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Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?

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Re: Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?

#71
More Rust, and Neovim as IDE (per a YouTube video that was posted on HN some weeks or months ago).

It seems like other IDEs that are attractive to me always manage to pull the rug out eventually, in one way or another (sudden bad performance, deprecations of things I use, or cutting support on my OS for the language/s I prefer).

Re: Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?

#72
Pain-free running. Have had achilles issues for a few months I never really addressed, but want to get rid of this year. Goal is to run 5km without pain the next day by following a daily protocol of isometric and isotonic exercises.

Piano playing: Improve my playing by working through Alfred's Adult Piano books no. 3. Here, again, RSI is the biggest issue I'm facing.

Planning my life. While I'm extremely organized at work, this never transfered to my private life. I recently introduced weekly sessions to plan everything from exercise to events I want to attend, to reoccurring household chores like refilling dishwasher salt once a month.

Re: Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?

#73

I want to level up my coding and work on really complex software projects. Gems like puma and async (ruby gems). I also want to learn more about compilers and more about the computer. My plan is to read SICP and also start contributing to these projects that I mentioned above.

I have basically the same goal. I've been script-kiddying since my early teens (getting close to 30 now) and I want to finally make some stuff. Been learning C and I'm about to start with Common Lisp.

Re: Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?

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post #71

More Rust, and Neovim as IDE (per a YouTube video that was posted on HN some weeks or months ago). It seems like other IDEs that are attractive to me always manage to pull the rug out eventually, in one way or another (sudden bad performance, deprecations of things I use, or cutting support on my OS for the language/s I prefer).

> sudden bad performance

nvim is great, and I use it as my daily driver, but bear in mind nearly everything in a modern config is controlled by Lua, which is one of the worst-performing languages on the planet today. "Sudden bad performance" is still a thing in the neovim world.

Re: Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?

#77
1) Japanese, it's a survival skill for me now, moved to Japan a little bit more than a year ago, only to find out my friend lied to me, they don't speak English here;

2) C/Rust, career development requirement, we have some codebase without maintainer, I want to take them over;

3) Deepen my knowledge in cognitive sciences, explore memory and attention.

Re: Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?

#78

I'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.

Check Theseus OS. It’s very new but very exciting too.

Re: Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?

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post #71

More Rust, and Neovim as IDE (per a YouTube video that was posted on HN some weeks or months ago). It seems like other IDEs that are attractive to me always manage to pull the rug out eventually, in one way or another (sudden bad performance, deprecations of things I use, or cutting support on my OS for the language/s I prefer).

Check out Lapce. An improvement over nvim imo. Maybe the ecosystem is not as mature though.

Re: Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?

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Presenting 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

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.)

Typst with Polylux (inspired by Beamer) is a nice alternative.
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