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Re: Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution?

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post #68

- Read more books/long form essays. - Less Procrastination - Less reading the tutorials and start doing more "practical" stuff. i.e. write more code. - A blog post a week on my measly blog - https://blog.yelinaung.com/ - write anything that I find fun and learned! - Find a new job!

How do you plan to procrastinate less?

Good question! On top of my head, this is what I plan to do

- Timebox some activities (e.g browsing Instagram/Reddit/HN to 10 min a day or so)

- Set a deadline for the activities I have been avoiding to do

- Do some activities not just by myself but also with some friends. e.g reading a book together.

Re: Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution?

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post #354

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being able to work out over my lunch hour is easily one of the best parts of working from home for me. I suppose it was technically possible while working in an office, but such a hassle. Always resulted in losing some workout time around the edges, too.

Must be nice. WFH for us meant that you have calls scheduled from 10am to 2pm. I think for the new year I'm going to block off 12-1:30 every day and absolutely step away from my desk.

Recurring time blocks like this have been an absolute game-changer for me, I'd highly recommend it!

An hour in the morning and an hour-and-a-half around lunch have made it so much easier to stay sane, and provide nice cover to decline meetings by pointing to a calendar conflict.

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I’ve learned woodworking at a level that will allow me to rapidly produce inexpensive but sturdy caskets for people who can’t afford one for cremating their loved ones (you could also be buried in it depending on the state).

The global situation is exhausting, attempting to focus more locally. Do what you can where you are with what you have.

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I don't consider them resolutions, but things I am just focusing on more/top of mind:

1. Swimming. Kids are in swim lessons and my wife and I will be swimming laps in the same pool area. We've only just started this in December but I think we will stick it out for many months. I would like to get away during work hours to exercise too (I already WFH and need to take advantage of the flexibility more).

2. Nix and Nix OS. I've been interested in it for many years but just decided to not pursue much new technology in 2021 and 2022. Reading about Flakes and some nix projects sounds a lot more interesting to me lately.

3. Rebuild my homelab and build out the automations I have wanted but have let slipped away. I have current clamps for my breaker box, zwave and ZigBee networks, run k8s with a couple dozen services (home Assistant, *arr, etc.) and lots of other fun things. I haven't touched it in a few years though and some parts stopped working. At the time I specified all my manifests in Ansible + some Jinja. I don't have a machine that can push updates to it heh. I'd like to move to some mashup of gitops/nixops/argocd and really get into Home Assistant. I started installing zwave switches this week to kick start my interest again.

4. I'd like to build some small electronics with two of my daughters. We watch a lot of YouTube creators that build and program interesting things. I'd like to turn that interest into more actions for them. It's a little to much entertainment and not enough learning. I picked up parts and we'll pick an idea to pursue soon. I also got them crunchlab boxes for us to build together.

5. Set up a Minecraft server for my family. Also make available to them some of the more classic games. Likely refurbish some laptops for us to play something like Civ 4 together.

Re: Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution?

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post #118

Play more video games. I feel like this year I haven't had a chance to get lost in a great video game's narrative. Spent far too much time trying to be productive and not just taking a break to relax. Btw if anyone has any suggestions for games to play. Please share.

Baldurs Gate II. Still one of the most engrossing games. Even works on iPad.

Love the BG series. Met my wife through the modding community too. Every couple of years I do a replay of the games.
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