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Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by pppoe »

rubicon33 wrote: post #24

This is a visualization of how I have been feeling for the last couple of years. I'm in my mid 30s and lately have been going through what I'm sure is a mid life crisis. Seeing all these empty cells really underscores the point. - Aware of my limited time - Aware of my limited health (despite exercising, eating healthy, avoiding alcohol and drugs, sleeping well, etc... I don't feel like I did in my 20s) - Difficulty…

I can relate to that feeling. I've been reading books on different philosophies to find way out of this. Now I feel like I just accept life is meaningless in a positive way. But it is hard to get all over of these feelings that it still comes back at me once a while.

I do have a few hobbies I can enjoy doing to just forget about all those things. I don't think there is a "solution" though, everyone needs to find his/her own remedy someway.

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by youniverse »

ip26 wrote: post #46
wepple wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But if you get to decide what is “meaningful”, it’s just a reminder of the finiteness of life. I’ve spent a bunch of this holiday sitting on the couch, relaxing or letting my mind wander or just enjoying being near a warm fire. I don’t think I’ll regret that at the end of my life (provided my life isn’t all sitting on a couch) I’d argue if you feel pressured to do “meaningful” things that apparently don’t bring you j…

I might agree, if I could ever figure out what is “meaningful” to me. I’m simultaneously incapable of sitting down and doing nothing (because I love pushing towards a goal) and also fully aware that goals are usually extrinsic and unfulfilling. Both deeply drawn towards big problems with a long march, and torn that by their very nature, I won’t get to undertake many (so choose wisely)

Seems like you've figured it out already. Pushing towards a challenging goal is exactly where meaning is to be found, even if it's difficult to enjoy in the moment. Growing through challenge and taking on the responsibility of life is where we seem to get more fulfilling results.

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by petemilly »

marssaxman wrote: post #38
seized wrote: post #3

One suggestion.... Make it faster to skip back and set the start date, or allow manual entry. I'm not even that old but it's a lot of months to click backwards on Android.

I couldn't make the date picker work at all - the scroller kept snapping back to a previous position.

Ah, sorry about that. It is the native date picker as n8cpdx pointed out.

I just pushed an update to only update the grid of weeks once the date picker is unfocused (onblur event) rather than recomputing unnecessarily on every change event. I suspect that is what caused the bug you're describing, but let me know if it's still broken.

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by petemilly »

TimSchumann wrote: post #42

> Any feedback is welcome. Top on my todo list is improving performance (reduce interaction lag). Maybe don't have it render anything until a valid date post 1800 has been parsed in all fields? I started typing a date and it rendered the year 0190.

Thanks for pointing this out. I just updated it to only re-render the grid of weeks when the date input is unfocused (onblur) rather than unnecessarily updating the grid while you're still entering the date.

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by petemilly »

kapitanjakc wrote: post #12

Is it possible to run it locally or create backups or link it with some storage? Only reason for asking it is that I was thinking of something similar and started keeping a daily diary in text files. Can add summary of sorts for weekly thing. But if someone is like me and has years worth of data, they'd want to be sure that data is going to be there in future as well.

Feel free to fork the repo and run locally! https://github.com/pmillspaugh/weeksofyourlife

Maybe I could add an export feature that downloads the data in a .csv or something. The URL storage is definitely a bit wonky, but more robust persistence felt like overkill (maybe I'm wrong about that, though!).

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by petemilly »

diimdeep wrote: post #6

Date picker is broken, also it is really slow webpage for what it is doing. Every web developer in 2024 and forwartd should have average device released at least 10 years ago to understand that what they are writing these deys using this horrendous web frameworks is unusable on these devices.

Thanks for pointing this out (all comments in this subthread). I just updated the date picker to only re-render the grid of weeks when the input is unfocused (onblur) and avoid the unnecessary intermediate updates. Still more work for me to address lag, but hopefully that helps.

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by petemilly »

Flux159 wrote: post #2

Nice job, was going to mention url size limits but then read your blog post and it already mentioned using urls to be able to share with others without a database. One thing that might be interesting is being able to edit things in the future if you want to plan something out, but don't know if that's really in the spirit of the site.

Thanks. And yeah, I was talking to my roommate about enabling edits in the future. I guess the spirit of the site is letting each person do with it what they wish, so I suppose I should open up future dates for edits.

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by kirso »

rubicon33 wrote: post #24

This is a visualization of how I have been feeling for the last couple of years. I'm in my mid 30s and lately have been going through what I'm sure is a mid life crisis. Seeing all these empty cells really underscores the point. - Aware of my limited time - Aware of my limited health (despite exercising, eating healthy, avoiding alcohol and drugs, sleeping well, etc... I don't feel like I did in my 20s) - Difficulty…

Interestingly, I came across this tweet from the founder of Replit:

"Lots of ink spilled on the coming of age, but no one prepares you for middle age: losing a parent, confronting the reality of passing time, and the resulting reevaluation of life’s priorities. More art should explore this period of life."

It struck me at the same age as you. It doesn't seem to be unique and I didn't find the solution. What I think is that there is no solution, just acceptance and making sure we do things that we feel are worthwhile whilst avoiding that "auto-mode" at work.

For me, it was the fact that I live 8000km from my parents. The last 2 years were just so fast it became a blur. But seeing them grow old scared me so much that I'd rather lose out on my career but try to spend more time with them and live closer.

Instead of chasing startups and VC glory, I would like to work on problems that I care about and build small things that are fun despite them not bringing full-time income even if I just do it on the side. My professional goals are around working on worthwhile things (subjective) with a small team of awesome people. The dream setup is to have 5 smart friends and work together on cool shit we all enjoy whilst earning a living.

Also exploring all these emotions and feelings is interesting. I found that having dire nostalgia and melancholic feelings about the past (and hence passing time...)probably signals something. However, if left unexplored it doesn't lead to introspection. It's meta but even thinking about why the feelings that you described exist leads to interesting internal and external conversations. Journaling, therapy, SO conversations.

"Spending your time well" is an art that is hard to get right.

Would love to also hear about more resources on this topic.

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