Custom Networked Game
Upskilling in both linux kernel dev work and also LLM inference systems work. It's kind of hard to just "get into" these though, as they're sufficiently foreign that I'm spending more learning about the "accidentals" rather than the core dev loop that say, an employer would care about. So on top of that, for a more "traditional" software project, I'm working on making a game with a custom networking protocol, but with a focus on the networking protocol itself. I do think a decent amount of games can be subsumed under this paradigm but it requires careful design to a necessary and sufficient protocol. Of course, whether the game itself is fun is a different story, but I think it can be made fun.