Happy New Year! We made it. We survived 2025 with all the ups and downs it brought. Pat yourself on the back for making it — you deserve it. And now we have a new year to (hopefully) look forward to. This blog post will focus on career goals, but I also have a few personal objectives I'd like to achieve, which won’t be mentioned here. Below are some professional goals and brief descriptions of those goals I have for 2026.
Completing 100devs courses and assignments: This includes the big 100-hour project that will serve as my flagship project for my portfolio site. I have heard that Leon is considering a Cohort 3, so I’ll want to be available to help the newer students and sit in on any new content related to AI and the coding tools available.
Getting another job: 2025 was not a great year to quit your job, even for experienced developers, and I’ve been looking for my next developer role for about two months. A significant goal for me in 2026 is to secure my next role, which will enable me to continue growing my career.
Improve my AI knowledge and skills: As AI continues to grow, I am not content just knowing how to prompt an LLM for code. I have ordered The Developer’s Guide to AI, which should be released in March. The book will include projects and getting an LLM to run locally on a laptop, which I’m interested in exploring. I’ll write on some of these, probably around late spring and into the summer (my focus until then will be on 100devs and job searching).
Contribute to open source: I am getting my feet wet with freeCodeCamp and helping to develop some new labs for them. But I want to branch out from freeCodeCamp and find a few other projects to contribute to moving forward.
What goals do you have for 2026?