Late September and Beyond

16 Oct 2019

Recently my mind hasn’t been focused on coding as there was a few other complicated life situations that came up. My momentum has been entirely halted. I’m thinking of projects I can take up so that I can start building up a semblance of momentum. I’m pushing back my plans to go back to graduate school a quarter at least as I’ve lost a lot of time due to my life situations.

Project ideas:

Game

My brother has become interested in learning some basics in programming, and also potentially working on a project together. He’s not into committing to long term projects so not sure how it’ll pan out. But he has a few ideas and I have a few MVP ideas that would be really fun to tinker with. The biggest point in game dev I see is that it offers plenty of opportunities to optimize code and get better. A nice caveat is that it’s a lot more fun to test than something like the applications I work on (albeit I love working on the nitty gritty and trying to make it function better).

Go service

‘Back-end’ work, I really like the language and the concurrency concept is top-notch. I program in Go almost daily, but using some of the more advanced features and libraries would be a plusl

Rust service

‘Back-end’ work, I really like Rust as a language and thinking of doing a Godot project as it is supported by the game engine’s team.

Elm App

Something simple, probably work on Elm alongside another aspect.

React App

Something that I can show for myself, probably mix in with a Fire Emblem calculator.

Hack Gitbook

I really like gitbook, but hate that it’s a paid service. I’m planning on looking at the code and figuring out what I can pull out of it so that I can create content and piggyback off the open source code. Hate that it’s migrating to json, but mixing it with github pages content would be really cool.

Hack Ghost

A node application that utilizes a lot of Express. Would be fun to host my own blog and add features that really make it stand out.

Gatsby Up something

This can be done with another project. Something to learn and tinker with.

Fire Emblem Calculators purely running on Github

Tech stack is simple, utilitize github’s raw files to serve up csv or other simple text formats. Use this and some front-end library to create a nice little niche application.

Learn C++ with game programming

I have a book, and there’s lots of tutorials online. Might as well give this a shot.