Personal Milestones
Purpose
This is my ever-evolving list of personal milestones: goals I’ve reached, ones I’m working toward, and new ones I’ll continue to add over time. It’s a way to track growth, celebrate progress, and stay motivated along the journey.
I'm keeping my list public to keep myself accountable, and inspire others to start their own list as well.
This page was directly inspired by Diogo Torres Correia and his Impossible List.
The list
The list is split up into the following categories:
Homelab goals
Deploy Nextcloud for myself and switch to it- November 2024Set up monitoring for all my servers- December 2024, with Uptime Kuma, misc. scriptsConsolidate networking and VPNs with a mesh-VPN software- July 2025, My blog about NetbirdDeploy an email server- July 2025, CommitDeploy Nextcloud for my parents- August 2025, CommitSet up a 3-2-1 backup strategy for myself and my parents- August 2025, CommitStart and publish a personal website and blog- August 2025, Repository- Replace my laptop home server with more capable hardware
- Deploy a self-hosted NVR for my parents' home surveilance system
- Completely degoogle my life - August 2025, replaced Drive, Media storage, email, search, etc.
Learning goals
- Learn Rust and write a useful program in it
- Learn Go and write a useful program in it
Career goals
Get my first "blue collar" job- June 2024, Information Technology Support Specialist at Cura UnternehmensgruppeGet an internship in software development- August 2024, Junior Backend Developer at Talkpal Inc.Make my first contribution to open source software- April 2025, My contributions to EMBArk in collaboration with Siemens Energy- Get a part-time job in software development
- Get a part-time job in DevOps
- Get a CCNA certificate
- Finish university
General goals
- Take up jogging
- Get a driver's license
- Start and maintain a useful open source project