New Years Resolutions 2025
Better to put them to paper somewhere!
Post here at around twice a month
I’ll start off with the one most relevant to you - the reader! I think this is the sweet spot for someone like me who only does this for fun. Of these these two articles, some may be relatively low effort (at least to write/compile like this one), but I think it would be productive to put my efforts into inclreasing quality at this pace rather than increasing the pace. Burnout is also something to consider. Sometimes less is more.
Get better at remembering names
I’m not a names person. I have a comically short term memory for this type of information. My guess is because I remember stuff best by association (oh, the guy with the cool jacket), and the fact that names are never correlated with anything else about a person, it’s hard to derive it from anything else about them. Still, I’m going to make a conscious effort this year to get better at remembering names - using whether memory tricks I can.
Not a very SMART goal - but I’m not sure how to turn this into a metric.
Write more code
Lame. I know. But with how many projects never leave the research phase in my backlog I think this is warranted. I’ve got so many projects where I have a proper understanding of the problem and my solution but I never start because… the tech stack is too annoying… or the boilerplate is too complicated… or the thought of actually writing the code suddenly kills all motivation I had for it.
For something measurable, I want to make at least 1 meaningful contribution (features, not commits!) to a side project every week. For code, this would look like activity on my Github pixel-thing. For more open ended stuff (based on experimentation/research), this would look like a writeup in the form of a devblog (like the OpenWRT post).