Ask HN: What will you be working on over xmas?

Nothing. I'm just waiting for the singularity and no work is required on my part for it to happen.

I’m excited to start working on the Android version of Umami (https://umami.recipes). Like the iOS version, I’m building it 100% native, this time with Jetpack Compose.

Working on nothing, but currently reading Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan

I will work with my son to build the new lego set he'll be getting tomorrow.

Working on Icychat monetization. https://icy.chat

Going through a Svelte course mainly. And studying Statistics using the Professor Leonard lectures on Youtube. That and binge-watching Billions on Amazon Prime.

Will finally do some introductory videos for gipeties.com

Working on my startup.

https://agilend.net

marketing

sales

tech demos

founder dynamics

Today cleaning and repairing a Yamaha RX7 drum machine…and doing some CEU’s. Tomorrow a Roland MC-303 and more CEU’s I think.

I'm updating/rebuilding my openwrt router at home and i’ll be giving smalltalk another shot. It looks interesting albeit of little practical usage.

Working on new features for my side project which I released 2 months ago, its called summify.io

Try to get Ctrl + Alt to be the "Compose" (Win) key in X, if possible. Just figured out xinit(1) and where the default script runs, so I can source that in ~/.xinitrc. The goal is to get a feedback loop going, so I can make observable changes.

Have the week off while my partner has to work unfortunately. I plan on working through the Rust book and start learning the language.

Also, I’m auditing a linear algebra course for fun so will try and get some of that completed.

Niche chat with PDF app and a couple of niche dating apps.

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I will continue going through a series of articles on computer memory subsystems written by Ulrich Drepper [0]. It's a little outdated (2007), but I'm scavenging for useful bits and pieces to pick up and incorporate into my skill set.

[0]: https://lwn.net/Articles/250967/?rss=1

I’ll be relearning iOS development and getting up to speed with SwiftUI - any suggestions on good resources would be very welcome!

I’ll be collecting and cataloguing a bunch of data and curating question-answer pairs over technical documentation, experimenting with GPT-4 for generating QA pairs. A focus on building datasets to represent multiple experts.

Lots of data curation.

I'm having some fun writing bot for codingame fall community challenge https://www.codingame.com/contests/fall-challenge-2023

I will be working on Firefly: https://www.firefly-lang.org/

The website is just a sketch, but the language is quite complete, and we have a language server with autocompletion and so on. We're mostly working on tooling an frameworks now.

boot.dev to dual purpose learning backend dev and Vim key bindings

Spend time with family after this exhausted year of a phd. Man it's getting so tough with this toxic environment.

I won't be working much, because it's a good time to rest and socialise. I set my vacation responder on.

However I'm cleaning up my home server a bit, mostly to make old code simpler and more legible. It's a relaxing activity.

Moving on to my MacBook Air M1 as my full time personal laptop. And repurposing the iMac 2017 (which with cheap 64GB update) to a Linux desktop and server, the latter primarily for Blender CPU rendering.