Personal Goals
Inspired by Una Kravet's repo of the same name, these are my personal goals made public!
Overarching Goals for 2016
- Be a better husband, brother, son, friend, coworker
- Be more thoughtful
- Plan ahead!
- Help K3 become budgitarily free
- Be a more focused, front-end developer
- Spend more time doing meaningful things
- Start a Walla Walla Developer Night
- Start a regular game night
- Prioritize personal health and fitness
- Finish all of the SDA-HPERA videos
May 15–21, 2016
This Week’s Focus:
Let’s start blogging!
Jaimie’s Baby Shower!
Things I’ll Do This Week:
- Pick a topic or two to write posts about
- developer essentials: homebrew, git, node, npm, node-sass, webpack
- deploying to heroku (or "how I set up my ghost blog")
- Create first draft(s) of topic(s)
- Investigate Ghost blogging platform on Heroku or DigitalOcean
- Ghost on Heroku with AWS S3: cobyism/ghost-on-heroku
- Manually install on Linux VM (DigitalOcean): ghost.org/installing-ghost-linux
- How to install Ghost
- Install Ghost on DigitalOcean
- Walla Walla Developer Night on Monday? (talk to Kevin & Nicole)
- Text mentees -- some need to pull their grades up!
- When would be a good evening for a mentee get-together?
- What would be a good meal for mentee get-together? (BBQ & ice cream?)
- Call Mom -- what dates can I come in June?
- Paint black-on-yellow blackletter “a”
- Drink 2 Nalgenes a day (S
MTWTFS) - Eat at least 1 piece of fruit a day (
SMTWTF S) - Bicycle shopping (and budgeting)
- Edit at least 1 SDA-HPERA video
- Find resources for increasing/focusing memory
Things I’ll Read/Watch This Week:
- Egghead.io series on JavaScript console for Power Users
- Wow! My mind ’asplode!
- Organize items in my Pocket
- Pick a few to read in support of the blog post(s)
Additional Things I Did This Week:
- Tried on the 2nd suit for Bruce’s wedding
- Sent back the 1st suit
- Egghead.io series on ES2015 (a.k.a. ES6)
Things I'll Do In The Future
- Plan some blog posts
- Tools and dev setup
- git aliases
- succulents?
- fun with ruby
- something with ES6 or TypeScript
- Angular 2 stuff
- Using package.json as a task runner/build tool
- webpack
- docker
- Figure out whether or not to host my own blog (Ghost on Digital Ocean?) or just post to Medium
- Plan budget for buying a bicycle
- Buy a bicycle