I mainly want to learn even more about what I've already been working with. I want to deepen my understanding of the AGC API and finally take the time to teach myself Vulkan.
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#122My wife and I quit our tech jobs and moved from the US to a European country last year to learn/grow/explore. The plan is to renew the visa and continue our exploration.
For 2026, other than more traveling, I have just started a course at the local tech university on solar power, and asset management/O&M of solar installations. The hope is to gain basic domain knowledge for potentially transitioning my career into this field in a year or two, taking advantage of my SWE, data analytics, and PM experience.
I'm also planning to take my host country's driving exam. That means I first need to learn how to drive a car with manual transmission, after 30+ years driving in the US.
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#123Pro:
After 10 year I feel that I am becoming a specialist of the software I work on rather than a software specialist. Needing to work in different domains where I am not the expert.
Other: Better time management and micro napping. After a working day sucking mind and kids energy, the brain stops working for anything but doom scrolling or TV.
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#124i wanna learn to play the kora. I've been listening to a ton of asake and it really sticks out as a defining sound
Also it'd be nice if a bunch of data centers burned down but... odds are against this
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#125Off the top of my head: — Learn Rust. I'm halfway through the Rustlings exercises and I'll continue with more challenges. Advice is welcome. I might also ask LLMs to pose as teachers and create exercises for me and check them. - Cooking. This has been something I neglected all my life and I really want to get better at it. It's so fundamental to quality of life. - Persian language. Studied it for six months, I can re…
> Advice is welcome.
Here's some advice I've given about learning Rust in the past. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38020654
There are also project-based resources beyond Rustlings like Entirely Too Many Linked Lists[1] you might check out. I've found Gjengset's videos[2] great for intermediate content, and they include both project and lecture formats.
Best of luck!
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#126I want to improve my Nase fishing skills and finally catch 50cm one (46cm atm).
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#127I want to quit my cosy, well paying, job and start building the products I have been wanting to build for quite some years now. I have been starting to use AI about 12 months ago and, as an experienced engineer of 30+ years professionally, I am blown away by how productive it makes me. What I used to be able to do in a week now takes me a day, what I used to be able to do in a month now takes me week, etc. So, 2026 i…
How are you using AI and what sort of software are you building? I have similar years experience and regularly try out AI for development but always find it’s slower for the things I want to build and/or that it produces less than satisfactory results. Not sure if it’s how I use the models (I’ve experimented with all the frontier ones), or the types of things I’m building, or the languages I’m using, or if I’m not sp…
I am honestly curious about your point on productivity boost. Are you saying that you can write tests at the same speed as AI can? Or is it the point that tests written by AI is of much lower quality that is not worth using them?
I am at the role of solo-preneur now and I see a lot of benefit from AI. But then I read posts like yours that experienced devs don't see much value in AI and I start to doubt the things I do. Are they bad quality(possibly) or is it something else going on.
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#128Does being "emotionally strong" is a skill to improve?
"Villages" help. Lean into yours, or, maybe it's the time to find or build yours.
Best of luck.
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#129My wife and I quit our tech jobs and moved from the US to a European country last year to learn/grow/explore. The plan is to renew the visa and continue our exploration. For 2026, other than more traveling, I have just started a course at the local tech university on solar power, and asset management/O&M of solar installations. The hope is to gain basic domain knowledge for potentially transitioning my career into th…
Nice post. Without doxing yourself, can you share the European country and your visa situation? If you want to stay and work in European as US citizens, I highly recommend you look at the DAFT treaty which allows US citizens to live and work (by starting a business) in the Netherlands.
Honestly, I could not do what you have done. Hats off. I am a bit jealous! I really need the daily structure of a regular office job. (Hold your tomatoes folks!) How do you fight they tyranny of structurelessness? Or maybe you don't have it at all...
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#130The Running Man. It's really the foundation action in a good shuffle dance and it really has to flow naturally and consistently.