Arija Arčenytė'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: 2026-10-24

1. Obtain a Bachelor's degree in software engineering (in progress! Software Systems Engineering @ Vilnius University -- finishing 2030-08-31)
2. Obtain a Master's degree in software engineering
3. Obtain a Doctorate degree in software engineering
4. Legally transition (making formidable progress! tho the Lithuanian system is, uh, interesting)
5. Medically transition (making formidable progress! tho the Lithuanian system is, uh, interesting)
6. Become a professional software engineer
7. Create projects that have a significant global impact
8. Create products that have a significant global impact
9. Develop an extremely efficient compression algorithm
10. Create a serious programming language
11. Create a privacy-respecting cloud platform
12. Develop a full complex AI model or large language model from scratch in C
13. Create a peer-to-peer network
14. Develop a robust instant messaging protocol
15. Design and implement a good distributed file system
16. Create a CI/CD system
17. Develop an effective live-collaboration code editor plugin
18. Write an operating system from scratch that runs on hardware
19. Develop a full physical technology product
20. Have a fully on-premises, self-hosted infrastructure
21. Release at least ten scientific publications in academic circles (3/10)
22. Publish at least one academically high-impact scientific work
23. Release a book
24. Attend FOSDEM
25. Attend Chaos Communication Congress
26. Donate at least 10000 euro to a high-impact charity
27. Go on a charity trip to assist the disadvantaged
28. Meet one of my favourite music artists in person
29. Gain experience in programming a quantum computer
30. Learn programming languages including Java, Haskell, Kotlin, PHP, Swift, Go, (kinda managed to get a hang of it), Erlang, and Elixir
31. Create a hashing function that surpasses BLAKE2 in performance
32. Reach 500 published Git repositories
33. Achieve an average blog post read time of 10 minutes
34. Post a long-form, serious YouTube video about a passionate subject
35. Reach 100 GB in my programming project directory (17/100)
36. Register a legal entity of some form
37. Have ARI.LT (Ari-web) live for 10 years
38. Have ARI.LT (Ari-web) live for 20 years
39. Have ARI.LT (Ari-web) live for 30 years
40. Hit 10 million on the ARI.LT (Ari-web) global counter
41. Hit 100 million on the ARI.LT (Ari-web) global counter
42. Hit 500 million on the ARI.LT (Ari-web) global counter
43. Hit 1 billion on the ARI.LT (Ari-web) global counter
44. Take a year-long hiatus break
45. Get first place in a serious country-wide competition
46. Give a serious public talk (done! 2026-10-14)
47. Successfully complete secondary education (done! 2026-07-23)
48. Secure enrolment at a university (done! 2026-07-30)
49. Receive public recognition from a notable person, organisation, or company (done! 2026-07-17)
50. Have ARI.LT (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.LT (Ari-web) global counter (done! 2024-06-13)
56. Get paid for a bug bounty (done! 2023-06-26)
57. Have ARI.LT (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.