HACKER Q&A
📣 breck

What major technical feat are you going to take a shot at this break?


Linus wrote Git v1 over Christmas break in 2005. What major technical challenge are you going to take a shot at during this year's holiday break?


  👤 yesenadam Accepted Answer ✓
"Don't talk about what you will do, talk about what you have done"

http://www.breckyunits.com/dont-talk-about-what-you-will-do-...

edit: p.s. hopefully more constructively:

> Read my papers or see my languages

You don't seem to make it that easy for people to do this! Is there a single page with links to these and a short description of what they are? I couldn't find one.

I checked out the tree language designer page, seems pretty cool, a fast way to make a DSL. Not quite enough documentation yet to start using it myself. Your paper on it didn't help me understand it at all. Seems like the docs and page were never quite finished? A shame, it's a nice idea.

I can't really see how it's particularly a tree or "programming is now 2D" etc though. I was expecting something weird/unique in a way I wouldn't have if it was just called "Fast DSL Builder" or something. (Although I once spent months writing a graphics DSL with a similar no-boilerplate spirit, maybe it doesn't seem unusual to me because of that.)

https://jtree.treenotation.org/designer/


👤 codazoda
I'm building a whole bunch of stuff and I'm doing it in public. I've committed myself to doing "one day build" style YouTube video's starting at the end of the break and going for at least 3 months (12 episodes). They should be pretty terrible to start.

I'm doing this because I think I have a unique style that I could share and because putting myself on a schedule encourages me to build something every single week and to keep track of it. My stickiest ideas seem to come from setting out a plan and doing regular work.

I don't imagine a lot of people will watch, which is okay with me.

https://www.youtube.com/codazoda


👤 giviv
Nothing, I'm going to relax. I get enough major technical challenges in my employment. It'll be nice to give my mind a rest for a couple of weeks.

👤 jstx1
How many "feats" at the level of writing Git have you achieved in previous holiday breaks?