2022 goals: April progress

Weeks ago I finally set my goals for 2022 looking for a more productive year. This is my 1st progress report.

2022 goals

  1. Keep writing down my projects and researches in this blog;
  2. Keep reading, listening and writing in English;
  3. Have all my photos from Japan edited. Have some of them at Shutterstock;
  4. Have Home Assistant fully functional at my new home;
  5. Try again to learn to write in Arduino and make some DIY projects;
  6. Study programming, data science and machine learning;
  7. Do periodical physical exercises;
  8. Meditate;
  9. Keep reading books;
  10. Avoid getting involved with Work;
  11. Do (small) courses/projects related to Work.

Overall Review

Things are still warming up. I’ve began some activities, but I’m not fully committed yet.

What I could do better in May?

Migraines are become frequently again and now I have more space at home. I’ll start again my Lian Gong and Yoga exercises.

Write down my projects and researches in this blog

Goal for this month: 2 posts
Achieved this month: 2/2 (100%)
Total achieved: 2/24 (29.16%)

Keep reading, listening and writing in English;

I’ve been listening a lot of content in English, but I’m almost not writing anything. I think that I’ll start to write my notes in English. I’ll cheat this month saying that I achieved 100% on this task because I truly consumed a lot of English content.

Goal for this month: 12 times listening and reading; 8 times writing
Achieved this month: 12/12 (100%)
Total achieved: 12/144 (8,33%)

Have all my photos (from Japan) edited

I didn’t begin that yet.

Goal for this month: 4 hours
Achieved this month: 0/0 (%)
Total achieved: 0/48 (0%)

Have Home Assistant fully functional at my new home

Home is still a mess, I have to install my server back to begin configuring my Home Assistant again.

Total achieved: 0%

(Try again to) learn how to write in Arduino

On halt until I have my office fully functional.

Total achieved: 0%

Study programming, data science and machine learning

I’m reading and studying a lot of programming and data science. On March I tried some machine learning, but I’m still at the beginning.

Goal for this month: 8 hours
Achieved this month: 12/8 (150%)
Total achieved: 36/96 (37.5%)

Do periodical physical exercises

Nothing on April. I’ll begin on May.

Goal for this month: 12 days
Achieved this month: 0/12 (0.0%)
Total achieved: 0/120 (0%)

Meditate

I meditated 1 day this month. A beginning, but far from the desired.

Goal for this month: 12 days
Achieved this month: 1/12 (8,33%)
Total achieved: 1/120 (0%)

Avoid getting involved with Work

Yes, I did it. I thought that it would be difficult (and it is), but I’m being able to handle quite good.

Goal for this month: 4 stress free weeks
Achieved this month: 3/4 (75%)
Total achieved: 14/48 (29.16%)

Keep reading books

I think that this is the only goal that I’m being able to follow. Reading is one of the best time of my day. I relax and forget about things to do at home or at work.

Despite reading almost every day this month, I couldn’t complete any of the books that I’m reading.

Goal for this month: 0 book
Achieved this month: 0/1 (0%)
Total achieved: 3/12 (25.0%)

Do (small) courses/projects related to work

This month I took a 20 hour course at work to learn how to use Microsoft Power BI. I’d taken the same course in 2018, but I mostly forgot about the tool. Also, nowadays my data science and programming skills are much better than 4 years ago. It was an excellent course.

I’m also implementing a lot of programming on my daily work. It’s being great.

Goal for this month: 1 course
Achieved this month: 1/1 (100%)
Total achieved: 1/12 (8.33%)

Useful tech tutorials that I found this month (April/2022)

I decided to catalog nice tutorials and tools that I found out. This post is the first of the season. I’m not sure if I’ll do it every month, but I’ll try to keep it constant.

How to Auto Refresh Chrome Tabs Without an Extension

It’s a tutorial from Technipages that suggest creative ways to refresh a Chrome tab without a Chrome Extension. It’s quite useful and even have a bookmarklet sollution.

Injecting custom JS in any website

This one isn’t a tutorial, but a tool. It’s a extension for Google Chrome called Custom JavaScript for Websites 2 it has over 40,000 active users and it syncs your customs JS on every Chrome session that you are running.

It’s quite useful to create “micro extensions” for websites that you work everyday. I have to work with an online system at work on a web browser. I’m using the CJS Extension to inject JS to the page and highlight tasks that have been designated to my username. I’m also using it to alert me when the inbox is updated.