The List

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I should probably start with an introduction.  I have worked in the IT industry as a UNIX professional for 20 years.  Call it a nerd’s midlife crisis but I realized that there are many topics in IT I am interested in, but have never taken the time to actually pursue.  The plan is to document the list and my progress, trials, tribulations, lessons learned and any helpful hints for anybody else interested in taking their own journey through the myriad of available IT experiences out there.  I may call out products, sites as I go and promise to review them honestly if I do.  I am receiving no payment in any form from anybody for any comments made in this blog.  By the way, creating a blog is #1 on the list so, hey look at all the progress already! 😉

So here’s the initial list.  I fully expect this to grow.  I do not expect to complete them in any particular order, just as opportunities present themselves.

  1. Create a Blog  ——>       5/1/18
  2. Attend a developer conference
  3. Create a mobile app for Android
  4. Try out many Linux distros and pick a favorite (writing this in Firefox on Manjaro Linux 17.1.9,the KDE version, in a Virtual Box on Windows 10)
  5. Create a NAS storage using a Raspberry Pi
  6. Make a web game
  7. Find a favorite IDE, currently trying PyCharm by JetBrains
  8. Experience as many languages as I can, being from a commercial UNIX world I have C and ksh down.  Currently learning python.
  9. Make a website for someone else
  10. Write a program on a quantum computer
  11. Get a laptop running Qubes OS and practice security by isolation
  12. Contribute to an open source project
  13. Get a hold of a massive amount of data and extract a unique insight (Data Science)
  14. Make my house a smart home
  15. Create a media server

I am sure there will be more but that is all for now.

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