It’s frowned upon to brag about yourself. But I feel like it’s good to hype yourself up, even if it is a little bit extreme or out of the ordinary! Post in this thread celebrating yourself and letting others know something you’re really good at! I’ll start…
I’m a really good coach. Strength and conditioning primarily but athletics overall. If an athlete comes to me and they have the mindset of improvement it’s a damn near guarantee that I will increase their athleticism and make them stronger, faster, more powerful, etc. I’ve trained young kids to become dominant high school athletes, high school athletes to get full ride scholarships to D1 universities, D1 athletes to get drafted to the NFL, MLB, and NBA, and I even trained a couple of professional athletes as well! All that said in a REALLY good strength and conditioning coach.
What can you brag about?!
Last week I was told that my dog’s trainer said I was the best client she’s ever worked with. The man that works at the front desk said he randomly asked her one day who the best client she’s worked with was and apparently with zero hesitation she said my name. I’m quite proud of that, because I worked really hard when I had my dog in training to make sure I was doing everything I could to make it, and us, successful. This trainer has worked with thousands of dogs and owners over the years so to have the distinction of being her best client is quite a pleasant surprise. I was determined to turn my crazy excitable COVID puppy into a well behaved dog I could take anywhere, and we succeeded. It was a lot of work, but worth it, and I’m proud of both the results, and the fact that apparently our trainer was impressed too. ☺️
- I make a great vegan ice cream that is loved by many non-vegans.
- I beat depression and anxiety.
- I have a fun job that pays well and I’m good at it.
I made a CRT scanline filter for my website using just CSS. I’m a new grad and I never did any modern webdev stuff in college, so I had to teach myself. I came up with it myself, no AI and no tutorials. I’m sure other people have done it as well, but I really like it and I’m proud of how much I’ve taught myself.
My mother in law said I’m a really good dad. Like not even on father’s day, just like randomly once.
I bet that felt amazing. Good on you, high five! 🖐️
I’m always a little surprised when I look into the population MMR distribution for games I play a lot. I’m often in like the top 5% or better in the kind of games I play a lot. But… I suck at them. I don’t feel like I know what I’m doing and when I look at streamers who are actually good at the game, it’s not like they’re just a more refined version of me, it’s like they’re playing a different game.
So I like to describe myself as being “the top of the trash heap.”
I think that is actually a thing/ the whole high- achieving / highly-skilled people feeling like they aren’t capable or don’t know nearly as much as they do. I’ve seen a lot of joking memes about it, the way that beginners are super self conscious and hesitant because they feel like they know nothing, average level people feel super confident because they have learned so much from the time they knew nothing and now feel empowered, and people who are highly skilled and experienced feel as though they don’t know anything simply because they have enough of a grasp of what it is that they are doing to fully understand the breadth of things they do not understand and cannot (yet) do well.
I think your statement pretty well puts you in the latter group. Congratulations on your high percentile! I wish you much happy gaming and satisfaction. :)
I’m incredibly humble.
I’m a million times as humble as thou art
The humblest!
The horrors persist, but so do I.
solidarity.
I wanted to learn hardware design by designing a basic risc-v processor, ben eater style, kind of like a 1970s minicomputer, with expansion slots for new isa extensions and CSRs. But obviously using real breadboards for experimentation would be too slow when designing a 32 bit processor. I had never touched an hdl before.
So I sat down and started writing my own simulator and netlist generation dsl from scratch. It only works at the gate level, no behavioral synthesis, but flexible enough to write components modelling, for example, 74 series chips. It does vhdl-like delta cycle simulation using 8-valued logic, but without vhdl’s signal forwarding footgun.
I then implemented an rv32i processor with full m-mode support, and a risc-v emulator in rom to trap and silently emulate any missing extension instructions. When a new expansion board is plugged in, those instructions are simply not trapped and are accelerated in hardware.
I then learned just enough systemverilog to faithfully transliterate the generated netlist into structural verilog, and it actually synthesized and worked perfectly on an fpga.
I am now in the process of very slowly designing boards to hopefully one day manage to build the whole thing out of discrete 74hc series logic
you want to know something? I have absolutely no idea what most of that means. That means you not only have acquired some super specialized knowledge and vocabulary, but you have also done it well enough and have a firm enough grasp of it that you can create whatever it is that you did! It sounds super intense and like it took a lot of time and effort. Go you! That is definitely something to be proud of.
My body is a machine that turns Vietnamese supermarkets into Mexican food for my lovely wife. I do not feel pain, or remorse, or pity, & I cannot be stopped unless I am killed.
heck yeah. scavenger hunt gastronomic alchemy!
I’ve gotten better at teaching roller (and inline) skating. Yesterday I passed a certification as a “Level 2” instructor.
My actual skill level is kinda intermediate. At the skate school where I teach, many of the other instructors can skate circles around me, but I’m doing ok for someone who never touched skates until my 30s and is otherwise a very unathletic overweight computer geek.
that is awesome!! what brought you to skating in your 30s?
i worked as a carhop (think waiter on skates) at a sonic drive-in in my late teens, but I do t I have any of that skill set anymore, haha. At my weight I would legitimately be afraid of either breaking the skates or my bones if I fell. I do really miss the ease of movement when we went to Sparkles (a skating rink) and they had the lights dimmed and music playing. Such a fun time.
My inspiration was a girl, her profile on the dating site said she liked skating, so I suggested that as our first date. She was already an instructor, and was very patient with me. We’re married now.
that is incredibly romantic. i would watch that movie for sure.
congratulations! i hope that life brings you much future joy. :)
When I do have the energy, I’m a pretty good cook. Also I’m managing to grow things outside. Not like. Well. But they went from seeds to fruit which is the only thing I really wanted.
These are some of my things, too. There’s something special about a meal you cooked with ingredients you grew.
Keep doing what you doing 🌱
I was so happy last year when I grew juuuuust enough tomatoes to can some salsa! Happy!
I am a really good earthmover, heavy equipment operator. My machine of choice that I run daily is a motorgrader.
Other equipment I am very skilled with; bulldozers, scrapers, and loaders. Fair on excavators. Skid steers and loader backhoes I am average.that sounds so cool! what is your favorite project you have worked on?
I can speak in a British accent!
(Happy Birthday Mel Brooks!)
My neurodivergence means that not only can I process a huge amount of things at once, but I can also process through large tasks quickly.
This means I am an absolute maniac when it comes documentation, large scale changes, and complex thoughts.
In one research assignment, I managed to visualize a 12+ dimensional object/map, in its entirety. I felt amazing and understood the datasets complexities all at once.
The moment I am done with my current job, I am fucking off to be a professor.
I have nothing to brag about.
Omg me too! Small world!
