Saturday, January 31, 2026
Use the priority and schedule columns to plan your day. Update status as you go:
[ ]pending,[x]done,[-]skipped/deferred.
Priority Guide
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| P0 | Must do today, no excuses |
| P1 | Should do today if time allows |
| P2 | This week, not necessarily today |
| P3 | Backlog — do when bandwidth opens up |
Work — Client Projects
| Priority | Task | Schedule | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| P0 | Storal — Identify basic manual updates that don't need infrastructure changes | Today | [ ] |
| P0 | Storal — Safe creation and experimentation (Service Apps, Container Instances, Container Apps, Container App Jobs, Functions) | Today | [ ] |
| P1 | JIN 4.0 — Important optimization and clean-up | Today | [ ] |
| P1 | ShawGibbs — Encryption logic check and updates | Today | [ ] |
| P1 | Pure Financial — Documentation update (Word) | Today | [ ] |
| P1 | Pure Financial — Documentation update (code) | Today | [ ] |
| P2 | Pure Financial — Terraform build-up | This week | [ ] |
| P2 | Pure Financial — Terragrunt build-up | This week | [ ] |
| P1 | Fabric Infrastructure — Terraform code for Fabric provisioning (normal + private networking) | Today | [ ] |
| P1 | Fabric Infrastructure — Terraform code for Fabric Workspace configuration | Today | [ ] |
| P2 | Fabric Infrastructure — Terraform code for Azure DevOps project setup | This week | [ ] |
| P2 | Fabric Infrastructure — Document all manual changes needed in DevOps | This week | [ ] |
| P2 | Fabric Infrastructure — Document all manual changes needed in Fabric Admin Portal | This week | [ ] |
| P2 | Fabric Infrastructure — Tool to check eligibility for deployment, changes, or API | This week | [ ] |
| P2 | Fabric Infrastructure — Document challenges faced by developers per project per workspace | This week | [ ] |
| P2 | Fabric Infrastructure — CI/CD documentation | This week | [ ] |
| P2 | Fabric Infrastructure — Full blueprint guide (top to bottom) | This week | [ ] |
| P2 | Databricks — Logging strategy — what to log | This week | [ ] |
| P3 | Plan more blueprints for other projects | Backlog | [ ] |
Certifications and Study
| Priority | Task | Schedule | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | AZ-104 — Watch Udemy lecture (Identities & Storage Accounts) | Today | [ ] |
| P1 | AZ-104 — Watch YouTube lecture — John Savill's (Identities & Storage Accounts) | Today | [ ] |
| P2 | CKS — Continue CKS study material | This week | [ ] |
| P2 | Terraform — Continue Terraform course | This week | [ ] |
| P3 | GATE — Create a preparation plan | Backlog | [ ] |
| P3 | IELTS — Start preparation plan for jobs outside India | Backlog | [ ] |
Programming and Practice
| Priority | Task | Schedule | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | Go — Continue Go project | Today | [ ] |
| P1 | Go — Udemy course on channels and concurrency | Today | [ ] |
| P2 | Go — Course on design patterns | This week | [ ] |
| P1 | Go — LeetCode — 5 problems | Today | [ ] |
| P2 | Go — Codeforces questions | This week | [ ] |
| P2 | Go — Plan LeetCode and Codeforces study schedule | This week | [ ] |
| P3 | C/C++ — Start exploring C (write the most basic stuff) | Backlog | [ ] |
| P3 | C/C++ — Plan C++ and C design patterns study | Backlog | [ ] |
DevOps and Infrastructure
| Priority | Task | Schedule | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | Git — Practice and hands-on exercises | Today | [ ] |
| P2 | Linux — Continue Linux course | This week | [ ] |
| P2 | Networking — Find all components needed for home lab | This week | [ ] |
| P2 | Networking — Order components from Amazon | This week | [ ] |
| P2 | Networking — Complete lectures 01 to 09 | This week | [ ] |
| P3 | Architecture — Explore GPU basics and CPU fundamentals | Backlog | [ ] |
Career and Freelancing
| Priority | Task | Schedule | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | Apply for 5 DevOps jobs | Today | [ ] |
| P1 | Apply for 2 freelancing projects | Today | [ ] |
| P2 | Open Source — Move contribution list into this repo and start contributing | This week | [ ] |
| P3 | Cloud Accounts — AWS, Azure, and GCP free accounts — research how to get them | Backlog | [ ] |
Side Projects
| Priority | Task | Schedule | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | Mystique & Father's App (Bihar Bhoomi Bazar) — Start creating, this is very important | Today | [ ] |
| P3 | Start planning Scalr alternatives project | Backlog | [ ] |
| P3 | Start planning Databricks clone project | Backlog | [ ] |
Personal and Habits
| Priority | Task | Schedule | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| P2 | Set up money and habit management tracking in this repo | This week | [ ] |
Today's Focus (P0 + P1 Summary)
These are the tasks to focus on today. Everything else can wait.
Must Do (P0)
- [ ] Storal — manual updates and safe experimentation
Should Do (P1)
- [ ] JIN 4.0 — optimization and clean-up
- [ ] ShawGibbs — encryption logic check
- [ ] Pure Financial — documentation updates (Word + code)
- [ ] Fabric Infrastructure — Terraform provisioning + workspace config
- [ ] AZ-104 — Udemy + YouTube lectures
- [ ] Go — project + Udemy channels + 5 LeetCode
- [ ] Git — practice
- [ ] Apply for 5 DevOps jobs + 2 freelancing projects
- [ ] Mystique & Father's App — start
Did
- Nothing productive — just played around with Claude and fixed personal setup stuff
Learned
- Crossplane basics — got some understanding but still surface-level
- Hyprland configuration and keybindings (Omarchy system)
- Added Arch Linux support to workstation-setup scripts
Blocked
- Don't know what's blocking me — need to figure that out