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Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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I fell into a sorta wikihole and now I have no one to present my findings to. North Korea has an animation studio, and there's a good chance you've seen some of it's work. It's called SEK (or Korean April 26 Animation Studio). The things they were outsourced to work on were The Simpsons Movie, and Futurama: Benders Big Score. There's also an episode of Avatar, and Teenage Mutent Ninja Turtles(2003) in there too. Whic…

Spotted "Adrian" fan?

Unfamiliar with that creator.

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Hey, we're practically neighbors! I'm from Chapel Hill, NC. Sadly, I don't do any rock climbing. It's one of those things that I've always thought looked interesting, but I somehow never found time / energy / money / whatever to pursue. My big things outdoor activity wise are cycling (MTB, road, and BMX) and fishing.

Hey, if you’re interested in trying, the local gym system TRC has free first sessions when going with a member. If you’re interested, shoot me an email, it’s in my profile :)

I appreciate that, and I totally would take you up on the offer, if I had any free time. But between working a day job, my side project stuff, and trying to squeeze in 40 miles a week of cycling, and maybe a couple of miles of trail running here and there, my "free time" count is pretty much negative.

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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My latest passion is cheating at solitaire.

One of my favorite hobbies is reverse engineering and modding video games, old and new. Zachtronics recently released a bundle of solitaire games collected from all of the wonderful games they released over the last couple years. I built a program that injects code into the game, reads the game's memory to find the board state, and passes that into an automated solver. I also figured out various ways to trick the game into thinking that the board has been solved.

Reverse engineering games is incredibly fun, and you can learn a lot as well!

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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My latest passion is cheating at solitaire. One of my favorite hobbies is reverse engineering and modding video games, old and new. Zachtronics recently released a bundle of solitaire games collected from all of the wonderful games they released over the last couple years. I built a program that injects code into the game, reads the game's memory to find the board state, and passes that into an automated solver. I al…

A very cool topic. Similar to that, mimikatz has a minesweeper functionality. You can use it to dump passwords and kerberos tickets, or just cheat at minesweeper https://github.com/gentilkiwi/mimikatz/blob/c78b1cf37c517ae9...

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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This sounds amazing. I'd be interested to hear more details about what "stewarding 50ha of Australian bush" entails. Do you work with a local conservation organization, and do you have any particular goals for restoration or management? Do you work on documenting the biodiveristy there? Is it home to any endemic or threatened species you're espeially interested in? Any photos you could share?

We don't work with a conservation organisation; we don't have any funding; we do it all off our own backs. With my limited time, I document the biodiversity of our block here: https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?place_id=any&use... My wife throws up our photos on Flickr, which includes a great many of our efforts at sustainable farming and replanting, an album documenting our house-build, as well as our hikin…

I am blown away and inspired by the straw bale house build. Well done! It must be very rewarding to see the end result.

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Hello from Berlin, Germany. Currently spending my days mostly learning for exams and doing homework. I hate every second of it. Not because I'm opposed to learning stuff. But because I just think other topics are way more interesting and useful for me in the future. Every time I sit there and try to memorize something that I really don't see any value in, I feel such a loss of a lifetime. I just think of all the thin…

I'm passionate about all those fun little niche coding projects I have written in my notebook and want to work on. But I don't really have the time to develop my beginner-skills to the extent I would like to, for me being able to build them. Which one especially?

One of them is an app I'd like to build for my galaxy watch that lets me enter data on the go, that is going to be synced with my notion database. This would be super useful for habit tracking.

*this one seems to be one of the more feasible ideas

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Hello from Melbourne, Australia. This weekend it finally started to feel warm, and I'm ready for summer. I ran a software development agency for 8 years, sold it at the start of the pandemic, and been travelling with my wife in an RV around Australia thinking about what's next. One of the issues we faced in our business was around centralising project requirements, and ensuring both our clients and our team could ref…

Hello, I´m looking at it right now. 1: Centralising project requirements, 2: Ensuring both our clients and our team could refer to a source of truth. 3: When you're working on possibly many a few long-term projects +4: When Scaling is a issue. ==== My remarks: 1: Which audience are you targetting? --> Is it a dev tool? 2: Does the current pricing and business model make sense? --> It´s advantage is that is longterm,…

Hey Ronald, thanks for checking out Userdoc.

No it's not a dev tool specifically, I would say more for project and product managers, however the strength is involving the whole team. My initial customer development has been with agency owners and CTO's, as that's my background.

Regarding the pricing model, our initial thinking is a monthly subscription (with your plan denoting how many projects you can add) - but I hear you, we are currently testing this pricing model and open to feedback.

I can see how having a demo would be beneficial, perhaps a middleground would be having a demo video (as making our private app public would take a bit of work).

Happy to connect! https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrickard

Thanks again mate.

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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I'm passionate about learning more about sustainable and regenerative agriculture. I've been volunteering on a hobby farm this year and we're just coming to the end of harvest season and getting ready for the winter - spreading compost, broadforking, mulching with wood chips, etc.

Nothing like getting away from the computer to play in the dirt once a week :)

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