Here I am building the same side project since 2021. I just can't quit it.
Side projects I've built since 2009
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Re: Side projects I've built since 2009
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On the other hand, the latest research and innovations are often gravely harmful but touted as safe and helpful for a long time by the experts, like lobotomies.
That is reductio ad absurdum. There is neither an appeal to authority nor a risk of social contagion. Additionally all the treatments I have done are completely reversible upon cessation of medication. Is your disdain of expert opinion applicable to all expert opinion or only the opinions that you don’t like?
Not disdain, just skepticism. One too many experts have gravely misled me to damaging effect.
Re: Side projects I've built since 2009
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I’ve been doing my ‘side’ project as my day job for 5 years, 10 productive hours a day, 7 days a week. Sunday is dedicated to side side projects for experimental ideas that are not on the critical path. When working a normal job I could only work part time due to burnout that I later found out was in reality ME/CFS. After a Covid vaccine injury (long covid) I had to pause work for a few years while I found a way to t…
> burnout that I later found out was in reality ME/CFS In my experience, burnout is really just a subconscious realization that what you're doing is just not worth doing , even for large amounts of money, and it manifests itself in fatigue or pain, because your mind is trying to stop you.
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Re: Side projects I've built since 2009
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve been doing my ‘side’ project as my day job for 5 years, 10 productive hours a day, 7 days a week. Sunday is dedicated to side side projects for experimental ideas that are not on the critical path. When working a normal job I could only work part time due to burnout that I later found out was in reality ME/CFS. After a Covid vaccine injury (long covid) I had to pause work for a few years while I found a way to t…
> burnout that I later found out was in reality ME/CFS In my experience, burnout is really just a subconscious realization that what you're doing is just not worth doing , even for large amounts of money, and it manifests itself in fatigue or pain, because your mind is trying to stop you.
I think what you're describing is well encapsulated by a term I heard a few days ago - boreout.
Re: Side projects I've built since 2009
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Preach. Sign me up when you finish this side project, I will list mine there too :)
This is actually quite a good idea. SideProjectCemerary ? You upload your side projects’ data/github/seni-working-prototype, it performs a very quick ritualistic ceremony/blessing and buries it in a little marked grave. Visitors are free to go grave robbing if they wish.
Would be cool to see what kind of side projects remain unfinished.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
> burnout that I later found out was in reality ME/CFS In my experience, burnout is really just a subconscious realization that what you're doing is just not worth doing , even for large amounts of money, and it manifests itself in fatigue or pain, because your mind is trying to stop you.
I think what you're describing is well encapsulated by a term I heard a few days ago - boreout.
I think the difference is that burnout can even be for things you're excited about and want to do, but subconsciously don't want to do for other reasons, e.g. the task/project goes against your ethics but you're pushing past that anyway, so your mind tries to stop you through stopping your body, e.g. fatigue or pain.
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#117Generally curious, why would someone buy a site like Google Cemetery. What is the ROI calculation here?
It's listed under 'sold' but the domain doesn't seem to work right now.
I'd think it's something that gets traction in the media every so often. That can lead to a spikes in traffic that you can potentially monetize. It's a basic site so it wouldn't take much to maintain. So, I guess there's value.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is reductio ad absurdum. There is neither an appeal to authority nor a risk of social contagion. Additionally all the treatments I have done are completely reversible upon cessation of medication. Is your disdain of expert opinion applicable to all expert opinion or only the opinions that you don’t like?
Not disdain, just skepticism. One too many experts have gravely misled me to damaging effect.
The psychosomatic view of ME/CFS was and in many places remains the expert opinion and one that I agree is misleading and damaging. It was pushed by a highly influential team of British psychiatrists. Many countries still prescribe exercise as the official treatment which is horrific, especially when MAID is given as an alternative. I’m understand of skepticism.
My position is that of a subset of the patient community that represent motivated amateurs rather than any sort of official expertise. My background in ML and stats did help in my research and my ability to solely focus on this one condition and rapidly iterate small N unofficial trials over many years led to findings that I contend exceed that of most experts. For example we knew the BC007 trials were going to fail years in advance of when they actually did.
Re: Side projects I've built since 2009
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
> burnout that I later found out was in reality ME/CFS In my experience, burnout is really just a subconscious realization that what you're doing is just not worth doing , even for large amounts of money, and it manifests itself in fatigue or pain, because your mind is trying to stop you.
100% not true in my case and probably not true in the generally case, it’s a common misattribution. The cause of mine is hEDS which has ME/CFS as a comorbidity. I’ve done a WGS and found that I have 2 TNXB SNPs. By my math a lot of ‘burnout’ especially in tech is related to TNXB or CYP21A2 SNPs. The treatments that I take specifically targets IL-1B cytokines that are linked to brain fog. I was able to predict that I…
I'm going through a similar investigation. EDS + ME/CFS are the main suspects. Could live with the symptoms for very long, but they got too severe after covid (otherwise I would probably still be living with them).
Is the treatment working out well for you?
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Thanks! It's hard to know exactly why. What I do know is that I'm surprised week after week with breakthroughs I never dreamed possible and which I think other people will find very useful, and these each renew my excitement.
I don't suppose you're using LLMs for coding? The number of my older friends who've found energy for side-projects since LLM coding became a thing is very notable In the most extreme case: a new father of twins just uses his IDE and home projector to put up the work on the wall and builds little things by voice and reading, as he's home with his daughters. It's pretty eye-opening. Obviously, he won't want to divide h…
This is me. I just put up an LCARS MQTT logger and a clock with touch support, on a Raspberry Pi 2B V1.1 with a 3.5' TFT touchscreen, all of which I bought for that purpose 10 years ago. I took a few stabs at it over the years, but in that time I also married and started a family and ultimately could never find enough time or sustained drive to do it.
Five days ago, I stumbled upon that package again, and in between my work tasks I casually chatted with o3 on how to get that screen to show something. I explored my original idea (driving via SPI interface directly) but that turned out to be a dead-end - and then went back to the framebuffer approach (system overlay handles the screen, I write to /dev/fb0); o3 made me a quick prototype to prove the concept - and then I fired up Aider with gemini-2.5-pro, and got the MVP the same day. I casually iterated on it over the next 4 days, improving performance, functionality, style and adding touch support.
I can tell you, if not for LLMs, that board would continue to gather dust in the drawer for the next decade. Instead, I'm on my way to extending this to realize my other old dream - making it into LCARS A/C control panel to replace the vendor-provided wall-mounted one.
Also, in the past couple months, I explored many other ideas and did a few prototypes, and started feeling again the energy I last had in high school. LLMs are just that good at removing the "blank page syndrome" and making every incremental task just more cost-effective, to the point they start to fit in my otherwise busy adult schedule.