Ask HN: What are you working on in retirement?

24/7 Continual Offerings

I, Terry A. Davis, am High Priest of God's Temple. I maintain the 100,000 core lines of code and I do 24/7 offerings.

     continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the
     8:5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the
     place, for a memorial before the LORD continually.
     Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.
     lambs of the first year day by day continually.
     29:42 This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your
     light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
     before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your
     LORD continually.
     continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting
     to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon: 4:8 And
     without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
     28:6 It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount
     every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink
     be offered, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink
     which is for a continual burnt offering.
     the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and
     28:31 Ye shall offer them beside the continual burnt offering, and his
     continual burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink
     continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
     continual burnt offering, and the meat offering thereof, and their
     one goat for a sin offering; beside the cobtinual burnt offering, and
     kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt
     one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and
     one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his
     one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his
     manner: 29:38 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual
     the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets:
     David's enemy continually.
     Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.
     9:13 So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at
     continually with Absalom.
     also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the
     continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
     an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
     bread continually before him all the days of his life.
     25:30 And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the
     trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.
     16:11 Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.
     Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, as
     the burnt offering continually morning and evening, and to do
     according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the
     continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening,
     continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
     continually.
     offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of
     continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set
     10:33 For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for
     the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for
     hearts. Thus did Job continually.
     34:1 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually
     cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which
     38:17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
     lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
     such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
     42:3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually
     44:15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face
     offerings, to have been continually before me.
     If God endureth continually.

My father is a chemist and retired head of R&D. When he retired a few years ago, he was managing a bunch of people and was never able to play around with chemistry himself. After retiring, he built a small lab in the basement, went back to playing around with formulas, and solved some of the biggest challenges in his industry. I'm helping him license some of the new technology he created, he's never been more excited about work.

I read a bunch of websites daily, including Hacker News. You'd think you could get thought that pretty fast, but it takes me hours, especially if I get sucked into the comments.

I'm interested in free culture and getting more free stuff out there, so I do some stuff on Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons and Project Gutenberg.

Theoretically I could contribute to open source software, but there's no project in particular that motivates me at present.

I'm working on a new language/system that fills a gigantic hole it the IT industry. A truly greenfield opportunity for entrepreneurs. blog.itshouldbeeasier.com

My father's last company started to fall apart a few years ago, and he kind of let go of it and let it die. He is in the early 60s.

It was a rather gradual transition from him working hard every day and an occasional weekend, to not doing much at all.

He did some traveling, then started fixing and renovating the dacha/summer house, reading books, pestering me to explain how this or that internet or tech thing worked, and so on.

On the personal side, he became much more relaxed and less snappy/irritable.

I'm developing a distributed temporal KV store in C. My motivation for developing the TKV is my interest in such questions as 'why' data changes and the effect it has on the 'system' in general. I chose to develop the TKV so that 'time' would be handled consistently regardless of source data model.

Not quite retired yet, but throttling down fast.. So, A couple of open source projects, building a primary glider and working on my surfing techniques..

I've thought about this a lot, since people used to do things like stamp collecting. Today's version, despite the urge to work on something "important," might be editing Wikipedia articles. Which as Wikipedia becomes broader, is pretty important if you ask me.