My girlfriend is one of the least technical people I know. Spending time with her makes me almost completely forget about work.
Me too. I think asking couples how they met is a good idea to find out about friendly communities in an unfamiliar city.
Ask HN: What are you doing for your mental health?
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Re: Ask HN: What are you doing for your mental health?
#42Physical exercises, hiking and some other sports I practice. Sport is like magic, clears my mind and helps with anxiety.
Doing legos and playing board games.
Playing around in FL Studio and with my launchpad.
I'll try to get into drawing/painting.
Keep social networks at a minimum and just take a look in a while to see what the few distant friends I have are doing. I don't really want to delete them because they are a good source of news and other stuff you can learn.
Reading/watching everything about technical stuff, documentaries, sci fi books. Worldbuilding on stack exchange is a good source to interact with people interested in sci fi stuff.
These are the things that keep me in a decent mental shape after writing code all day. I also play highly-tiltable multiplayer games so that affects me also. Cryptos and some stocks are also a source of stress. I also tend to avoid spending money on things I don't really need and then regret later, it's a discipline I learned while being a poor kid.
Re: Ask HN: What are you doing for your mental health?
#43I spend some time daily doing exercises from Feeling Good book. Feel much better since I started 20 weeks ago.
Re: Ask HN: What are you doing for your mental health?
#44My girlfriend is one of the least technical people I know. Spending time with her makes me almost completely forget about work.
Same here :-)
Spending time with a teacher (kindergarden teacher, no less!), helping out in the classroom from time to time, gives completely new perspectives.
Re: Ask HN: What are you doing for your mental health?
#45Gave away most of my furniture and electronics, packed the rest in a cheap storage unit and fled London to a pristine and mostly unoccupied south Indian beach, where I spent 5 months worth of mornings going for a swim before sitting down to remote freelance work, at a table overlooking the ocean. It wasn't a perfect move (the working holiday part), but damn it's by far the best winter I've had in a decade. 10/10 woul…
That's amazing!
Re: Ask HN: What are you doing for your mental health?
#46Gave away most of my furniture and electronics, packed the rest in a cheap storage unit and fled London to a pristine and mostly unoccupied south Indian beach, where I spent 5 months worth of mornings going for a swim before sitting down to remote freelance work, at a table overlooking the ocean. It wasn't a perfect move (the working holiday part), but damn it's by far the best winter I've had in a decade. 10/10 woul…
Well this sounds absolutely incredible, congratulations. I'm curious, do you experience any loneliness? Presumably the internet facilitates communication with distant friends and family, but how about meeting people in meatspace?
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#47Mostly trying to relate with people on HN. Hit me up on Keybase if anyone wants to chat (username sillysaurus). Just had an enjoyable one with a longtime member. Keybase feels like the chat program HN never had. Why is it good for mental health? Well, it's easy to get isolated. Sometimes the data you're receiving paints a very different picture to you than it does to someone else. It's probably an unpopular view that…
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Re: Ask HN: What are you doing for your mental health?
#48Doing only enough programming to get by (no more OSS) and spending more time with family and doing more offline things.
Would you mind to share your experience with developing open source software so others can learn? Is it the same one can read elsewhere like unthankful and demanding people or just sheer amount of work, or something totally different?
Yes sure :) For me OSS has always been about scratching my own itch, i.e. Creating a framework or library that I think would make my life easier or would be just awesome if existed. Then release its source so other people with that same itch can benefit and contribute.
My experiences have been mostly positive though not very rewarding because when it comes to OSS people just think of your work as something they're "buying" for free, i can't put it in words but it's like.. so this exists without giving much thought to hours of effort someone has put into it, i.e very few people think about the author because their focus is mainly on the software. It's understandable because I may have done it too.
For me personally i like starting projects a lot and very bad at maintaining them, dread looking at the issues in github. Also for me personally, finding contributers has been difficult so I maintain it for a while then move on to something else. I'm sure like everything a lot of people have a lot of different experiences, mostly depending on the popularity of the project and the people it affects (e.g.systemd type of stuff)
Re: Ask HN: What are you doing for your mental health?
#49Connect to IRCs, chat with folks on random channels Sadly my work blocks all irc servers.
There's an increasing trend of IRC networks having Matrix bridges (inc. Freenode) and Matrix works almost entirely over HTTPS. Perfect for corporate networks and proxies! Helps me to stay sane at work.
Re: Ask HN: What are you doing for your mental health?
#50Quit drinking, get a good nights sleep.