Monday, February 2, 2026
"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." — Marcus Aurelius
Accountability Check-In
| Rule | Status |
|---|---|
| Songs listened ( /5 max) | [ ] |
| Zero media consumed | [ ] |
| Forest app running for all sessions | [ ] |
| Daily log written | [ ] |
| Room is clean | [ ] |
| Clothes are clean | [ ] |
| Ate well (eating schedule) | [ ] |
Today's Focus
| # | Priority | Task | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Storal — tags, policies, private endpoints, container jobs, logging | [ ] | |
| 2 | JIN 4.0 — tags, delete old, pipelines, hygiene, terraform | [ ] | |
| 3 | ShawGibbs — encryption logic | [ ] | |
| 4 | Pure Financial — CI/CD PR, code docs, terraform import | [ ] | |
| 5 | AZ-104 — Identity (Scott Duffy), Storage (hands-on + review), VMs (start) | [ ] | |
| 6 | Go — API project + concurrency course + 5 LeetCode | [ ] | |
| 7 | C — linked list from scratch (c-cpp/01-linked-list/main.c) | [ ] | |
| 8 | Linux — RHCSA first 2-3 modules + hands-on | [ ] | |
| 9 | Git — 30 min practice | [ ] | |
| 10 | Mystique — Figma design complete | [ ] | |
| 11 | Networking — lectures 01 to 09 | [ ] | |
| 12 | AWS billing — work account review | [ ] | |
| 13 | AWS free tier account — set up (personal) | [ ] |
Work — Client Projects
Storal
- [ ] Add tags
- [ ] Add policies
- [ ] Improve private endpoints
- [ ] Deploy using Azure Container Jobs
- [ ] Add logging for Databricks — cover logging properly and all components
JIN 4.0
- [ ] Update tags
- [ ] Delete the old JIN
- [ ] Diagnose Azure Pipelines
- [ ] General hygiene — update whatever is needed
- [ ] Set up Terraform
ShawGibbs
- [ ] Encryption logic check and updates
Pure Financial
- [ ] CI/CD Documentation — raise a PR
- [ ] Documentation update (code)
- [ ] Terraform import of existing infra and build up for production
PureView (Eight Group)
- [ ] Update slides
AZ-104
Identity redo
- [ ] Re-watch Scott Duffy's identity section
- [ ] Rebuild the documentation in
azure/az-104/identity/
Storage Accounts confident
- [ ] Hands-on — play around with all the concepts in the portal
- [ ] Review John Savill's storage content
- [ ] Review Tutorial Dojo cheatsheet + practice questions
Virtual Machines next up
- [ ] Complete Scott Duffy's VM content
- [ ] Build the documentation in
azure/az-104/compute/ - [ ] Fill knowledge gaps with John Savill
Programming
Go core skill
- [ ] Continue Go project — Build an API
- [ ] Start: Working with Concurrency in Go
- [ ] Start: Design Patterns in Go
LeetCode — 5 Problems
| # | Problem | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two Sum | [ ] |
| 2 | Valid Parentheses | [ ] |
| 3 | Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters | [ ] |
| 4 | Median of Two Sorted Arrays | [ ] |
| 5 | Longest Palindromic Substring | [ ] |
C/C++ start today
Full roadmap: c-cpp/index.md — 7 phases from C fundamentals to open-source contribution.
- [ ] Create
c-cpp/01-linked-list/main.c— singly linked list withpush,pop,print,free_list - [ ] Compile and run:
gcc -Wall -Wextra -o list main.c && ./list
DevOps & Infrastructure
Git
- [ ] 15 min review + 15 min scenario exercises
Linux start today
Full roadmap: linux/index.md — 6 phases from fundamentals to kernel modules.
- [ ] Start RHCSA course:
/home/vagabond/Downloads/courses/Pearson - RHCSA Complete Video Course with Virtual Machines, 2nd Edition 2023-5 - [ ] Watch first 2-3 modules, take notes in
linux/rhcsa/ - [ ] Hands-on: create users, set permissions, explore
systemctlandjournalctl
Networking
- [ ] Complete lectures 01 to 09
- [ ] Buy a small switch
Side Projects
Mystique today
- [ ] Full planning and design in Figma — complete today
Father's App (Bihar Bhoomi Bazar)
- [ ] Ask father for videos
Career
- [ ] AWS Account — set up a free tier account do today
Personal
- [ ] Set up money and habit management tracking in this repo
End of Day
Did
Learned
Blocked
Tomorrow
Closing Thought
"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems." — James Clear
Deferred & Backlog
Not today. Tracked here so nothing gets lost.
Work — This Week
Fabric Infrastructure
- [ ] Terraform code for Fabric provisioning (normal + private networking)
- [ ] Terraform code for Fabric Workspace configuration
- [ ] Terraform code for Azure DevOps project setup
- [ ] Document all manual changes needed in DevOps
- [ ] Document all manual changes needed in Fabric Admin Portal
- [ ] Tool to check eligibility for deployment, changes, or API
- [ ] Document challenges per project per workspace
- [ ] CI/CD documentation
- [ ] Full blueprint guide (top to bottom)
Databricks
- [ ] Logging strategy — what to log
Other
- [ ] Plan more blueprints for other projects
Certifications — This Week / Later
This Week
- [ ] CKS — Start Zeal Vora's course from the beginning
- [ ] Terraform — Continue Zeal Vora's course for Terraform Professional and Authoring
Later
- [ ] GATE — Computer architecture prep plan
- [ ] IELTS — Preparation plan for international jobs
Go — Course Backlog
Courses & Books
DevOps — Later
Architecture
- [ ] GPU basics and CPU fundamentals (part of GATE prep)
Career — Weekends
Job Applications
- [ ] Apply for 5 DevOps jobs
- [ ] Apply for 2 freelancing projects
- [ ] Open Source — decide what to contribute to
Side Projects — Backlog
Ideas
- [ ] Scalr alternatives project — planning phase
- [ ] Databricks clone project — planning phase