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Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by rgrmrts »

mattgreenrocks wrote: post #219
rgrmrts wrote: post #217

2022 marks a shift for me from industry software engineering to research. I’m hoping I get accepted to a PhD program but if not I will likely leave my cushy job and spend time some getting myself into computer science research (being broad on purpose). All in all, I’m really excited for next year. I feel good about where I am in life in most facets. Happy new year to you and everyone else around reading this as well!…

Sounds great! I do applied research in industry and love it. Any interests you’re looking to pursue?

Neat! The last two years I’ve been pretty interested in programming language theory and operating systems. I re-discovered lisps and started toying with them. I also started learning more about BSDs and openbsd in particular and toyed around with an openbsd remote server.

I think my general interest would be systems engineering, but more specifically language theory and operating systems.

What kind of research have you been doing?

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by 2sk21 »

2021 was my first full year of retirement and I really enjoyed it (I retired at the end of 2020 after working thirty years in software research). In 2021, I plan to work on my model train layout, some robotics projects and continue learning Swift. If things go well, I plan to release a MacOS app for personal knowledge management.

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by chc4 »

I started working on a project (meta-JIT framework for Rust interpreters) over a sabbatical a few months ago. I'm going to be switching to half-time at work, and hopefully keep working on that in my free time, along with doing a lot of other stuff that I felt like I didn't have the opportunity to do while working a full-time 40hr/wk job - visit family and friends more, start working out, work on other side projects or friends' open source projects, etc.

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by mountainriver »

chc4 wrote: post #225

I started working on a project (meta-JIT framework for Rust interpreters) over a sabbatical a few months ago. I'm going to be switching to half-time at work, and hopefully keep working on that in my free time, along with doing a lot of other stuff that I felt like I didn't have the opportunity to do while working a full-time 40hr/wk job - visit family and friends more, start working out, work on other side projects o…

That sounds really cool! Do you have any of it open sourced yet?

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by zikduruqe »

nomadiccoder wrote: post #108

I recently read Atomic Habits by James Clear, and also listened to some process philosophy from Steven West's Philosophize This. One takeaway that I had was on the danger of setting goals. I am trying to build a mindset of 'becoming' or to embrace the journey of the goal rather than really trying to achieve a specific milestone. - I want to reduce/eliminate my alcohol consumption to become a person that doesn't rely…

> I want to reduce/eliminate my alcohol consumption...

Tonight at midnight will be my 9th year alcohol free. For me personally, it has been wonderful not to depend on alcohol.

No matter what you do, just take it one day at a time and best of luck.

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by snakeboy »

adnanc wrote: post #223

1. Work on https://ayahbyayah.com - managed to get an update out this week, next year will be 10 years on the App Store. 2. Get 500 hours on the bike, this year I managed 358 hours and 6000 miles. 3. Continue my Qur'an memorisation journey.

These goals seem to me like progress towards a life well-lived. Good luck!
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