I'm retired (yeeted out of the workforce due to Long Covid, and the brain fog)<p>I'm about to pull the trigger on TinyTapeout, and possibly the Zero to Asic course, so I can get a BitGrid chip running, and characterized. It's either scalable to Petaflops, or not... and I need to know.<p>This will require learning VLSI design, how to write testing routines, and then there's all of the software required to actually make it useful.<p>I'm also looking to get a decent 3d printer, and some machine tools so I can make machine shop parts with my own machine shop. ;-)<p>I especially want to be able to make cutters and hob/shape gears, like I used to for work.<p>Oh, and continue on with Kicad 8.0 so I can build a PCB for a 16+ channel SDR receiver to do passive radar.
I'm planning to learn how to find time to learn anything at all.<p>Just normal work and family stuff consumes 100% of my energies, whenever it's 9pm and I have time to actually try to learn anything or do anything productive, I'm usually so tired that I can't do anything that engages my brain.
- Continue with C<p>- Pick up C#/.NET for work<p>- Continue NandToTetris<p>- Graphics computing papers<p>- Make a game with C#<p>- Chip emulation in C<p>- Pick up Math papers for Graphics programming<p>Understanding all this will make me a much better programmer, but really I’m just doing it out of interest<p>My background is frontend, and I’m sick of it
I'm just going to keep improving my Django (Python), Express JS (Javascript) and Svelte skills.<p>I'm going heavy on trying to improve my freelancing career next year, maybe land a steady remote gig.<p>I might try to pick up Dot Net Core sometime later in the year.
I _really_ don't want to and have been dragging my feet, but I think I'll finally research AI-based development tools. If they truly are sticking around, I'd rather not be a luddite, but I'm still not so sure.
Learn what I need to be productive in a new job:<p>GraphQL<p>Some AWS concepts<p>Go<p>I feel like learning what will make me fast right now at work is a good investment.