Ask HN: What is your learning plan for 2020?

Some companies encourage employees to come up with a learning plan each year. These usually include what, why, and how for each thing you're interested in learning.

What are you planning on learning in 2020 and what resources do you plan to use to do it?

I'm looking forward to learning: Graphql - a deep(ish) dive Statistics - brushing up with an intro course Devops - will finally read Project Phoenix and see where that takes me

For me it's the following:

I want to improve my APL(Dyalog/co-dfns), Rust, and Coq skills to passible levels, i.e. being able to comfortably use them and writing code in an idiomatic style.

I also want to improve my skill with SystemVerilog and VHDL. I'm decent with HDLs but I need a lot of work with regard to my testbench writing, translating specs to a TB, and using the random constraints based testing(similar to property based testing in the SW world).

I'm trying to properly pick up C++ template meta-programming and improve my familiarity with minimal to zero cost abstractions w.r.t FP and HOF.

Outside of programming skills, I want to start learning some project management skills, i.e. feature breakdowns, timeline estimation, and the basics of when/how to pivot.

Finally, I'm trying to learn how to tell when I start falling into one of my biggest issue as a developer and how to curb it: getting stuck on an idea and overlooking better alternatives.

It's a bit to take on but I'm young and don't have too many commitments so I figured it shouldn't be too unachievable.

I'm learning Elixir & Vim this year. I hope to become productive with vim and make it my primary editor by replacing PyCharm, Sublime Text 3 & nano by the end of this year :)

I am also taking notes of all the resources that I'm finding useful and have some plans to utilize my spare time to publish those as a series of blog articles(hopefully). Merely to share my vim & elixir journey on my personal blog[0] :)

[0] https://wasi0013.com/blog/

I want to grind Leetcode and tackle FAANG interviews. Working at companies like Microsoft and Google looks very fun and the pay obviously goes without saying.

I turned 40 a few months ago so I am going to start fortifying my existing skillset to knock some rust off, make it compatible with the sprint to the public cloud, and just try to be hungrier than any of my younger peers so that I don't start getting painted into a corner before I am able to financially call it quits. I figure if I can beef up 10 more years of legitimate problem solving, I can sorta coast my way out for a meager retirement and shift to rice, beans, and dog walks til entropy gets me.