Cool tool! I was always doing this manually... :-D
Only complain I have is that there is no setting to display Monday as the first day on the calendar display, not Sunday.
Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
> plan your holidays for the next year i am absolutely lost in why anyone would do that. And on other side, resource planning is only lame excuse. But AFAIK most of western europe goes that way.. which is a preliminary planned existance . Boring like hell. Where is Life?
As soon as you have kids in the age range where school is mandatory you are pretty much confined to the school holiday roster for big trips. This means you pretty much have to get your planning going soon, if you want trips that are both interesting and possible. Planning ahead is the only way to actually have some freedom. You can rent really nice cottages, get that night train reservation, etc., as long as you plan…
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#103I typically try to take annual leave and to travel exactly on the opposite dates to what this tool recommends. That's because I care more about avoiding the significant extra expense, traffic, and crowds of travel over public holiday periods, than I do about getting a few extra "free days" of leave. No free lunch!
Good luck traveling on work days!
Strange comment. Isn't travel on work days better? People are at work, so plane and train tickets seem to be cheaper on those days because there's less demand.
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#104It's interesting all the comments are focused on the functionality and not on how it was built. Can you write some more on the experience? You say it was "a fun challenge." Would you consider using Cursor again? What parts of the site (e.g. UI, backend) did you use Cursor heavily and what parts do you use it minimally?
In the state selector, I typed "N" (for New York) and was surprised to see Arizona. After playing around with it, I realize that typeahead isn't working as usual: it's matching any state that has the letter "n" in it.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
December is a great time to take a vacation to somewhere warm if you don't like the winter. I like to travel to the Canary Islands from end of December to January. Last time we had 20-25 degrees. Definitely warm enough for the beach.
Winter doesn't even start until late December, seems like February would be a better time to nope out of the cold weather, after you've gotten tired of the novelty.
Obviously the astronomical winter begins with the solstice in late Dec, but meteorological winter is usually the whole months of Dec, Jan and Feb.
By February it's almost spring, there's hope, light at the end of the tunnel. I agree with GP that Dec/Jan is a great time to get away from northern Europe.
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#106:-) thanks for sharing.
It would be lovely to have key ChatGPT prompts available, e.g. in the git history, i.e. how did you get from here to there? and in contrast, what did you do manually?
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#107I'd like to add some more constraints, like "I'd like to maximize my time off around christmas", where you can see different alternatives e.g. using 3 days off, you get 7 consecutive days using 4 days off, you get 9 consecutive days Because sprinkling them to maximize the total number of days isn't really interesting in reality, even though it's an interesting programming challenge. The reason is that I want to have…
+1
Also I think there should be per-day manual overrides for force on/off
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#108Well done! Though it oversells it a bit. Check japan for instance you get 10 holidays a year, and it says you'll be able to stretch it to 51 days. Which is true to some extent. But the actual extra days off due to placing your holidays in the right spots is more like 13 days extra days.
So would be better to calculate it like that.
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#109Ha, this reminds me of a very similar practice I used to engage in with a few buddies when we started work. It was always fun to try to figure out how to optimize the PTO to get the “most days per day”. Nowadays, I find that the best time to take PTO is when I feel like taking PTO. Taking a long weekend when I’m feeling burnt out or disengaged goes much further for me than grinding for the entire first half of th yea…
Agreed, in Switzerland this idea of "stretching" is common but I find it stupid. Weather going to be bad? Doesnt matter, I can stretch my total time off 3 days more!!! Total off season to where I am traveling to? Doesnt matter, I get that single extra "bridge" day! Man so cringe. I don't know, seems much easier that if you dont want to work then don't! I mean the tool OP posted recommended 2 weeks off at the end of M…
When I was in my early 20s I had a few friends who were obsessed with traveling and would do stuff like this to maximize long blocks of time off, then they'd pick where to go because now they have 9 days instead of 4, and decide where to go backed on what time of year they had that longer block.
If your trying to maximize "contiguous days off" and you truly don't care when it is, a tool like this is super helpful.
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#110It's interesting all the comments are focused on the functionality and not on how it was built. Can you write some more on the experience? You say it was "a fun challenge." Would you consider using Cursor again? What parts of the site (e.g. UI, backend) did you use Cursor heavily and what parts do you use it minimally? In the state selector, I typed "N" (for New York) and was surprised to see Arizona. After playing a…
This is really more interesting? Don't you have the strong feeling that using the AI "really boosted their workflow"?
When can we start talking about things in themselves again? I know its gotta happen eventually, but its been so long, its getting all so boring these days. Like I woke up one day and half the hackers in the world turned into guys talking about different TV manufacturers at Best Buy.