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Off the top of my head:

— Learn Rust. I'm halfway through the Rustlings exercises and I'll continue with more challenges. Advice is welcome. I might also ask LLMs to pose as teachers and create exercises for me and check them.

- Cooking. This has been something I neglected all my life and I really want to get better at it. It's so fundamental to quality of life.

- Persian language. Studied it for six months, I can read and write the script and I understand basic sentences, but I want to get better at it. If there are any Persian folks reading this, ping me. It's a beautiful language and culture.

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> Advice is welcome.

Here's some advice I've given about learning Rust in the past. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38020654

There are also project-based resources beyond Rustlings like Entirely Too Many Linked Lists[1] you might check out. I've found Gjengset's videos[2] great for intermediate content, and they include both project and lecture formats.

Best of luck!

[1] https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/@jonhoo

    > Cooking

For me, what sparked my interest in cooking was two things: (1) getting older (in youth, food was simply fuel, not so much to be enjoyed), (2) wanting to replicate favourites dishes from restaurants (my first first was channa masala). You can learn a lot from middle-aged house wives that have a YouTube cooking channel that show you how to cook classic dishes from various cultures. One thing that has been incredibly liberating is making small tweaks to recipes that will trigger a cultural native to immediately declare: "Oh, that's not authentic." To that I say: "Who cares, it is my food, and I will enjoy it!"

> Persian language

Hey! Iranian here. It’s pretty rare to run into someone learning Persian, so this made me smile. Wishing you the best with it.

Mersi khubam!

I really like Rustfully on YouTube. Every video is under 10 minutes long and he goes over one concept and where it would be used in practice. Great for reinforcement learning.

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