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I'm teaching myself music (guitar and singing)! After casually dabbling for many years and not really getting better, I decided to devote at least 30 minute a day to practice to see how far I can get in a year. I'm making videos to track my progress ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ytq5cTCDE ) and creating tools to accelerate the learning process. Some examples: - Chord Bunny (to learn chord transitions): https://…

Why guitar and not synths?

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Going from zero musical ability and knowledge of music theory to composing and playing jazz, classical and hymn. I've given myself a year to do it and documenting my progress every day: https://write.as/poseur-to-composer/about

Cool, it takes time. I picked up the electric guitar, again, I am aiming to be a decent guitarist in ten years. I currently play bass in a hobby metall band which is fun.

How did you stop your fingers hurting?

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Staying sane by staying busy. My wife is slowly dying and is a thousand miles away at a hospital, hoping they can save her. Today I cleaned a workshop area that I'd been using for storage so that I could use it as an actual workshop. I have car parts to rebuild (Chevy 350 TBI at least) and I have things to build, like a recumbent bicycle from scratch. I am also working on learning CW (aka Morse code), learning to pla…

Most psychologists would recommend mindfulness techniques to deal with traumatic events, suppression usually comes back to bite later. please take care of yourself.

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Indoor vegetable and fish farm, i.e. aquaponics, in a fully circular production system. We are building our pilot installation right now. Additionally we got two government grants: one to set it up monitored with sensors, and a production management system, for future automation, traceability and transparency for the food chain; the other to start taking in food waste and converting into fish food via insect larvae,…

There are tons of these in the light industrial area beside our neighbourhood in Singapore. Super cool

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Skincare line for men. I just turned 30 and I wanted an easier way to take care of my skin. One of the things I noticed was that there weren't a lot of skincare geared towards men that I "trusted." So, I threw myself all-in to see if I can bootstrap a brand focused on using natural ingredients myself. It was supposed to launch June 1, but early impressions suggested the "brand" sucked. Yes, I rebranded before I sold…

Where/how are you sourcing product? Do you have any experience in cosmetics? A brand called “War Paint”, which I’m sure you’ve heard of, recently created some buzz and quickly attracted a lot of negative media. Did you learn anything from the negative feedback they received?

I source the ingredients from a private labeler. They work with all the major cosmetic brands and sell what brands like L’Oreal don’t buy. Sure, we get leftovers, but it’s still top quality.

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5 years ago, I had a crazy idea that there must be an open source engine that had a really simple learning curve and worked out of the box. The result: https://github.com/typesense/typesense It took me over 3 years to get the nuts and bolts right. It's now production ready and being used in quite a few production environments. Of course, there is more work to do and so it's still actively being worked upon.

Note, search engine. That looks very cool!

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I'm working on a travel agency website that integrates with global booking systems, something like expedia but less complex. So far along the process I've learned a lot specially about a wide range of Azure services. I just learned Azure Search and wow, it works great!

I work in this space. Curious of you to elaborate!

I'm adding the hotel booking engine to the website. The first hurdle I came across was how to offer fast suggestions to the user when typing a location / hotel name. That's when I found Azure Search ( which is extremely easy to set up), and now I just have to complete the whole process. This whole thing is extremely gratifying because I'm learning new stuff pretty much everyday.

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working on my crippling depression / ADHD, unemployed (i don't want to work anymore in anything) 6 months , 0 productivity. learned a lot of category theory, functional programming and c++ tho.

are you lifting weights and exercising? If not get on it ASAP. Revert back to the physical-activity-heavy lifestyle of our ancestors and you'll feel better

If you hate exercise, try physically-active VR games. You don't even feel like you're exercising (although you sure feel it the next day!)
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