I'm trying to start making games so I am learning graphics programming at the moment, and some physics. Currently work primarily with automation and embedded so it's quite different.
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#202Hymns. Three new ones a week. Started a gig as accompanist at a local church.
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sick! I’m an embedded software engineer, but I want to grow my PCB design skills as well. Can you suggest some resources on this topic that you’re finding most valuable?
I'm in embedded also, I started this journey at work doing board bring-up. I wrote drivers mostly, not doing any direct electrical work, but after reading the schematics I thought, "oh wow, so that's how they do schematics professionally," followed by "wait, I can do that!" Before that, I just did a few small things with Arduino. The Youtube channel Phil's Lab has a really good series [1] on PCB design focused on STM…
Awesome! I’ll check these out. Thank you and good luck on your journey!
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#204How to communicate with people and get through negotiations and all of those tiny little conversations that happen day to day in our personal and professional lives with more success. Started with Difficult Conversations last year and it was a total game changer. It has been instrumental in my professional and personal life. If I was going to share two key points for anyone it'd be to remember to listen and that you…
If you haven't already, I'd add Nonviolent Communication to that already very good list!
is this the book you'd recommend?
https://www.amazon.com/Nonviolent-Communication-Language-Lif...
a cursory search online already makes this look absolutely awesome! I'm totally adding this to my repertoire
honestly, i work in public education and I feel like these kinds of negotiating and communication skills could easily be a doctoral dissertation
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#206First-time founder here!
I have always worked as a developer and have been building products for the past 6 years. But as a founder, you need to know GTM and growth for your product!
Initially, we used to think that we could outsource, but we were so wrong! :D Hence, now learning it on our own.
Happy to take help and suggestions, or if you are up for the discussion around growth, GTM and marketing.
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#207Programming a 128x128 OLED screen using a microcontroller over an I2C communication.
Low-level programming of any mildly-complicated hardware device using microcontrollers is a PITA.
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#208Drawing/sketching. Apropos of the other HN article on the elder mathematician who credits his success by studying the simple things until he understands them really, really well, I'm practicing drawing boxes in any/every orientation in 3D space. This includes drawing two boxes connected by a common edge - imagine a box with a lid the same size as the box itself, slightly opened. For me this is profoundly difficult to…
You might want to look up “descriptive geometry”. It used to be a required course for mechanical engineering majors.
Wow, I've been perusing books on drawing/sketching and scouring videos and blog posts for years, and none of them mentioned "descriptive geometry". Perhaps they did and I just missed it, but seems unlikely given how much I retread materials.
Thank you!
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#209Docker. It would be helpful for my job in certain situations and I also find it interesting. I also recently started getting back into HTML/CSS.
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#210I'm learning to be contend with what I have and oh God that's impossible.