Arija A.'s Goals & Ambitions

This page, created on 2025-09-29, includes all my long-term ambitions and goals that shouldn't be updated often. These are my life-long commitments I want to work towards for my whole life.

Last updated: 2026-07-30

1. Successfully complete secondary education
2. Obtain a Bachelor's degree in software engineering
3. Obtain a Master's degree in software engineering
4. Obtain a Doctorate degree in software engineering
5. Legally transition (making formidable progress! tho the Lithuanian system is, uh, interesting)
6. Medically transition (making formidable progress! tho the Lithuanian system is, uh, interesting)
7. Become a professional software engineer
8. Create projects that have a significant global impact
9. Create products that have a significant global impact
10. Develop an extremely efficient compression algorithm
11. Create a serious programming language
12. Create a privacy-respecting cloud platform
13. Develop a full complex AI model or large language model from scratch in C
14. Create a peer-to-peer network
15. Develop a robust instant messaging protocol
16. Design and implement a good distributed file system
17. Create a CI/CD system
18. Develop an effective live-collaboration code editor plugin
19. Write an operating system from scratch that runs on hardware
20. Develop a full physical technology product
21. Have a fully on-premises, self-hosted infrastructure
22. Release at least ten scientific publications in academic circles (2/10)
23. Publish at least one academically high-impact scientific work
24. Release a book
25. Give a public talk
26. Attend FOSDEM
27. Attend Chaos Communication Congress
28. Donate at least 10000 euro to a high-impact charity
29. Go on a charity trip to assist the disadvantaged
30. Meet one of my favourite music artists in person
31. Gain experience in programming a quantum computer
32. Learn programming languages including Java, Haskell, Kotlin, PHP, Swift, Go, (kinda managed to get a hang of it), Erlang, and Elixir
33. Create a hashing function that surpasses BLAKE2 in performance
34. Reach 500 published Git repositories
35. Achieve an average blog post read time of 10 minutes
36. Post a long-form, serious YouTube video about a passionate subject
37. Reach 100 GB in my programming project directory
38. Register a legal entity of some form
39. Have ARI.LT (Ari-web) live for 10 years
40. Have ARI.LT (Ari-web) live for 20 years
41. Have ARI.LT (Ari-web) live for 30 years
42. Hit 10 million on the ARI.LT (Ari-web) global counter
43. Hit 100 million on the ARI.LT (Ari-web) global counter
44. Hit 500 million on the ARI.LT (Ari-web) global counter
45. Hit 1 billion on the ARI.LT (Ari-web) global counter
46. Take a year-long hiatus break
47. Get first place in a serious country-wide competition
48. Secure enrolment at a university (done! 2026-07-30)
49. Receive public recognition from a notable person, organisation, or company (done! 2026-07-17)
50. Have ARI.LT (Ari-web) live for 5 years (done! 2025-10-18)
51. Present a serious public presentation (done! 2025-05-09)
52. Get top 10 in a serious country-wide competition (done! 2025-04-06)
53. Get first place in a serious institution-wide competition (done! 2022-12-08)
54. Get first place in a serious city-wide competition (done! 2023-01-02)
55. Hit 1 million on the ARI.LT (Ari-web) global counter (done! 2024-06-13)
56. Get paid for a bug bounty (done! 2023-06-26)
57. Have ARI.LT (Ari-web) live for 1 year (done! 2021-10-18)

I will update this list slowly over time. These are my very long-term goals, which don't belong on my "now" page which focuses on how I am actively working toward these goals at present.