My Goals for 2024

I have spent a significant amount of time over the last month considering what my goals for the year should be. One thing that continued to come to mind was to Learn in public (Thanks to Kent C. Dodds for introducing me to that).

For 2024 I am going dedicate myself to learning. I want to be better at my current job and prepared for anything that may come my way. Given the way that my brain works, I need to be very specific about where I apply my focus.

That combined with having 2 young kids and a full time job, I do not have enough free time to waste it wherever. I have decided to focus myself in three main areas.

Write more articles

Writing is a skill that I have let go dormant and atrophy for too long. It was a primary focus of mine as I grew up but has fallen away since I began my professional software journey. I am looking to get back into that.

I already have curated a list of things I would like to write. But I would also take suggestions based on the interests of others. Would even be available for hire for writing technical articles and how-to’s.

Preliminary list includes:

Architecting a Front-End Project Using Micro-Front-ends and Single-Spa
Things I wish I knew starting out as a software engineer
How to update a header as you scroll through a list in react
Building a Zip Code Outline Map from Scratch in React
My Journey from College to Becoming a Technical Lead Engineer
Many, many others

Publish an app to an App Store

I am a full-stack web developer specializing in React by trade. I have always wanted to learn native app development as something new. I’ve done a fair amount of preliminary research and I know that I am going to try both SwiftUI and Flutter. SwiftUI fascinates me in it’s construction. Also, I want to test Flutters ‘One codebase, native apps on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Web’ assertion.

I do not have a plan for a specific app to make yet. But that is one of the constant background processes in my brain trying to come up with ideas.