goals-2025

Just a checklist of things I hopefully would like to get out in 2025

• Deploy an app on Fly.io using Go. Create a repo that shows the start to finish
• Create a Function within Digital Ocean using Go. Create a repo that shows the start to finish
  • Credit card didn't go through 😅
• Create a Function within GCP using Go. Create a repo that shows the start to finish Available here
• Creating 5 Tech videos, purely for fun
  • Using TUI's and some APIs
• Read 12 books (tech related). Will update this README with the books I've read
  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems (Feb 21, 2025)
  • The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change (Jan 1, 2025)
  • PostgreSQL Query Optimization: The Ultimate Guide to Building Efficient Queries (Jul 1, 2025)
  • The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups (Mar 29, 2025)
  • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures (Jun 17, 2025)
  • Writing an Interpreter in Go (start: Jun 18, 2025) (end: Sep 5, 2025) (https://github.com/prithvijj/learning-interpreter-go)
  • The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Richard Hamming (start: Oct 26, 2025) (end: Jan 14, 2026)
  • Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance: Atul Gawande (start: Dec 18, 2025) (end: Dec 25, 2025)
  • Software Engineering at Google (start: TODO) (end: TODO)
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• Creating 10 different usages of Redis + Go to learn about it, that uses Docker, available in a single repo Available here
• Create example of protobuf in Go Available Here
• TODO

Summary

Was able to read a bit more books, and track it here, Would love to continuing reading more books for 2026 and figure out where to go, I'd like to experiment with using KDE + Pop OS, and continue with Go but yeah hopefully 2026 goes well.