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Ask HN: Who's having a ton of fun at work and what are you doing?
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Re: Ask HN: Who's having a ton of fun at work and what are you doing?
#12I work on a childrens book app ([redacted]). It is a total blast. I am kind of a rock star at my kids school (as most schools use the app at this point). School kids beg for different features - their ideas are super fun. My kids are interested on what I work on - watching them pick out books to read is fun. Teaching kids to read - makes it easier to wake up in the morning. [Nice change from soul crushing ad work].
Re: Ask HN: Who's having a ton of fun at work and what are you doing?
#13GPU hardware architecture. It's just a never ending stream of fun problems to solve and I love it!
Re: Ask HN: Who's having a ton of fun at work and what are you doing?
#14I'm learning unreal engine 5 to make vr games. I try to make stuff or find stuff online and then I put it in VR and I can look at it up close, or eventually fight it or team up with it. It's pretty hard but it's just nonstop fun.
VR is a new medium. We're in that stage now where people are sort of putting stuff from the old medium in without much consideration of what new concepts or ideas might be possible. Every UI in every game and application is terrible. Everything has to be reinvented, and can be reimagined in incredibly creative and strange ways.
Fairly often now I'll have an experience in real life and think "Someday, I'm going to put this in VR game."
Re: Ask HN: Who's having a ton of fun at work and what are you doing?
#15Re-writing a 10-year-old server backend system with matching client-side applications, all of which were abandoned, with no documentation, and which were written in this abhorrent hybrid of C/C++ with more goto's than functions, no const correctness, no unit tests, no testing of any sort, combined with amazingly bad and repetitive spaghetti code everywhere; I am re-writing this in a form that allows for test driven development, code coverage validation, with a matching ci system that performs all the integration testing and deployment automation.
Yeah this is a ton of fun!
It's not every day you get the chance to just re-write something [it rarely is the best idea] but when you do, I relish it.
Re: Ask HN: Who's having a ton of fun at work and what are you doing?
#16I work on a childrens book app ([redacted]). It is a total blast. I am kind of a rock star at my kids school (as most schools use the app at this point). School kids beg for different features - their ideas are super fun. My kids are interested on what I work on - watching them pick out books to read is fun. Teaching kids to read - makes it easier to wake up in the morning. [Nice change from soul crushing ad work].
My daughter uses Epic for school reading!!! Love that app!
Re: Ask HN: Who's having a ton of fun at work and what are you doing?
#17I took apart a 650,000 BTU oven burner this morning for cleaning, and had to clean out the oven exhaust damper that was starting to get build-up. Soon I’ll be at my desk programming again thankfully.
Re: Ask HN: Who's having a ton of fun at work and what are you doing?
#18I'm learning unreal engine 5 to make vr games. I try to make stuff or find stuff online and then I put it in VR and I can look at it up close, or eventually fight it or team up with it. It's pretty hard but it's just nonstop fun. VR is a new medium. We're in that stage now where people are sort of putting stuff from the old medium in without much consideration of what new concepts or ideas might be possible. Every UI…
I agree, talent needs to catch up, and new UI concepts are needed (the current VR web browsers feel very awkward). One app that was built very thoughtfully for VR and nailed it imho is Hyper Dash. Making teleporting the preferred form of movement vs. walking was brilliant.
Re: Ask HN: Who's having a ton of fun at work and what are you doing?
#19I'm learning unreal engine 5 to make vr games. I try to make stuff or find stuff online and then I put it in VR and I can look at it up close, or eventually fight it or team up with it. It's pretty hard but it's just nonstop fun. VR is a new medium. We're in that stage now where people are sort of putting stuff from the old medium in without much consideration of what new concepts or ideas might be possible. Every UI…
Curious is this a personal project or a company one?
Re: Ask HN: Who's having a ton of fun at work and what are you doing?
#20I am, I am bootstrapping a studio via the Creative Tim freemium model of building free and paid uikits to build the studio.