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Why are you proud of yourself tonight? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What have you done recently that makes you stand back and proudly say, "I did that shit"?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm frankly in a phase of life where I am seeing with ever fresh clarity all the mistakes I've made that have led me to the rather solitary life I lead. And many days I'm just keeping my interactions with others to a minimum so that I don't create any opportunities to feel shit about my interpersonal skills. But, and so, nonetheless, I manage to find self-pride in very little things.

Like how this week I learned all these keyboard shortcuts to make my editing of a text document faster. Or today, some kid was lingering by the basketball court awkwardly — like heartbreakingly awkward in his own skin. I asked him if he wanted to shoot a few before I headed home and made him a deal that I wasn't allowed to go home 'til he shot a 3-pointer. I let him have as many tries as he needed until he get one.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Hey, I just want to suggest that you treat your past self as kindly as you treated the awkward kid. We all fuck up on things, it’s okay.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Planted a small orange tree in the yard. Dug a big hole. Mixed topsoil and citrus fertilizer. Expect to see first fruit in 3-4 years.

Mother's Day gift for my wife.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Love that! I hope it stays healthy and you get a fruit for many years.

[–] darkdemize 19 points 1 week ago

I reunited my wife with her semi-estranged son on Mother's Day. Feeling pretty damn great about how today turned out.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My partner and I managed to go through immigration to move to another country. We landed yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I'm in that track too! Soon, so very soon.

It's quite the logistics effort unless you can afford lots of help.

We're just doing it by hand, so it's crazy most days, but we're getting there.

[–] neidu3 2 points 1 week ago

From and to which countries, if you don't mind me asking?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I did well training and sparring visiting a martial arts club in the next town. I'm preparing for a tournament next Sunday, my first one.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

i know i'm breaking the rules, but i'm really proud of the dude that just got some certifications.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Recently became sous chef at the kitchen I work in. Constantly felt like I wasn't good enough and so I've been putting more responsibility on myself to make sure things are done correctly.

Yesterday I coordinated our mother's day buffet and it went perfectly. No hiccups, no running out of items. Even got acknowledged by my chef for doing such a good job. Felt pretty great.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Tonight", man it's 7:46am /s

Either way on the proccess of moving all my vps's and local homeserver all to nixos, just for the fact I can easilly update them all from one flake ( nixos system config ) from one single system without ever directly touching thise system.

Also almost finished the whole "The witcher the last wish" book, need to buy the next one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like an ansible job, or a Guix Deploy scenario. No idea what president Nixon has to do with orchestration

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

In this video you have a nice part where wolfgang expains the diff between ansible and nixos, would recommend a watch.

https://youtu.be/f-x5cB6qCzA

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I handed in the proposal for my graduation project last night.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice. Good luck! What's the project?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks!
There's a research side and a programming side to the project.
I'm gonna research how to implement an automated feedback tool for homework assignments on my school without loss of quality (didactic literature research) and ask students how they feel about faster, but (semi) AI generated feedback (interviews). I'm not particularly excited about this part of the assignment tbh.
The other part is actually implementing it, wich is gonna get a github, teams and ai integration and a release on kubernetes. Those are all gonna be very fun challenges to figure out and I'm looking forward to that. But first I have to do the formalities.

[–] zzffyfajzkzhnsweqm 9 points 1 week ago

I am! I cooked two awesome meals and helped my wife finally migrate to linux.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Despite being suicidally depressed and having a fucked up sleep schedule I'm pretty good on track with my thesis. Have carefully read about 60 papers in the last three weeks and achieved important milestones on time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I put on my pants frontwards today!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Aye, thats something to be proud of because I have definitely left the house with my pants on backwards before LOL

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I may or may not have done the same thing once or twice before.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Ima try again tomorrow.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Closing on my first home this week.
In the USA. In this uncertain economy.

I don't know what the future holds.
I'm terrified, excited and anxious.

... Might need a new Lemmy handle.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Voluntarily left my cushy job in marketing (SEO manager) after ten years and was substitute teaching in the meantime. Discovered I loved it (always kicked around being a teacher) and love the positive connections made with the kids.

I’m starting my MEd (Masters of Education program) May 19 to be an elementary school teacher. Not that it matters, but I’m a 40+ father of an elementary school kid myself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's never too late to start doing something you love. Even if it means to entirely switch careers. You can be proud of yourself for pursuing this, even if it means leaving a comfort zone. :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thank you! I’m very excited about it. I know it’s going to be tough because behavior management is a booger and parents can be…interesting, but if I can connect and make sure a kid is set up to succeed then I am very happy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I woke up, did not have a meltdown and did not yell at anyone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I am mentally torturing my friends on minecraft with crafting tables. I have made christ the redeemer out of crafting tables. I have filled our base with crafting tables. I have built hundreds of crosses out of crafting tables. I am gods hand and he is telling me to craft.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I got that 'just one more level' in my game but have sacrificed sleep I need for work in the morning. Huzzah!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I made a house, crafted the bedrooms with the latest decors, put solar panel decorations on the roof and moved in a goth family. It was pretty heartwarming to see it all happen really, though I did delete their toilets shortly before saving.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Been smashing lots of gamedev on a project. Applied for a grant for it too.

Great to see it all coming together.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cool! What's the project?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I was looking for mobile games to play that weren't.. you know mobile games. Something single player with things you could plan and execute on but with an immediacy.

I've not really spoken about it to anyone before so my elevator pitch is rough. Essentially a top down 2d-ish twin stick shooter where you're going into a post zombie apocalypse situation and extracting with items to build up a safe community. Rescuing survivors, mild RPG elements, mild city builder. Permadeath potential too Aiming for high customisability.

It's a lot of systems working together, still rough around the edges (and non existent in other parts). Self funded ATM while I'm out of a job but managed to get stinking ill for a while, bogging me down.

Apparently play store has an early access equivalent for getting feedback so looks like I might try to get a MVP ready and try that out.

Thanks for asking 😀

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Last night I completed one homework assignment. Procrastinated throughout the day but in that 2 or 3 hours of hard focussing and minimal breaks I grinded it out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yesterday was Mother's Day in the US, and I'm fairly certain I made a few ladies moms over the years.