Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

news.ycombinator.com

191–200 of 620 posts

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

#191
In 2018 I got certified in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

I am very satisfied. I have been using GNU/Linux for years but this was a chance to formalize my knowledge and more than else, have a bullet list of things to know from start to finish.

Given that the exam is hands-on, I had to really go through all of the requirements.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

#192
How to leverage DNS, HTML/CSS, CMS (Wordpress, Webflow), Adobe, free media to make thousands while traveling.

Next goal...how to leverage React, Redux, Node, Framer to make millions while traveling.

Favorite tech of 2018...honestly, all of it. Look at how far our species has come in just a few centuries, a few millennia. Imagine what we can do by 2100, 3018.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

#193
Far from "learned", but in the process of learning about Quantum Computing. As someone who has always been rather terrible at math and physics, I was really scared to approach this subject. I love computing/programming though, and I think that this is a field with massive potential, so I'm pushing myself way past my comfort zone and engaging my learning-mindset to maximum. If you're curious, I'm also documenting things I'm learning in a weekly newsletter: https://quantumcomputingweekly.com

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

#194

Real World Embedded Systems. Built a dishwasher that cleans and sets your dinner table. C++, Arduino, Electrical Engineering, and worked with a mechanical engineer on the design execution. Here is the story, skip to the bottom if you want to see the youtube video- Started this year working on a finance App, this one needed to be perfect. React Native, Laravel PHP mysql. The app is almost finished, and is worthy of a…

I implore you to start a company if you're at all interested in working on this further. Seriously, please consider productizing it.

I would pay thousands of dollars for a polished version of this in my home, especially if it matched the style and decor of my dining room furniture.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

#195
This year was a huge learning year for me. I learned a lot more about distributed systems, messaging and integration patterns, and landed a job writing Go full time (which originally started as my “hobby” language last year). I also started learning F#, CI/CD automation, and “containerized” several applications which greatly expanded my knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.

It’s a lot once I actually write it down.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

#196
post #184
post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this an intelligent joke or a dumb business plan? I kept hearing the words "production" and "prototype", but I see half a dozen holes in a real world implementation. Edit: Since this is being downvoted, here are my thoughts. 1.) Plumbing. Pipes are in the walls. Kitchen tables are (usually) closer to the center of a room. (And who will consider open pipes or tubes across a floor or ceiling?). 1b.) Electrical. Same…

You strongly misunderstand the purpose of HN and the purpose of parent post. This is not a product being sold. It's a neat fun gadget that was designed purely so parent robertAngst could learn stuff. The gadget is obviously a nonsense device, a Heath Robinson contraption, with no other purpose than to learn stuff while it's being built. You may want to read these comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1873688…

If you watch the video he posted, it sounds a lot like a product unveilment, hence my question, followed by my thoughts so my post did not seem like empty criticism.

There is no singular purpose of HN. People post their businesses and their hobbies here.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

#197
Arduino and C++ to work on the ESP range of embedded wifi chipsets but has also let me get into working with other dev boards like cheap allwinner tech stuff for fun for now.

Docker (finally) in a production setting rather than just messing around a bit with it, finally taking the time to work through k8s, swarm and service fabric for differing orchestration methods on different platforms.

Graph databases, like... most of them now, I will be continuing to work and play with Dgraph, but Neo4j and all of the tinkerpop stuff is pretty great if still a little lacking in docs for some of the implementations.

Despite the bulk of my professional development being on .Net applications, this has also been the year I moved my primary workstation from Windows to Linux and I haven't looked back almost at all but I have booted my old windows machine up as a VM a few times when I ran into the occasional brick wall, but that's become a lot less frequent as I've gotten more comfortable with Fedora.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

#198
2018 had lot of ups and extreme downs. Here goes a list,

Basically with android background,

So, 1. Switched to ethical hacking for mobile and web. Learning Kali tools and more about hacking stuffs. ( Got into Google bugbounty Hall of fame ) 2. Docker and docker swarm 3. Product development and roadmap strategies via indiehackers podcast 4. Nodejs and MySQL to the core. 5. Bootstrapping ( building a product from scratch and being persistence in tough days )

A lot more about persistence in workplace + personal life.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

#199

Nothing! My first few years programming I learned 2-3 languages per year, and this was the first year that I focused only on improving at tech I was already using, as well as language-agnostic fundamentals.

I don't think that's nothing, you learned to code better :)
Post reply on HN