Starting 25:5

It’s that time again.

So years ago I did the 100:10:1 thing, partly because a friend of mine was also doing it.

It didn’t go the best, but was still pretty good for learning.

Anyway, that same friend posted a different method of choosing projects in one of his regular posts. So of course I’m doing that now * :)

* by now, I actually mean I started this a while back, I’m just getting around to posting about it now.

So what’s the deal?

Here’s a link to the article explaining it. Scroll down till you see STEP 1: for the explanation.

But the short description is - list the 25 most important things for you right now. In this case, the 25 projects I’m most interested in doing.

Then you pick 5 of them that are even more important or interesting than the rest.

Finally, and most importantly, you don’t do the other 20. They’re a distraction from the main 5.

So what are the ideas?

The 25 ideas I came up with are (okay 27 ideas, I’m still bad at counting)

Websites - 12

• a list of golang conferences
• youtube, vimeo, etc playlist maker
• budget app / funds dashboard
• friend dashboard
• portfolio website
• physical email - send emails via snail mail
• site that will text you at a specific time
• get coffee with me webapp
• draw a thing a day
• photo management site
• github clone
• 100:10:1 or 25:5 webapp

APIs - 5

• letter api - it just returns a single letter to you
• arbitrary json api for testing
• developer journal syncing program
• random junk data site
• ifttt clone

Bots - 2

• bott pilgrim - a twitter bot that quotes Scott Pligrim
• dogetip bot - this was more intriguing before the cryptocurrency price explosion, but could still be interesting

Technical learning - 4

• https.quine.space - https written in Go
• merkle tree library
• simple lisp in go
• dogemail - paying dogecoin to send emails

Opsy things - 4

• ngrok clone
• kubernetes rpi cluster
• redis hosting site
• self hosted email

So which ones?

So far I’m really solid on 4 of them that I’ll pick (I’ve actually completed 2 already), but I’m still determining the 5th. I’ll let you know next post which one’s I’m going with.