Weekly Coding • 2026-01-04

Summary of 2025

Total time in Clockify for all projects: 433 hours, see screenshot

Coding

1. Personal website 🖥️🌐 155 hours

   1. The biggest project of mine in 2025, on which I spent many hours 😤
   2. Made two versions of the site: first React.js, then static.
   3. For the static site, there was an option to use React Server Components, but this technology seemed unjustifiably complex to me… And a couple of months later, a massive security hole in React Server Components was discovered. Coincidence? 🤔💭

2. LeetCode 💻🎓 70 hours

   1. Solved 87 tasks
   2. Towards the end, started solving SQL problems
      1. SQL is a query language for databases, invented over 50+ years ago but still used today 🧐

3. Early projects 🧺 62 hours

   1. mongodb-sqlite-versus ⌚ 20 hours
   2. Linux and OrangePi setup 🐧 19 hours
      1. Setting up Linux took many more hours later, but I didn’t track those hours in Clockify
   3. hi-backup 🫙 13 hours
   4. Studying Spring Boot 🍃 10 hours

Other

1. Digital drawing 🖼️✍️ 84 hours
   1. Made three drawings during 2025
   2. Spent an average of 28 hours on one drawing
   3. Collected stars for my drawings online in social networks ⭐
      1. First drawing: 131 stars
      2. Second drawing: 43 stars
      3. Third drawing: 162 stars
2. German language
   1. Finished the Duolingo course 🦉 English->Deutsch to completion
   2. Watched various videos online

Plans for 2026

1. Continue coding different projects, learning a foreign language, and making drawings
2. Distribute my free time balanced between main work, rest, and projects to maintain and improve health