CODING

• Research JDBC/ODBC (Can I ultimately connect to the Sage database and pull the customer addresses to link with my MariaDB database?)
• Implement the GUI window for editing my journal entries (Needs to include forms and can show the current value)
• Prep for tech interviews
  • Write and talk through some common sorting algorithms and their complexity
  • Work through at least three LeetCode problems every week.

WEB

• Can I make these lists dynamic? (Is going through the HTML the most reasonable method?)
• Find some small Javascript projects that can get the juices flowing
• How does an HTML doc communicate with a database without exposing the login credentials in plaintext? (Apparently this is what php is for, go down that rabbit hole)

NOVEL

• Land on the three protagonist POVs (The Artist, The Daughter, The Spy)
• Pick three interesting places from a small mountain town that could hide a valuable painting in plain sight and write a three-sentence description of each
• Research the swordsmith craft (Forge/cast/shaping process, any famous swords other than Excalibur?)
• Could 'The Daughter' have a middle school project that relates to 'The Antagonist' plot?

MISC

• How exactly do ROM hacks work? (Also, what is the legality of it all?)

SCHOOL

• Check out some small python projects (Get some experience with the syntax, it seems python is widely recommended for the tech interviews too)
• Back up a copy of the MovieLens dataset (Also recommend backing up the Netflix dataset as well just in case)
• Whiteboard the initial structure for the Neural Network

NHL API

• Write a few code snippets in R (Get some practice working with the syntax)
• Prof. Innerst recommended 'An Introduction to Statistical Learning' (Hopefully this can shed some light on the nitty gritty of the stats side of things)
• How can I use this API to investigate the data after Flyers games (Heads up Cory, they start the regular season on Oct 12th!)
• Look into the package Jozef has created which has tons of useful tools

LINUX

• Install and configure docker on Ubuntu Server (Gain practice with Linux CLI, can't use GUI as a crutch)
• Check out this tutorial on rsync (Need to figure out and test a reliable backup process)
• Research pros and cons of desktop environments (Like cinnamon so far)

NETWORKING

• Research network tunnels (How do they work? What are the security concerns, especially with it terminating behind the firewall)
• Is tunneling, like with Cloudflare, the only option to provide remote access to internal services?
• Research subdomains and use-cases (Pros and cons, also how does the DNS work?)
• Are there benefits to having a VLAN with a shallow network mask? (/31 doesn't leave room for x.x.x.0 and x.x.x.255 right?)
• Are there easier ways of building the OPNsense firewalls rules using aliases? (Hopefully there can be some abstraction since my number of VLANs is getting higher)
• What are some great services for a local DNS server? (dnsmasq?)

PHYSICS

• Electric fields and charges (Might need to rewatch Lewin's lecture on flux)
• Circuits, capacitors, resistors
• Magnets and Faraday's law
• Electromagnetism
• Interested in the inner physics/mechanics of cars (Are there any good YouTube creators with educational-style content?)
• Someone asked me why telephone lines aren't underground (Look into this, I'm interested if other methods have ever been posed)
• Still don't understand event horizons (The black hole documentary talked about them briefly but it didn't quite sink in)

VIRTUALIZATION

• Research Docker networking fundamentals (Can docker support VLANs? Is port configuration the same?)
• Create a how-to algorithm for adding, swapping, and removing from a zpool in Proxmox (I've done each once but can't remember the exact command line syntax)
• Research the pros/cons behind hardware raid (VMware on the Dell rack-server runs above a hardware raid controller)
• What's up with Linux bus speed? (File copying from VM to USB is super slow)