Things to try out

Use fish shell
Scrape the transcripts from https://signalsandthreads.com/ and store the data in a DB for further analysis
- Which words are used frequently?
- Which topics are discussed often?
Try to solve some distributed systems problems on https://fly.io/dist-sys
Set up a database and host it somewhere
Build a CLI to interact with the database
Build an API infront of the database
Build a modern React app to interact with the database
Set up a linux server
Set up a Kubernetes cluster
Use protobufs for communication between 2 services in different languages
- What are the benefits/drawbacks over using JSON?
Make meaningful contributions to an open source project
Become a core contributor or maintainer of an open source project
(Optional) start your own open source project
Automate dev setup installation with Ansible
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIDywsGBqf4&ab_channel=LearnLinuxTV
  - 33rd minute
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RiVKs8GHYQ&list=PLT98CRl2KxKEUHie1m24-wkyHpEsa4Y70&ab_channel=LearnLinuxTV
  - Getting started with Ansible playlist
- Should work on laptop (MacOS) as well as Linux servers
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