My Aspirations

What I’ve aspired to do, both big and small. Done, in-progress or otherwise.

Big

• Get married to a wonderful woman. done
• Become a Costco membership owning adult. done
• Reach "open" level in competitive ballroom dancing. done
• Use enough Vim to be identified as "that Vim guy". done
• Become a web accessibility expert. pending
• Build a product that I have a sense of ownership for. incomplete
• Owning a house would be nice. incomplete

Small

• Finally build this portfolio website. done
• Learn to carve on my skis (thanks wife!). done
• Experiment and build products with LLMs. done
• Learn to write concurrent services with Go. pending
• Learn to write concurrent services but functional with Elixir. Should also learn Phoenix. pending
• Git gud at volleyball. pending
• Experiment with creating a TUI application. incomplete
• Learn how to play gypsy jazz or bossa nova music on the guitar. incomplete