
| - I want to reduce/eliminate my alcohol consumption to become a
| person that doesn't rely on alcohol for social distraction or
| self-medication. To achieve this I have stopped keeping any
| alcohol in my home. If I have a drink it will need to be out
| somewhere and by virtue a 'special occasion'.
|
| - I want to improve my work-life balance by setting expectations
| that I am unavailable after 5pm. I aspire to be someone who can
| remain a high performer while also finding and following my
| passions. This year I will continue to shape those passions.
| There is no real milestone that I feel I need to set.
| Kelamir wrote:
| I and my SO have found that identity based habits work out way
| better. I recommend it
| cinntaile wrote:
| Can you explain what identity based habits are?
| zikduruqe wrote:
| > I want to reduce/eliminate my alcohol consumption...
|
| Tonight at midnight will be my 9th year alcohol free. For me
| personally, it has been wonderful not to depend on alcohol.
|
| No matter what you do, just take it one day at a time and best
| of luck.
| qorrect wrote:
| I like the idea of pushing the journey to the forefront. My new
| year is trying to be more in the present and not take for
| granted the blessings I have.
|
| * Congrats on removing alcohol from the home thats a big first
| step, keep that one aspiration and I think it'll have a
| profound impact. Not trying to push this at all , but CBD (
| delta8 ) helped me with the cravings ( its kind of like the
| side effect of smoking weed, you're relaxed and somewhat sleepy
| but not 'stoned' ).
| wholinator2 wrote:
| I will add, CBD and Delta8 are very different things. CBD is
| not like smoking weed, it's just relaxing and I believe what
| the parent is referencing. Delta8 can (and usually does)
| contain Delta8-THC, which is far more psychoactive than CBD
| (its purpose is to be a legal alternative to regular weed,
| its made to be as close as possible). Now, if you wanna
| actually smoke weed you can get weed that contains very low
| Delta9-THC (Delta9 is weed as we've known it for decades)
| with high CBD that will not get you (very) high.
|
| I don't even know if Delta8-CBD exists but if you go
| somewhere and ask for delta8, it's going to get you high and
| potentially be very not relaxing. If you ask for CBD
| specifically, it will not be highly psychoactive. Just be
| careful out there these days, it's only getting more
| confusing and marketing heavy.
| BigHatLogan wrote:
| I really like this idea of "becoming" / "embracing" versus
| trying to achieve a specific end. As the adage goes, it's all
| about the journey, not the destination.
|
| I'm trying to do something similar. I have this terrible habit
| --that I suspect many, many people also do--of thinking that
| "future me" will be far more capable than present me, that in
| one year I'll be less anxious, more courageous, less fearful,
| more outgoing, etc.
|
| (On a smaller time scale, people who struggle with kicking bad
| habits do the same thing, myself included. I will tell myself,
| "starting tomorrow, I will once and for all stop {drinking too
| much soda, eating too much}!" Tomorrow-Me is Hercules, with the
| willpower of Zeus and the indomitable spirit of a world-class
| athlete. Of course I end up spending tomorrow drinking soda
| like a fish drinks water, only to tell myself that "tomorrow
| will be different.")
|
| Inevitably what ends up happening is that one year from then
| I'm still the same person, and all I have done is kick the can
| down the road on so many opportunities--the party I didn't go
| to because I didn't know anyone; the lunch I made an excuse to
| skip because I was embarrassed that my old friends were farther
| along in life than I was (whatever that even means); the
| interview I turned down because I "wasn't ready yet." While
| doing these things, I told myself that some indefinite period
| from now, I'll be this perfect human who is ready to do all of
| those things, and that right now I'm a flawed person who isn't
| ready to do those things just yet.
|
| But that perfect human never came to be, and the flawed human
| is what remains. It's tautological to say this, but nothing
| changes if nothing changes. I won't be magically courageous or
| outgoing one year from now if I don't actually embrace the
| nervous and shy person that I am today. And I hope that if I
| embrace it, accept that I'll fall and stumble, and try to make
| little progress along the way, then one year from now I can
| look back and say, "I'm still not a perfect human and never
| will be, but I'm satisfied that I did ___."
| aserdf wrote:
| > I want to reduce/eliminate my alcohol consumption...
|
| same here. each year it just takes more and more out of me
| physically/mentally, this year really seemed to emphasize that.
| looking for 6 months here and then will re-evaluate. in the
| past breaking a sweat when the urge/opportunity arises has been
| pretty effective.
| MissionInfl wrote:
| To provide an alternate solution to the one already
| mentioned, I used a modern medicine approach to alcohol use
| disorder called The Sinclair Method. The tl;dr is that you
| continue to drink using an opioid antagonist (usually
| Naltrexone) which blocks the endorphins rewards from
| consuming alcohol and eventually you just stop caring about
| it.
|
| For more information, see
| https://www.reddit.com/r/Alcoholism_Medication/, or
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EghiY_s2ts, or https://www.d
| ropbox.com/s/60fs7gmvbyzs1kk/Cure%20for%20Alcoh... (warning:
| large pdf)
| AAthrowaway wrote:
| I have found AA and the community as a whole welcoming. I've
| spent the last 18 years of my life try to "control" my
| drinking. Not drinking on work nights, staying sober for
| months at a time but I always found myself down that slippery
| slope. The pandemic and work from home made it 1000% times
| worse. I didn't have to shower or commute. I'd roll out of
| bed login, do standup and start drinking. It never affected
| my work. I've always gotten rave reviews. AA has changed my
| life in regards to family, physical well being and work. YMMV
| but if you're interested the AA site has pdf versions and
| audio versions of the big book. The big book was an
| interesting read for sure.
| cesnja wrote:
| I used to drink socially. But every time it turned into a
| binge episode. And as it turns out, stopping drinking before
| the first one is the solution that works for me.
|
| Sadly this did cause some social life problems. I had to
| mostly replace the people I hang out with.
| revorad wrote:
| Ever since I came across this concept of focusing on
| habits/systems instead of goals, I've been confused. Surely we
| need both?
|
| Ali Abdaal expressed this well in this video -
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rkRC728rIU
|
| I wish you all the best in your journey!
| PatentlyDC123 wrote:
| I think the concept is focusing on performing/developing the
| habits/systems required to achieve longer term goals. Kind of
| like focusing on what you can do today with what you have on
| hand for a project rather than focusing on finishing the
| whole project. For example, a goal under these guidelines
| might be "lose 10 lbs by July." The goal wouldn't be, "go to
| the gym 3x per week," or "eat X, Y, Z protein, carbs, and fat
| grams per meal." Those would be habits/systems to achieve the
| weight loss goal.
| dgan wrote:
| Gotta finish Software Foundations series.
| scrollaway wrote:
| Happy new year, HN.
|
| I'm a huge believer in CGP Grey's thematic year system
| (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE) in place of
| resolutions. After outstanding successes two years in a row with
| the system (first year with my physical health, second year with
| my work and finances), I'm doing a "year of relationships" where
| my focus will be general social and romantic recoveries.
| Especially since, in the last two years, this is what has
| suffered the most for many including myself.
|
| I posted on Tildes about this, in fact:
| https://tildes.net/~talk/zsh/your_theme_for_2022
| browie wrote:
| I just found out about this video, and Tildes too. Thank you
| for sharing! Would you be kind enough to invite me to it?
|
| Either way I think I will be doing a "year of discipline" for
| 2021. I feel that I know my wants and needs but I am mostly
| just going with the flow in regards to everything.
| scrollaway wrote:
| Sure thing, find my email via my profile and I'll send you an
| invite.
|
| Year of Discipline sounds like a fantastic theme!
| ChildOfChaos wrote:
| I love the idea of year themes but I tend to just end up
| picking the same words and find it hard to settle on just area
| so end up with something like 'Progress' because we all want
| progress right? but then what does that even mean.
| scrollaway wrote:
| I recommend picking an area of your life you want to improve
| on the most, preferably one where you feel you're not
| progressing fast enough.
|
| Weight = "body". Depression/burnout = "mind". Other themes
| I've seen picked are specific countries (for language), or
| culture in general, or "year of zen" to learn how to deal
| with stress etc.
| onion2k wrote:
| 2022 is the year I actually sit down and learn how to use Blender
| to make models to use in WebGL projects.
|
| Technically 2021 is because I've already started, but that's just
| details.
| severak_cz wrote:
| I am thinking about buying camcoder and recording some youtube
| travel vlogs and maybe even short independent post-apo movie.
|
| I want to spent more time with my friends, but this depends on
| pandemic situation.
| [deleted]
| kstenerud wrote:
| Finish the reference implementation [1] for https://concise-
| encoding.org
|
| I'm at the "last 10% which takes 90% of the time", and want to
| get it finished by q2.
|
| [1] https://github.com/kstenerud/go-concise-encoding
| germinalphrase wrote:
| I currently teach high school English. There is a great deal
| about the job that feeds my soul, but my engagement with the work
| has shifted markedly over the last few years and is starting to
| impact my happiness, my optimism for life, and my ability to be
| the husband and father I know I am. I believe it's time to do
| something else.
|
| Several conversations with tech folks lead me to believe that I
| would do very well in UX. I feel skeptical of boot camps, but
| here in Minneapolis the impression seems to be that Prime is a
| useful 'box-check' for obtaining a junior position. Any Twin
| Cities HN'ers have insight into whether (or to what degree)
| that's true?
|
| I feel apprehensive about the "flood of junior candidates, dearth
| of senior talent" dynamic.
|
| Thoughts/comments/connections would be appreciated.
|
| Email in profile.
| nvahalik wrote:
| > I feel apprehensive about the "flood of junior candidates,
| dearth of senior talent" dynamic.
|
| Many people I know (myself included) are looking less at
| overall skillset and more for a good understanding of the
| fundamentals + a desire to grow and stick with a role (ethic).
|
| That is, if you can focus on understanding the core principles
| of UX/design and show that you can apply those (usually by way
| of portfolio showing the desires, and therefore your
| comprehensive of the desires + the outcomes), that means a lot
| more because most teams realize that hiring someone is an
| investment and they know that it will take you time to
| understand how they work, their needs, etc.
| yboris wrote:
| I was a math teacher for 5 years and have switched to web dev 5
| years ago and have been loving it. I did have a bunch of
| personal web-dev experience, so it made switching careers
| pretty easy. But I wanted to share that it seems doable.
|
| Since a lot of tech work is still people work (communicating
| clearly, managing expectations, etc), I suspect you'd be a
| better candidate than someone straight out of college.
| debaserab2 wrote:
| I don't know that there is anything special about Prime over
| other reputable bootcamps. It might be easier to get a job in
| the agency world (since I know Prime has a lot of tie-ins to
| the industry) - which is fairly infamous for paying below
| market wages for entry level positions. I've personally never
| noticed a difference in candidate quality based on whether they
| did Prime or any other bootcamp.
| germinalphrase wrote:
| Thank you for the insight. Any recommendations on how to
| gauge company reputations on the local level without having
| many industry connections? Are orgs like UXPA-MN worth a
| damn?
| debaserab2 wrote:
| I don't know much about organizations like UXPA-MN.
|
| I don't know if I have any good advice beyond the obvious
| things like Glassdoor. I worked a couple agency jobs early
| on in my career and while it was a good couple years for
| career experience, it was also my hardest working (as in
| hours) and least paying years I ever had. Once I switched
| to product development I found much higher quality jobs in
| both pay and work/life balance. That can be kind of tough
| to find in TC compared to other cities, though.
| rileyphone wrote:
| 2021 has been the best year of my life and I am even more excited
| for 2022. I am currently planning an ambitious software project
| that I hope will help people understand the world better. I have
| rediscovered my love of reading and plan to keep that up (my
| reading list is growing too fast). Also, I'm getting married this
| year so I want to keep working on being a better partner and
| communicator. Cheers!
| kenjinp wrote:
| This year I've learned a great deal by experimenting with game
| development. I've learned elixir, started to learn rust, and
| acquired a great many skills like distributed computing that I
| would never have touched in my day job. I hope I can continue
| spinning that flywheel for my self-inspiration.
|
| Goals: 1. Continue building my web-based MMORPG
| https://firmament.kenny.wtf/ 2. Get better at French (I'm an
| expat living in Geneva, CH. My language level is inexcusable.)
| yboris wrote:
| I'm eager to finish adding facial recognition to my charityware
| project _Video Hub App_ - a browser / organizer for videos on
| your computer.
|
| https://videohubapp.com/
|
| MIT open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
| technological wrote:
| Happy New year everyone. Certainly I have plans for the new year
| like every year, however this time I want to make sure I stick or
| complete one thing in list of things I want to do this year. I
| wish I have positive energy that I have during end of year and
| first few days of the new year where I want to learn so many new
| things throughout the year . May be it is my excitement about
| doing so many things which may be not practically possible that
| you causes the disappointment
| jrh206 wrote:
| I quit my job. My last day is next Friday. I have 2 years' worth
| of living expenses saved up and the conviction that I'll find a
| way to make it work.
|
| I've spent 2021 developing self-respect and solidifying self-care
| routines. I started a regular fitness practice, quit alcohol and
| stimulants, and grew closer to friends and family. Over the
| holiday period, I've reflected, and realised: I care so much
| about my body, what I put into it, and how I look after it - so
| why don't I have the same respect for my time, and what I spend
| the vast majority of my day doing?
|
| In the short term, I will create the best free Java tutorial
| videos in the world. I think the state of Java tutorials on
| YouTube is currently poor, full of misinformation and inefficient
| scripting. And I intend to change that. My first:
| https://youtu.be/CN27X68YO4I.
| truly wrote:
| Awesome!
|
| Thumbs up on the video, it is good [ _]. What software are you
| using to do the editing /screen recording?
|
| [_] I would personally prefer if it were faster.
| Ygg2 wrote:
| 1. Finish XML5 parser I left to languish for quite a bit.
|
| a) Help the man who made Html5gum, and inspired me to work on my
| own parser, by helping him with HTML5 parser.
|
| 2. Learn to program Rust games.
|
| 3. Finish the goddamn puddle spilling for SS14.
|
| Happy new year, all!
| longtrousers wrote:
| I am going to exercise from jan 1st through jan 14th and I am
| also going to slowly get lose both my gluten- and lactose
| intolerance through very precise understanding of my
| consciousness through mindfulness.
| alcover wrote:
| Make a programming language. No, two ! One that will sugar-coat
| C, one that should ideally be the cleanest, efficientest
| scripting marvel on earth.
| adnanc wrote:
| 1. Work on https://ayahbyayah.com - managed to get an update out
| this week, next year will be 10 years on the App Store.
|
| 2. Get 500 hours on the bike, this year I managed 358 hours and
| 6000 miles.
|
| 3. Continue my Qur'an memorisation journey.
| snakeboy wrote:
| These goals seem to me like progress towards a life well-lived.
| Good luck!
| tdsamardzhiev wrote:
| I will move to a part-time job and start a physics degree. There
| are many crazy things coming up in science, and I want to be a
| part of it.
| revorad wrote:
| That's so cool! What crazy things are you excited about? I
| majored in Physics but have moved so far away from it, I don't
| know anything about what's happening in the field now.
| lsiunsuex wrote:
| No resolutions. I have 5 3D Printers now; want to design and
| build my own printer next. Start a small business printing parts
| / accessories.
| peakaboo wrote:
| Do another AWS certification because they are nice to have.
| Looking at machine learning now but it's so silly and I lost
| respect for the machine learning crowd.
|
| Yeah we gonna do some "quantum binning" now (put stuff into
| categories)... Get out of here. Lol.
| ianbutler wrote:
| I spent the last few years exclusively grinding work to the
| detriment of everything else (which worked out financially kind
| of) so this year I'm going to do what I need to keep food on the
| table but besides that I'm going to work on bringing back all the
| other things I used to do.
|
| - All my friends moved and drifted over the last two years so
| time to find some new ones
|
| - Try to revive my friendships with my oldest and previously
| closest friends
|
| - Leave NYC and head West
|
| - Start playing piano
|
| - Read at a minimum 1 book per month
|
| - Lose my pandemic weight
|
| - Pick up some fun non tech hobbies like hiking again
| _sword wrote:
| Bank as much as possible, leave finance, start my own business
| doing <something>
| khnov wrote:
| Hi HN,
|
| I'll quit my job to work as a consultat on my own.
|
| I'll move to my bought house.
|
| I'll buy a nice mercedes car.
|
| I'll receive my new baby.
|
| I'll try to build something with my friend.
|
| I'll try to have profit from crypto investments.
|
| I'll continue to learn rust.
|
| I'll build blog about many subjects.
| rexreed wrote:
| De-Googling / De-Facebooking / De-Twittering / De-Amazoning as
| much as possible
| mindcrime wrote:
| I don't really do "New Years resolutions", but I do (sometimes)
| do at least a little high-level planning for the year ahead.
| Coincidentally, I just did that exercise a few minutes before
| seeing this post. Well... some of the "planning" had been going
| on in my head for a while of course, but I mean I took the time
| to actually write it down.
|
| I'd just share the doc with y'all but too much of what is in
| there would be really opaque because it refers to labels that I
| put on things that would be meaningless to anybody else. But as a
| summary, I have sections for
|
| _Reading / Research_ -- refers specifically to books/papers I
| want to read and research I'm working on.
|
| _Learning_ -- refers to "basic skills" or what-not that I want
| to focus on.
|
| _Building_ - refers to specific projects I want to work on that
| involve building something (could be hardware or software, or a
| combination of both)
|
| _Fogbeam_ - refers to anything related to Fogbeam Labs, my
| company.
|
| The first section, _Reading_ has reference to a number of books
| on linguistics / language / computational linguistics / NLP that
| I plan to work through. It also mentions reading the remaining
| books by Ben Goertzel that I haven't already read yet. Same for
| Ron Sun. There's also a section on Machine Learning and
| Evolutionary computing (Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming,
| etc.). And then there's some miscellaneous stuff. But
| realistically, I won't get through all of it in 1 year. I
| finished 50 books in 2021 (which is around my norm) but that
| includes quite a few novels and shorter books. Most of these are
| denser / meatier material that will be a slog to grind through.
| So I'll probably be lucky to finish 30 books in 2022.
|
| Anyway... in the _Learning_ section is some stuff about a
| sequence of math topics I want to focus on. I won 't bore you
| with the details, but just suffice it to say I feel like I need
| to brush up on some forgotten math stuff and learn some stuff I
| never studied in the first place.
|
| There's also a note here to continue working on learning more
| about working with the SOAR cognitive architecture.
|
| In the _Building_ section is a mention of an (e)-book manager /
| paper manager / note-taking app that I've started building for
| myself. Yes, I'm building my own because I have some very
| specific ideas about how I want it work, to suit the way I like
| to do things. If I ever get a reasonably decent version finished
| I might open source it. Most of what I work on is OSS, and that
| tends to be my default mode. But we'll see.
|
| The other thing in this section is a "body" for some of my AI
| work. By "body" I don't mean a biped, walking/talking,
| anthropomorphic body... no, I just mean an old boom-box that I
| gutted out, and into which I plan to install a raspberry pi, a
| battery pack, a pan/tilt controller with a web-cam, a microphone,
| and some other miscellaneous sensors (accelerometer, temperature
| sensor, etc). It's meant to be "just barely enough" of a form of
| embodiment to let me do some experiments with how an AI might
| learn from interacting with its environment. Here is where I
| should mention that my reading list also needs to include a bunch
| of stuff I plan to read about developmental psychology, first
| language acquisition, etc. The idea is to play around with ideas
| related to the whole "let the AI learn (sort of) like a baby
| does" meme.
|
| And if you're wondering, no, the rPi isn't meant to do the "heavy
| lifting" in regards to the AI "stuff" associated with the box
| thing. It's just going to be a front-end, collecting signals from
| the various sensors, possibly doing some pre-processing, etc. and
| then forwarding everything to another box where the real work
| will be done.
|
| Under the _Fogbeam_ label is a bunch of "finish product X",
| "finish product Y", type stuff. I'll say no more about that for
| now. But one of the bullets there is to start blogging more
| again, so hopefully I can make that one stick and maybe some
| posts from the Fogbeam Blog will start showing up here on HN in
| 2022.
|
| Happy New Year everyone, and best of luck to everybody in the
| year ahead, regardless of what your plans are. (Unless you're
| planning something evil. Boo. Don't do that).
| cant_say wrote:
| The big one: quit my comfortable web development job and spend my
| time learning and contributing to the web3/dao/crypto world,
| especially the art scene.
|
| I'm financially stable and not looking for $, I'm just really
| bored and tired of everything that I've been doing for the last
| decade and this space reminds me of the messy internet that i
| used to love.
|
| Smaller ones:
|
| - get out of the house more. 2021 was rough
|
| - read books a lot more, I have plenty of time if I steal time
| from phone/internet
| mguerville wrote:
| Build more things, i took a break in 2021 due to having a child,
| but I want to resume building mini apps and tools for my own use
| in 2022 as a way to learn and eventually build for others
| mrpadie wrote:
| I don't tend to do new year resolutions, but 2022 will see my
| first attempt at building my own business, which I'm incredibly
| excited for. I've been preparing to do so for a while now, and I
| finally decided to take the plunge this year. I hope to have
| something to Show HN soon!
|
| Otherwise, a personal goal of mine going into 2022 is to become
| more aware of my mental and physical well-being. More
| specifically, knowing my personal limits and being more open
| towards my friends and family about how I'm feeling. I spent a
| few consecutive years working too hard without proper balance,
| and it really took its toll on me this year. I've been taking a
| small break over December between wrapping up my previous job and
| starting my business ideas next year. It's been great to have
| zero mindshare spent on work for a while!
|
| Stay safe, and all the best for the new year!
| rsync wrote:
| I want to write more - and more frequently.
|
| I have a new writing form that I spec'd out in 2018:
|
| https://john.kozubik.com/pub/IcebergArticle/tip.html
|
| ... but I have not actually used it to write anything _except the
| description what an Iceberg Article is_.
|
| So ... I'd need to write more Iceberg Articles. I'm excited about
| the topic list I have and I'm excited about the format itself.
| tomrod wrote:
| Personal: spend more quality time with family and friends. While
| I spend time with them, Covid made much of it transactional in
| nature.
|
| Professional: I launched my business and look forward to growing
| it!
| cableshaft wrote:
| The pandemic kind of pushed my consumption into overdrive, so the
| goal next year is to put a severe damper on that. For food I'm
| going to try to eat half as much as I've been doing, unless it's
| primarily fruits and veggies (like a salad with some fruit on the
| side). Would reduce the number of calories I eat, decrease how
| much I spend, how much time I need to spend cooking or picking
| food up, etc.
|
| Should also give me more time as I will try to avoid media that
| triggers my buying impulses, like a big one for me is board
| games, so no time spent buying new games, little time spent
| watching media about new games (games I already own is fine),
| etc, which should give me some time back, and maybe I can play
| all these new games I'm playing more than once or twice before
| letting them sit on a shelf untouched while I buy the next one.
|
| I'm also going to try to do some form of exercise every day, as I
| need to get that back on track again.
|
| Other than that, I'm going to try to get myself into a financial
| position where I can take at least six months off work to shed
| some old burnout technical debt and to try to knock out one or
| two projects I've been making very slow progress on the past few
| years.
|
| Not sure if having a kid is in the cards for us this year again.
| Both of us are trying to juggle too many things as it is. Also,
| knowing how the world is headed I'm not entirely sure it's a good
| thing to do anymore (for the environment or for the kid), but my
| biological drive is quite strong and being a father is something
| I always wanted to experience. I'm already 17 years older than my
| parents were when they had me, which is just wild to think about,
| as I was already in high school comparatively.
| holtkam2 wrote:
| Deleting all my social media accounts today!! 2022 will be the
| first social media free year I've experienced since I was a
| freshman in high school!
| mihaitodor wrote:
| Happy New Year!
|
| - Dig deeper into bioinformatics and do some hands-on courses /
| experiments with various tools that are being used for analysing
| various *omics data
|
| - Contribute more code to https://benthos.dev and learn more
| about data streaming
|
| - Catch up on Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast, since I fell
| behind for a few months:
| https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/
|
| - Meet new likeminded people *wave*
| roxaaaane wrote:
| Happy New Year HN
|
| I am starting a new job on Feb hoping to kick-ass there as its my
| first (official)job after college and months of OSS. I will once
| again try to learn and use Rust but will fail miserably.
|
| My only plan for this new year is to slowdown on consuming
| content and subjecting myself to a lot more stress and spend more
| time outside, taking naps and reading books.
| byteski wrote:
| Happy New Year! I'm gonna stream coding and I hope I'll make more
| content in my blog
| peterburkimsher wrote:
| Happy new year from Auckland, New Zealand!
|
| In the past my New Years resolutions were 800x600, 1024x768, etc,
| but this year, let's try something more exciting.
|
| * Maximise connectedness.
|
| * Reduce entropy.
|
| * Love your neighbour, clean as you go.
|
| That sounds pretty meta, but taken practically: clean the
| software code at work, clean the litter on the street on the
| commute (especially masks = COVID concentrators, to save the
| flies and birds who don't have a vaccine yet).
|
| Another more likely deliverable goal is to write an article,
| using the Sierpinski triangle as a model of a perfectly balanced
| binary tree. The topics would translate a suggestion of how to
| apply that model into all cultures (engineering, economics,
| marketing, travel, open-source, social networks, etc). The self-
| imposed deadline is before 20 years of Wolfram - A New Kind of
| Science at the end of January.
|
| MasterYoda, your iterative learning strategy is the best approach
| for ML and life! Let's hack together something imperfect that's
| good enough for today, and learn how to make it better together!
| jacquesm wrote:
| Spend more time with the children, spend more time with my piano,
| some major improvements to pianojacq.com , spend less time on the
| meta stuff associated with running a business so that the other
| two can become a reality. Finish a whole pile of projects and _do
| not_ start new ones until the old ones are done. This will be
| hard.
| cosmodisk wrote:
| Last year I wished myself to lose weight and and start earning
| more on a side. None of that happened, in fact it got much
| worse,so I'll set the same target for 2022. Happy new year!!
| Gigachad wrote:
| Tbh I feel like I have done everything I want to do at 23. Now
| the only real aim left is to make as much money as possible just
| for the challenge of it.
| [deleted]
| booleandilemma wrote:
| Keep it up and you'll be a terachad soon!
| nvahalik wrote:
| When you are 50, what do you think will be your legacy?
| ChildOfChaos wrote:
| I also think this is a very silly and egotistical question.
| Why do you want a legacy? I feel in some ways this is because
| people just want to deny there own death and insignificance
| so want to extend there life somehow beyond them, but they
| can't.
|
| Aiming for legacy is a losing game, it's meaningless, just
| enjoy your life and help others do the same.
| nvahalik wrote:
| Actually, a legacy can honor death by focusing on what is
| lasts rather than what doesn't.
|
| My children and my children's children--generations upon
| generations will have been shaped in some part by me.
| That's where my focus ought to be. That's what I aim for.
|
| What legacy _will_ you have?
| okl wrote:
| How boring.
| Gigachad wrote:
| Eh, I bought a decent apartment in the city and go out
| partying with friends every weekend. But in terms of needs, I
| could stop putting in effort right now and live comfortably
| for basically forever. But I'm still working hard at gaining
| new skills with the aim of eventually getting something
| really high level like CTO.
| posed wrote:
| How boring.
| 2sk21 wrote:
| 2021 was my first full year of retirement and I really enjoyed it
| (I retired at the end of 2020 after working thirty years in
| software research). In 2021, I plan to work on my model train
| layout, some robotics projects and continue learning Swift. If
| things go well, I plan to release a MacOS app for personal
| knowledge management.
| rodolphoarruda wrote:
| I want to spend less time on social networks, especially Twitter.
| gefhfffh wrote:
| - eat more sustainably
|
| - get more productive
| mam4 wrote:
| Become financially independent and not have to work.
| d3nj4l wrote:
| Ain't that the dream. Best of luck!
| sonkun wrote:
| I will get out more.
| eagsalazar2 wrote:
| 1. Eat _decently_ (drink more water, no sodas, no deep fried
| potatoes of any kinds, and no sweets. I already don 't drink
| alcohol or eat gluten)
|
| 2. Hire a regular online personal trainer that fits my schedule.
| Upwork is surprisingly a good source for this.
|
| 3. Launch a new software product of my own (not client products)
|
| 4. Strive for Buddha-like attention and patience with my kids
|
| All are really "live a happier life" goals. Even #3, because I
| miss doing that so much.
| throwawayboise wrote:
| Gluten isn't really a problem for most people, only those who
| are specifically intolerant of it. Or has that thinking
| changed?
| eagsalazar2 wrote:
| People's beliefs on this topic are extremely divergent. I
| personally have developed a sensitivity to gluten so I really
| have no choice, but I also happen to believe it is bad for
| your long-term health.
| aksss wrote:
| Start my new 15-minute body workout routine (like 4-hour body but
| ain't nobody got time for that).
| codingdave wrote:
| Happy New Year !
|
| I intend to finish my current project, then take the summer off
| and spend time with my wife and children before they are too old
| to enjoy time with their dad due to living their own lives, and
| while we all have the time, energy, and money to have memorable
| experiences together.
|
| After that, I'm not sure what I'll be doing - I'm deliberately
| not planning my next moves because I don't want something to come
| up and draw my attention away from a summer with family.
| NithurM wrote:
| Excited to help more learners and devs with Codexplainer AI.
| rdevsrex wrote:
| I want to get out of debt, and after that, go back to college
| part time and cash flow it.
| znpy wrote:
| Just get thin.
|
| Between the lockdown the smartworking and quitting smoking, I've
| gained some weight.
| sufficer wrote:
| I've lost 5 friends this year. One to Covid.
|
| Here's to a new year. Cheers.
| jasonladuke0311 wrote:
| 1. Improve my development skills. As a security engineer, it's
| sometimes easy to fall into a rut where I don't write code often
| enough. I need to find projects on my own that are interesting
| enough to push me.
|
| 2. Keep training combat sports, especially with my son. It's been
| a great bonding experience, and those can be hard to find with
| teenagers. It's been great for me too. Need to train
| intelligently and ensure I can recover from training.
|
| 3. Read books at times other than the night. I usually only read
| for an hour or so before bedtime, but this makes some books take
| forever to finish. I fear my house will be filled with unread
| books before long.
|
| 4. Keep trying to be the best dad, husband, and human I can be.
| Long way to go here.
| samcgraw wrote:
| > I fear my house will be filled with unread books before long.
|
| Umberto Eco[1] would call that a success :)
|
| [1] http://gregorianstorage.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-to-
| justify-...
| vorticalbox wrote:
| This year I would really like I read more, I was diagnosed with
| Irlen syndrome (wether that is correct or not the glasses have
| helped)
|
| And that makes reading really hard for me but I have gotten books
| as gifts and really want to read them.
| literallyaduck wrote:
| Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add,
| but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de
| Saint-Exupery, Airman's Odyssey
|
| 1. Stick to a strict budget
|
| 2. Stick to a strict diet
|
| 3. Liberal consumption of book media
|
| 4. Liberal production of content
|
| 5. See fewer humans
| fairytale wrote:
| Happy New Year!
| zb1plus wrote:
| Happy New Year HN! My goals for 2022 are: 1. Propose to my
| girlfriend 2. Determine if graduate school is the right path for
| me and get into a program that aligns with my interests 3. Get my
| AWS SSA cert and a GCP cert 4. Learn Swift 5. Natural Language
| Processing 6. Live a less stressful and happier life
|
| If anybody on here can provide advice or mentorship around [2], I
| would deeply appreciate it!
| drakonka wrote:
| Happy New Year!
|
| I do not do "resolutions", but my plan is as always to keep
| learning and growing as a developer.
|
| Also to do even more writing! Including my fiction, which has
| been picking up steam.
|
| Like you, I hope to consume less next year. Or rather, consume
| less things and more experiences.
| rtkaratekid wrote:
| My plan is to mediate more consistently. Hopefully every day.
| I've found it to help my mental health immensely when I am
| consistent and recently my mental health has been poor.
|
| But in addition to mental health, I somewhat recently left an
| extremely rigid religion and have found myself looking for some
| form of healthy spirituality in my life again and I'm hoping that
| mediation coupled with a mix of views and philosophies from
| various eastern religions will help in that part of my life. I
| don't expect to believe metaphysical claims from them per se, but
| to explore them and adopt what I do find makes sense rationally
| and then also through my own attempts at a spiritual practice.
| hughrr wrote:
| It tend not to set too many aspirational objectives as
| circumstances outside your control (think 2020, 2021) can end up
| in failure which is demotivating so I throw myself a new 4 week
| target every 4 weeks and work towards that.
|
| The first one is clear out all the remaining junk in my house
| that I don't use. Most of this is already stacked up ready for
| sale or disposal and it's not even the 1st of Jan :)
|
| The one queued up after that is run 5k again (I could do this
| until covid got me in april 2020)
| aserdf wrote:
| > ...as circumstances outside your control (think 2020, 2021)
| can end up in failure which is demotivating...
|
| having been bitten by this in the past, im curious how you
| manage your ongoing targets. backlog style? i usually have a
| few different target areas (health, work, learning, etc) that
| are all on different timelines so unless i am constantly
| monitoring cumulative progress one ends up falling off and
| things cascade from there.
| hughrr wrote:
| Yeah I just write a list down and pick one that's achievable
| based on current finances, situation, motivation and desires.
| I add them to the list as I think about them.
|
| To note I _never_ mix my work objectives with personal ones.
| That can lead to all sorts of problems as I learned over the
| last 20 years or so.
| daturkel wrote:
| I've made a few measurable goals for 2022 that I wrote up on my
| personal site [0]: - read 25 books (3 of which are "technical") -
| write 12 blog posts - take one online course - get conversational
| in French - shoot 2 new batches of photos and post them online
| (and get through some of my photo backlog)
|
| And the slightly less measurable: eat better and exercise more.
| I'm getting old enough that I should stop putting this off.
|
| [0]: https://danturkel.com/2021/12/31/goals-for-2022.html
| anotheraccount9 wrote:
| For me, it's all about health. I've found a new job that I like,
| but it's 1/2 the wage, and only 3 days a week. But I don't really
| care, since it's good place. I'll start walking more, and
| incorporate healthier habits. I will show gratitude to others.
| [deleted]
| ramshanker wrote:
| De-addiction of Tech News sites. Feeling like I consume too much
| time reading news, and too little doing on my side projects. Time
| to reverse it. i.e. more focus on shipping something.
| chc4 wrote:
| I started working on a project (meta-JIT framework for Rust
| interpreters) over a sabbatical a few months ago. I'm going to be
| switching to half-time at work, and hopefully keep working on
| that in my free time, along with doing a lot of other stuff that
| I felt like I didn't have the opportunity to do while working a
| full-time 40hr/wk job - visit family and friends more, start
| working out, work on other side projects or friends' open source
| projects, etc.
| mountainriver wrote:
| That sounds really cool! Do you have any of it open sourced
| yet?
| smokel wrote:
| There is so much to learn (automated theorem proving, graph
| neural networks, reinforcement learning, theory of mind, ...),
| yet so little time. Any tips on how to prioritize?
| saint_angels wrote:
| I suggest choosing one main direction for a fixed period of
| time(like a month) and sticking with it, without distractions
| on other interests. After period ends, you select a theme for
| the next one. imo helps with getting through the boring/hard
| parts and seeing results.
| truly wrote:
| I would focus on one area that I find the most interesting and
| where I would be willing to go all the way [1].
|
| [1] from personal experience, if you many things, you will not
| end up doing many of them at a top level.
| crytting wrote:
| New Year's resolutions fail when they aren't engineered to last
| and direct you for the entire year. If you aren't reflecting on
| what it did to you and your life on December 31st, 364 days after
| setting it, then the resolution failed.
|
| Setting any resolution that won't fit this description is
| dangerous for a couple of reasons: First, it both will be a
| failure and will teach you failure. Also, it will distract from
| the resolutions that could have been successful ones.
|
| You should only set one NYR until you have successfully done one
| for an entire year, because it's incredibly hard and you probably
| aren't capable of one, let alone more, until you show that you
| are. After one successful NYR, you've earned the right to try
| two, the year after that three, and so forth.
| cprayingmantis wrote:
| Happy New Year! Hope you have a great 2022!
|
| My themes for 2022 are as follows:
|
| I want to spend more time with family. We recently moved back to
| the area where my wife and I grew up and we're really looking
| forward to seeing folks we love more.
|
| Write more and be more effective at writing. Last year I made it
| to March or April journaling every day this year I want to try
| and make it a bit farther.
|
| Be a larger part of my church and community. What form that takes
| I'm not sure as I'm still trying to figure out how I'm going to
| measure that.
| Oras wrote:
| Get into YC S22 or W23
| keraf wrote:
| Happy New Year HN!
|
| Never really had any new year resolutions, but I promised myself
| that 2022 is the year I'm going full digital nomad (for a year or
| two). I have little to no responsibilities that tie me to a
| certain place at this point of my life and an itch to discover
| new places in the world.
| ojciecczas wrote:
| I intend to deploy my side project to production and try to talk
| someone to use it :)
| rtuin wrote:
| I'm really happy with my life right now. The family is doing
| well, the job is good fun, working on some really cool things.
| Though recently I realised that this is all fun and games, and so
| I want share more. Have more positive impact on the people around
| me and beyond. Increase the legacy, so to say.
|
| Happy New Year!
| ztauras wrote:
| Start a new blog living in raspberry pi under my desk, optimize
| old blog for more discovery and help to people suffering from
| mental illnesses, read more Russian classics, take a walk
| everyday, use social media to spread news not to consume them, be
| happy with everything, maybe use a 2-3w full RGB laser projector
| for a very small show for a bystanders without any advertising or
| warning, get my drivers license back, pirate more, keep doing
| what I'm - running i2p exit point, freenet, configure a bridge of
| TOR for russian users, try to convince my family that I need a
| second internet line :)
| ng55QPSK wrote:
| A twitter account.
| hnthrowaway0315 wrote:
| Happy new year!
|
| - Find the pivot point from where I can move into a career of low
| level programming eventually. First stop is probably going to be
| a data engineer.
|
| - Find activities that both my boy and I enjoy. So far I haven't
| found many so I'm frustrated. Hopefully this improves this year
| as he grows up.
|
| - Maybe swim more? I really hate physical exercises but swimming
| is a rare exception.
| alexchamberlain wrote:
| > Find activities that both my boy and I enjoy.
|
| Do you want ideas? If so, how old's your boy and what have you
| tried?
| hnthrowaway0315 wrote:
| Thanks! Please do. He is 15-16 months and we are doing these
| activities:
|
| - Riding snow sled;
|
| - Reading books;
|
| - Playing toys
|
| I guess the real issue is on my side because I don't enjoy
| physical activities, while babies of this age typically need
| a lot of physical activities and "reading" is essentially
| just punching at the books and looking at the pictures, plus
| the books are pretty boring for any adult.
| truly wrote:
| I recommend the set of Eric Carle books. Our toddler enjoys
| _all_ of them immensely.
|
| When reading, do not multitask and try to make sure you
| discuss all details (how many stars, where is the moon,
| let's count the frogs, etc.)
| hnthrowaway0315 wrote:
| Thanks. We do have one of the books (brown bear) and it's
| one of his fav. Again I have to confess it's my fault not
| enjoying the process :/ I'll just drag on and keep up the
| smile face till he is a little older and we can expand
| the reading materials.
| truly wrote:
| There are several Brown Bear books :)
|
| Perhaps you yourself would enjoy "My Very First Book of
| Shapes" better, where the baby needs to match real life
| objects with abstract shapes (e.g., wagon/rectangle,
| sun/circle). Should be able to do it in a few months give
| or take.
| supermatt wrote:
| Im a year into my ADHD diagnosis and have been finding treatment,
| techniques and accommodations that work for me.
|
| My aim this coming year is to work smarter, not harder. In fact,
| I want to spend less time on the computer, and more time with my
| horses - while still maintaining the same or higher level of
| productivity.
|
| It would be nice to finally unleash my (10+ year and counting...)
| pet project on the world - but that still requires a transition
| from vapour to code ;)
| saint_angels wrote:
| - wake up early and work on important goals first, before diving
| into day job and getting too tired to do anything - write an
| essay a month, however short - live and work remotely outside of
| home country, for 6+ months total - get a tattoo that would
| remind me that I'm still alive and how precious that is
|
| happy new year hn!
| xvector wrote:
| - Build muscle
|
| - Level up my career
|
| - Take a nice long trip to Europe
|
| - Learn music theory and write my own music
|
| - Buy the supercar I've been wanting for some time
| schappim wrote:
| Help Apple fix their time and date bugs [1]. Here is one from
| tonight (NYE). I appreciate Apple's want to get 2021 done and
| dusted, but I suspect others won't!
|
| [1]
| https://files.littlebird.com.au/incoming-3C66266A-D9CA-4CDB-...
| luhego wrote:
| Happy New Year!
|
| My goals for this year are:
|
| 1. Become proficient in Java and React.
|
| 2. Learn more about AWS services and cloud architectures and
| patterns.
|
| 3. Learn more about distributed systems.
|
| 4. Make reading a book per month an habit.
|
| 5. Make exercising three times a week an habit.
| rgrmrts wrote:
| 2022 marks a shift for me from industry software engineering to
| research. I'm hoping I get accepted to a PhD program but if not I
| will likely leave my cushy job and spend time some getting myself
| into computer science research (being broad on purpose).
|
| All in all, I'm really excited for next year. I feel good about
| where I am in life in most facets.
|
| Happy new year to you and everyone else around reading this as
| well! I hope the next year has some joy for everyone!
| mattgreenrocks wrote:
| Sounds great! I do applied research in industry and love it.
|
| Any interests you're looking to pursue?
| rgrmrts wrote:
| Neat! The last two years I've been pretty interested in
| programming language theory and operating systems. I re-
| discovered lisps and started toying with them. I also started
| learning more about BSDs and openbsd in particular and toyed
| around with an openbsd remote server.
|
| I think my general interest would be systems engineering, but
| more specifically language theory and operating systems.
|
| What kind of research have you been doing?
| axegon_ wrote:
| My life is sort of 50-50. Half is at an all time high, half at an
| all time low. Hopefully the low end gets a few points.
| lbrito wrote:
| Happy new year!
|
| Most of these are lifelong goals.
|
| * Write more regularly
|
| * Have a personal indexed knowledge base. Saw some great examples
| of this on HN
|
| * Give up reading uninteresting books. I have the tendency to
| keep reading anyway I'm finished, which is a waste of time
|
| * Find a side project that eventually leads to some small revenue
|
| * Learn to deal with cold weather :)
| microSnowball wrote:
| My goal is building a SaaS to $500 MRR. I work in a non-tech
| field but have always enjoyed coding. This hasn't led to a
| business because I have focused on features I thought would be
| useful and interesting but weren't solving core customer
| problems. In 2022 I will focus on customer development first and
| build from there.
| jacquesm wrote:
| I like your goal because it sounds achievable. Best of luck!
| Takizawamura wrote:
| Build up an evening ritual to complement my morning ritual, which
| is centered around coffee, meditation, and exercise.
|
| I aim to have a structured, deliberate evening ritual leading up
| to bedtime. I plan to read a comp sci book for 30 minutes, a book
| in a foreign language for 30 minutes, and then light reading for
| another 30 minutes. All on a 10" ereader.
| bacro wrote:
| How much did you pay for that 10'' ereader? I would love to
| have one as well but the prices are absolutely inflationated.
| quickthrower2 wrote:
| Get healthy. Get more energy.
| oars wrote:
| "Consume less, create/learn more"
|
| That is the crux of one of my goals this year. I have already
| deleted Facebook, Tiktok and Instagram from my phone in
| preparation.
|
| I'm excited and optimistic about 2022. Happy New Year HN.
| andersthue wrote:
| Happy new year!
|
| My goal for the next year is to do no mindless SoMe consumption,
| and instead create and market what i build, or relax or take a
| nap or whatever is the right thing to do, which is never
| instafacetok for 2 hours.
| majjam wrote:
| What is SoMe?
| PradeetPatel wrote:
| Social media.
| Tolexx wrote:
| Happy new year!! Everyone.
|
| I want to finally get my first job as a developer. I have been
| trying to transition into tech for the past two years. I have
| been teaching general and advanced mathematics in high schools
| here in Nigeria. My goal will be to finally land a programming
| job in 2022.
|
| Anyone hiring or any senior looking to take a valuable junior
| under his belt I'm open to working, learning and adding great
| value. My email is in my profile. I look forward to hearing from
| anyone.
| revorad wrote:
| Hi Tolexx, I wrote a Twitter thread last year on how to get
| your first developer job -
| https://twitter.com/hrishio/status/1321389002273001473
|
| I hope you find something useful in that. If you have any
| questions or need help, feel free to email me (in profile). Btw
| your email is not visible in your profile. You need to add it
| in the about field. The account email value is private.
|
| All the best and happy new year!
| Tolexx wrote:
| Hi! I will definitely look at the twitter thread. I have been
| applying but haven't had any luck. I have gotten a few
| responses too but haven't landed any gig. I know it's a
| journey. At the moment I want to get on the job experience
| and get experience building projects within a team. I'm not
| asking much in terms of salary. Just working and gaining
| valuable experience. I have developed a few projects for
| myself, for friends and some clients.
|
| My email is tolexreal7@gmail.com. Thanks.
| exdsq wrote:
| Good luck!
| truly wrote:
| Good luck! Having a math background is surely a plus!
| notreallyserio wrote:
| I hope to "retire" from softdev+devops to a job with fewer
| responsibilities and hours. Something that may be aligned more
| with social good than with web profit.
|
| I plan to finish the degree I started, technically, 22 years ago.
|
| I plan to go do things with local (fully vaccinated) friends. I'm
| not especially social so this is a big stretch for me, but my
| wife is on board (and then some) so it should be easy.
|
| I hope to sleep well enough that I'll be able to work out every
| morning. I feel way better when I can work out every day but I
| risk injury if I work out while exhausted. (And I shouldn't have
| to do this but it is social media so: no, I haven't found a
| correlation between sleep quality and exercise for me).
| jcun4128 wrote:
| Left day job, going forward with new company, will see how it
| goes. Also want to learn more embedded stuff (robotics).
| Hopefully not end up broke.
| tr1ll10nb1ll wrote:
| In no particular order,
|
| - Grow the side-project I'm working on.
|
| - Be more consistent with my output.
|
| - At every point during the year, I hope to be working on
| something.
|
| - Build music-related tools and projects.
|
| - Work more on my music and put it out there on streaming
| services.
|
| - Read more.
|
| - Be proficient in a Web3 tech stack.
|
| - Contribute to comma.ai
|
| - Be less political
|
| Happy New Year!
| truly wrote:
| Happy New Year!
|
| Professionally, I plan to further my side project with
| educational YouTube videos on algorithms and data structures,
| which brings me great joy.
|
| As I'm in higher education, which has taken a huge COVID-19 hit
| (not sure I will get (much) better anytime soon), I'm considering
| whether it is worth pivoting into an industry career.
| nvahalik wrote:
| 1. Increase the Bus Factor of our main application.
|
| 2. Develop mentoring skills.
|
| 3. Start to transition away from being a full-time developer to a
| staff engineer.
|
| 4. Create a culture that is highly tolerable of risk and failure.
|
| 2-4 are not just work focused but are also family focused. So
| much of what we do as a family embraces comfort rather than risk-
| taking. We should do more of that.
| ravenstine wrote:
| > 4. Create a culture that is highly tolerable of risk and
| failure.
|
| I'm curious; in what context? Would this be at a personal
| level, a team level, or something bigger?
| rvz wrote:
| I'm still sticking to my resolution not having any "New Years
| Resolutions" as I continue preparing for 2030. Seems to be
| working for me so far. [0]
|
| I hope everyone meets their goals for the new year.
|
| [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25599775
| [deleted]
| knaik94 wrote:
| Happy new year HN. I am going to figure out new ways in which to
| apply myself in CS so I can move past the current slump I am in.
| Not sure if it's burnout I can't recover from or my interests
| changing as I grow.
| nvahalik wrote:
| Sometimes slumps are best handled by doing something completely
| different for a while. Take up a hobby: write, start going to a
| gym, research a skill in a completely different field.
|
| Slumps don't last forever, but sometimes the best way out is to
| reverse out of them and go around!
| arran-nz wrote:
| Happy NY HN.
|
| It's a nice time to reflect on goals.. Over the next year I would
| like to finish and publish my free and open source VR game made
| with Godot and focus on the idea of not continuously distracting
| myself.
| c7DJTLrn wrote:
| I'm thinking of resigning first thing. I took the Christmas break
| to mull it over and came to the conclusion that I'm not happy
| where I am anymore, even if it is comfortable and decent money.
| Once I'm settled into a new job I'm hoping to get on to the
| property ladder so I can have my own space. I'd also like to get
| a bit fitter so if I can find the courage I'll try going to the
| gym. In the meantime I'll continue with my software projects.
| throw0101a wrote:
| "Man Returns To Work After Vacation With Fresh, Reenergized
| Hatred For Job":
|
| * https://www.theonion.com/man-returns-to-work-after-
| vacation-...
| c7DJTLrn wrote:
| Thanks for the laugh. Happy new year.
| eckesicle wrote:
| Unsolicited advice: Get something new lined up before you hand
| in your notice.
| c7DJTLrn wrote:
| Maybe, but my notice period is pretty long and I'm in a good
| enough financial position to be able to have a break. I'll
| see how it goes.
| p0d wrote:
| I left my IT job two years ago and things have worked out just
| fine. I've become a lecturer in further education which I
| really enjoy. I also lost 70lbs by changing my diet a bit and
| walking for 45 minutes a day. Good luck. It's a good idea to
| have something lined up. I had something temporary to pay the
| bills for six months then took it from there.
| truly wrote:
| Where do you work/live?
|
| How does lecturing work out in the time of COVID?
| strifey wrote:
| Turned in my notice yesterday! It was such a weight off my
| shoulders once I realized it's what I wanted to do. Good luck
| to you.
| malkosta wrote:
| - workout 3x/week - publish 5 libs developed at workplace - write
| blog posts about some crazy optimizations we did to get attention
| and boost hiring - kite wave at least once a month - live with
| $1000/month, save and invest everything else - love my wife until
| she thinks it's impossible to be happier - work 50% on product
| features, 50% on performance and reliability - get back my guitar
| and play
| patall wrote:
| My personal goal will be to go windsurfing again and, maybe, get
| into foiling. Ultimate goal would be to do trips under sail in
| Stockholms skargard. Until it gets warmer again, I will have to
| fall back to ice skating (and to learning swedish).
|
| Professionally, I am happy and excited to start new projects now
| that my thesis is submitted and I finally have time to explore
| novel computational biology data set.
| Simon_O_Rourke wrote:
| Happy New Year everyone! I've two plans, to finalize a will so my
| kids are taken care of if anything bad happens, and to try pay
| off the bulk of what's owed to the bank on my recently (2021)
| bought house.
|
| Working in tech at the moment is great, but who knows where the
| future is headed, so targeting debts is my big thing. And that's
| all down to our stage in life now
| ghoward wrote:
| I'm only going to talk about my programming goals.
|
| 1. Get my licenses [1] looked over by a lawyer. Maybe I'll do a
| GoFundMe since there seems to be some interest in them, and I
| can't budget the money for over a year. Or maybe I'll wait.
|
| 2. Get my build system to a releasable state (including the best
| documentation ever) and help FOSS projects switch if they want
| to, especially from Autotools-based builds.
|
| 3. Get my programming language to a releasable state.
|
| 4. Use my language to help people understand the benefits of
| structured concurrency. [2]
|
| 5. Build a standard library for my language that is based around
| structured concurrency.
|
| [1]: https://yzena.com/licenses/
|
| [2]: https://gavinhoward.com/2019/12/structured-concurrency-
| defin...
| drpgq wrote:
| My resolution this year is to spend $20,000 (Canadian) on travel.
| Most of it will be just going to a city and getting an Airbnb and
| working from there remotely. I've travelled a lot, but never
| really did any trips like that.
| yboris wrote:
| Japan is the most amazing place I've been to in my life (though
| I've not traveled very extensively). But I recommend Tokyo,
| other cities, and the countryside of Japan.
| revorad wrote:
| I have a few simple plans:
|
| Grow my education business - https://learnetto.com
|
| Play music with my kids.
|
| Travel and see more of my friends and family.
|
| Happy new year, HN!
| truly wrote:
| Good luck with your business. Out of curiosity, how many users
| do you currently have?
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