Make software that people use with a smile

Finish my Raspberry Pi Zero Cluster... complete with kubernetes, etc.

... I still don't know what I'm going to run on this. suggestions in the comments welcome.

I have multiple but one of my biggest ones:

Build an entire suite of services which can replace the popular Google/microsoft/facebook (etc) services.

Of course: privacy respecting, preferrably everything possible end-to-end encrypted.

Because fuck mass surveillance and those companies and if I can do anything to fuck them (quite literally) and help people getting to user friendly alternatives, I'll do the best I can.

I've been working for years on a game that would be a mix between Dwarf Fortress, Factorio and SpaceChem.

Problem is, I keep switching between engines and languages, never making too much progress. I've written several isometric rendering libraries, tried out going fully 2D ASCII or fully 3D in unity... And then something else eats up my time for a while again.

Make something that not only I but also others find useful, and could outlive me 🙂 there's way too much crap out there currently and I'd like to change that.

Understanding AI before it understands me.

laptop
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mug of coffee
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coding in C
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Hell yeah !

Create something that makes someone happy or helps somebody.

Due to the legality of it, my lawyer tells me I'm not allowed to discuss it.

My name says enough.

To eventually become an actual dev.

Work with code, not with people

To be able to code blind folded - literally. A few years back when the web speech synthesis apis came out and chat bots were raging I thought it would be cool to dictate pseudo code on the fly whole whiteboard the problem. When I investigated the easiest way to implement a mvp I was shocked to learn that there are BLIND programmers.

That alone is impressive and I went on to find that many have years of experience and add valuable contributions on a regular basis. Unfortunately I havnt had an opportunity to meet one yet but I am in utter awe of their accomplishment.

Should I get the chance I want to try and walk in their shoes, live a day without my eyes and learn to solve problems without spotting a pattern

Biggest? I want to create a full epic single player RPG that connects the players to the characters and leaves them with that empty feeling after they’ve finished it because the game was that damn good.

Exit vim ...

I can't even. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

My biggest goal as a developer is to build a few services which provide enough passive income that I can spend more time with my family.

Divide by zero

Call me boring but...

Working in a secure job with a great work/life balance, little or no travel, great people, really interesting challenges, earning a tidy salary, contributing to open source, all the while creating something worthwhile and interesting.

I have a few of those already, so can't complain.

Actually release something...

To retire early.

never ever working on a VB or .Net project again... ever.

Idk, writing code that gets sent into space would be pretty cool

I will turn this unholy, steaming, volatile, fubar, absolute shitstorm of a codebase into a thing of beauty, if it's the last thing I do!

My goal is simple:

Make a shit ton of money, buy companies, fire all the devs ruining our profession.

well, for now, my biggest dev ambition is to become a compiler designer/programmer... or OS designer/programmer.
In short, systems programmer (compilers or OS).
😅😅😁😁

sex robot

also working 20-ish hour work weeks

I actually do have one. 2 years ago I found myself in a stressful situation. It lasted for an hour or so but all ended well. Ever since that incident I was wondering what should be different so that situations like these could be avoided. I had an idea. I began making sketches, sorting out the architecture I'd need and then it hit me. Shit, I could reuse this very principle for a MUCH larger scale! And in fact there's noone in the market offering this yet! There are similar products, products that offer a tiny part of my idea's functionality, but none of them are even close to what I have in mind!

And so the coding began. I was still a student back then. And employed 12hrs/day. And married. Needless to say I did not have much time for coding. Now I'm also a father (although not a student any more!) which makes my schedule even worse.

All in all I've made quite a few widely reusable libraries by now which have saved me 10s of thousands of lines typing, had yet another idea on alternative TLS which seems impossible to crack (well okay, possible. But there's a twist - cracker will not be able to know he cracked the algo :) ). Now I'm close to 100k LOC of my main project and struggling with a fucking FE (since I'm more of a bkend guy). FE's already taken a few months from me and I'm still in a square 1 :/ But I'm moving forward. Slowly, but moving. Frustrated af, but not giving up.

I had a sort of a dream to start my project before I'm 30. I have less than a year left. Still doable. This project, if it's sucessful, has a potential to become extremely popular as it offers solutions to multiple problems we have today. This project should save me from 9-to-5 work every day where, no matter how great the environment is, I feel trapped. But I need money to survive in this city . With my family.
This project should be a solution to all of my problems and probably something great the world could enjoy.

I wish I could make it. I really do. I don't want to be 9-5 any more. I don't want to be dictated what's my schedule, what's that I have to do now. what to think. I want to be free of all of this. Have enough time to live. To travel, see the world. Live in a house (God I miss living in a house....). Spend time with my family. Show my lil boy what a wonderful thing the World is!

I really want this to work. I want to be free again. And I wish I hadn't to deal with FrontEnd.

Allright, enough wabbling. Time for a nice cup of tea and back to coding. "The next big thing" is not going to create itself while I'm ranting, right?

Create my own company with the stuff I'm learning....
Just need:
Inner strenght!
Been lacking that a lot , and with all the medication....
Else I would be dropping like one app a week, have my webportal already built, a few CNCs already producing pieces to sell...

Remain current and relevant...

Earn heavy money. that's it.

To be able to give back to the open source world instead of just consuming

Create a new, fast, strictly typed programming language with organized project structure, normal package manager, dynamic syntax extensions (that means you can change the syntax of the language if you like!) and (most importantly) if statements which are written like this:
(bananas == 0) -> print 'No bananas!';

I have couple dev ambitions some of them are:
- to become better in what I am doing and get a higher position.
- to build my own product.
- to educate young programmers.

I want to be the CTO in ten years. I'm 25 now, and think it's possible. My former boss was the CTO and he inspired the hell out of me to work hard and invest in myself. I have a lot to learn but I'm eager to figure it out.

Change the world and not being recognized.

To build a machine as shown in 'Person of interest'.

P.S. If you are hearing Person of Interest for the first time, put it on top of your tv series watchlist. You will not regret it.

My biggest dev ambition? "Outliving" the pointy-hair bosses, monday morning quarterbacks, and the know-it-alls-and-do-nothings.

So far, I am seeing my ambitions fulfilled. The last know-it-all-do-nothing dev was fired a couple of months ago and its been really nice around here.

Retire early

Create a full open-source company based on no-knowledge services to compete with the data hogs that pretty much own the internet as it stands

Contributing something meaningful to one of the bigger FOSS projets.

To have a 6-hour 5-day (at max, for any reason) software job to sustain myself, leaving me enough time to enjoy life, exercise, travel at times, and create personally or with my programmer friends challenging and innovative projects, regardless of whether they are going to be monetized later or become open source.

My Programming Ambition.
To empower aspiring programming entrepreneurs with the idea that they can use their highly coveted skills to achieve whatever ambitions they have. To show them why they don't have to settle for the industry standard right now, which is low pay, poor conditions, hyper competition and lack of appreciation. To help them understand that with what they know, they can literally create any career that they want.

Create a bug-free compiler for a Lang like c# but a little less overcomplicated and a lot faster. I don't believe a strictly typed and garbage collected language needs to be much less than half as fast as c++.

My ambition is to develop my own game and publish it, then get a better paying job and to rise above my lazy ass nihilistic order-following coworkers.

To be motivated enough after work (and not play games) to finally start developing some games and maybe release a game that someone enjoys....
This is going to take a while :/

Build something that helps anyone on their daily lives. Both personally and professionally. I wanna help them users.

Have a side income, go fully remote and/or having a successful startup.

- only idea is not enough
- it should bring in value to you
- accept you can’t do everything all by yourself

Not purely dev related but I’d love to make a living out of creating my own products/startups. The dream.

My biggest dev ambition is to continue supporting and improving the same codebase for at least 5 years.

That codebase is already 6 years old and going strong.

Complete my side projects 😅

Build my own company (Already in-progress), and do something I enjoy for a living instead of working for others while hopefully having some passive income (Ex. Apps, plugins, etc) to allow me to enjoy life to the extent

Start an organization dedicated to building technology that helps people suffering from mental illness.

I also want to be able to work remotely while travelling and rock climbing.

I'd actually want to know what I'm doing with my life and dev path. Things are pretty blurry and confusing right now

Make a fantasy MMORPG with a cool magic system in which you can craft spells kind of like coding.

Release my own software!
(Like the guy behind insomnia, he is one of my heroes!! 😁)

Build my own business entirely with free/libre software. Generate at least a decent supplementary income from services while still providing source code free of charge.

Quit 🤷🏼‍♂️

Solving real world problems with great tools.

Create something that will take humanity forward. Not just a utility software but make things that'll help solve the biggest problems humans as a society face - poverty, hunger, loneliness, pollution etc. All these problems are on my radar.

The idea is to use science to solve social problems. And not just stop at that. Make things that will help humans evolve into the next evolutionary phase.

Creating a popular SaaS while it itself being easily maintainable and generates an average monthly salary 😁

Santa... Please can I haz?

I’m realizing with each passing day that, even with a CS degree, I don’t know squat about programming. I’m looking to change that.

Biggest dev ambition? I've got a couple.
For my career, becoming the "go-to-guy" or even lead architect at an ambitious and professional software company. For my free time, releasing one or more apps that people find useful. Also releasing and maintaining a piece of open source software that devs find useful and see potential in. Inspiring others in general.
Those are some goals I've had from the very beginning.

A JavaScript Framework

As a newbie to coding, learning enough to create something more complex than a handful of random generators would be great. 📖

just making a product that makes my fellow dev's life easy and every dev is my fellow dev :p

Contributing to large open source projects.

It's something I wanted to do since I fell in love with one programming language (which shall remain nameless here). However, I'm not restricting myself to one project. I have many projects I'd like to contribute to.

I even wrote this down in my 5-year plan for the future.

buy microsoft and make all it's programs FOSS

To create an abstraction simple enough to make complex business logic challenges solvable for non programmers.

The issue I see today is programmers solving problems they don't understand as well as the user. I think two ways might be taken:
- Programmers specialize in other fields and solve problems there
- Other professionals create their own software

Both will happen in the future (IMHO) and I want to help the second happening.

Note: Excel does this really well, but I think we can so quite better today.

Enter one word in terminal and hack fucking government's, CIA's, NSA's, websites, database and servers, just like hackers in movies do.

If I failed to achieve this, would love to hack Sony's website and post a message on all their websites
"We make terrible mobile phone"

I want to understand things well enough that I can mentor those who want to learn what I’ve already learned, maybe making it easier for them than it’s been for me.

Create something "revolutionary", become recognized worldwide and respected for what I've done. Maybe becoming BDFL of my own language or give my name to an algorithm, something like that. Not necessarily rich or famous, I just want to leave a mark on the face of the earth. Do you know Federico Faggin? Well someone like him.

To create a really amazing OSS, I don't even care if anyone uses it or if it becomes popular or anything, I just want to do it to prove to myself that I don't need to get paid to write good code, I can do it to make the world a better place too.

This has really been my main goal for a long time now, sure I've written some a few OSS but I don't consider them up to that standard yet, but I am working on something right now that will get close if I ever manage to finish it and if it is well written.

My biggest ambition is to make something that really matters for people. I'm a bit fed up with all money-making business (my last two jobs are were/are basically in advertising). I would like some day to meet some stranger on a street or in a bar, hear "Software X helped me a lot" and know that I was a part of creating software X.

To develop something that I'm proud of for my entire life, I don't care about others opinion

My biggest dev ambition:

Coding my own games.

Biggest dev ambition:

Be good enough to:
1. Get featured: press or App Store
2. Win Grand Prize in Google Code-In (trip to Google HQ)
3. Win WWDC scholarship

Write code that compiles successfully on first compilation...

Make the world a better place.

I'd like to one day be as good as my tutors or my better half.
Overseeing research code and developing it further with very little documentation seems like a very precious skill to me. They have my respect for that.
That would also involve getting a phd.

I feel so clueless sometimes but apperently I'm a fighter, so let's keep goin and trying :)

Be like Gilfoyle from silicon valley 😎

Build my own phone and support the Zerophone project by writing code.

Seriously what the fuck is going on with the development of major companies smartphones. Every year all there is are larger displays, better and more cameras, faster processors and some more 'AI' thrown into the mix.

What the heck am I supposed to do with a phone costing multiple hundreds of euros but locked down with an OS spying on you. The processing power available is hardly ever used because most people just use apps like Instagram, WhatsApp or other messaging services.

I get why larger screens are useful but at some point it gets ridiculous.
Better cameras are useful to some degree as well but there's a limit to it.
If you really want to get into photographing then please buy an actual camera.

Another aspect I'd of course like to talk about is privacy. It's hardly existent on IOS or Android smartphones with Google services. Of course one can install different ROMs like Lineage OS but if I already pay multiple hundreds for a device then I'd prefer it working for and not against me.

And dare you break a single part of your phone. You can't really repair it yourself anymore and one can't even change its battery. Most people either have it repaired or just buy a new one and throw it away. There is so much electronic waste, very difficult and expensive to dispose of, just buried in the ground somewhere.

Summing up: I don't really know where the development of smartphones is heading. A phone is a device you carry around with you almost everyday so I'd like it to be tailored to me and not spy on me.

I hope the Librem phone will be a success and other open source phone projects will gain more attention. I want a phone I can repair myself and tailor the software running on it to my needs. I'd like to write messages, listen to music, make calls, run a WiFi hot-spot on the phone and maybe play some tiny games on it once in a while.

Being non-dev and still be valuable

To contribute to github projects every day. It would be possible if I didn't have 2h daily commute...

To build wealth and create passive income that will make me finally quit my developer career. I'm passionate about being a developer but as a hobby, and not working for someone else who wants you to build something you disagree with.

Weekly Group Rant - My biggest dev ambition is to make a product so great that I have enough money to buy back GitHub from Microsoft before they destroy the platform :)

To actually think of an ambition that I would like to have and that I could possibly achieve

Create a worker-owned co-op devoted to creating tech for the labour movement.

I have several project ideas brewing ☺️☺️☺️

Be part of a company or service that can change the world!

Or on small scale, find a place where someone can actually teach me something about programming rather than me teaching them!

To become an audio programmer, inside or outside of the game industry.

My biggest ambition? I'm working on a programming language as a side project right now. I'd like to get it to a point where id rather use my language over something like Python for small scripts. And maybe even do a larger project using my language.

To be able to sleep all day long 😴😴

Aren’t way to many people getting into programming 😅

To build a machine that syncs with and does stuff according to the lyrics of "Technologic" by Daft Punk.

I don't have a single particular goal. but the first goal I have is to learn the rest of the programming languages that I want to learn, and get better with those

Finishing my side projects

My biggest ambition tbh is just to be an employed webdev working in England or the Netherlands. Its something that feels both big and small at the same time

Refactor our front end from a blend of Classic ASP and Classic ASP hosting React Components to React. I doubt it'll ever happen, but a dev can dream right?

To be able to use actual Jarvis or the OASIS from the fictions.

// Have no intention to develop one by myself. But I really wish I can use those as a dev.

Disclaimer: I’m a Test Automation Architect...so with that in mind...

I aim to solve the massive problem with test (and more specifically) test automation data management that pervades throughout the testing ecosystem. I’m on to something right now, and frankly, this is, and has been, a huge issue that needs a path forward to solving.

Building one or more online services that will require little maintenance and that will generate a good income. Got to stop "working" one day and own all of my time 🤑

Write a novel about code and digitalization - not so much dev'ish.

Rral dev thing: finish reading SICP and really plunge in one of the functional languages

to just do my shit, without working for anyone. really, I just want to dwell on my side projects forever.

Create new possibilities in the digital world, moving "everything" into the digital world, creating new solutions as a service. A more connected world. Find a problem even though it is small and make it as a service, changing lives for the better.

I want to make software that people will want licences for. Or I want to make an open source project that people donate enough to that I can live off of it. Basically I want to live making software that I want to make. What a dream right?

Become a dev on Apple. Any reactions?

It'd be pretty cool to do well enough in my career that I can buy my dad a garage and we can fuck about the rest of our lives doing up cars.

Also, if I could make some significant contribution to some OSS, that would be great.

My biggest dev ambition is working on software that people care about, specifically, developers.

I would love to give back to the community at large since I would not be where I am at without all of the help I've found within it.

Being able to build a full website for me or someone else that I wouldn't feel like it would need some involvement 😭

Build my own moving robot and Digital Assistant

One day in a near but comfortably not too near future, I will start a webdevelopment 3-letter-abbreviation dictionary page, with self-taken photos of Belgian car license plates, and use the alphabetic part for each definition. It's insane how many PSD's, JSX's, PHP's and other technologies and file formats I've seen driving around and can no longer keep it for myself.
To qualify the tech/ format must 1) have been spotted and photographed by me and, 2) be about something related to webdev

If it doesn't take off, I can still create a unique custom CAPTCHA service with the photos :D

Creating an open source project which is actually used by multiple people.

(I actually have something I'm currently building in the pipeline)

My biggest dev ambition is to build a cross-platform app in Flutter/Dart. I am working with my buddy to do so currently.

a little later for wk131 but:

To build a completely open platform for everything we have right now... operating systems, manufacturing etc...

The basic idea being serving a line of products under the platform's branding with an algorithm to control which open source implementation of the underlying architecture is most stable/efficient and keep switching them out. This is incredibly ambitious.

A reward based system to power this based on contributions. Example: if the open platform oled manufacturing industry uses a manufacturing process you came up with ... You get paid until well another person's process is better and it gets switched out.

Ideal modularity tbh.

Switching out parts of apps .For example : if the most efficient map algorithm is created by X it will be used. Payments split up as better forked implementations appear.

It's a thriving fun environment. Fuck job stability. Humans weren't meant to live like that. Hunt an animal today or you won't get food tomorrow.

On the plus side this will close the intellectual gap in the current generation.

Showcasing my boredom project 😁 (works with Firefox only)
Gifylapse.com

Find one dev job opening that I meet all the requirements for.

I just set course becoming a contributer to a programming language. My ambition is to become core team member.

To put online a self-sufficient SaaS which I don't need to debug, fix or update myself, as I'll have some code monkeys do the work for me.

Projecting and developing microservices architectures at big companies. Also I hope I'll be contributing the kernel a day

I didn't think I was going to be in Forex trading. And then I learnt about Quant trading. Definitely want to get into that.

Your boss micromanaging your tasks

My biggest dev ambition?

Actually finishing software which could be used in production.
And no, Dont even try to call unfinished work the MVP version...