This entry is getting added on 26th Feb 2026 which is Day 33 of my challenge. Today has been an interesting day. The wonderful tipping point was a podcast featuring Ryan Fleury where he discussed about a few topics related to memory management, C programming, garbage collection and arena. Most of it went over me but I was still able to appreciate the idea that it was some serious programming stuff. And these were the things it was probably okay to be getting excited about.
Next up I watched a video(Wookash Podcast) where Nic Barker talked about his experiences.
Finally I watched my favorite Youtubers Prime and TJ finding their way to making a website using Laravel. I watched the video for about an hour. It was more than eight hours. And when I paused I had come to a point where I felt the need to do something concrete where I can be sure of what I was doing. In short I wanted to know whether I was simply passing time or making some actual progress.
This thought prompted me to think for a while actually. And I realised the same thing that had been on mind for past few weeks actually - that I had develop some sort of expertise with the C language. And so I fell back to the best C resource possible, for me, at Boot.dev which has been instructed by TJ. And there were a few realisations here too.
First of all this was a five hour video, almost. So I had to look for what things I should do here to start. But since I am not a beginner it's not easy for me to sit through the beginning. So I hopped around for things like memory management or something. And for a while I was unable to pick anything. Some things were too easy and some seemed too hard. I decided to continue from where I had left the last time. But structs were also a topic that were not for the uninitiated. So I figured to start at the beginning. Yeah, that happened.
And then I realised that this 5 hour course was supposed to take 5 weeks at least if I had to really make the best use of it. The first section of C basics, which is about 1 hour, should be the thing I should explore first. And this is where I would be spending some time now. Because I don't want to remain a programming noob forever. True that I am now introduced to a lot of fancy things and waiting to explore them is not something that I am too keen to do, but still common sense must prevail.