This Year’s Programming Goals

Overall Goals

• Earn my first $5 from a side project (from someone I don’t know)
• Learn low-level networking
• Switch to Linux as my main desktop OS (I’m always on WSL, why not just fully switch at this point)
• Improve online marketing skills to promote software projects effectively / AKA not being afraid of talking only

Mentra:

• Continue my “Product centric” approach to developping software
• Continue creating cool Design which I’m spending way to much time on, oups.

Side Projects in the Pipeline

Merlion.dev

A collection of completed and usable software

1. Link existing project (Watson)

• Migration Done
• Improve Watson | User requests

2. Finishing my Markdown App

• Complete the frontend
• Develop CLI tools in Go
• Design a cool logo

Why am I building this one ? I just want something dumb simple, that work acros multiple computer. And everything is a) to much stuff which I don’t want, b) I hate their UX, c) it’s local only. + I’m having fun building something that I want :)

+ This markdown project serves as a foundation to build a starter template, making it easy to bootstrap new products without heavy third-party dependencies.

Core Features | Starter Template for Rust <> Typescript Stack

• Authentication (Core Completed 2024)
• Stripe payment integration
• Blob storage
• Database storage (Completed 2024)
• VPS deployment (Completed 2024 with Latent.host)
  • Maybe some improvements will be made to have a multi-node VPS
• React WebApp template (Completed 2024)
• Optimized landing page

3. Utilize my own starter template above: Build something over a weekend from idea to ready to sell

• Something as been built in a Weekend with it

A Game

• Multiplayer game (board game concept might be interesting)
• With my own server / Network architecture
• With my own Art Work

I started learning 3D & how game engine work in 2024 and I want to act on it, but I’m still in the process of determining the what and how for this game at the time of writing ?