Been primarily on the backend. Last couple of years have been working with Go. Before that, a lot of Python, PHP, Node etc. Laravel, flask, gin, express. The whole nine yards.
I resonate a lot with this but I think it's against my will that I feel lost. I've started little projects like 48hr.dev to try to help me just build more and to collaborate with people in the same spot. I have friends building these incredible saas apps or stuff to help in scientific research, or just really cool side projects but I struggle to find ideas that are valuable to people. I don't lack motivation or interest I just lack the luck or either skills to find (and have faith in) solid ideas.
I share the frustration that we haven't discovered anything yet and honestly I didn't even think of the title being like that until you said anything. I just like the project. The more you dive into this the less shocking it is we haven't found anything and the more faith I have that we will find something, one day.
There are so many technical challenges to face with this and one of the major ones is with the software that scans the absolutely huge amounts of data. The data is available publicly so with a bit of study, the average engineer with understanding of radio waves and what not could get up to speed enough to potentially do some good.
Whether or not radio waves are even the best route to go is up for debate. There's a lot of interference and the longer they travel the weaker they are...There's some interesting techniques being used but like I said, the more I learn about how we're approaching this, the less faith I have in the project, which actually is a good thing. It means we're not doing "all that we can do" and when their 10 years is up and they haven't discovered anything, we don't have to lose hope that we aren't alone.
Perhaps it is. Never looked at it that way. I'd love to build my family a chair but will they accept the gift knowing that because I chose wood as my canvas, it will likely be 10k+ microns off on each leg?
