Ask HN: What's your plan for 2016 or What tech you are looking forward

4 points by lnk2w 10 years ago | 6 comments

A coworker and I were talking about what we wanted to do, and I thought that was a good topic to discuss.

I'm looking for a job in a bigger city, and I'm really thinking about learn Go or Elixr.

krapp 10 years ago |

I need to find regular work, and justify the CS and graphic design degrees I now have to pay off.

I'm currently working on rebuilding my personal site, hosting my portfolio (currently split between Behance.net and Linkedin) and resume, dusting off various aborted projects and hosting them on my site as resume filler, and trying my best to make a four year gap in employment while I was going to school and only taking short-term and freelance projects not look radioactive.

I'm not planning on learning any new tech, but I need to brush up on my art and writing skills, and actually finish a game project that isn't terrible, so i'm planning on doing the 1 game a month challenge just to prod myself. I might wind up trying and giving up on Clojure again.

sharemywin 10 years ago | |

Pretty sure finishing school is not considered a gap of employment. Also, Could put Self Employed/Finished Degree then list the 4 years and list the projects as bullets underneath. Similar to what I did.

krapp 10 years ago | | |

Yeah, i'm probably unnecessarily paranoid about it but it does still bother me.

Cyberdog 10 years ago |

I had a project idea recently. It's pretty ambitious, but if I can just find the time and drive to complete it, I think it would be profitable. I think my new year's resolution, such as it may be, will be to actually launch the thing. We'll see.

B_Howe 10 years ago |

Starting a new blog. Should I go for free hosting? or buy a domain?

krapp 10 years ago | |

I would say buy a domain. It's not that expensive nowadays, and if you're concerned about SEO, better to have a good domain and not use it than let someone else get to it first.