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Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

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Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

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Post by melvinroest »

lylejantzi3rd wrote: post #12

Marketing and sales, like everybody else. :) Desktop application development. I want to make it as easy and fast to create desktop apps as it is to create a web app or a command line app.

Funny you mention that, while I know quite a few programming languages, I think most desktop applications that don't need a lot of bells and whistles, I'd probably make it with Pharo.

I haven't programmed in a while with Pharo but they have a built-in GUI framework. But there was also Bloc, if remember correctly.

Fun fact: you can then also ship the IDE itself with it, so people can hack into your application, if that's the sort of thing you'd want.

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

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Post by jackschultz »

Back to embedded systems, particularly with Rust.

I did computer engineering in college some 10-15 years ago, where these projects were super basic and difficult to get into. Seems like massive advancements in the past decade. Maybe my eye has been watching for these, but I'm seeing many more posts about ESP32 projects, for example, being linked here. Same for RP2040s, along with sensors galore and wifi / bluetooth connections.

Picking Rust as language for the chips instead of the C and MicroPython. Rust has applications beyond the embedded systems and learning it lower level can be helpful if wanted in other cases.

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

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Post by punkspider »

delichon wrote: post #52

I spend so much time rushing past moments, trying almost frantically to get through them by applying rules of thumb and not wasting attention. Of course if you do that too little you get stuck in the mud. But too much of it is a form of self-defeating panic. In survival mode you have to rush, eat things you normally wouldn't, put aside any non critical detail. But those details pile up when you stay in that mode for…

I forgot to add this one to my list, but it's exactly what I've been trying for the past few days, after I was reminded of it after hearing John Carmack, in a podcast, talk about learning things deeply.

This is one of the reasons I'm dissatisfied with myself. My greatest successes have been when I applied full attention to details out of frustration, which have been rare. I genuinely believe that my life would drastically improve if I'd stop rushing from one thing to another.

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

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Post by zevv »

jackschultz wrote: post #62

Back to embedded systems, particularly with Rust. I did computer engineering in college some 10-15 years ago, where these projects were super basic and difficult to get into. Seems like massive advancements in the past decade. Maybe my eye has been watching for these, but I'm seeing many more posts about ESP32 projects, for example, being linked here. Same for RP2040s, along with sensors galore and wifi / bluetooth c…

I've been a (professional?) embedded software engineer for 25 years. I tried rust a few times, but did not particularly enjoy the experience.

MY_GPIO.borrow(cs).borrow().as_ref().unwrap().odr.modify(|_, w| w.odr1().set_bit());

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

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Post by lormayna »

* Improving K8S knowledge and maybe obtain a certification

* Learn a functional language (probably Elixir/Gleam)

* Launch at least one of my side projects

* Improving Mandarin skills

* Ending the long track of one of my favourite cycling granfondo (Nove Colli)

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

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Post by chege »

sunday_serif wrote: post #16

Writing blog posts and being ok with them not being perfect. I often have an idea for a post that would be interesting, but then as a learn more about the topic in order to write, I start to realize how much I don’t know. At this point, the post either dies or I spend way too long learning every irrelevant detail until I feel like I know enough. So I think the skill I am trying to learn is writing as a non-expert. Le…

Who is your blog's target audience? I write https://www.curiosities.dev/ for myself. I'm a non-expert in all of the posts.

When I revisit old posts, I digest the information differently and add more explorations/questions. It's much easier to build upon scaffolding that's already there. Maybe in N years, I'll have something insightful to say about X, but I don't have to hold off writing anything until then -- incomplete notes and rephrasing of other people's ideas already benefit me now.

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

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Post by georgeburdell »

Deploying ML models to production. I work in silicon at an established company, and management every year wants to incorporate “ML” and “AI” into our workflows, but it doesn’t happen because a) nobody wants to risk their review on it b) the median age is 40 and it requires a brain rewiring.

I spent part of a bout of FMLA learning to develop simple PyTorch models to help with our data processing, which is sometimes frustratingly qualitative because nobody can define rigorously what they want to compute, just endless sketches and corner cases

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

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Post by SnowingXIV »

linux2647 wrote: post #22

How to parent/be a parent. I don’t have much choice in the matter, as my firstborn is coming this spring ^_^

Congratulations just had mine a few months ago so this is certainly the skill I’m working on!

Other than that sharpen guitar skills, linear algebra, and as a rubyist thinking about doing something in elixir. But we will see how the time allotment goes with an infant part of the program now.

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