Arija A.'s Goals & Ambitions

This page, created on 2025-09-29, includes all my long-term ambitions and goals that shouldn't be updated often. These are my life-long commitments I want to work towards for my whole life.

Last updated: 2025-09-29

  1. Successfully complete secondary education
  2. Secure enrolment at a university
  3. Obtain a Bachelor's degree in software engineering
  4. Obtain a Master's degree in software engineering
  5. Obtain a Doctorate degree in software engineering
  6. Legally transition
  7. Medically transition
  8. Become a professional software engineer
  9. Create projects that have a significant global impact
  10. Create products that have a significant global impact
  11. Develop an extremely efficient compression algorithm
  12. Create a serious programming language
  13. Create a privacy-respecting cloud platform
  14. Develop a full complex AI model or large language model from scratch in C
  15. Create a peer-to-peer network
  16. Develop a robust instant messaging protocol
  17. Design and implement a good distributed file system
  18. Create a CI/CD system
  19. Develop an effective live-collaboration code editor plugin
  20. Write an operating system from scratch that runs on hardware
  21. Develop a full physical technology product
  22. Have a fully on-premises, self-hosted infrastructure
  23. Release at least ten scientific publications in academic circles
  24. Publish at least one academically high-impact scientific work
  25. Release a book
  26. Give a public talk
  27. Give a talk at FOSDEM
  28. Attend FOSDEM
  29. Attend Chaos Communication Congress
  30. Become financially stable
  31. Donate at least 10000 euro to a high-impact charity
  32. Go on a charity trip to assist the disadvantaged
  33. Travel to Germany, again
  34. Travel to China, Japan, India, Italy, France, Switzerland, Kenya, Norway, Australia, and the United States of America
  35. Meet one of my favourite music artists in person
  36. Hold or keep a pet snake
  37. Gain experience in programming a quantum computer
  38. Learn programming languages including Java, Haskell, Kotlin, PHP, Swift, Go, Erlang, and Elixir
  39. Find an extremely large Safe and Sophie Germain cryptographically secure prime number, or prove its impossibility
  40. Create a hashing function that surpasses BLAKE2 in performance
  41. Receive public recognition from a notable person, organisation, or company
  42. Establish a long-term, stable partnership
  43. Build a stable family, including a black or sphynx cat... or both?
  44. Reach 500 published Git repositories
  45. Achieve an average blog post read time of 10 minutes
  46. Post a long-form, serious YouTube video about a passionate subject
  47. Reach 100 GB in my programming project directory
  48. Register a legal entity of some form
  49. Have ari-web live for 5 years
  50. Have ari-web live for 10 years
  51. Have ari-web live for 20 years
  52. Have ari-web live for 30 years
  53. Hit 10 million on the ari-web global counter
  54. Hit 100 million on the ari-web global counter
  55. Hit 500 million on the ari-web global counter
  56. Hit 1 billion on the ari-web global counter
  57. Take a year-long hiatus break
  58. Get first place in a serious country-wide competition
  59. Present a serious public presentation (done! 2025-05-09)
  60. Get top 10 in a serious country-wide competition (done! 2025-04-06)
  61. Get first place in a serious institution-wide competition (done! 2022-12-08)
  62. Get first place in a serious city-wide competition (done! 2023-01-02)
  63. Hit 1 million on the ari-web global counter (done! 2024-06-13)
  64. Get paid for a bug bounty (done! 2023-06-26)
  65. Have ari-web live for 1 year (done! 2021-10-18)

I will update this list slowly over time. These are my very long-term goals, which don't belong on my "now" page which focuses on how I am actively working toward these goals at present.