This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.
Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.
If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service
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So I've been alternating between animals, garden, house repair, and my "learn to code just for the fun of watching AI do it better" project.
Finally started using chatgpt to explain concepts to me, and it's miles better than my old "open 50 tabs from a Google search, try to pick through the bullshit stack exchange spam and asinine reddit begging." Things that I used to be unable to do in hours now take me only minutes to fail, which is great progress!
One thing I could use advice on is a decent coding course to explain basic concepts and best practices, before I end up creating some Terry Davis level outsider art.
So far I've just been nodding along to a few "learn JavaScript in 50 days!" type courses, but they're not great for real learning.
In solar project news, I'm finally up to the point where I can run my modem & chest freezers off-grid all year round. It's the best way I could come up with to make the backup system pay for itself.
Any more integration into my regular household usage would take a much bigger investment (off-grid AiO and transfer switch between my main and subpanel, with at least 5kwh of batts and 12kw solar to make it worthwhile). There's a time to call a starter project quits, and this is probably it.
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