Ask HN: Can you give me something interesting or useful to work on?

[raoof]

hi

I'm desperate to do something interesting or useful

it shouldn't be too easy because you can google it

it shouldn't take too long because I easily get bored

if I need to

I can read any documentation or paper

I can debug or program in any programming language

I can learn inkscape or krita or blender or godot or Unity

any idea is welcome

thanks

[Tombar]

I recently started learning threejs through Bruno Simon excellent online course and had a great time, the course is great, easy to follow, and well structured and at least for me the immediate feedback loop of writing a few lines of JS and seeing something happen in the screen is very rewarding and a change from what I do for a living

I also recommended it to a friend in a similar situation to yours and he liked it too

For context, my background is around system administration, and had spent the last years writing k8s YAML for a living :P

Just in case, I'm not affiliated with Bruno in any way, just a happy student!

[raoof]

thank you for the recommendation

[riskpeep]

Depends on your definition of interesting. Is this 'interesting' as in intellectually stimulating and maybe even makes me a better person? Or as in 'interesting' because it solves a useful problem for the world but maybe a bit boring to actually work on?

[raoof]

interesting in any sense

[carlos_rpn]

A co-op flight sim for short sessions like Ace Combat Infinity. Even if you get bored halfway, playing with game engines are fun and interesting (at least I think so).

[raoof]

that would get way too much time to reach an acceptable state for one person and creating your own game engine is much better

[matt321]

Build a rock paper scissors lizard spock ML recognition with a RPi4 w/camera

[raoof]

thanks for the idea but not that interesting beside I don't have access to RPi