Here are some upcoming ideas I’m planning to write about on my journey learning backend development, primarily with Go, for now.

Items that are “checked” are published :), and linked.

🚀 Getting Started & Mindset

  1. Why I Chose Go After the Age of 30
  2. How I’m Learning Backend Dev as a Complete Beginner
  3. Why Building an Interpreter in Go Was the Best Starting Point
  4. What Learning Go Taught Me About Programming Concepts I Missed Before
  5. How I Stay Consistent While Learning to Code at Night
  6. Things I Thought I Needed to Know Before Learning Backend (But Didn’t)
  7. My Learning Stack: Books, Videos, and Projects
  8. Shipping My First CLI App in Golang
  9. How I Track My Backend Dev Progress with Daily Logs & Github
  10. Why I’m Learning Go, Neovim, Colemak layout and a Split Keyboard (All at Once)
  11. Choosing Colmak Over QWERTY While Learning to Code — Was It Worth It?

🧠 Getting Comfortable with Go

  1. From “WTF is a Token” to “I Built a Lexer”
  2. What Clicked While Building an Interpreter
  3. Why I Believe You Should Build Tools, Not Products (at First)
  4. How I Built a Mini-Language with Go
  5. Why Go’s Simplicity Makes It a Great First Systems Language

🛠️ Project-Based Learning

  1. Why I’m Building CLI Apps to Learn Golang
  2. My First Go CLI Tool
  3. Rewriting a Python Script in Go (And What I Learned)
  4. How I Plan to Build a Custom Compiler with Go
  5. What Backend Dev Really Looks Like (From a Beginner’s View)
  6. Go vs Python: What I Use and Why (As a Data Scientist)

đź‘´ Late Starters in Backend Dev

  1. Learning To Code in Your 30s? Here’s What Works
  2. Why It’s Not Too Late to Learn Systems Programming
  3. You Bring More Than Code — Why Your Background Is a Superpower
  4. How I’m Balancing a Full-Time Job and Backend Learning
  5. Making It Hard on Purpose: Learning Neovim and Colmak for Long-Term Comfort