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Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by makingstuffs »

Love, life, people and planet.

When I was young I spent a lot of time blinded by rappers with their spinning wheels and crowds of hangers-on which drastically lead me astray — being from a single parented poverty stricken family in the London it wasn’t exactly hard.

Since then I have been through so many different stages to get to the point of contentment with whatever life throws my way.

Within this contentment I have found that the things I truly care about are (as cliché as it sounds) not the things which can be bought but the things which connect me to other beings.

The realisation and acceptance of the inevitable end of life has made me realise that we will all cease to exist within a generation, our memory will cease within two, our entire footprint within three.

From this I found my passion was not buying things to distract me nor was my desire to be remembered long after I pass. It is to enjoy the now, make others feel the love I never felt until I reached my mid 30s, lift people out of bad places where possible and do my utmost to appreciate this breathtakingly beautiful planet we call home.

Cheesy, I know

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by veqq »

beachy wrote: post #374
winrid wrote: post #362

Earlier quoted context omitted.

your site flashes and loads content for like 10 seconds for me. the content just keeps moving up and down...

Is it possible you have first party cookies disabled? On your first visit we need to run some JS (apparently the only way to get the user timezone). We store that in your session and then redirect you so we can show availability in your timezone. If first party cookies are disabled then there will be no session and the page will loop. (Open to suggestions on better TZ handling - other than rewriting as an SPA :)

The first time loading the page, the white bar holding the menu flashes 2cm lower then higher for a few seconds (as elements load). It doesn't flash afterwards. Consider moving something to the footer, so the user doesn't see the loading/flashing.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by enasterosophes »

SwiftyBug wrote: post #260

Learning to use Vim! I've tried three times before in the past 10 years. This is the first time it actually clicked. It's the first time I've tried Neovim. It's awesome and I feel like I'm playing a game with myself while working. I thought it would take much longer to get to the speed I'm at now. I've been using Vim exclusively for a month.

Congratulations :) The same thing happened to me about 12 years ago. I'd tried Vim a few times and it didn't grab me, but then suddenly it clicked and I haven't looked back.

Not sure if you've seen this, but worth working through, sooner or later (no rush): https://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/

A discipline I wished I'd learned earlier was don't let your vimrc grow too big. Instead, keep carving parts of it off into plugins. Track everything in Git.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by brainless »

kbf wrote: post #59

Mental health. I recently passed out in public and had to finally admit to myself that I’m severely burnt out. I had ignored the signs and mentally written off the concept of burnout as a bit of a wishy-washy mostly “emotional” concept and not as the very real psychological AND physiological condition that doesn’t just go away if you get a good nights sleep and a day off. It was emotional to actually read up on it an…

Sending a big hug over the protocol stack of the Internet. We neglect the signs because our society tells us so, but now that you have started noticing them, I am sure you will find the balance you need for a happy life.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by cantSpellSober »

huhtenberg wrote: post #137

Mead. On my 5th batch and it's an awesome hobby. Very easy and inexpensive to get started, the process is slow-paced, but not glacial, not hard to follow, but with a depth to it if it's your thing ... and then you get to drink the result!

Tried Schramm's? He wrote the book on mead (no really, The Compleat Meadmaker).

Grab some Dansk Mjød of you find it; they're doing some of the most interesting stuff right now.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by veqq »

matthewmueller wrote: post #386

Building out the web ecosystem for Go over at: https://github.com/livebud Go is a surprisingly pleasant language for building websites, especially for indie hackers, yet the tooling is not quite there. I'm trying to get the developer productivity for building websites in Go to be on par with building web applications in Node. With ESBuild and Goja maturing, we're pretty close. Go is still just missing a few important…

What about go tooling's missing in your mind? I've never found a language as prepared for it (node feels horrifying and dreadful in compariosn).

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by beachy »

veqq wrote: post #462
beachy wrote: post #374

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it possible you have first party cookies disabled? On your first visit we need to run some JS (apparently the only way to get the user timezone). We store that in your session and then redirect you so we can show availability in your timezone. If first party cookies are disabled then there will be no session and the page will loop. (Open to suggestions on better TZ handling - other than rewriting as an SPA :)

The first time loading the page, the white bar holding the menu flashes 2cm lower then higher for a few seconds (as elements load). It doesn't flash afterwards. Consider moving something to the footer, so the user doesn't see the loading/flashing.

Many thanks for the input.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by mdekkers »

Passionate? Nothing, anymore. The last bunch of years has been a long, never-ending series of setbacks and knock-backs that have drained my emotional, professional, and financial resources in a relentless manner. Along the way I appear to have completely lost my passion and drive for everything. Some people are completely dependent on me, and if it wasn’t for them, I’d check out already - this ride is not fun anymore.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by throwaway2037 »

philip1209 wrote: post #251

Low-plastic living. I read a book by the world's first zero-waste restaurant, Silo. The book got me thinking about how different our lives would be if oil were expensive. "Pretend oil is really expensive" is a good proxy for doing things that are "eco-friendly." Since reading the book, I've tried to eliminate single-use plastic from most of my life. It's incredibly hard. Everything from my socks to my vegetable packa…

    Everything from my socks
Are you socks synthetic fiber? I am surprised they are not cotton.

One way to think about plastic: Is there a reasonable alternative? For most plastic (food) wraps, the answer is (sadly): no. They are the best option to reduce food spoilage and only take a couple of grams of oil to make them. Plastic bottles for drinks? Most of them can be avoided by reducing your consumption, or reusing old bottles.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by jodrellblank »

november84 wrote: post #409
SwiftyBug wrote: post #260

Learning to use Vim! I've tried three times before in the past 10 years. This is the first time it actually clicked. It's the first time I've tried Neovim. It's awesome and I feel like I'm playing a game with myself while working. I thought it would take much longer to get to the speed I'm at now. I've been using Vim exclusively for a month.

Any resources you can share or did you jump into the docs?

Years ago I learned the basics from this IRC chat log of someone introducing someone else to Vim basics: https://www.vi-improved.org/irc-style-tutorial/

There's a popular stackoverflow answer as a Vim (Vi) introduction, which I haven't read through but will link anyway: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-mos...

http://vimcasts.org/episodes/ screencasts are high quality short videos, go back to the early ones for introductions to buffers and windows and things (more recent ones tend to be too many niche scripts and plugins for me).

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