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#131
1. speak english properly, because i'm planning to move abroad, and get a job as an engineer.

2. how to self hosting, like buy a cheap machine, create a website like blog, setup a kubernetes cluster, backup and security stuff (for learning purposes)

3. drive a car

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#132
This year I got pretty consistent at strength training twice a week, a lot of times I'm dead and tired but I make sure I get to the gym and at least get one set of my workout done to (a) keep the routine going and (b) not be as sore the next time. I only train my whole body once a week, but I'm happy for now with that since I just don't have the stamina to push more without neglecting my life and hating the workout sessions.

For next year, I want to start taking actual meditation courses and build a regular habit to meditate before going to bed. On top of that, I want to also relax and unwind after work without being on my computer, phone, or the TV (it's ok to pick those things up later, but I just want to rest first without screens)

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

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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());

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 abil…

A fourth option might be Ada.

I'm learning Ada next year. I'm not interested at all in doing low level programming with it, but the text books I have note that it's actually an area where it excels. Maybe worth a look.

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

#134

1. speak english properly, because i'm planning to move abroad, and get a job as an engineer. 2. how to self hosting, like buy a cheap machine, create a website like blog, setup a kubernetes cluster, backup and security stuff (for learning purposes) 3. drive a car

Idk if this is appropriate on this thread but I can't recommend the Michael Gruinberg flask mega tutorial chapters on deployment highly enough for getting devops skills off the ground

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

#135
* Learning Ada. It's a language that seems to have had a lot of thought put into the avoidance of errors and bugs. I often hear people say "Language X has this amazing feature!" and the Ada people seem to say "Oh that's cool. We've had that since 1985."

* Improving my audio description skills. I'm an AD writer, and I want to get better at that, but also possibly start performing. I've got a little notion to do a podcast of Audio Description Introductions, but they're pretty hard work and I'm a bit time poor.

* Improving my writing skills generally. I've learned a lot of techniques intuitively and not with any discipline. For example, have no idea what a past participle is, but I'm going to jolly well find out.

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

#136

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…

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 gra…

Thank you! that is encouraging. I have been making a very concerted effort to learn. typically at least 2 hours of studying a day. My girlfriend is Spanish speaking actually, but she almost never speaks Spanish with me. I may need to convince her to turn up the Spanish a notch so I can get more practice.

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

#137

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…

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.…

unfortunately I live in the middle of the USA, immersion is not much of an option and lessons aren't cheap

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

#140
1) finish EMT rookie book, become full EMT

2) understand and perform experiment power analysis, run several experiments

3) get certified on ski toboggans to at least blue runs

4) drop 30 lbs to survive #5

5) pass fire academy

6) learn enough android and ios to build UI to run several experiments

7) 1 pull-up

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