I’m taking a New Year’s Resolution to remove as many subscriptions from my life as possible.
So… I’ll be working on making a solid homelab again.
Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?
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#121) Sales. Co-founded a B2B startup, so this is now a pressing concern, and as a long-time developer it’s one of those things that gives me hives, where I barely even know how to start (got lots of research to do!). It’s going to be -the- challenge of 2024 for me. 2) How to build an OS (in Rust). I’ve seen a few different articles in HN over the years and kept them bookmarked because I think it’ll be a lot of fun to a…
For 2: Apparently it's broken at the moment, but https://wiki.osdev.org/ is an amazing resource.
It's incredibly satisfying to boot into your own multitasking kernel. Back when I did it back in the late 1900s there were a lot fewer resources like this, and a lot more just working it out from Intel manuals.
It's a lot of fun, and teaches you a lot.
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#13I’m taking a New Year’s Resolution to remove as many subscriptions from my life as possible. So… I’ll be working on making a solid homelab again.
Synology NAS, docker containers, and Tailscale (or headscale). Trust me on this.
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#141) SQL
As a mainly frontend engineer I just haven't had a whole lot of exposure, but always experience friction against it while doing side projects.
2) Woodworking
After finally diving in earlier this year, really took to it as a nice break from screens. Taking this winter break to organize my garage and set up proper dust collection so I can stop creating layers of sawdust in my garage (and probably my lungs).
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#15I recently obtained my amateur radio license and I'm looking to start using it next year. I'm particularly excited to participate in ionosphere sounding studies that use ham radio during the North American eclipse in April.
Awesome! I'll see you over at the HamSci forums.
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#17My wife bought me a software defined radio kit for Christmas. I want to learn how to use it with a longer term goal of using it to pull down images from weather satellites like I’ve seen others do on YouTube
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#181. I've been dabbling in Japanese for while. It's time to get serious and pass the Japanese Language Proficiency test, even if at the lowest level.
2. Piano. While I can play some simple degree, I have a large bucket list of more complex pieces. I want to play three of them this coming year.
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#19Presenting stuff/ideas. I kind of have established my own powerpoint style over the years and seek to further improve my presentation skills. Happy for any good advice. ps.: and i despise pp
Try LaTeX with Beamer and/or reveal.js. (Also, Beamer's manual is full of good advice on presentations irrespective of the tool you use.)
Thx. I use LaTex occasionally but have to stick with pp. Looking to improve my non technical communication skills.
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#20I recently obtained my amateur radio license and I'm looking to start using it next year. I'm particularly excited to participate in ionosphere sounding studies that use ham radio during the North American eclipse in April.
Check out the WSPR beacon and other kits at https://qrp-labs.com, great stuff for the radio amateur. I have built most of their kits, and the owner is a fantastic fellow.