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Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?
#32Thanks for asking this question :) Couple of them for me 1. Professionally: Moving to an awesome core tech team (chance to work with internals of a database) 2. Personally: Wrote a blog post which received very high attention here on HN... shameless plug (sorry): https://littleblah.com/post/2019-09-01-senior-engineer-check... 3. Health wise: Successfully used internmittent fasting to lose 8KG, and then maintain it fo…
That's fantastic! Did you have a background working with database internals before?
Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?
#33Got promoted to Senior Engineer.
Made Support Lead of an important assignment, leading a team of 7 Engineers.
If anyone would like to advise me on how to be a good Support Lead, I am eager to hear and act.
PS - Support Lead is also Operations Lead
Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?
#34Most recent success and one that is ongoing is my focus and actual following through on completing my 12 daily habits. https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing/habits It includes core things like sleeping for 8 hours, exercising, eating wholefood plant based diet, drinking water, tea, focusing on one task at a time and setting and following through goals. As for goals, I am genuinely in love with my Focus board I mad…
Hi nikivi,
Just a suggestion, but if you love creating your own tools and optimizing your workflow you might consider switching to linux with some tiling window manager and other improvements.
To be honest this might be one of the reasons not many people abuse Karabiner.
Cheers! Keep the good work but do not forget to rest as well!
Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?
#351) After a string of tricky life events (death of a relative, breakup of a serious relationship), I moved out of my family home closer to work.
2) I managed to pay off my college debt to external services (I still owe money to my parents, but it's interest free)
3) I got promoted to a senior level at work, got rotated to a different team, and put on a high visibility project.
4) I started doing improv comedy on the side! It was something I'd flirted with in college but didn't really take `seriously`
Not everything is perfect, and I have some bad days, but my life between the start of this year and now has drastically changed and in a lot of ways for the better.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?
#36I finally found a somewhat cure for my long-time shoulder pain which also helped to develop costochondritis. After several medical tests and lots of hours invested into researching the problem myself (as doctors just provided NSAIDs and PT didn't help much) I was able to be almost pain free after such long time. Physical illnesses, even if only mildly disabling, do affect your day-to-day mood very negatively.
What'd you do? The only thing that seems to help me is hanging on a pullup bar for intervals of a minute or so. A hang a day keeps the pain away. =)
Dead hangs are great but unfortunately I can't have such setup at my current location. It didn't offer any lasting fix either. What worked for me best was:
- Myofascial release of pec minor/major with theracane (generic one bought in a well-known chinese webshop).
- Doorway stretches.
- A physical device that's rock-shaped on which you lay down and safely stretches the sternum/ribs area.
- I avoid smartphone use whenever possible, and try to use the mouse with the left hand (or no mouse at all if possible).
I might be forgetting something but that's more or less what helped me.
It's sometimes challenging to find where you need to work on since many times treating the location where the pain is originating may not be the real source. For example: pec minor may be totally tight, which causes pain when breathing in the shoulder blades/sternum/ribs, you go to the PT and PT massages for example the shoulder blades but in reality that'll do nothing since it's just the end of the chain.
But on a positive note, you get to learn a lot about anatomy :)
Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?
#37Nights and Weekends: Ran "smurf-tube" conduit from my attic to my basement and built a network cabinet out of 2x4s on casters. This one is ongoing.
Day: Got our static map server (mapnik-based) to generate x/y/z tiles properly so we can use it with leaflet.js for interactive maps.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?
#38I finally found a somewhat cure for my long-time shoulder pain which also helped to develop costochondritis. After several medical tests and lots of hours invested into researching the problem myself (as doctors just provided NSAIDs and PT didn't help much) I was able to be almost pain free after such long time. Physical illnesses, even if only mildly disabling, do affect your day-to-day mood very negatively.
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Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?
#39YTD I've reduced the time required for a monthly reporting process by over 16 hours by making better work instructions and automation enhancements. It's still quite manual, but not as much as it used to be.
While I only found the article recently, I naturally ended up in a similar work flow to this great article on incremental improvement.
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3197520
It's not all beautiful - I had a lot of hiccups along the way, but I can probably get another 5-10 hour/month reduction by the end of the year.
I can use that newfound time for literally anything else!
Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?
#40Finally shipped a game project that I'd been working on for fun, last week. My son did the graphics. It was a lot of fun learning JavaScript quirks as well as some game-relevant design patterns like a staticly allocated array for particle effects.