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439 points david927 | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.419s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
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serial_dev ◴[] No.44420665[source]
I'm finally getting my online presence in order...

This week, I'll set up a Hugo blog with the Ed theme, love it, looks exactly what I'm looking for, and as a former LaTeX enthusiast, it's pretty close. It's readable, minimalist. I'll need to customize the theme, though. I plan to publish blog posts about anything I find interesting.

https://gohugo-theme-ed.netlify.app/

In parallel to this work, I'm setting up a simple system to keep my website + subdomains easy to build, rebuild, and deploy with Caddy on a cheap Scaleway compute server. In the past, I had some ideas I wanted to publish, but the system I went with made managing the sites dreadful.

Once that's ready, I'm back to learning Rust and crypto. It's fun, interesting, challenging, remote-friendly, and the salaries are usually 30-50% better. My current tech stack feels like a dead end: it has a low ceiling in terms of salary, the projects are generally not very interesting (I'm grateful for my current project, it's the best there is with this technology), and I believe the technology will see a slow and steady decline.

Apart from work, I'm building the playground for my 2 yo son, and planting blueberries, he loves them.

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valgor ◴[] No.44422952[source]
Curious what projects you use rust on for crypto?
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1. serial_dev ◴[] No.44424550[source]
I'm still in the "learning Rust and discovering crypto" phase.

As I have a web+mobile background, I'll probably start with some simple mobile or web apps, a wallet, price alerts, seed phrase gen, ens explorer, etc, basically anything that's crypto / defi / blockchain adjacent to understand the field better and ease into it.

Then, I'll also build stuff from the ground up (build your own blockchain, smart contracts, etc) so that I have a deeper understanding of the basics, not just "hand-wavy" ideas like "freedom, sovereignty, decentralized, store of value, trustless, permissionless", etc.

In parallel, I also plan to do non-crypto stuff to practice Rust and to have an escape route to web Rust in case I don't like crypto all that much or can't get a job right away due to lack of Rust + crypto experience..

Then, I hope, as I have a better understanding of the field, I'll have more interesting project ideas, too.

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2. aklemm ◴[] No.44439925[source]
If you find something solid behind the hand-wavy stuff, I’d really love an email with details.