Although 2017 is just three months to end, it is better now than never to start this challenge The 2017 year is over now, and this challenge, which I originally read from "100 things Justing could make in 2016" is finally over, upon looking for things that, once again, would motivate my lazy ass to go beyond my comfort zone and it gave me just the right amount of motivation to work on pending and new stuff, but also to look at life through a different lense. Even though I didn't manage to finish all my objectives (I was far too optimistic), a 42% completion (15 open & 11 closed) is not bad (way better than my usual 0%).
Why 26? because I hope to do at least two per week (I'm writing this on September 20th) I will finish the pending objectives by 2018, however, I will move its corresponding issue to a new milestone, and keep a static list here to reflect the completion of the 2017 goals.
Here is my list of completed and pending objectives, the Twenty six things to do before 2017 ends
- Code my own blog (DONE!)
- Prepare an ajiaco (DONE!)
- Implement and document a LoRa application
- Buy a plant (DONE!)
- Catch three geocaches in three different cities (DONE!)
- Implement Travis in a project (DONE!)
- Create one Slack integration
- Make a funny movie with my daughter and wife
- Create one Alexa skill
- Finish and print the book for my daughter before Christmas
- Deploy a microservice using Docker because Docker is fun... DONE!
- Brew a home made beer
- Read a book about beers (because I envy people who know about different types of beers...) DONE!
- Road trip with my wife and daughter (longer than a day)
- Try to understand how AWS works... for real... (DONE!)
- Create a self-watering application (with sensors and other stuff) for my plant (DONE!)
- Fund my own company
- Run a 10K race, compete against myself and win
- Take my wife to dance
- Learn how to make three tie knots
- Get a tattoo
- Write a guide about using Rust on an embedded BLE platform
- Implement and document a NBIoT application
- Write a blog post while drunk
- Sing in a karaoke party (DONE!)
- Join a group (meetup, etc.) and actively collaborate