Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

Killing debt, money, capitalism. Birthing a donation-driven carnival circuit dedicated to free public unlicensed group play therapy, not entertainment, structured to apply evolutionary graph theory in a way as to experiment with strong amplification of natural selection in evolving cultures. Starting the Moon Thoth Arkestra.

Have you considered a TI-89? They are basically like early microcomputers, frozen in time. They boot to BASIC and can also be programmed in C and assembly with no operating system to speak of. They're handheld and battery powered and durable, they come with useful math software for school, and there's a hobbyist programming scene and a big library of software and games written by kids for kids. That's how I learned to program.

I don't know what groceries to order for food delivery.

I "just" want the healthy-ish person's food list with deep links into grocery apps (Instacart, Walmart, Amazon, etc) and autopopulate it. No different than how I can follow people's song choices on Spotify. What did you last order, I want to order it too. Publicly broadcast, public, private, all optional.

There are tons of apps for "sharing grocery lists", but between a tiny group of people or roommates. And one or two that will let you take a single recipe and get the ingredients into one grocery delivery service ("Tasty" recipe to Walmart, for example). They all require you knowing what you want already, and I don't know. I want to change my diet to different food, I'm fine not learning how to do that.

I think this problem is overlooked, and frankly invalidated. I don't want to be a recipe enthusiast and I don't care that other people enjoy running around a grocery store in fetch quests as half of the fun in cooking, or that other people don't like how the food delivery person chose the wrong fruit. These aren't important issues to me, and I think there are lots of people like me, although I haven't bothered to quantify this!

So that's decent alpha because I think a lot of people are in similar boats and with this kind of data you could totally elevate a single product for mass purchasing when everyone is buying the same ingredient over food delivery. People that are already fine paying hidden premiums for food delivery.

A video course for software engineering managers to learn about testing, it's called Ready to Test:

https://testfromthetop.com/ReadyToTest/

This is aimed at getting managers new to testing up to speed from the very beginning. For me this is the start of a series of material progressing to more advanced concepts.

If you're interested at all I'd love to hear from you! We're starting a beta-testing program before release, message me to try the course for free.

I am working on building a portfolio of software solutions for business software, IaC, CICD etc that can be used as reference applications. Then, I'm planning to provide those on a fixed fee basis. Sort of like a software accelerator for certain types of startups or business applications. I suspect I'll build some of this, but I'm also actively looking for published / open resources.

I need to figure out how to find people who might want to buy that. I suspect they are legion, but getting solutions in front of people is sort of the challenge.

I also have legal questions on this topic; for instance if I have copyright of a reference application, and I clone it or paste it into your repo... Can we both have copyright or does the customer only get an unlimited no attribution license?

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