Ask HN: How are you spending your Christmas Day?

Well, it's 7:26 AM here, and I haven't gone to bed from Christmas Eve yet. I was up all night working on our billing service, specifically adding the feature to generate PDF invoices and emailing them to customers. I have the skeleton of that in place now, but still need to finish the layout of the PDF, and wire up the code to populate it from the customer and invoice information on the backend.

So.. right now I'm taking a break, watching this video (Sam Altman interviewing Mark Zuckerberg) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb4IcGF5iTQ and then planning to sleep in a little while.

Once I wake up, I'll cook, and then spend the rest of the day fixing up that PDF business, and the email sending stuff.

Once that's done the next couple of items on the TODO list include wiring up the OAuth integration where this app makes calls to other backend services, and doing more work to make our SSO server production ready.

Also need to spin up a new VPS (probably at Hetzner) to deploy this app.

Not sure how much of that I'll get through today, but that's roughly what I'll be doing.

I'll be walking dogs at the humane society for a few hours with some friends. From there, we'll go to the beach for lunch and might do some free diving depending on the conditions of the water.

Tonight we'll have a bonfire and pot luck. My family is up in the northeast, I live down in the Caribbean.

This time last year, we didn't have electricity, so we have much to be thankful for looking back at 2018.

Tip: Head to non-native areas (chinese, indian). They're less likely to be celebrating Christmas, and more likely to be open for business. We found an open supermarket and a awesome chinese buffet last year using this trick.

I'm a paramedic, so I'm at work today. Fortunately it's not at my 911 job but at an urgent care, so the chances of it being a little less busy are much higher.

Even better, the nearby Starbucks still has my favorite holiday drinks.

We did all of our Christmas stuff at home last night.

Thank you for what you do. Luckily (fingers crossed) I haven’t needed an Urgent Care on Christmas Day for the last few years. But I did slice open a finger two years in a row (same finger, same stupid slicing accident, I’ve grown better with knife skills) and needed stitches ASAP. I am so grateful for the professionals in the medical field that serve us even with our own stupidity. Thank you and have a happy holidays!