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Joe

  • working on flutter unexpectedly. skeptical but making progress on complicated things. skeptical but impressed.
    • react native with seamless support.
    • wishes it was more like react with jsx, etc
  • wants to build a leightner box in app form
    • systematized way to learn better than rote memorization
    • traditionally uses a shoebox with index cards and the app will replace that
  • become an expert in rust rather than having a vague idea
    • understanding the syntax, rules, etc rather than always having to always look it up
  • no api, so very self contained. would be nice to have something on app store
  • house stuff/cleaning needs to be done

goals: truly start working on flutter app as leightner box

Shaan

  • learning react for blockchain meme token trading app: JS is strange & abstracted via libraries
    • in C its very direct, JS is much more abstract
    • should learn the deep abstract level or work fast and break stuff?
  • solidity is the backend, used for all smart contract apps
    • created by contracts that can be inherited by other contracts
  • need to learn IPFS (p2p file storage)
    • used to distribute across blockchain
  • learning/working on circuit sculptures in the vein of https://www.bhoite.com/sculptures/
    • doing it for meowolf in the shape of a wolf
    • allowed to realize the art of soldering through this exercise

goals: wolf circuit sketched out in a rough form in copper wiring, work with JS MDN & react tutorial

Nate

  • doing rudimentary android stuff
    • react native is fine but only really for business goals
    • learning the finer tuned things with android , especially in the context of how to improve fiscal note
  • working on talk for local meetup
    • brushing it up and improving it in ways to get ready for next tuesday
  • side project needing hard math
    • want to understand apollo caching better

goals: apollo cache understanding, finish wunderlich videos on recycler views

Ben

  • Conservation International carbon calculator project was good and bad
    • buildout was not fun
    • calculator functionality was very fun
  • want to angle myself for something I find interesting for the next few years
    • intending to learn rails or php in more of an application based way

goals: decide on php or rails and request PD time to learn it

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