Collection of random brainwaves written down in haste and without any effort. Mostly about linux, *bsd or programming.
I noticed that I wrote a post little over a year ago declaring how I should become more productive. Since then, little has been produced.
So I wanted to quickly write down some ideas and some goals for 2025.
I will spend at least 30 minutes every single day coding. If I have no clear project to work on then I shall have a list of small applications to write. Could be as simple as writing a new static site generator, or a calculator, just for the sake of coding something. The importance is the code writing itself, not what is actually being created.
This challenge would also enable me to easily join the 100-days-of-coding, alternatively the 301-days-of-coding, challenge. I will look into the requirements for these challenges and see if it aligns.
At least three of these 30-minute coding-sessions per week shall be streamed. For a few years I have made countless stabs at streaming on Twitch. It’s been a lot of fun doing, and the goal is by no means to grow the audience or become an influencer.
The fun part of streaming has been to actually document it somehow. Sure, those times when there has been a few people watching has been a blast.
This sime I will stream on Twitch but I will also record the sessions to post on YouTube. The purpose of that is to keep a recorded history for myself so that I can actually point to the playlist, at the end of 2025, and say that I did it.
There is a fun little challenge happening during a week in July each year. It’s called the “Old Computer Challenge”. The main goal is to use old hardware for a week for all, or at least most, of your computer needs. There’s usually a small twist to the challenge each year.
I have been part of this challenge in previous years but this year I’m going all in. There will be a proper workstation prepared, with genuine old hardware and all setup once the challenge begins.
Since a few years back, I am running the tildenode called tilde.guru. It’s a FreeBSD -based node that is part of the tildeverse. I’ve had a blast setting it up and running it. At the time of writing this there is a total of 118 users tinkering with all sorts of things.
The goal for 2025 is to find ways to evolve the node even more. Maybe enable a few more services, or find other fun incentives for users to be even more active.
One more goal is to create at least 2 pull requests per week in open source repositories. These pull requests should address real issues and not be tiny updates to readme-files or something like that. I’m not saying the PRs need to be huge or solve the most advanced things, but they should be seen as proper contributions.
This goal could be combined with the 30-minutes-of-coding-per-day -goal. So I could spend coding time working on open source projects and creating pull requests to create value.
I want this year to be more about producing rather than consuming. Less of watching other people code on Twitch and more of me writing code on Twitch.
Outside of the world of tech I have other goals as well, but those will be kept to the non-tech world.
Written by Sarmonsiill ( sarmonsiill[_AT_]tilde.guru )
Tags: produce, goals, consume, productive