After several chaotic months, in November things finally started to settle down a little. While it was still far from my normal, I was able to put some time working on things I wanted to do, and had some nice achievements. Here's a quick summary.
Achievements
Programming language learning projects
For a long time I wanted to create a personal curriculum of projects to develop in order to become proficient in any new programming language. Having gone through the process of learning Go during the second half of this year led me to finally do this. I created a list of ten projects which get progressively more complex and cover most of the essential programming concepts. I have made this personal curriculum open source on Github, and wrote a blog post about it.
Go learning projects started
I immediately started applying the previously mentioned curriculum to my learning of Go. I am slowly working through it, and so far the experience has been really great. I can already feel the benefits, as I feel way more confident developing software in Go now than when I started. I am keeping the projects in private repositories on Github, as for now I do not see the value in making them public - this might change in the future.
Catcher server project
This month I also published another new open source project, catcher-server. It is a simple Python web server that logs to the console information about any request it receives, useful for debugging and validating applications that make outbound requests. The need for something like this came when I was working with microservices and a very new platform which does not have full observability capabilities yet - while I could look for existing alternatives, I thought the scope was perfect to have some fun and vibe code plus open source a simple project. The combination worked pretty well! I have also written a blog post about it.
Downpoints
Personal studies blocked again
While November allowed me to dedicate some time to work on personal projects, it was not yet enough to fully get back with personal studies. It has been a rough year, and I have been blocked on this front for several months already.
Plans for next month
Get back to personal studies
I expect December to continue the trend of things getting less chaotic, and with that to have more time to focus. One of the main things I expect to get back on track is my personal studies habit, as it has suffered tremendously already this year.
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