Looking back on what went well and what could be improved next year.
2021 Review
Accomplishments from 2021 Goals:
- Installed GrapheneOS
- intentional social time with family & friends
- applied to gigs
- learned a lot about Flask, Vue, SQLite, APIs, SPAs
- Not blaming others
- Improved human networking
- focus and reading time improved
Additional accomplishments:
- Proposed and I am engaged for a wedding planned later in 2022
- gave a talk at a Meetup
- started a YouTube channel
2022 Goals
Improve every day. Practice programming in the early morning after a physical workout.
Health: no sugar for 6 months, no alcohol for at least 2 months, 5×5 exercise, more basketball
Personal Improvement:Â less computer on weekends, go hiking, possible Nintendo Switch
Budget: save for wedding, save for house, no emotions to spending, sell some stuff, cut spending where possible
Productivity:Â intentional time slots, less distractions
Project:Â static site moving away from WP, finish offline web app project, Ansible or bash a desktop set up, meal prep app, My personal Ubuntu Install Guide
Blog posts:Â Terraform for static site and ECS set ups, deleting Google (how and why)
Videos: Why Linux How Linux Mobile OS, detailed install on GrapheneOS, whoiam, Flask VueJS, Time Management/Mental Health, Static site set up on AWS, How I Ran a Podcast with Freedom
Learn: Kubernetes, “HashiStack”, continued advanced Python and JavaScript, Blockchain deep dive, create a Wallet and Token,   maybe Golang, C, CPython
Explore: The Session Extension from SQLite, Fly.io, Litestream, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OpenZFS, Linux From Scratch, RISC-V, “DevSecOps”
Discover: a new non-computer hobby
Career: improve Monitoring/Observability, multi-account management, Governance, Compliance, self-service infrastructure, contribute to one open-source project
Courses: Kubernetes, CS615 System Administration (Jan Schaumann – Stevens Institute of Technology), Computer Networks (University of Washington), Ansible (tutorialinux), Hacker 101, Offline Web Applications (Udacity), C Programming (edX), MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems, CS50’s Web Programming with Python and JavaScript (edX), Python Scripting for System Administrators (A Cloud Guru), Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (Udemy), eBPF
Books: Immune, System Performance, SRE book, SRE Workbook