Monday, February 2, 2026

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." — Marcus Aurelius

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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)	[ ]

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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)	[ ]

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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

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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

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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 with push, pop, print, free_list
• [ ] Compile and run: gcc -Wall -Wextra -o list main.c && ./list

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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 systemctl and journalctl

Networking

• [ ] Complete lectures 01 to 09
• [ ] Buy a small switch

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Side Projects

Mystique today

• [ ] Full planning and design in Figma — complete today

Father's App (Bihar Bhoomi Bazar)

• [ ] Ask father for videos

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Career

• [ ] AWS Account — set up a free tier account do today

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Personal

• [ ] Set up money and habit management tracking in this repo

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End of Day

Did

Learned

Blocked

Tomorrow

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Closing Thought

"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems." — James Clear

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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

• [ ] Go Programming Language
• [ ] Working with Design Patterns in Go
• [ ] Concurrency in Go
• [ ] Build 3 Simple Golang Projects
• [ ] Design Patterns (book)
• [ ] Network Programming with Go (book)

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