New Year resolutions

Posted on: 01.01.2024 - @Moskas

Time for a Look Back

The last month of the 2023 could certainly be called a month of polishing. Recently, I've started to be a little more active in some communities, and some people have asked me about my configs and setup. Some of the questions could have been easily solved with more information on my repositories, so I've decided to clean up some things and expand the documentation. I know this should have been done way back when I created all the repositories, but better late than never.

Partially due to that, one of my recent posts about org-mode was created.

New Year Resolutions

I've never set any goals for the new year. To be honest, I still think it's a little useless because most people drop them after less than a month in the new year. But I think it's about time that I think about how I need to progress in my life, both in terms of hobbies and in terms of professional work.

But Why?

Over the recent years, I got a feeling of dissatisfaction in my own doing. I'm not doing everything that I can to make some sort of progress. My current job isn't that demanding yet; after coming home, I tend to waste time rather than doing anything for myself, even without thinking about it.

The Plan

• Hobbies

  I really need to find some time and money to finally build some of the projects that I have in my mind for a couple of years now. Like making a proper home server that I have been delaying for some time, building a custom mechanical keyboard, and getting my hands on a microcomputer like Raspberry Pi to create some sort of dashboard, weather station, or something along these lines. Even for my static website, I've been planning on creating a static site generator to get a good hang of text manipulation and at the same time create a simple deployment system for myself rather than using existing solutions like Hugo.

• Work/Programming

  I need to focus on expanding my knowledge of programming in general. I might be able to write some code; it will work and do what I want, but still, I'm not feeling like I've got to learn anything from it. For instance, I started a couple of projects in Rust in 2023, but 90% of these projects never left the planning or early test phase. I need to stop doing that and focus on building a proper application that won't just work but be a thing that I'll not be ashamed to mention during an interview or in my CV. I have a couple of programming books saved on my ebook reader that I've only started reading and never finished them. It's about time I get myself to read them through and stop piling a "Read later" list of shame.

Ok, So How Am I Going to Achieve That?

To be fair, at the moment, I have no idea. But one thing I know for sure is that I need to start using org-mode in Emacs. I've been using it, but I've kinda neglected taking notes for new stuff that I have learned, so some things keep going in and out of my brain regularly.

I know this blog post will come out as a bit of a chaotic one and pointless for anyone else besides me, but I'll keep it for the future me.