I'd like to drastically cut out alcohol, do more home improvement projects, and go out to events solo more often.
Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?
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#232i want too learn go,contribute to GO open source projects, do bug bounty hunting, and switch security related jobs
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#233In the beginning of the day, don’t look at phone or computer. Avoid news especially, and instead write thoughts, draw something, work on a song, make something, anything. Don’t let day get sucked away with things that can’t be controlled. Excercise every day with “scientific 7 minute workout”. Also 20–40 minute walks or 100 basketball jump-shots. Draw daily, even a 5 minute drawing. Write daily, even for 5 minutes. P…
> Don't look at the phone or computer in the morning Avoiding wasting time is okayish but it pales in comparison to the state where you are naturally drawn to doing things that you consider to be more important.
Honestly i think these are the same though. I'm never _less_ drawn to doing important things than when i watch youtube for the first hour or two of the day. Starting the day with a complete dopamine dump (i don't know if it's correct physiologically but it feels like it) really kills motivation and thus avoiding it really makes the day productive. Since I've noticed in myself, it make a lot bigger difference than one might assume
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#234Simply survive the hardest year of classes I'll ever take. Help finish the paper from my undergrad, get a good start on my PhD research, maybe date a girl, start going to open mics again
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#235I'd like to learn how to use a closed-circuit rebreather (CCR) for scuba diving. The increasing price of helium is making the deep open-circuit diving impractical.
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#236Thanks to LLMs, I am now able to build iOS apps with Swift, which has been not only quite fun but also very useful since I was able to come up with a learning app that I wished existed for my kids with minimal effort. So I will definitely spend more time on that.
Also, I'm trying to improve my time management and reduce distractions/procrastination. I enabled screen time for myself so I can create some friction between distracting habits such as social media, YouTube, etc. Also, I will be utilizing the Pomodoro technique more as well.
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#237I'm happy with my software career at the moment and I think I'm on a pretty good "auto-pilot" for progressing. I want to focus on my physical health this year. I'm about six months in of consistent weight training and it's been fantastic. I look better and I'm noticeably stronger. I want to continue my 30-45 minute, 4 day per week workouts through this next year. The big addition that I've struggled with the most is…
Try pickleball for cardio. So much fun you don’t even notice.
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#238Thanks to LLMs, I am now able to build iOS apps with Swift, which has been not only quite fun but also very useful since I was able to come up with a learning app that I wished existed for my kids with minimal effort. So I will definitely spend more time on that. Also, I'm trying to improve my time management and reduce distractions/procrastination. I enabled screen time for myself so I can create some friction betwe…
> Thanks to LLMs, I am now able to build iOS apps with Swift
Build iOS apps is one of the few areas where I have excitement in software engineering, and one of my biggest regrets was to get into ML/backend instead of app development.
Maybe I am 15 years behind, but the whole idea of being able to deliver something to the phone of our final customer is beyond magic for me, even working on SWE for a very long time.
Every person that has the capability to deliver something to the end user via a front-end that you can build by yourself has one of the biggest senses of agency in the SWE field in my opinion.
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#239Thanks to LLMs, I am now able to build iOS apps with Swift, which has been not only quite fun but also very useful since I was able to come up with a learning app that I wished existed for my kids with minimal effort. So I will definitely spend more time on that. Also, I'm trying to improve my time management and reduce distractions/procrastination. I enabled screen time for myself so I can create some friction betwe…
> Thanks to LLMs, I am now able to build iOS apps with Swift Build iOS apps is one of the few areas where I have excitement in software engineering, and one of my biggest regrets was to get into ML/backend instead of app development. Maybe I am 15 years behind, but the whole idea of being able to deliver something to the phone of our final customer is beyond magic for me, even working on SWE for a very long time. Eve…
Relatedly, I've been using Flutter for this, it works great and the developer experience is top notch, even for iOS development, you should give it a try. Apparently 28% of all new iOS apps on the Apple App Store are actually written in Flutter, according to some independent research that was done, which is pretty wild to me considering that it feels fairly niche compared to React Native, much less native app development, but well, I guess perceptions aren't everything.
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#240Spanish! 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 my opinion, Spaced Repetition Systems (SRS) are the best way to retain vocabulary - provided you use a good deck (the vocabulary ordering should make sense and, IMO, example sentences are key). I use Anki but there are many alternatives.
Otherwise, immersion through Spanish media helps - you can listen to Spanish music or watch movies/series in Spanish (initially with English subtitles, maybe later with Spanish ones).