Something similar I made a year ago (way more detailed aggregates but no specific dates) https://lostmsu.github.io/life33/?life-full
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29063094
Show HN: Day by Day – every day of my life
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#82Many commenters have remarked that this is “grim” or “depressing”. I couldn’t disagree more. It is the limited amount of time we have here that gives every day value. This is a reminder to make the most of every day, because our days are numbered. For myself, I’m 26. I’m more than a third of the way done with my life, and I feel like I’m just getting started. But it’s so easy to let each day slip by, without consciou…
> I’m more than a third of the way done with my life
I'm just about to hit 61% and also feel like I'm just getting started (mainly due to wasting a whole bunch of years on trying to please other people, trying to fit in, etc.)
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#83I love visual representations of time passing like this, they really help to put it in perspective. I use something similiar that only covers a year (kinda like GitHub's activity view) and it helps me visualise that future events, such as a half marathon that seems like ages away, is actually only 8 Sunday runs away.
Great idea - is it online anywhere?
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#84Is 85 a little conservative for someone born in the 90s? On the flip side what have we achieved in the last thirty years which will allow for people to live beyond that?
Good question - for my own purposes I'd rather be conservative but you have a very valid point.
Re: Show HN: Day by Day – every day of my life
#85I love visual representations of time passing like this, they really help to put it in perspective. I use something similiar that only covers a year (kinda like GitHub's activity view) and it helps me visualise that future events, such as a half marathon that seems like ages away, is actually only 8 Sunday runs away.
Great idea - is it online anywhere?
I started with a simple paper template I print out[1] but I'm working on an web app for it. I'm hoping to make the web app available very soon.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a similar page that generates my life in weeks: https://diary.geekodour.org/ It's a hugo site with the dates linking to hugo posts. I agree with the first comment, this definitely gets depressing at times but guess it is what it is :)
Could you share how do you accomplish this? I would love to make a similar one for my Hugo site. Thanks!
sure, it's a little personal but i just made the repo public, here you go:
- https://github.com/geekodour/diary/blob/main/content-org/wee...
- https://github.com/geekodour/diary/blob/main/layouts/partial...
Basically it's very badly written elisp code that populates the same org file with metadata like week number etc. and then I have a custom hugo layout for writing out the weeks into posts.
All of this is tied together by https://github.com/kaushalmodi/ox-hugo
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a similar page that generates my life in weeks: https://diary.geekodour.org/ It's a hugo site with the dates linking to hugo posts. I agree with the first comment, this definitely gets depressing at times but guess it is what it is :)
Looks great - I love the design.
thanks! :)
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#88Reminds me of this quote from Steve Jobs' famous commencement speech: Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
So let’s use drugs today and gamble everything I have at the casino because I know I am going to die one day and there is nothing to lose ? Sounds rhetorical but not practical
If that's your idea of a good life, then why not?