My name is Ricky, and for most of my life, I thought I'd never be able to write any code at all.

Before my ADHD diagnosis in september of 2024, I had never written a single line of code in my life. After starting treatment, I have finally become able to do the thing that I love doing the most.

I started coding following the open source Odin Project, and after 4 months, I released my first full-stack project, which is a proof-of-concept social network inspired by Reddit.

After spending some time working on some libraries in Typescript, I realized that I wanted to try out other languages for the backend, so I started exploring Go.

So I spent 1 month learning it, and in that process, I created 2 libraries:

• protoschema-go, for generating protobuf files from declarative schemas written in go (with a plugin to generate ConnectRPC handlers using the same metadata extracted from those schemas).
• querygen, which is a small helper library that generates most if not all of the boilerplate for making aggregated sqlite queries with sqlc.

And then after that, I dived into Rust, which I have really fallen in love with it. So after 1 month of learning it, I released my first crate: protocheck, a validation library that leverages protovalidate annotations to automatically generate validation logic in Rust.

I have also made protoschema, which re-implements the protoschema-go concepts in Rust, but with a much better result due to Rust's flexibility with macros. Go check that out if you work with protobuf!

• Porting protoschema-go to rust (yes, I dislike writing proto files that much) Done, that is now protoschema
• Including more common protobuf types in my proto-types crate Done, all types from google.rpc and google.type are now supported
• Probably a few other libraries to make working with protobuf a smoother process
• Refactor a library I wrote in Typescript for generating boilerplate for TS projects, potentially porting it to Go or Rust
• Diving back into Sveltekit (which is not my frontend framework of choice) and tauri to build a desktop app