At least every other day I fall asleep next to my son after putting him to bed in the evening. Quite early, around 9-10PM. He is my #1 priority so I spend most of my free time (after work) with him - and I encourage every other dad with a small kid to do the same. I realized that lately I barely spend any time honing my software skills or learning about new areas, things which I think would be important if I want to spend my working time on worthy things, have fulfilling jobs and a safe financial background. I also noticed how easy it is to waste that 1-2 hours that I have when I don’t fall asleep too early - watching videos, reading random articles. To try and help me stay focused, here is list of things I started learning about:

I’m planning to pick up c/c++. Again. Been planning that for a long time. I had the idea to spend some time learning about interesting open source c/c++ open source project and doing a summary writeup of their architectures. See older post with some inspiration on what to pick