This Year’s Programming Goals

Overall Goals

• Switch to Linux as my main desktop OS (I’m always on WSL, why not just fully switch at this point)
• Continue creating cool Design & learning stuff.
• Learn more about networking - WIP
• Improve online marketing skills to promote software projects effectively / AKA not being afraid of talking online
• Earn my first $5 from a side project (from someone I don’t know)

  EDIT: Didn’t happen, I recently joined Unity and my focus change on this :)

I’ll probably diverge from the list above, but that’s my current goal

Side Projects in the Pipeline

Merlion.dev

1. Finishing my Markdown App => TUI version of Obsedian

• Build a TUI tools in Go
• Improve the TUI as I use it
• Design a cool logo and a landing page

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 (I want a TUI), c) it’s local only, and d) I want to use $EDITOR to edit text (nvim). + 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
  • EDIT: Working on this
• React WebApp template (Completed 2024)
• Landing page

The end goal would be to release this App!

End of Year Review:

• Merlion TUI: Very functional for daily usage. I never ended up polishing it enough to release it, but a demo can be found in the Projects tab!
• Switching to Linux: I mostly switched to Linux on my personal laptop and it’s been a blast! As for my desktop, I ssh into a box if I need to do some dev, but I’m keeping it on Windows to play games.
• Learning more networking & Infra: Halfway through the book Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, which I will surely finish in 2026! + I had the opportunity to work with k8s, AWS, and GCP this year, which counts in my book!