Planned Projects for 2024

Ongoing projects

1. Caring for this family: A cool wife, 2 cool kids, and a decrepit cat.


2. Working 30 hours per week: With health insurance!


3. Being the webmaster for Janny Wurts and Don Maitz: Probably the most constant side project I deal with right now.


4. Keeping the URI! Zone alive: Lying dormant for its inexorable return to popularity, like the 17-year cicada.


5. Being on the HOA: Monthly meetings and litter pickup.

Projects that will probably happen

1. Tune my 8 year old cloud empire: Specifically, find out why my cloud compute bills have spiked over the past 2 months with "EC2-Other" charges when nothing in the configuration has changed, rebuild my older end-of-life Linux servers with the latest versions, upgrade from IPv4 to IPv6 if possible, and add more automation to my monthly backup scripts.


2. Earn another Amazon Web Services cloud certification: Probably the Security specialty cert, even though it sounds more boring than Gosford Park.


3. Buy a new couch: Both my couch and my cat turn 20 in 2024.


4. Overhaul and upgrade the Maitz and Wurts Studio Shop: This has been back-burnered for far too long, and is now holding up other server upgrades in this website architecture (Thanks, PHP 5.6!).


5. Add the final book from the Wars of Light and Shadow to the Paravia Wiki: The final book comes out in May!


6. Do Advent of Code 2024: As if doing the puzzles isn't enough of a time expenditure, I'd also like to learn some animation / graphics basics to do cool visualizations of the puzzles.

Projects that will probably slip to 2025

1. Give the URI! Zone a much needed makeover: The look and feel of this website has not evolved substantively since 2009.


2. Rip all of my old CDs onto a house-accessible NAS: Amazon Echo is the worst for music now.


3. Play the trumpet occasionally: I should have picked an instrument where embouchure maintenance was not a thing.


4. Compose new music: I finally took down all of my hopefully-configured MIDI equipment last year but it will return someday.

What do you hope to accomplish in 2024?