Things to do in 2025

I seem to be waking up with purpose every morning so I felt it good to get a list of things I would like to do in 2025. Yeah this list is too long but gives my future self a direction.

Daily General Life

The heavens declare the glory; the skies proclaim the work.

• Serve my family,
• Read a holy scripture,
• Find meaning in my work, and
• Exercise.

OSS Software

The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous give generously.

• Find a way to commit code every day
• Launch a pip prototype with gpu aware metadata semantics, follow at wheel-next
• Build Pure Python versions of AI algorithms that perform e.g. llm.py
• Explore the boundaries between languages and libraries for gpu computing. See numba-cuda and triton-lang
• Contribute to my favorite libraries and tools:
  • numba
  • CPython
  • pixi
  • dask
  • bokeh
  • DISCOVER-Cookbook
  • LFortran/LPython
• Help raise the standards of governance in the PyData projects and the NumFOCUS projects
• Help guide the NumFOCUS community hire a new executive director

Hobbies

Satisfy your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s

• Redesign my website and tinker with a few applications
• Complete my woodworking todo list
  • bunk beds for kids
  • end grain cutting boards and pens for gifts
  • handtool chest from hand tool school
• Read 12 books (currently on the list, need suggestions for non-western male authors):
  • Life by Pope Francis
  • The Godfather by Mario Puzo
  • The intelligent investor by Benjamin Graham
  • Something by Ted Chiang
  • Stormlight Archive book 5 (Wind and Truth) by Brandon Sanderson
• Set up a family wildlife preserve

Photo attribution

By Bradaen Collum. Unsplash License via Unsplash\