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1) SQL As a mainly frontend engineer I just haven't had a whole lot of exposure, but always experience friction against it while doing side projects.

2) Woodworking

After finally diving in earlier this year, really took to it as a nice break from screens. Taking this winter break to organize my garage and set up proper dust collection so I can stop creating layers of sawdust in my garage (and probably my lungs).

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I would love to pick something up off screen this year as well. When I was a kid, I would hang out with my grandfather in his shop, melting and casting metal. But if I wanted to pick that up now, I'm not even sure where or how I could. Most classes are about smithing, which isn't exactly what I want.

So, short of finding a time machine to go back to 1992, I suppose I'll figure out how to start on this goal.

I took a single DB class in college and it has put me head and shoulders above my average SWE peers for the last ten years or so. Having a basic concept of what normalization is and how to apply it, and what level of normalization is practical in a project at your work’s scale, is super important and helpful. Learning just a small amount of theory can really help!

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