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

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Post by truly »

jrh206 wrote: post #237
truly wrote: post #193

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Awesome! Thumbs up on the video, it is good [ ]. What software are you using to do the editing/screen recording? [ ] I would personally prefer if it were faster.

Thank you! I'd prefer it to be faster too, I sort of rushed this one out as a POC. The next one will be a tighter. I used Final Cut Pro, but tbh I didn't like it very much. I'm going to try Premiere next. I recorded it in IntelliJ with the built-in mac screen recorder (QuickTime). I used a plugin for the presentation-mode theme, but I've since got a new computer and I can't remember the name of it right now...

I am making do with free video editing (OpenShot, and then moved to ShotCut), but I guess they are not as refined as Premiere.

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Post by 2sk21 »

Aeolun wrote: post #266
2sk21 wrote: post #224

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.

Sorry to hook onto this, but why does everyone want to make a personal knowledge management app? I mean, I recognize the impulse, but I think I’m mostly attracted by being in full control of the code, not lack of features.

This app scratches my own personal itch. I don't expect to make any money from this but if it comes in useful for anyone else, nice :-)

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Post by ifemide06 »

tluyben2 wrote: post #76
leetrout wrote: post #65

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Can you share more about other things you have made and sold?

Most were a while ago (hence the complacent part), but I made a hosting panel (those were popular little over 10 years ago) and sold that (made well over 100k$ in a few months), hosting company hosting millions of sites/apps, a proprietary CMS company, a company that sold games related stuff, a dating site, a PoS system+hardware and a bunch more things. They were all side projects at the time besides the CMS company…

I'm keen if you have any interesting project in mind.

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Post by tluyben2 »

lifeplusplus wrote: post #278
tluyben2 wrote: post #76

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Most were a while ago (hence the complacent part), but I made a hosting panel (those were popular little over 10 years ago) and sold that (made well over 100k$ in a few months), hosting company hosting millions of sites/apps, a proprietary CMS company, a company that sold games related stuff, a dating site, a PoS system+hardware and a bunch more things. They were all side projects at the time besides the CMS company…

How did you know you should build these and who were your customers

Different per project; I sell best b2b and see consumers more as a wildcard/luck. But managed both.

And I knew what to build by talking to businesses or looking around on forums (I am old) what people ask for. Now Twitter and HN and reddit are pretty good to figure out what to create.

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Post by mazokum »

splittingTimes wrote: post #53
mazokum wrote: post #3

Happy New Year! I am in the same line as you, I don't have any "new year promises" but I will try to focus on my health: eating better and training more. This is discussed in a video I think is specially relevant today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE

I will watch you :). Can we request topics?

Oh, the video is not mine, sorry if I mislead you. It is just a video I found some time ago. The channel is quite good in my opinion though.

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Post by Kelamir »

cinntaile wrote: post #231
Kelamir wrote: post #220

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I and my SO have found that identity based habits work out way better. I recommend it

Can you explain what identity based habits are?

I learned about it in a book by James Clear. See his article https://jamesclear.com/identity-based-habits ED: I must add that my comment support's parent's post, for they talked about identity based habits as well.

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Post by RickJWagner »

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…

Count me among the many ex-drinkers here.

I had a sip of champagne about 10 years ago, prior to that my last drink was probably around 2002 or so.

I don't miss it a bit. Stopping drinking is one of the best decisions I've ever made.

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Post by nomadiccoder »

PatentlyDC123 wrote: post #161
revorad wrote: post #132

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Ever since I came across this concept of focusing on habits/systems instead of goals, I've been confused. Surely we need both? Ali Abdaal expressed this well in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rkRC728rIU I wish you all the best in your journey!

I think the concept is focusing on performing/developing the habits/systems required to achieve longer term goals. Kind of like focusing on what you can do today with what you have on hand for a project rather than focusing on finishing the whole project. For example, a goal under these guidelines might be "lose 10 lbs by July." The goal wouldn't be, "go to the gym 3x per week," or "eat X, Y, Z protein, carbs, and fa…

The goal in your example effectively becomes: become a person that is physically fit, dietary conscious. The lose 10lbs is like a side effect.
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