Ask HN: Can you give me something interesting or useful to work on?

1 pointsby raoof4 yıl önce8 comments

hi

I'm desperate to do something interesting or useful

it shouldn't be too easy because you can google it

it shouldn't take too long because I easily get bored

if I need to

I can read any documentation or paper

I can debug or program in any programming language

I can learn inkscape or krita or blender or godot or Unity

any idea is welcome

thanks

8 comments

Tombar4 yıl önce

I recently started learning threejs through Bruno Simon excellent online course and had a great time, the course is great, easy to follow, and well structured and at least for me the immediate feedback loop of writing a few lines of JS and seeing something happen in the screen is very rewarding and a change from what I do for a living

I also recommended it to a friend in a similar situation to yours and he liked it too

For context, my background is around system administration, and had spent the last years writing k8s YAML for a living :P

Just in case, I'm not affiliated with Bruno in any way, just a happy student!

raoof4 yıl önce

thank you for the recommendation

riskpeep4 yıl önce

Depends on your definition of interesting. Is this 'interesting' as in intellectually stimulating and maybe even makes me a better person? Or as in 'interesting' because it solves a useful problem for the world but maybe a bit boring to actually work on?

raoof4 yıl önce

interesting in any sense

carlos_rpn4 yıl önce

A co-op flight sim for short sessions like Ace Combat Infinity. Even if you get bored halfway, playing with game engines are fun and interesting (at least I think so).

raoof4 yıl önce

that would get way too much time to reach an acceptable state for one person and creating your own game engine is much better

matt3214 yıl önce

Build a rock paper scissors lizard spock ML recognition with a RPi4 w/camera

raoof4 yıl önce

thanks for the idea but not that interesting beside I don't have access to RPi