I am not really into writing commitments or resolutions for the new year. Because most of the time I ended up changing it in the middle, but I have seen some blog post from the small web sharing their own stuffs, and I thought It could be nice to try once again, so here is my (desired) plan

1. Studying some programming languages.

As I wrote previously I have some interest in specific programming languages I don’t believe so much in this idea to learn one that could solve all your problems but just choose the best tool for the job (while I understand the idea of having just one or two tools that you need to know to solve most of your problems is a beautiful idea). But nowadays, still use Julia for all the crunching number problems, and I want to develop a higher proficiency with Elisp to master emacs, C for low level programming and maybe Go for any other general programming stuff (I admit that Common Lisp is also an interesting option for the last purpose).

2. Develop a Free Software Project

Self-explanatory, but I have interest to develop some software for my own problems, that often I face when I do some scientific computing, because of that I want to try to build solutions for my own, Probably I will use Julia that is the language I have been using the most these days. Let’s see if this can produce good fruits.

3. Reading intentions

I have several books in my library, from “Thinking, Fast and Slow” to The Bible If is possible to read at least 10 books and 2 written in japanese It would be a nice goal, certainly I could try to read more things but want to have space for other stuffs. And also want to try to write reviews of the books I am reading in the blog, for anyone interested and also for me as a mean to force me to think more deeply about the things I am reading, there are several books out there in Epub and PDF, and with Emacs is easy to take notes and save it for a future use.

4. Publishing tutorials about Linux for the hispanic community

This is something I have been thinking for a while, I am in a Signal group where we try to help each other with things related to FOSS, privacy and other related stuffs, people come from different backgrounds and level of understanding about FOSS It is not a surprise that people in the hispanic world have a harder time trying to immerse themselves in the world of technoly when most of the content out there is in english. Well crafted tutorials for specific problems could improve the experience of newcomers.

These tutorials could range from installing linux, basics of the command line, git, having your own website, text editing with vim, emacs, among other utilities. The tutorials could be written in my website and record it so people could watch on Youtube or Peertube.

5. Continue mastering emacs.

Time to time I was considering to go back to Vim, when I got tired of editing in Emacs, hoping that now vim and the unix philosophy will open a new door for enjoyment, but this rapidly fall and just decide to go back to Emacs, another case of “the grass is greener on the other side” I guess.

I have been using Emacs for a year, started suffering with the keybindings, learning about org mode, and coding some elisp. Today I use Emacs for almost 80% of my computing experience: emails, news, blogging, coding, reading, etc. But still I am fairly an user that just relay too much in foreign packages when I see there are some nice built-in solutions and I would like to become more proficient with this tools and my capacity to write elisp code.

Conclusions

I don’t have much to add, let’s see how this year is moving and hope everyone has an excellent 2026, stay safe!