Jarrod Parkes

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2018 New Year's Resolutions

2018 starts today, and in two days I start my new job as mobile lead for CommentSold — a local software company that has an e-commerce platform for selling products on social networks like Facebook and Instagram. This has been a big transition for me, from full-time teacher to developer, but I’m excited for the challenge, and I’m eagar to share my learnings with others. Aside from the job, I have a few new year’s resolutions that I’d like to capture here for my own record:

  • launch 10+ apps on the App Store
  • launch first Android App on the Google Play Store
  • build a framework in Kotlin
  • finish my game room for entertaining friends and family
  • relaunch the N64 Game Index app with full text search
  • build and launch a web api using Node
  • expand the N64 Game Index to support more platforms
  • film live shows for the Collecting Dust podcast
  • start Twitch stream for Collecting Dust podcast
  • book 10+ wedding customers for La Rue French Macarons
  • build an app for La Rue to handle mobile orders and integrate with Square
  • help my dad with his genealogical research by adding 3 generations-worth of records from my in-laws family
  • revive the Huntsville Swift Users Group
  • publish a book on microservice development in Swift
  • build and launch a dominoes iOS app
  • add 5 new websites to the ParkesTwins portfolio

I’m going to print these out and put them on the refrigerator!