My programming job is remote, fulfilling, and not all consuming. I have time and energy to cook, watch movies, and learn to drum. I'm hoping to have my first paid gig in the next few weeks after 2 years of lessons.
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#252I'm splitting my time between a Pre-Series A startup, a Series E startup that's my fulltime gig, and developing my own cloud platform similar to AWS in Rust.
The cloud platform is fun. Learning the different components and just giving myself the freedom to do things in the best way I can figure out- writing my own RPC Framework, Scheduler, VM Management Tooling, etc... The end objective is to build a "not for profit" cloud platform for personal and small projects. So you can build awesome cloud-native applications for communities and other areas that are not profit driven.
Also might start trying to build a custom digital rifle scope for my AR-10. Something that can do range finding and basic sight adjustments based on distance and wind. That'd be cool...
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#253I'm currently working on a GUI app to help progammers practice Python regular expressions [0]. I don't have much experience with GUI, but I've made a start. I know it won't be pleasing to the eye, but I hope it will have the features I wish to implement.
[0] https://github.com/learnbyexample/py_regular_expressions/tre...
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#254Since I work in a large enterprise, and I got tired of our dog-slow Jira instance, I’m building an offline client for Jira that syncs up every so often.
More importantly, it responds to everything you do locally instantly (still kind of figuring out how large you can make the local database before that isn’t true any more).
I’ll release it at some point, but it’s still missing a bunch of (probably not quite essential) functionality that I want it to have. I think I’m procrastinating because I enjoy being it’s only user and having zero responsibility to anyone.
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#255I'm designing a full back and shoulders tattoo for myself. About one/tenth of it is completed on my back so-far. Leafing through art history texts, old-maps, and going through museums in my free time. I'm also getting very conformable on my motorcycle in the twisties; I'd like to try a track-day soon. I'm still trying to find friends post-pandemic (moved to the bay area during the pandemic). Besides that, I'm taking…
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#256I bought a chipper. The kind that's larger than Steve Buscemi used in that movie. Turning 12" dia tree trunks into particles. Real engineering.
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#257I won the IPO lottery and I’m in the middle ground between rich enough to never work again but not quite rich enough for the yachts/mansions/private jets lifestyle. I haven’t worked in 6 months and I’m struggling to find a larger meaning to my life beyond getting yet another tech job. I’ve considered going to college for a math degree, moving to my parents home country, and joining the military (among many other opti…
Do you perchance like to teach? Maybe lectures like traditional classes, but there's a huge need for mentors to young folks with interest in technical fields, particularly in underdeveloped countries (in many such cases merely talking to them in English is already a lot of help!) I know I'd like to do that, but I've always liked teaching so maybe it's not fitting to everyone. E.g. I volunteer at a local (Brazilian) n…
Can I ask you what the name of the org is? I really like to teach, I've done it before, and being Brazilian really makes me want to give back to an institution closer to home.
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#258I'm trying to write a test tool that recompiles a .Net binary so you can swap in mock objects without dependency injection. The goal is to allow you to write normal code without all the ceremonies needed to make it testable; and the let the test tool create testing hooks after compilation.
It's interesting working closer with IL, and without a lot of StackOverflow posts when I get stuck.
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#259I started taking steroids two weeks ago. 500mg/week testosterone. They haven't even really kicked in yet (takes about 3 weeks to get really testosterone levels up) but I'm feeling real good and I'm really excited with all the weight gain I've had so far this year. I started at around 155 in June and today I'm up to 180. A lot of it is water weight I'm sure but I'm excited to hit over 200 in the next 5 months of my fi…
Of all the ideas in this thread this one seems the most dettached from my preferences and tastes.
It's cool knowing completely different folks are out there. Goos luck!
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#260I'm making a smartphone OS for my personal use. Gonna opensource under GPLv2 once ready. OS kernel is Alpine Linux from https://postmarketos.org/ The entire userland is custom: graphics is on top of drm, kms, gles2, FreeType. Audio is on top of ASIO with just a few third party libraries like soxr, fdk-aac, minimp3. IPC is mostly domain sockets, input is raw input, wifi is controlled through wpa_supplicant. Most of th…
Oh! This sounds like something I wanted to do. Mostly to see if you can actually get decent GUI speed on the Pinephone.