Hacker News: changexd

New comment by changexd in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

changexd — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 06:24:48 +0000

I guess I'm somewhat worried about not being able to get back to tech again, but I just realized I can still do open source contribution if I want to when doing WH.

I'm in a weird state that I have an okay amount of saving for me to do this, but I'm still worried because I had been through having almost zero money and two years of unemployment, I'm scared to get back to that again.

In the end, I know I have to let this thing go or I'll never become happy even if I'm making tons of money, gotta enjoy life sometimes, thanks for the words!

Best of luck in our journeys too!

New comment by changexd in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

changexd — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 06:17:44 +0000

I'm 27 and have a bit of saving, I just checked wwoof and it seems pretty cool, I couldn't make up my mind which city I should go and WWOOFing gives me a general idea of the work demands, I'll hit you up sometimes, thank you for the sharing!

New comment by changexd in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

changexd — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 06:15:48 +0000

thanks for the story, one of the reasons I want to do this is to let go of control and to believe in myself so I can face unpredictable future, I will never know if future will get better or not, but I'll definitely be mentally stronger when I do this, cheers!

New comment by changexd in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

changexd — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 02:16:05 +0000

My pursuit of happiness, I'm in fear of quitting my current job and go for a working holiday to Australia, I'm excited while still trying to overcome the fear of not having a stable and well paying job because I don't find any joy in this job no more , so I am working on mentally getting out of this, I want to truly let go "money is more important than my happiness" idea.

New comment by changexd in "Show HN: I created a language called AntiLang – breaking all the conventions"

changexd — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 03:53:47 +0000

a very good language this seems to me like

New comment by changexd in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

changexd — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 02:34:42 +0000

Social skills and mental health!, I've been working pretty hard on learning how to make friends, showing my admiration to girls and become generally an outgoing and honest person, I used to be somewhat afraid of talking to strangers because I was quite worried that people might hurt me, and now I'm feeling more comfortable having conversation with new friends with less trust issues, though I pushed myself a bit too hard to recently I got plenty of panic attacks, I know it's a phase, so I'll keep working on it!

New comment by changexd in "Show HN: I made my own OS from scratch because I was bored"

changexd — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 02:16:17 +0000

Great work! I'm usually bored too, sometimes I find something to study or try to implement known tech, but only give up when I feel like it's too hard for me or it's too much work haha, this motivates me a bit.

New comment by changexd in "Duolicious – Open-source dating app"

changexd — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 02:58:27 +0000

People usually do this for validation or just the fact is the opposite, often times these kind of people couldn't get partners just because they have this "I'm top __% guy so my partner should be ___" mentality and keeps complaining.

New comment by changexd in "Merry Christmas Everyone"

changexd — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 03:54:42 +0000

Merry Christmas homies! We don't really celebrate Christmas in my country but I would still like to wish you all a great holiday! much love <3

New comment by changexd in "Why making friends as an adult is harder"

changexd — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 02:51:26 +0000

I used to be like this! then I figured out the reason what makes making new friends hard, I became more relaxed hanging out and reaching out to new friends, now I can enjoy both new and old friends' accompany, tho I'm still working on making myself more comfortable making friends.

New comment by changexd in "The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2006)"

changexd — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 09:57:26 +0000

glicol is super super cool, thanks for sharing!

New comment by changexd in "Defensive Communication (1961)"

changexd — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 03:17:11 +0000

I used to be defensive a lot, that's when I realized one of the main reason was due to low self-esteem and lack of self acceptance, many times people weren't trying to devalue me or offend me but because of I couldn't really accept myself, I usually thought they were attacking me instead of actually engage in the conversation to see if they really meant to judge me.

After therapy, lots of reading and learning to accept myself, now I feel better and more efficient communicating, sometimes I don't even notice people are judging me or making fun of me, because now I seek very little validation from people, this makes me focus on the issue and supporting kind people around me.

it's still a work in progress, but this new perspective of the world brings me more freedom and happiness.

this is a very good read, and I did found some of the mistakes I sometimes make in communication, this is one of the post that'll make me want to reread in the future.

New comment by changexd in "Ask HN: How to Learn 'To Think'?"

changexd — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 06:06:11 +0000

I think this post is your first step, so kudos to this!, I think philosophy books help, you can read some basic philosophy, pause and write down what you think, instead of internal voice, you can make texts as a bridge between your thoughts and yourself.

New comment by changexd in "Ask HN: How to Learn 'To Think'?"

changexd — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 06:03:47 +0000

Have you been checked for ADHD? I think this is a common problem for people who has ADHD, I got diagnosed in college, that's when I realized normal people don't have that much thoughts usually.

New comment by changexd in "Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab"

changexd — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 03:22:10 +0000

Very interesting and fun read! thanks for the post, when I saw the public restful api endpoint I immediately tried to see if I can make request just to see the "NICE TRY!" message, haha, then I kept on reading how you managed this issue.

New comment by changexd in "Ask HN: I have 24 core server with 1TB of DDR4 RAM, what should I run?"

changexd — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 07:57:59 +0000

I know that my colleague runs proxmox on this, you can do many things with it, my company is currently running proxmox and set up many vms as kubernetes nodes, I always appreciate people who set up their own lab, that colleague of mine somehow has enterprise grade storage server, nics... and many more inside his house just to have fun

New comment by changexd in "Factorio – Visualizing construction material dependencies"

changexd — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 07:43:12 +0000

I really want to try factorio, but now I usually see games as non-productive activity (that's my problem and I know it, in my defense, I've already spent way too much time gaming in college and did nothing), I wonder if factorio can make my software skill better in terms of designing and critical thinking, if that's the case, I would love to have fun and practice as well

New comment by changexd in "Escaping the Chrome Sandbox Through DevTools"

changexd — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 03:32:57 +0000

Thanks for the writeup, very interesting and detailed! and the effort of digging through the browser code to find all this is fantastic!

New comment by changexd in "Show HN: Pumpkin – A Modern Minecraft server written in Rust"

changexd — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 02:00:43 +0000

It always fascinates me how people can do this!! Would there be any write ups about how this was made, I'd really appreciate this.

New comment by changexd in "Bop Spotter"

changexd — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 02:04:38 +0000

I feel this so bad, I used to make little software that solves my problem, now whenever I want to build anything I think about "is it going to be useful for my resume?" instead of fun things and I always quit because it then put lots of pressure on me for building "useful but not fun" projects.