Setting new year goals, for me, is not about achieving everything. It is about having a north star for my day to day, pointing at what I actually want and cutting down the distractions.

Here are mine for this year.

Improve the HTML parsing: Nami

I am building a browser from scratch in Rust (or trying to), and it has been a real challenge. This year I want to keep working through HTML parsing following the spec, and polish a few things.

Nami

3000 minutes of meditation

I have meditated since 2020 using Headspace, and I want to deepen the practice with more of the intensive courses in the app. Mindfulness is incredible.

20 members on Nomadz

In 2023 I created my community for backpacking digital nomads. Plenty of people joined the Discord for free, I recorded two long classes and posted some free material. I want to give it proper attention.

Nomadz

Write Librium in Go

Librium is another project I already got off the ground: a social network to replace Skoob and Goodreads, whose usability I dislike as a reader. I want to ride the growth of the Go community and try the language out on this one. My friend Erick Tasheshi is joining me.

25 books

Trying to keep the pace of recent years. I set 35 in 2023 and missed by a mile.

Reach intermediate Japanese

I have studied Japanese for about two years and I am still quite basic. Speaking is what I lack, so that is my focus, because in 2025 I will be there.

Jump outside Brazil

I became a skydiver in 2023. Getting into the sport was completely unexpected, but now I want to make the most of it everywhere I go and throw myself out of planes around the world.

USPA Category B

Eventually growing in the sport, which means moving up a category and qualifying to do more interesting things in freefall and under canopy.

Hit my investment target (secret)

It is a secret.

One post a month, 1/12

Well, this is already the second, so I have started well. There is a lot I would like to write about, but I always get stuck deciding between deeply technical and more general topics, and then I never do anything. I will try to be minimalist about that too.

Silver in LoL

This one is a matter of honour. I am very bad at this game. I will make an effort to die less and climb.

Finish the CSS badges

An old project I abandoned, and finishing it is also a matter of honour: the Pokémon badges drawn in CSS art.

Repo

Amazing people map

Another travel project. As I travel I meet a lot of wonderful people worth remembering for life, and worth keeping close even at a distance. The idea is a site with a map marking each of them, so I always remember those encounters.

Let's see how many of these I get.

I hope you land yours too.