Ask HN: What are you reading/learning/working on over the holiday break?

This time of the year many people take time off to spend time with family and have extra free time to work on their own stuff (Python was famously created as a Christmas break project), so I’m curious how you’ll be using this extra time?

I’m planning to spend time some time making progress on all the writing that I need to finish…

9 points | by Anon84 13 hours ago

9 comments

  • zahlman 5 hours ago
    I'm forcing myself to get back into blogging and coding regularly, doing at least something every day (https://zahlman.github.io/meta/2024/12/20/todo-finish-todo-l...). (There will probably be family here for Christmas; I'll probably just publish something I wrote ahead of time.)

    >Python was famously created as a Christmas break project

    I actually haven't heard this story before.

  • lizzas 1 hour ago
    Got a 3d printer so want to do some tailor made functional prints.
  • wannabebarista 10 hours ago
    A friend and I are starting to work through Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms.
  • JaggerJo 11 hours ago
    This is one of the first holidays where I don't feel an urge to program. Feels strange. Guess I'm getting older?

    Reading: The Snows of Kilimanjaro

    Project: Logic Gate Editor + Simulator (but I can't really bring myself to work on it much)

    Frohe Weihnachten!

  • markus_zhang 11 hours ago
    Just completed a LC-3 interpreter emulator and tried to wrap my head around dynamic recompilation into x64 code. Still couldn't figure out how to deal with indirect jump as it can potentially jump to every memory address so maybe I'll just map every target instruction to a block of translated code.
  • rukshn 13 hours ago
    Reading: Before the coffee gets cold book series

    Learning: GoLang

    Working on: Making HiCafe.co more stable and building an image generator

    Happy holidays

  • purple-leafy 4 hours ago
    Reading: A Feast for Crows

    Learning: NandToTetris

    Working on: Kagi chrome extension

  • kratom_sandwich 12 hours ago
    Reading: Fuzzy Logic by Bart Kosko

    Learning: Professional Scrum Master

    Working on: my shitty consulting job

    Happy holidays!