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Ask HN: How much time per week do you spend on side projects?

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Re: Ask HN: How much time per week do you spend on side projects?

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Post by emodendroket »

ryandrake wrote: post #60
cweagans wrote: post #56

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Maiming one's self in woodworking only happens through incredible stupidity or carelessness. If you keep focused on what you're doing and make sure that you're following basic safety rules, you'll probably be fine. Accidents do happen of course, but as with programming, there are safeguards that can prevent them (for instance, the guards and backstops on a table saw prevent your work piece from getting rocketed back…

Table saw is going to be, by a huge margin, the most dangerous tool in most amateur woodworker shops. You need to exercise great care and respect around power tools, but the table saw requires particular care. All tools, power and non-power can be used safely, but you need to learn and internalize shop safety practices. My dad taught wood shop in school so I got a good boost by being immersed with shop safety from a…

I bought a home last year and I think the cardinal rule of power tools is that you only really should buy one when you have some project in mind for which you are going to use it immediately.

Re: Ask HN: How much time per week do you spend on side projects?

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Post by jermaustin1 »

ryandrake wrote: post #60
cweagans wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maiming one's self in woodworking only happens through incredible stupidity or carelessness. If you keep focused on what you're doing and make sure that you're following basic safety rules, you'll probably be fine. Accidents do happen of course, but as with programming, there are safeguards that can prevent them (for instance, the guards and backstops on a table saw prevent your work piece from getting rocketed back…

Table saw is going to be, by a huge margin, the most dangerous tool in most amateur woodworker shops. You need to exercise great care and respect around power tools, but the table saw requires particular care. All tools, power and non-power can be used safely, but you need to learn and internalize shop safety practices. My dad taught wood shop in school so I got a good boost by being immersed with shop safety from a…

I agree, my table saw still scares the living shit out of me. When I had some tension in a board I was ripping down clamp up on the blade and start to buck, I couldn't reach down for the switch, so I jumped away and yanked the cord from the wall. It was a very tense 4-5 seconds.

Afterward I calmed down, i flipped the board around started ripping from the other side to meet in the middle and everything was better.

Re: Ask HN: How much time per week do you spend on side projects?

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Post by Ocerge »

ssijak wrote: post #70
Ocerge wrote: post #15

None. After my first cup of coffee in the morning when I have artificial enthusiasm I always tell myself I will start when I get home, but after 9 hours of making somebody else rich, I am just out of energy, and not interested enough in software to push through.

Wake up 2hours earlier. Ge a coffee, work 2 hours on your code, then go to work. It works.

This may actually be something I try. I don't need that much sleep, but I think it may hurt for awhile. I'll think on it.

Re: Ask HN: How much time per week do you spend on side projects?

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Post by kewin87 »

osullivj wrote: post #66
DutchKevv wrote: post #45

40+ haha. Im a Freelance Javascript developer currently having a very easy/boring job.. No kids, no wife, just a dog :) So including weekends I easy hit more then 40 hours! TradeJS https://github.com/DutchKevv/TradeJS

Very slick GUI: nice work!

Thanks! :D

Still working on it hard. My plan is to have a stable v0.0.1 by end of next week

Re: Ask HN: How much time per week do you spend on side projects?

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Post by Ocerge »

osullivj wrote: post #68
bbcbasic wrote: post #67

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Doesn't sound sustainable unless you have the 4h sleep gene.

I'm a developer to the core, and I've been coding since the late 70s. But I also read a lot, and I've always fancied being a writer and cranking out some middlebrow tech flavoured stuff like Neal Stephenson or Douglas Adams. So I've also read a lot of "how to be a writer" stuff. One comment from an established author stuck with me. When asked "how do you know you're a writer?", the reply was "because you can't not wr…

I think I don't like software quite that much, but enough to where if I did have spare mental energy, I probably would use it. That's an interesting perspective though, and one I see in many Type A coders. I just don't have it in me I don't think.

Re: Ask HN: How much time per week do you spend on side projects?

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Post by ankurlemarc »

I spend just 4 hours a week on my side projects.

Right now

1) building a newsletter about stories & life lessons by real mystics. www.realmystics.com (2 hours a week)

2) Building a platform for finding meditation workshops & art therapy classes in the city (2 hours a week) www.lightup.life

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