A brilliant programmer can get noticed across all of the internet. Paying attention to the smartest and most accomplished people on the internet and matching y

A brilliant programmer can get noticed across all of the internet. Paying attention to the smartest and most accomplished people on the internet and matching yourself against them is likely to be hard on your ego. I recommend not doing this. Getting better than you used to be is a more reasonable goal. (In lots of things, not just programming.) On the programming side, studying Go sounds pretty good. Give yourself an attainable-seeming project and go after it. I think pg recommends picking something you think you can finish in a month--that sounds pretty good to me. Good luck.