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I'm now also working on a "radio" music player based on the same concept.
I quit my job as a software engineer at Google early this year to teach people how to code. I started paying people $15/hr to learn so they can make ends meet while learning instead of working at Walmart. I thought about all the missing pieces in my engineering growth and created a curriculum that welcomes students from 0 engineering background and plugs in all the holes that were black boxed to me in my engineering…
Two years ago I said I was going to clone Berzerk as my second game dev project, and made my first commit[0].
This year I basically tore the entire thing apart several times and wound up just working on general framework and game development code[1]. Some of it still doesn't work. Most of it is probably crap.
I also worked on, and have given up on, a HN-like forum written in Hack[2]. It wasn't very good, though. Just got bored with it.
I've taken a lot of Udemy tutorials for Unity and OpenGL, and gotten some Hello World stuff to run in WebAssembly.
Basically, I've either been very productive, or I've completely wasted the last two years of my life, depending on your point of view.
I also came across a pile of old cd/dvds I kept old code and short stories and things on and archived it. Found some PHP I wrote in 2004, and some old sites from when I used to blog regularly and review movies.
[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10819380
Building out CloudSploit ( https://cloudsploit.com ) to help improve AWS cloud security. One highly-used tool we released this year was an S3 Bucket security scanner. We made it after reading article after article featuring companies who lost customer data because they failed to properly secure their S3 buckets.
Cixl is my latest kick in the face to the status quo: https://github.com/basic-gongfu/cixl
I made a lot of smoke, but not a lot of fire. Two years ago I said I was going to clone Berzerk as my second game dev project, and made my first commit[0]. This year I basically tore the entire thing apart several times and wound up just working on general framework and game development code[1]. Some of it still doesn't work. Most of it is probably crap. I also worked on, and have given up on, a HN-like forum written…
I quit my job as a software engineer at Google early this year to teach people how to code. I started paying people $15/hr to learn so they can make ends meet while learning instead of working at Walmart. I thought about all the missing pieces in my engineering growth and created a curriculum that welcomes students from 0 engineering background and plugs in all the holes that were black boxed to me in my engineering…
Would love to donate to such projects (and already have, but you sound neat too).
I've worked at the highest paying job i ever got in my career. But then i quit in july to focus on a startup I joined after we were featured in techcrunch and received angel investment. Now i realized that the money was the least of our problem and the startup is on the brink of death. I replaced the source of my income from job to stock market investments. Now i am focusing on a new side project that poped in my hea…
Did you just invent a QR code with contact details? (Edit: Not saying it's a dumb idea, sounds useful.)
Trying to be the world's first person to be cured from autism. I believe my autism is caused by the shape of my forehead, which puts too much pressure on my muscles. Evidence is here: https://corticalchauvinism.com/2017/11/13/yuval-levental-cra... Also, I have prepared for a potential surgery by getting botox injections in my forehead muscle. So far, my focus at work has dramatically improved: https://corticalchauvin…
Yuval, are you familiar with Barry Neil Kauffman’s work? Specifically, his book Son Rise. It tells the story of how he and his wife cured their son of his autism. https://www.amazon.com/Son-Rise-Barry-Neil-Kaufman/dp/091581...