Motivation

  • Consuming blogs is a popular means of professional development for tech professionals, writing is therefore a great tool to engage the community.
  • Improve thinking through analysis. Writing--creating a journal entry, a mind map, a sequence diagram--is an invaluable tool when working out logical errors in thought.
Key Results
4227 / 10k
10K words published per quarter on lcollins.info

Although quality content is the ultimate goal. Focusing efforts on quantitative measures will help foster the habit of writing, which is the beast I must face right now.

192 / 100
100 Unique visitors per quarter

Starting small, I aim to engage my immediate network primarily via blog content posted on lcollins.info with links shared on linkedin to help drive traffic.

Key Results
In Complete
Summarize Building Data Intensive Applications

Ideally my summary will be backed by a few first hand experience points but at the very minimum the goal is to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the concepts

In Complete
AWS Solutions Architecture Certification Stretch Goal

Resources:

Certificate HomePage

LinkedIn Learning Course

Motivation

  • Using AI can free up time to focus on high priory items
  • Contribute to the AI Utilization Strategy at my current Organization
  • Coaching team members in the new world will require understanding the tools used in the new world
Key Results
In Complete
Complete one major assignment using Code Assisted Development

Key points

  • Effective usage of gemini and claude
  • Complete the assignment using only ( or mostly ) Google Antigravity

https://antigravity.google/docs/agent

Note:

This spring I will work on a URL Abstraction meant to enable a white labelled product to handle deep links correctly and produce shareable links correctly. This will be the project I use to complete this goal.

In Complete
Increase practical knowledge of MCP

This is a learning goal. Success means completing and project using the two technologies below and publishing a post on my experience.

In Complete
Product Integration Stretch Goal

I’ve already worked on a project which integrated AI, however, this OKR looks to deepen by knowledge of model training and fine tuning to serve specialized use cases.

The details of this integration is to be determined at a later date, I’ve added the goal here as a reminder to push towards it.

The diagram below outlines the 2026 plan for Afrostories. Consistency without burnout is the philosophy I am applying while undertaking this years roadmap.

Key Results
In Complete
Increase Daily Active Users

Increasing users is the bottom line of the year. No target will be set, the goal is simply to move from 0 to a larger number.

In Complete
Improve API Production Readiness

System Additions

  • Server side caching
  • Request Batch configuration editor
  • Client SDK request Batcher implementation

System Improvements

  • Client side caching via Cache Control header configuration

In terms of metrics, the extract load testing targets will be determined ASAP.

In Complete
Lower number of operations needed for content creation

Motivation

Adding content to the platform during Black History Month identified a few bottlenecks in the chrome extension to Form editor flow.

Goal

Allow content editors to link clipped articles from the chrome extension ( e.g. a youtube video ) to a Form without leaving the Chrome Extension interface

In Complete
Web parity using Flutter WASM Stretch Goal

As it stands, the web client is only used to relay shared links to the mobile apps. Ideally some bandwidth will be given to making it a first class citizen in the ecosystem.

Success means all routes (features) available on Android and iOS will be available on web

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