What are your Elixir plans for 2019?

Heading here next week: https://lonestarelixir.com/2019/. Definitely looking forward to it. Separately, I hope to launch a first app in the next few months, sooner depending on how fast I can finish getting my head around the language. That’s the short term stuff.

Goals? I have a few (in no specific order):

1. I would like to be a member of the month (or of the year) in this forum.
2. I would also like to be top 10 in at least some categories of the forum (posts made, replies, minutes read, etc).
3. Read 2 Elixir books
4. Learn about architecture and testing with Elixir
5. Help develop the book club in Elixir (how is it going?)

And I think I have enough with this

I want to release my first and at least one open source product. And harden my elixir skills.

Launch side project website that uses phoenix.

Finish part 2 of phoenix > 1.4 and refactor that project.

Finish pragprgo Ecto book and refactor that same project.

If I have time then I would like to read manning elixir in action book and start my next side project which uses elixir.

I am thinking of starting an open-source effort for making generators of common Phoenix / Absinthe / General REST API / etc. applications. You would be able to specify a DB adapter, intended purpose (server-side rendered website, GraphQL gateway, REST API gateway, etc.). I’d probably force every generated directory to be an umbrella app but not sure yet. Maybe a switch indicating you would want property-based tests and data generators should be in there as well and provide you isolated directories for these purposes (lib/data_generators/ and test/property/ for example).

There is a repeated labor when creating projects and people can get caught off-guard every time. Creating projects is not done often so our brain manages to forget the gotchas.

I would like to be a member of the month (or of the year) in this forum.

Member of the month is gone, instead they are awarding 50x Member of the year. Is there an actual reward for this or is it all for the prestige?

EDIT: Forgot to add my goals!

1. I will finish reading Programming Phoenix. I also aim to get through Elixir In Action. I’ve already gone through Functional Programming with Elixir (it was great!)
2. Build and release at least ONE app/web app. I have a couple of ideas in mind
3. Once I’m a bit more competent, I would like to contribute to one of the many open-source Elixir projects

Yes

Every MOTM/Y gets an ebook

Most people appreciate the recognition though the book’s a bonus

I want to be able to get every elixir flashcard I have right without thinking by EOY.

Today I received my copy of Martin Fowler’s Refactoring 2nd edition and I will try to “translate” it for functional programming.

My goal is to finish the migration of our Hospital Information System from VB6 (yes, Visual Basic 6!) to Phoenix.