[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improv...
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Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?
Thread for 2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38782613
Thread for 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33873800 I'd
like to take on VR dev alongside my existing journeys in computer
graphics, iOS dev and Unreal Engine. A stretch goal would be
setting up a blog to document my experiences in those journeys. In
terms of non-technical skills, I'm thinking of focusing on sales
and marketing. Those are fundamental skills, without which any side
project I do would be doomed to failure. In terms of more creative
skills, I have a few already in the "pipeline": a woobles kit to
learn crocheting, a warhammer starter pack to learn miniature
painting and a gunpla model kit to learn to properly assemble it.
Author : meridion
Score : 107 points
Date : 2024-12-25 16:04 UTC (6 hours ago)
| Alex-Programs wrote:
| Writing. My ability to write is highly dependent on the context.
| I'm much better at essays than emails, and fiction is completely
| outside my abilities. I would also like to change my style a
| little to be less flowery and more succinct. More Paul Graham
| than purple prose.
|
| Marketing. I'm hopeless at it, and I need to be at least OK at it
| in order for my project (https://nuenki.app) to succeed.
|
| Time management. I'm very good at obsessing over one thing; less
| so at managing lots of different things that need to be round-
| robined.
|
| Physics and maths! I'm in my gap year at the moment, but I want
| to be prepared for my physics degree next year. I'm already
| really quite rusty.
|
| Git. I know enough to use it, but I've no clue what a rebase is,
| for example.
|
| I've had a vague interest in 3D printing for a while, but I've
| recently been getting into DND and it might finally justify
| getting one. It seems like miniatures are best with resin
| printers though, while most other things aren't. I also hate
| painting things, so maybe it isn't worth it.
|
| German! Nuenki has distracted me from it, but I ought to properly
| get back to it. It's just something I enjoy - I've discovered how
| much fun language learning is.
|
| And a number of other things, but the list is already quite long
| and I should probably be enjoying Christmas instead of browsing
| HN :)
| toddmorey wrote:
| Ok, you say you are bad at marketing but the Nuenki homepage is
| one of the best I've seen. The product and benefits are so
| clearly explained. Well done.
|
| You may eventually want a small project to create a
| recognizable logo (think how much mileage Duolingo has got from
| their little owl fellah).
|
| One thing I often see with SaaS offerings is no clear & simple
| concept / theme that separates the free and paid plans of a
| service. For Nuenki I would just lean into "works on mobile"
| being the clear value you get from the paid plan. Hopefully
| over time you can bring it to more mobile platforms with a
| small app or something.
|
| Congrats on what you've built and hope to see more growth in
| 2025! Great idea well executed.
| punkspider wrote:
| The marketing trick that had the most impact on my mindset has
| been this article about how to structure landing pages
| https://marketingexamples.com/landing-page/guide.
|
| If you didn't know about it already, I think that you could use
| it to tweak the Nuenki landing page, and you'll possibly have
| some aha moment that'll help in marketing down the line.
| vunderba wrote:
| The site is solid, but as somebody who has also built a foreign
| language partial translation extension over a decade ago,
| there's a _TON_ of competition in this area.
|
| Off the top of my head, I can think of Langulearn, Language
| Immersion for Chrome, Polyglot, Alpharabius, Mind the Word,
| Gloss (I think defunct now though), and Toucan. These are all
| extension-based approaches and range from individual words to
| entire sentences.
| BadHumans wrote:
| > Marketing. I'm hopeless at it, and I need to be at least OK
| at it in order for my project (https://nuenki.app) to succeed.
|
| This project looks great and the homepage does a great job at
| explaining what it does. Especially the slider. And it supports
| Firefox which is a rarity in this space. I think you should
| take pride in what you have accomplished from a communication
| perspective.
| pg5 wrote:
| I want to learn how to make fairly simple characters in blender,
| so that I can make more unique games, as opposed to using 100%
| pre-made assets.
| ramon156 wrote:
| If blender is a bit overwhelming for you (it was for me), give
| blockbench a try. I love how simple everything is, and you can
| always add plugins if you miss something. Its open-source too!
| yu3zhou4 wrote:
| Marketing and sales, so this time I succeed with having paying
| customers in my next product :)
|
| Any tips or resources for solo entrepreneurs is highly
| appreciated!
| Alex-Programs wrote:
| Same here! I really underestimated marketing. I've got a lot
| more respect for it now.
|
| I assumed "build it and they will come" would work, and while
| there are definitely areas I could improve my product, the
| bottleneck for me is getting people to see it and try it. Once
| they're using the trial, I have an excellent conversion rate.
| hambos22 wrote:
| I've been running my brand of scented products and cosmetics
| (https://yuma.gr) for 2 years now. 2 months ago we completed a
| rebranding and we're steadily gaining national consumer
| awareness of our existence as a brand.
|
| From the top of my head, in order of importance:
|
| 1. Your perspective is unique - no one else shares your exact
| point of view. Try everything.
|
| 2. Master digital marketing: Google & Facebook Ads, Server Side
| Tracking, Google Tag Manager, and Analytics. Recommended
| communities:
|
| - reddit.com/r/PPC
|
| - measure.chat
|
| 3. Keep creative talent in-house (designers, developers)
|
| 4. Study pricing psychology (eg. kolenda.io/guides/pricing)
|
| 5. Good books with warstories:
|
| * Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
|
| * The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing & of Branding (2 separate
| books) by Al Ries
|
| 6. Learn accounting essentials, each country has its own system
|
| 7. Provide solid support via multiple channels (phone, email,
| chat, social etc)
| sailorganymede wrote:
| Releasing stuff.
| Tutanota1 wrote:
| Learning machine learning through maths and implementing some of
| the most common ML algorithms from scratch.
|
| Writing technical blogs - I find it easy to write topics where
| there is no right or wrong, just a perspective. But would like to
| write some technical stuffs i learnt over the year.
| punkspider wrote:
| 1. Your first one is also on my list.
|
| 2. I have written technical blogs and it is very rewarding when
| you see your article ranking at the top of Google, and people
| sharing it because it is genuinely useful.
|
| I may have some advice here.
|
| If you've never had a blog, you'll be surprised how easily you
| can rank in search engines and get visitors. Technical blogs
| that haven't been tainted by monetization aren't as many as
| you'd think. You probably see many of them here on HN, but in
| Google most websites fight to stay on top for major keywords to
| make money.
|
| Furthermore, many experts don't write. You'll be amazed when
| you start seeing impressions in Google Search Console (their
| dashboard for search activity).
|
| I highly recommend: - Setup the site quick, in an imperfect
| state - Post a few articles in an imperfect state - Install
| Google Search Console
|
| Then follow the data in Search Console - you'll see which
| keywords and pages are getting traction. From there, keep
| posting what you think would be helpful for people like you.
| mettamage wrote:
| That's really encouraging, I might start a blog as well.
| binarymax wrote:
| Hey! Not sure if you're looking for recommendations, but Andrew
| Ng's original coursera course for Machine Learning is what
| you're looking for. I took the course back in 2015 but it's
| timeless, and gives you the algo and maths foundations you're
| looking for.
| beretguy wrote:
| Pottery/ceramics throwing. I want to learn to make cups and
| plates. I'm tired of computers. I already know enough to be able
| to write useful programs and get the job done.
| travisgriggs wrote:
| I want to build/finish my second stand up paddleboard from wood
| (https://sliverpaddleboards.com/). I want this one to stay
| floating longer than 15 minutes :(
| MilanTodorovic wrote:
| Learn how to use (Neo)vim.
| lylejantzi3rd wrote:
| Marketing and sales, like everybody else. :)
|
| Desktop application development. I want to make it as easy and
| fast to create desktop apps as it is to create a web app or a
| command line app.
| melvinroest wrote:
| Funny you mention that, while I know quite a few programming
| languages, I think most desktop applications that don't need a
| lot of bells and whistles, I'd probably make it with Pharo.
|
| I haven't programmed in a while with Pharo but they have a
| built-in GUI framework. But there was also Bloc, if remember
| correctly.
|
| Fun fact: you can then also ship the IDE itself with it, so
| people can hack into your application, if that's the sort of
| thing you'd want.
| em-bee wrote:
| pharo is awesome. if i had any need for desktop applications,
| it's the first thing i'd try to use.
| punkspider wrote:
| Mental endurance and discipline to better handle tasks that
| require sustained focus, especially those I instinctively resist
| or dismiss, whether because I dislike them or I downplay their
| importance. Examples are thinking through unfamiliar and
| difficult problems or reading dense documentation and contracts.
|
| I also want to improve my prioritization skills to better judge
| which challenging tasks truly deserve my time and mental energy,
| and which ones don't.
| swayvil wrote:
| I want to be bigger and fluffier.
| sunday_serif wrote:
| Writing blog posts and being ok with them not being perfect.
|
| I often have an idea for a post that would be interesting, but
| then as a learn more about the topic in order to write, I start
| to realize how much I don't know. At this point, the post either
| dies or I spend way too long learning every irrelevant detail
| until I feel like I know enough.
|
| So I think the skill I am trying to learn is writing as a non-
| expert. Learning to write in a tone that makes it ok to not know
| everything. Writing in a tone that conveys my experience and
| understanding, but doesn't try to be an authority on the subject.
|
| Writing is a tough skill!
| memhole wrote:
| I've been working on writing this year. It's hard. I have
| countless posts or ideas for posts sitting there because I
| don't like them for one reason or another.
|
| For me I don't collect metrics or really try to think that
| anyone might read a shred of it. I think that's been helpful.
| And also just publish it. In the grand scheme it's for you
| anyways to enjoy and develop. One piece of advice that I've
| gotten, is to commit to your points or idea. I think that's can
| even include committing to uncertainty. You might need to
| revise it later, but done thoughtfully if you have readers,
| they should respect that. If not, well, without comments and
| metrics what does it matter?
|
| Over the holiday break I've migrated to my own blog instead of
| a platform. So I've certainly found it enjoyable even if
| frustrating!
| chege wrote:
| Who is your blog's target audience? I write
| https://www.curiosities.dev/ for myself. I'm a non-expert in
| all of the posts.
|
| When I revisit old posts, I digest the information differently
| and add more explorations/questions. It's much easier to build
| upon scaffolding that's already there. Maybe in N years, I'll
| have something insightful to say about X, but I don't have to
| hold off writing anything until then -- incomplete notes and
| rephrasing of other people's ideas already benefit me now.
| NorwegianDude wrote:
| Personally I think that even if you don't know everything, just
| make clear what you are certain and uncertain about.
|
| You probably know a lot, and what you write is still good as
| long as you don't spread misinformation. I have issues trusting
| most sources that are not clear about what they are uncertain
| about, cause most people are not experts.
| itsmemattchung wrote:
| 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
| tiffanyh wrote:
| Practical AI/ML, and not all the marketing buzz.
|
| Does anyone know of a good "AI/ML for Dummies" ... from the
| basics.
|
| I do _not_ want something that is just teaching me dozens of
| frameworks or toolkits.
| Alex-Programs wrote:
| Andrew Ng's courses tend to be widely recommended, including by
| someone I know who went from physics to ML.
|
| This was pre-gpt-3.5 release. It's classical ML.
| HybridCurve wrote:
| Definitely Andrew Ng's courses, especially for concrete
| explanations.
| nxpnsv wrote:
| I just want to do more math.
| linux2647 wrote:
| How to parent/be a parent. I don't have much choice in the
| matter, as my firstborn is coming this spring ^_^
| SnowingXIV wrote:
| Congratulations just had mine a few months ago so this is
| certainly the skill I'm working on!
|
| Other than that sharpen guitar skills, linear algebra, and as a
| rubyist thinking about doing something in elixir. But we will
| see how the time allotment goes with an infant part of the
| program now.
| fm2606 wrote:
| Just read the manual that comes with the child. /s
|
| All kidding aside, my kids are 16 and 19 and I am still trying
| to figure it out.
|
| Pretty sure it is a journey and not a destination.
| em-bee wrote:
| we found that manual in "the baby book" by william and martha
| sears. it was really helpful in the first few years. the book
| promotes the idea of attachment parenting, which i feel is
| the right approach. but any parent should decide that for
| themselves. the general rule for parenting advice though is
| to only apply advice that makes sense to you. don't let
| anyone pressure you into doing anything you don't agree with.
|
| i think you'll never stop figuring things out as your kids
| grow. not with the first few anyways. i guess repetition only
| comes in with the fourth child or so ;-)
| jawns wrote:
| One of the skills I already have is the ability to work with
| difficult people or take on projects that need to be rescued and
| turn them around. That has been a valuable skill and has allowed
| me to develop a brand around it.
|
| However, that doesn't mean that I enjoy working with difficult
| people or cleaning up other people's messes. I find those people
| just as off-putting as everyone else; I just happen to be better
| at masking it. And I find cleaning up messes just as tedious and
| challenging as everyone else; I just happen to be able to do it
| anyway.
|
| So I think one of the skills I want to better develop in 2025 is
| being able to strike a better balance between the things I'm
| recognized for being good at and the things I actually enjoy
| doing.
|
| (And if anyone has tips for how to make use of this skill set in
| a way that's genuinely fulfilling rather than draining, I'm all
| ears!)
| orzig wrote:
| I can't believe I'm saying this, but it sounds like you should
| look into stoic philosophy. I think it is overly hyped, and
| actually caused me some damage when I applied it too much, for
| too long, but definitely one of several worthwhile perspectives
| to have deeply internalized.
| geocrasher wrote:
| I use this same (or similar) skill to solve the unsolvable
| problems by listening to a customers needs, which usually
| somebody hasn't done by the time they get to me, and then work
| on fulfilling that need in a way the customer never would have
| expected. It's very rewarding and turns a negative interaction
| into a positive one. It's customer service 101 type stuff, but
| when you get the technical side involved, and you're competent,
| you become more than a punching bag and become the solution.
| It's so fun.
| ttoinou wrote:
| Those are great skills. Would another course of action work for
| you ? For example selecting projects that bring more money, so
| as to spend less time on those boring projects (saved time
| could be used on things you enjoy then)
| punkspider wrote:
| Isn't it fulfilling already because you get things done where
| others may fail? Also how do you do it? I'd love any tip you
| may have.
| sandspar wrote:
| Maybe work with difficult high performers? Talented people who
| are difficult because they're brash rather than untalented
| people who are difficult because they're messy.
| ssutch3 wrote:
| I am retiring from tech after 20 years and embarking on a new
| career which requires intensive schooling. As a high school and
| college drop out, I will need to learn how to study again, and
| want to be as efficient as possible so that I may still spend
| ample time with my family. Any tips greatly appreciated!
| medler wrote:
| Sounds like the Learning How To Learn course on Coursera was
| made for you. Good luck on your new pursuit!
| hu3 wrote:
| entrepreneurship
|
| To leave the rat race.
| em-bee wrote:
| become a freelancer and build interesting sideprojects that you
| can try to monetize. in a startup, especially one that needs VC
| funding, the ratrace is replaced with a fox race, but you are
| the rabbit.
| hypertexthero wrote:
| In the beginning of the day, don't look at phone or computer.
| Avoid news especially, and instead write thoughts, draw
| something, work on a song, make something, anything. Don't let
| day get sucked away with things that can't be controlled.
|
| Excercise every day with "scientific 7 minute workout". Also
| 20-40 minute walks or 100 basketball jump-shots.
|
| Draw daily, even a 5 minute drawing.
|
| Write daily, even for 5 minutes.
|
| Publish first original song, publish first EP. Learn a new song
| or practice one or two from existing set. Keep learning piano by
| learning songs you like: https://hypertexthero.com/piano/
|
| Write postcards to people.
|
| Set up a weekly "office hours" livestream to help people with
| design or technical computer issues.
| 331c8c71 wrote:
| > Don't look at the phone or computer in the morning
|
| Avoiding wasting time is okayish but it pales in comparison to
| the state where you are naturally drawn to doing things that
| you consider to be more important.
| chasd00 wrote:
| Effective multiple team management. Keeping multiple teams of
| developers effective, motivated, and pointed in the right
| direction in a deadline oriented project (enterprise consulting)
| is almost impossibly hard. Way harder than any technical skill
| I've ever encountered.
| therealfiona wrote:
| Learning Rust.
|
| Learning how to draw.
| nodra wrote:
| * I want to learn how to make a game from beginning to end.
|
| * Math. Got two books to refresh my skills.
|
| * Improve my parenting.
|
| * Get back to sxratchin (turntables) and making beats.
|
| * Put my work out.
| geocrasher wrote:
| I want to learn how to properly build a habit/routine that isn't
| dopamine driven. I have ADHD and I recently realized, even as I'm
| pushing 50 years old, that all of my hobbies, habits, and "likes"
| have been dopamine driven. I need to learn how to exclude the
| reward of a dopamine hit as the reason for doing something.
| Resources welcome.
| BadHumans wrote:
| I would recommend you read Tiny Habits by Dr BJ Fogg. A lot of
| people recommend Atomic Habits but I will go against the grain
| and say I don't think Atomic Habits is a good book and Tiny
| Habits is a much better read.
| geocrasher wrote:
| Thank you, I'm checking that out now.
| samtho wrote:
| A good ADHD coach can be life-changing, as cheesy and corny as
| it sounds. As you're likely aware (but for the benefit of
| everyone else), the ADHD brain is not extrinsically and
| intrinsically motivated by the exact same things of someone
| with a more neurotypical brain.
|
| An ADHD brain is more motivated by external Urgency while a
| more neurotypical will be motivated externally by Importance.
| This often leads to ADHD people being perceived as anywhere
| from flakey, unreliable, to totally unconcerned with problems
| and/or commitments. In social relationships, they are perceived
| as being anywhere from touch and go to just unwilling to invest
| into social bonds. The worst part is that if you are able to
| mask well in one area, you just don't have the energy to mask
| everywhere else. It's like an unwinnable game of wack-a-mole.
|
| It has taken many years and losing so much to get to where I am
| and it's still objectively shit. Knowing that every in the
| world is not made for how your brain functions and is often
| made specifically for how the majority of people's brain
| functions is depressing.
|
| I've found that very carefully selecting work that lets me lean
| into my specific strengths (good under pressure, able to dive
| deep on technical problems and pull out results, and being a
| good business communicator), in conjunction with aggressively
| automating or pre-preparing parts of my life that suck (laying
| out clothes/tools/equipment the night before, having a checking
| "escrow" account all my auto bill pay gets pulled out of) helps
| me function more efficiently.
|
| It gets better, you can carve newer and deeper neural-pathways
| by sticking to routines, and finding ways to get that dopamine.
|
| Also medication, that really helps.
| Tepix wrote:
| Try reading books, i'm always happy when i finish one, starting
| is the difficult part.
| larsiusprime wrote:
| Learning to forgive and let go of resentment
| rubicon33 wrote:
| Mental fortitude and strength.
|
| As I enter mid life I'm finding a lot of things (mentally)
| challenging. I'm hoping to find peace and mental strength to stay
| the course and enjoy the life I have built. Worry less,
| appreciate more, and generally just be happy.
|
| How to skill up in this area? I'm honestly not sure, but starting
| with reading.
| nvarsj wrote:
| My goal is a non goal. Try to live in the present, enjoy leisure
| time, and stop stressing about always having to up-skill myself.
| As I near my 50s, I realise life is too short to always be
| working. It's okay to take a break and just enjoy stuff guilt
| free.
|
| Having said that I have allowed myself one time intensive hobby -
| to learn Japanese. I've memorised around 1000 kanji and my
| grammar is decent. My goal is to pass the N4 or N3 next year.
| uludag wrote:
| Oddly enough, for 2025 I would say writing.
|
| I would normally think that with the rise of LLMs, writing would
| be come obsolete. Interestingly though, I think LLMs make good
| writing more valuable and at the same time more rare.
| azangru wrote:
| > I would normally think that with the rise of LLMs, writing
| would be come obsolete
|
| If LLMs obsolete writing, then they will also obsolete reading.
| Why waste time on reading texts when you know that no effort
| has been put into creating them, when they do not encourage
| trust, or sparkle joy.
| robviren wrote:
| Discipline all day. My life is rarely the reason for me not
| practicing the other skills I want to develop. Other than that I
| want to try out some pixel art, write more stories, and maybe
| some more pickup volleyball.
| azeirah wrote:
| Nix, nix nix nix nix nix and nix.
|
| Also, delegation.
|
| More health
|
| More friendship
| jmcgough wrote:
| EKG interpretation - I doubt I'll get around to ultrasound and CT
| in 2025, they're a good bit more complicated.
|
| I also recently got a Quest 3, so hoping to learn some basic
| modeling and rigging, I want to make a VR medical clinic.
| CalRobert wrote:
| I keep hearing about people building entire programs with Claude,
| etc and I haven't figured that out yet. So far I use and like
| copilot, etc but it's just a slight improvement, nothing huge.
| I'd like to figure out what I'm missing.
|
| Also, professional development. I think I've never learned to
| sell myself.
| jackthetab wrote:
| I found the tutorials on this YT channel[1] helpful in learning
| "what I'm missing". This playlist[2] in particular.
|
| I need to learn how to sell myself as well.
|
| [1] https://www.youtube.com/@CodingtheFuture-jg1he [2]
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMXP2wwC5Ss&list=PLk7JCUQLwR...
| leoff wrote:
| Computer Science. After transitioning from Mechanical Engineer,
| and 5 years of being a "Software Engineer", I want to understand
| more how computers, operating systems, network, etc. work
| mettamage wrote:
| Sleep, making quite some progress and it shows. I want to be even
| better.
|
| Dev-wise: python and SQL. I have some skill in both but my new
| job requires it.
|
| non-technical: marketing. My new job will be a good opportunity
| for it.
|
| Perhaps also leetcode, but only if I can scooch that in.
|
| Creative skill: starting any side project really.
| hooverd wrote:
| Learn Rust (for real this year). Increase my lifting PRs. Paint
| 40k models well. Honestly just get healthier. I've been lacking
| in 2024. Take up bow hunting because guns are too loud and if you
| ask me a bit gauche.
| delichon wrote:
| I spend so much time rushing past moments, trying almost
| frantically to get through them by applying rules of thumb and
| not wasting attention. Of course if you do that too little you
| get stuck in the mud. But too much of it is a form of self-
| defeating panic. In survival mode you have to rush, eat things
| you normally wouldn't, put aside any non critical detail. But
| those details pile up when you stay in that mode for year after
| year. So my goal is to learn to apply my full attention to the
| details, and to work hard on picking the right ones.
|
| Factorio teaches this. You work on some tiny little thing, like
| getting a belt to balance properly, and move on to the next. By
| iterating that you can raise up this great machine, like
| pointillist art. Mark Andreessen claims that is Elon's secret
| sauce. I'm not so much hoping to accelerate inter planetary
| diaspora as I am to figure out how to keep my shoes from coming
| untied. I'm considering making one small step for man and
| ordering those elastic shoe laces, and solve a problem that I've
| been faffing around on since about age four. And then repeating
| that.
| highfrequency wrote:
| Merry Christmas. Do you have a link to the Andreessen quote?
| delichon wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ4wBv0w9ew
| punkspider wrote:
| I forgot to add this one to my list, but it's exactly what I've
| been trying for the past few days, after I was reminded of it
| after hearing John Carmack, in a podcast, talk about learning
| things deeply.
|
| This is one of the reasons I'm dissatisfied with myself. My
| greatest successes have been when I applied full attention to
| details out of frustration, which have been rare. I genuinely
| believe that my life would drastically improve if I'd stop
| rushing from one thing to another.
| skobes wrote:
| I gave up on shoelaces many years ago and now wear loafers
| almost exclusively. It has saved a lot of time!
| physicles wrote:
| If you've thought a lot about shoelaces, I assume you've seen
| https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/. I switched to a square knot
| a few years ago and my shoes basically never come untied.
| victorbjorklund wrote:
| Liveview Native and swiftui is on my wish list
| binarymax wrote:
| Sales, sales, sales. I've been in tech so long but as a founder
| this is where I need to really focus. ABC for me all the way in
| 2025.
| jackschultz wrote:
| Back to embedded systems, particularly with Rust.
|
| I did computer engineering in college some 10-15 years ago, where
| these projects were super basic and difficult to get into. Seems
| like massive advancements in the past decade. Maybe my eye has
| been watching for these, but I'm seeing many more posts about
| ESP32 projects, for example, being linked here. Same for RP2040s,
| along with sensors galore and wifi / bluetooth connections.
|
| Picking Rust as language for the chips instead of the C and
| MicroPython. Rust has applications beyond the embedded systems
| and learning it lower level can be helpful if wanted in other
| cases.
| zevv wrote:
| I've been a (professional?) embedded software engineer for 25
| years. I tried rust a few times, but did not particularly enjoy
| the experience.
|
| MY_GPIO.borrow(cs).borrow().as_ref().unwrap().odr.modify(|_, w|
| w.odr1().set_bit());
| jackschultz wrote:
| It seems like the options are 1) MicroPython, which is really
| easy to use (use python for everything) but lacking in
| anything lower level to a quick restriction on what you can
| do. 2) C, which I've used before and understand, but going
| from the Arduino or PlatformIO experience would require a lot
| of learning as well. 3) Rust (with embedded_hal and embassy),
| which is newer, along with different language, but with
| ability to go lower level with complies, and seeming overall
| goal to be more widely used.
|
| College was all C/C++ so I've used that before, so I can
| understand and pick up the code. Since I have brief
| experience rather than your experience, I'm betting that the
| time it'd take for me to get up to speed with C and fuller
| dev environments would take as long as with Rust, and since I
| can use rust in more applications for what I do
| professionally, I'm figuring to put the time there.
|
| What have you built and with what in your 25 years? Too many
| posts and vids about these things are intro rather than more
| in depth. It's great to hear from people who actually do this
| into production rather than mini-projects.
| boplicity wrote:
| I want to be able to run five miles and start weightlifting for
| more overall strength.
|
| I also would love to get better at developing partnerships with
| experts and those who are skilled in areas I'll never be skilled
| in.
| lormayna wrote:
| * Improving K8S knowledge and maybe obtain a certification
|
| * Learn a functional language (probably Elixir/Gleam)
|
| * Launch at least one of my side projects
|
| * Improving Mandarin skills
|
| * Ending the long track of one of my favourite cycling granfondo
| (Nove Colli)
| georgeburdell wrote:
| Deploying ML models to production. I work in silicon at an
| established company, and management every year wants to
| incorporate "ML" and "AI" into our workflows, but it doesn't
| happen because a) nobody wants to risk their review on it b) the
| median age is 40 and it requires a brain rewiring.
|
| I spent part of a bout of FMLA learning to develop simple PyTorch
| models to help with our data processing, which is sometimes
| frustratingly qualitative because nobody can define rigorously
| what they want to compute, just endless sketches and corner cases
| sshine wrote:
| Bare-metal Rust: I've worked professionally with Rust for 3
| years, and embedded Rust for 2. But mostly on RPi 4. I want to
| make more hardware prototypes, and I have half a dozen ideas.
|
| Nix for production: I've used NixOS on my work laptop for 9
| months, and I've deployed it in production for on-prem CI,
| dashboard web servers, blogs, VPN gateways, DNS servers. But I
| could sink another 200 hours into more "katas", especially wrt.
| deployment and handling a network of devices.
|
| My path is to create learning material for others.
| bmitc wrote:
| The ability to separate work and family, spending time with my
| family, and to act on some long-standing personal projects and
| books waiting to be read. I want rely on work to drive work-
| related skills while re-capturing some of my personal time for
| personal endeavors. For work, I hope to get into Rust with
| embedded systems, FPGAs, and increasing general-purpose software
| skills on the backend and frontend side as well.
| 7402 wrote:
| 1) Improved fluency in reading Latin, so I can get through more
| of Seneca's Letters without so many hours referring to
| dictionaries and my first-year (and only) textbook; 2) improve
| Morse code copying speed from 15 wpm to a solid 20 wpm.
| booleandilemma wrote:
| Hey, that's really cool. Why did you pick Latin over Greek? Or
| do you study Greek as well?
| azangru wrote:
| WebGL. At least for 2d graphics. And brush up on the simple
| aspects of the maths that are involved.
|
| Web accessibility.
|
| Would be great if I could finally finish a simple static website
| for myself. I've been stuck in the analysis paralysis phase for
| so long it's embarrassing.
| gosub100 wrote:
| Check out three.js, it's amazing and has a 2D api
| gosub100 wrote:
| Functional programming, either Haskell or Ocaml. Been putting it
| off for years. I know at least a glimpse of it from other
| languages. Just haven't doubled down to actually studying it
| formally.
| DontchaKnowit wrote:
| Spanish! Been learning for about 4 months and just had my first
| opportunity to speak a lot, stayed with a spanish speaking family
| for 4 days. It went much worse than expected, I couldnt
| understand anything and spoke so slowly that I only had a few
| oppirtubities to join the conversation. So I hope by the end of
| 2025 ill be a little more fluent.
|
| Using a program called learncraft spanish currently and its been
| very very effective imo. Recommendations for learning strategies
| are welcome!
| aunty_helen wrote:
| 4 months and you're already starting to understand and able to
| join in some? That sounds pretty good tbh.
|
| I've been partially avoiding learning whilst mostly living in
| Spanish speaking countries for the last 6 years. Concerted
| effort is key but don't beat yourself up about having
| difficulties listening, native speakers have the whole
| dictionary to pull from whereas you only have a few words and
| phrases with basic grammar.
|
| It helps to be around other people that are learning or have
| learned as there's a lot of cracks to fall into between a
| direct literal translation. These are obvious for bilinguals
| but can't be appreciated by native monolinguals. Try asking
| someone to go on a fecha with you to the movies.
|
| And don't worry about being slow, find good people with
| patience.
| luca_aurelia wrote:
| In-person Spanish teachers are pretty affordable in many
| Spanish-speaking countries -- in my experience, often around 20
| USD / hour. I was in Argentina for three months this year and
| got one-on-one lessons for two hours a day for $800/month.
|
| One-on-one lessons are super fun because you can do whatever
| sounds interesting to you, and doing it in a Spanish-speaking
| country means it's automatically in the target language. I
| would get ice cream with my teacher, go for walks, watch
| movies, read short stories, listen to music, browse meme pages,
| etc.
|
| They can also go with you to turn errands like renting a car
| into learning experiences, or help you specifically prepare for
| an errand you need to run.
|
| Not to mention all the other benefits of immersion, and it
| gives you an excuse to travel.
| highspeedbus wrote:
| English, German, and all hard skills i'm slacking off: Cloud,
| Deep knowledge of networking and linux. Maybe finish reading
| Design Data Intensive Applications for good. And definitely
| getting a Java certification as I find it useful as a personal
| metric.
|
| For my hobbies, I still hope to get things organized (in my
| computer, my desk and my mind) to record some metal composings.
| aunty_helen wrote:
| Utilizing advice without having to learn lessons the hard way.
|
| Probably should B1 my Spanish.
|
| Sales. High volume sales specifically and capitalizing on
| opportunities that I'm maybe not ready to take on yet.
|
| Applying consistency to my goal setting. Ie reading run rate.
| gspencley wrote:
| I'm learning to tailor and fabricate clothing right now. My wife
| and I are part time magicians and I want to be able to make our
| costumes ourselevs. At the moment I'm making a longline underbust
| corset for my wife's costume and will work up to a woman's
| tailcoat and eventually the goal is to make my own bespoke
| 3-piece late Victorian / Edwardian inspired men's suit.
|
| It has been such a rabbit hole because, much like software
| development, it is not just one skill but lots of different
| skills and disciplines that combine. From design sketches to
| pattern drafting to understanding the nature of fabrics and how
| to cut them properly for wear and durability to the actual sewing
| and fitting etc.
| Tepix wrote:
| I want to solve a rubiks cube in less than a minute. Less than 30
| seconds would be really cool.
|
| Got a nice speed cube with magnets for christmas, so that's the
| first important step on the journey :-)
| motohagiography wrote:
| - financial management skills. how to allocate and manage capital
| and get value from money. to me elon musk is mainly a very
| successful private equity investor. imo if you can do that, you
| can do anything.
|
| - fitness discipline, moderation and better consistent average
| performance than hitting PR's.
|
| - musical literacy. I'd like to be able to read a score and hear
| it instead of just sounding out each note.
|
| - horsemanship, continue the journey into a third decade, train
| up another young horse but this time with more lightness.
|
| having amateur interests is a strange dynamic. what is more
| absurd? the ridiculousness of being an adult trying learn things
| that children do and that other people have already spent entire
| lifetimes and sacrificed other opportunities to learn- or _not_
| learning them or developing the physical competence, but having
| mere opinions and taste about them?
| jeanlucas wrote:
| Code using AI;
|
| For that I will try launching from idea to production a solo
| project.
| blacksmithgu wrote:
| I want to learn how to sleep well again. The difference in how I
| feel when sleep deprived versus fully rested is staggering.
| kelseyfrog wrote:
| I want to win every argument I have in here.
| em-bee wrote:
| not a chance! ;-)
|
| the only way to win is not to play. that's easy to achive...
| toolslive wrote:
| The decisions were made more than a year ago, but the goals
| should be reached in 2025. Nothing special, but I just have to
| put in the work - Running: I want to run a
| marathon under 4h in 2025. My smartwatch currently predicts
| 4:01:20 (was 4:30 beginning of the year) - Chess: I want to
| improve my FIDE rating to 2100 (I'm at 2050 now and was 1930 in
| 2023)
| schwartzworld wrote:
| I already make music, but I'm a really crappy piano player. I can
| bang out chords, but my fingerings are way wrong. I want to try
| to actually learn the piano.
| randcraw wrote:
| As someone about to retire, I'm looking to develop passions that
| involve more physical activity than computerdom allows, like:
|
| - Fix up a 30 year old motorcycle that's been just sitting far
| too long. Maybe resurrect a classic bike or two thereafter.
|
| - Tour by bicycle and motorbike and write about the journey, both
| physical and mental.
|
| - Hike and backpack, day hikes and longer.
|
| - Develop musically, maybe even play the myriad instruments I've
| accumulated over the years. Ideally, in an ensemble.
|
| - Find others with similar interests to hang with offline.
|
| - Stay actively curious and engaged.
| Zdechlak wrote:
| Habits > Motivation - Develop a set of habits and behaviors that
| force me to work on my side projects everyday even if for just 5
| minutes. The sporadic bursts of motivation that push me into the
| hyperfocus mode are actually useless if I can't finish the
| project and it's 80% done in perpetuity.
|
| Networking - I find it really hard to approach random people and
| finding any connection.
|
| Sales - finding and converting clients is a must if I am to
| seriously consider doing freelance engineering or
| entrepreneurship.
|
| Do you guys think it's worth reaching out to a professional coach
| wrt the points listed above?
| 2-3-7-43-1807 wrote:
| stop taking it so personal if some one critiques me at work. in
| hindsight i never really know why i even care. but in the
| respective moment i immediately feel attacked.
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