Ask HN: What are you learning? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by ferchoriverar » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 9:04 PM UTC

Design User Interface

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by woohoo7676 » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 9:05 PM UTC

Learning some Vue.js - struggled a bit to get into React (nothing against React, might try it again later), but I find Vue+Typescript with class components works well for me as a .NET dev.

Web dev tooling really has come a long way in the past few years!

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by bartread » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 9:08 PM UTC

Gulp 4 because, grr, excessive breaking changes from 3.9.1.

Also how to fix my car. I'm currently refreshing all the coolant pipes since once ruptured the other day. It's not that hard, but some of the pipes are difficult to get to, and I'm procrastinating about disassembling essentially the entire front end of the vehicle in order to be able to access the radiator and replace pipes attached to it. I've already replaced the ruptured pipe no problem but, since all the pipes are the same age, I figure it's only a matter of time before another splits.

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Post by rolae » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 9:08 PM UTC

Refactoring Ruby

I am a UX person, but often dabbled in Ruby on Rails. Currently for the the first time working on a more serious app and now reading the book refactoring ruby, is very illuminating, going through my code again and rereading makes me see many mistakes and possible improvements.

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Post by bluedevil2k » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 9:09 PM UTC

chaboo wrote: post #81

UI Design using Figma for my SaaS landing page

I would recommend just going to a site like themeforest.net and buying a theme you like. I did that, searched for “bootstrap 4” under their landing page, and quickly built a site that would look better than anything I could ever do.

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Post by Nabi » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 9:10 PM UTC

Audio programming and all jungles surrounding it - C++, plugin frameworks, Fourier transform, filters design etc. Step by step, often hard but also rewarding.

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Post by fmonteiro » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 9:12 PM UTC

elil17 wrote: post #99

How to be happier! I'm taking "The Science of Wellbeing" on Coursera

Same. Do you know where I can find notes on the course? I took some notes but I would like to have a summary of everything so I can remember it every once in a while.

Amazing course btw.

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Post by mmphosis » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 9:12 PM UTC

X (x.org) xlib xcb running on Void Linux (development.) Also reading The Animators Survival Kit.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by pkghost » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 9:16 PM UTC

I (quixotically) rolled my own uptime monitor with curl and twilio's CLI, and then wrote a minimal jenkin's clone with a git hook, a little bit of bash, and systemd: github.com/cameron/push-to-systemd.

My current project also involves learning elm and postgraphile, which is shaping up to be a wonderful stack.

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Post by selfish-duck » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 9:16 PM UTC

GraphQL (advanced). Already been using it for 4 years now (yes back when there was no tooling nor best practices) but I decided to go further in the schema design thinking and bought Production-Ready GraphQL to help with it. Strongly recommend the book as it goes quite deep on the subject.

Also experimenting with my 4th home-brewed beer.

"Soft skill"-wise I spend time helping people with good (so I hope) advice and recommendations and a bit of interview mentoring to enter the software development industry. Makes you learn a lot about yourself and how you can motivate and help people big time with only a tiny amount of your time and energy, just sharing stuff you know.