1. Presenting/public speaking
2. Frontend development
3. Mobile app development
Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?
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#32Anglo concertina.
I've always been a half-baked instrumentalist because I rely too much on my singing to do the heavy lifting. This year is gonna be about building up my instrumental repertoire to a point where I can do sets/shows with just my concertina.
By the end of the year, I want to be able to do a full street performance with my concertina (and actually be entertaining.)
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#33Presenting stuff/ideas. I kind of have established my own powerpoint style over the years and seek to further improve my presentation skills. Happy for any good advice. ps.: and i despise pp
You might find the following useful :
Visual Understanding Environment - https://vue.tufts.edu/
Came across this in another thread recently - https://quarto.org/
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#34Proper profiling.
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#35I'm trying to get into lower-level programming, especially kernel code. Unfortunately, since I'd prefer to be able to modify existing systems this means (re)learning C, but that's what everything is written in so that's how it is.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try LaTeX with Beamer and/or reveal.js. (Also, Beamer's manual is full of good advice on presentations irrespective of the tool you use.)
Thx. I use LaTex occasionally but have to stick with pp. Looking to improve my non technical communication skills.
The beamer package manual had nice hints, like ~1 page just about font size. With statements like
> In beamer, the default sizes of the fonts are chosen in a way that makes it difficult to fit “too much” onto a slide.
Many of the ideas apply outside of latex/beamer. It's one of the better free documents about the technical aspects of slides. At least if the presentation is still driven by content on the slides, but that decision is a whole different story.
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#371) UI Design. I’d love to learn how to build apps that are aesthetically pleasing.
2) Computers. This year I’m making an effort to work through the NAND to Tetris course. I’ve always wanted to learn how computers work from the ground up.
3) Spanish. I had a strong start learning Spanish this year but haven’t been as consistent. I’m aiming to become conversationally fluent next year.
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#38I was running with the dogs and fell forward and stress fractured both elbows (using hands to not land on face). That was a couple months ago, so I'm mostly healed, but I want to improve both flexibility and strength. At 40, I didn't think this kind of injury from a fall was a thing quite yet.
Muscle starts to atrophy naturally after 40. If you don't counteract it with some strength training, things get bad.
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#39I'm wanting to put serious effort into getting better at illustration, specifically figure illustration. I'm also planning to continue getting better at piano.
For your second goal, if you're referring to implementing your own ray tracer I highly recommend the Ray Tracing in One Weekend series: https://raytracing.github.io/
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#401. AI/ML stuff. I'm very much of the "let's get stuff shipped" persuasion, but also like to understand the basics. So, no deep math here, but, incremental building blocks, focussing on how to deploy and maintain applications 2. Gardening: we bought a house with a sizeable plot of land. Want to get better at managing it. Grow some stuff, build some stuff. Focus on permaculture, and working within the parameters of our…
You'd be surprised how much ML is like gardening and unlike engineering. It's a lot of fiddling with parameters, a lot of waiting, and a lot of surprising outcomes.