1const milestones = [
2 {
3 year: "2021",
4 title: "void main(void)",
5 description: "Entered university with zero knowledge. My journey began with C. The moment 'Hello World' printed, I was hooked.",
6 tags: ["C", "University"]
7 },
8 {
9 year: "2022",
10 title: ":q! (The Vim Trap)",
11 description: "Joined the 42 Program. Met Linux and Vim for the first time. I hated it—I couldn't even exit the editor. I failed, retreated to high-level languages (Python/TS), but the seed was planted.",
12 tags: ["Linux", "42 Program", "Python"]
13 },
14 {
15 year: "2023",
16 title: "The Builder Phase",
17 description: "Academic training met real-world shipping. Built full-stack apps with Laravel and Flutter. Felt like a wizard using tools I didn't fully understand yet.",
18 tags: ["Laravel", "Flutter", "Full Stack"]
19 },
20 {
21 year: "2024",
22 title: "The Peak (False Summit)",
23 description: "Final Project: Telemedicine AI with PyTorch & NestJS. I got an 'A'. Everything worked. I thought I had mastered software engineering.",
24 tags: ["PyTorch", "NestJS", "Image Processing"]
25 },
26 {
27 year: "2025",
28 title: "Mt. Stupid & The Rebirth",
29 description: "Landed a job at a top startup. Built systems serving 1k+ daily users in Go. But then, Dunning-Kruger hit. I realized I was just a 'Tool User' standing on giants' shoulders. I quit to learn the hard things from scratch.",
30 tags: ["Go", "System Design", "Rust", "Neovim"]
31 },
32 {
33 year: "NOW",
34 title: "The Iterator Project",
35 description: "I am building this platform to document my learning process. No more hiding failures. No more 'perfect' code. Just pure, raw iteration.",
36 tags: ["Next.js", "GSAP", "Open Source"]
37 }
38];