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: 2025-10-21

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 (1/10)
24. Publish at least one academically high-impact scientific work
25. Release a book
26. Give a public talk
27. Attend FOSDEM
28. Attend Chaos Communication Congress
29. Donate at least 10000 euro to a high-impact charity
30. Go on a charity trip to assist the disadvantaged
31. Meet one of my favourite music artists in person
32. Gain experience in programming a quantum computer
33. Learn programming languages including Java, Haskell, Kotlin, PHP, Swift, Go, Erlang, and Elixir
34. Create a hashing function that surpasses BLAKE2 in performance
35. Receive public recognition from a notable person, organisation, or company
36. Reach 500 published Git repositories
37. Achieve an average blog post read time of 10 minutes
38. Post a long-form, serious YouTube video about a passionate subject
39. Reach 100 GB in my programming project directory
40. Register a legal entity of some form
41. Have ari-web live for 10 years
42. Have ari-web live for 20 years
43. Have ari-web live for 30 years
44. Hit 10 million on the ari-web global counter
45. Hit 100 million on the ari-web global counter
46. Hit 500 million on the ari-web global counter
47. Hit 1 billion on the ari-web global counter
48. Take a year-long hiatus break
49. Get first place in a serious country-wide competition
50. Have ari-web live for 5 years (done! 2025-10-18)
51. Present a serious public presentation (done! 2025-05-09)
52. Get top 10 in a serious country-wide competition (done! 2025-04-06)
53. Get first place in a serious institution-wide competition (done! 2022-12-08)
54. Get first place in a serious city-wide competition (done! 2023-01-02)
55. Hit 1 million on the ari-web global counter (done! 2024-06-13)
56. Get paid for a bug bounty (done! 2023-06-26)
57. 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.