I built the running app I always wanted: https://runcoach.fly.dev

You get tailored running schedules and also some body weight strength workouts and healthy meals all in one!

Alternatively, consider being an idealistic programmer!

  - Fall in love with a single topic, regardless of how trendy.
  - Learn as much as you can about it.
  - Keep learning about it.
  - Learn about it some more.
  - Spend years of your life doing nothing but breathing and thinking about this one topic.
  - Let fads and fashion pass you by.
  - Don't settle for good enough. Try to build the best version possible.
  - Choose where you work based on your ability to reach staggering new heights with this one topic, and disregard whether it seems like an amazing CV line item.
  - Fail to even notice fads and fashions passing you by.
  - Become a master.

Lmao. At least it's typescript and not JavaScript!

Interestingly enough Claude has me reading much more. Especially with math books, one of the greatest challenges to self-study can be making sure you are in fact getting the concepts correct. Without this it's easy to get fairly deep into a book only to give up once you realize you haven't quite built the picture in your head right. Often you do get it, but it takes multiple re-reads/alternate views of the problem.

With Claude as I read I can constantly check my understanding. When my response elicits a "Well, not exactly..." I know I have to go back. This combined with the ability to have Claude clarify formula details from a phone picture has rapidly accelerated my learning and has me reading much more these days.

Claude is also pretty good at subject specific recommendations, especially when you're looking for a specific type of treatment of a subject.

Anything that gets posted to HN when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

Anything that gets posted to HN between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

Anything posted to HN after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Looks like a code block didn't get closed properly, before this phrase:

> the functions `recip` and `recip⁺` and not equivalent

Several paragraphs after this got swallowed by the code block.

Edit: Oh, I didn't realize the article is by the author of the book, Modern C. I've seen it recommended in many places.

> The C23 edition of Modern C is now available for free download from https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02383654