Great post. At the moment I'm really interested in Andreas Kling's Ladybird web browser [0], LibWeb and the videos he live streams [1] of development. It's been a long time since anyone's built a browser for fun instead of profit (don't get me started on what Mozilla has turned into). A lot of people will say it's impossible but at the start nobody imagined Linux would become what it is today. Either way it's extremely fascinating and educating for me to watch him build the thing, see how his thought process works, how he debugs it by just picking random websites and fixing whatever doesn't work, etc.
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#242It's raining hard here. I've just discovered our roof is leaking. It looks like some of the concreting that held the tiles up has come loose and a large section will need to be replaced.
As I hate heights and know nothing about roofing, so I'm going to have to get a professional in to fix it. This is going to really hurt financially.
Not something I'd bother whinging about here normally but this seems like the place to post it. HN is what's left of the web, HN is home.
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#243Sometimes, I think about what I really want. What I want most in the universe, for myself. There's plenty I want for everyone else. I seldom let myself think about what would be good for me lately. Sometimes, like tonight, I do know what I want for myself. It's impossible, but it's my greatest desire for my life. I want to be "uplifted". I want my brain capacity to be expanded by orders of magnitude. I want to unders…
I get this.
The problem is whenever I gain some new depth of knowledge it expands my mind such that I also realize more of how little I know.
Yet the pursuit of it is still thrilling.
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#244When I uploaded my first website in 1998 I got quite a few comments in the guestbook, even when there was really no interesting content there. Now I upload carefully produced and edited videos and I get no response.
everything so saturated nowadays, and winner-take-all markets.
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#245Hi from Idaho, United States. It snowed here this week, first time this season. Software engineering is my job, but I'm 41 years old now, and it isn't as fun as it used to be. I became a pilot 1.5 years ago, and now I'm selling my first airplane and buying a larger one. I've also done some woodworking projects recently. What a pleasant way to do something useful for my family.
Had to reply. This is basically me except south idaho (no snow yet) and not a pilot. Tho i do geek out on Mike Patey vids.
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m no longer building a house. My family did when I was younger. One day my Dad took us to a random plot of land and went “we’re building a house here”. I figured he meant contractors, did not realize that for the next 5 years, every weekend was going to be building a home from scratch. My parents are retired and live there permanently now. It was a wild ride, learned a lot.
Are there resources online on how to do this? I've always wanted to learn more about construction work, at least to the level where I can do some minor repairs.
I built my shed door by watching YouTube. My starting point was knowing what a nail and a hammer is.
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#247I’ve been building canoes as a business for 15 years. It’s great, but incredible hard. I’ve also been programming for 25 years, on and off. Finally thinking might try my hand at saas. With yet another note taking app. It’s crazy, but I’m entertained. :)
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#248♥ Wow. I am also a text-based being. I remember that feeling well as well. I realized I forgot it though through you making me experience it again now.
Thank you!!
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#249Hello from south Texas.
It’s amazing how life can sometimes have other plans for us and take us off course for a while. After an 8 year hiatus from paid programming I’ve started work on re-honing my skills so I can start doing interviews in the new year.
One thing that I’ve been doing away from programming is repairing stuff. From house hold items to my car. There is something satisfying about using your own hands to produce something physical. From reworking an intake manifold on a car, to fixing a dishwasher, solving physical problems can be as satisfying as coding.
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#250You are kinda right. But I guess it's kinda inevitable. I am in college right now chasing a computer science degree. Nothing particularly intresting going in my life right now. Life right now is a constant jumble between excitement and boredom. I have a crush on a girl right now even though I rarely see her around the campus and her being from a different class makes things even harder but a crush nonetheless. I haven't been in any kind of relationships other than the usual crushes that degrades over time. I have a feeling this time it's gonna be different. It's just a feeling though. There is always a chance it'a gonna end up like all the other crushes I have had over the years.