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title: "2020 in many words and some photos"
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published_date: "2020-12-31 18:30:00 +0100"
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---
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It has become a tradition for me to look at the year that's about to end.
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I did so in
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[2019](/2019/12/30/2018-in-many-words/),
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[2018](/2018/12/27/2018-in-many-words/),
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[2017](/2017/12/31/2017-in-many-words/),
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[2016](/2016/12/31/2016-in-many-words/),
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[2015](/2015/12/31/2015-in-many-words/)
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and [2014](/2014/12/29/2014-in-many-words/).
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So here comes the 2020 edition.
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2020 was ... different.
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Nothing was going as planned and thus exactly none of the predictions anyone could have had became true.
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Nonetheless 2020 had some good parts, so I'm sticking to my format of looking at some numbers first, some pictures next and the future last.
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### My year in numbers
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I attended several conferences:
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* [Rusty Days]
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* [RustConf]
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* [RustLab]
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* [RustFest] (obviously)
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[Rusty Days]: https://rusty-days.org/
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[RustConf]: https://rustconf.com/
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[RustLab]: https://www.rustlab.it/
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[RustFest]: https://rustfest.global/
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_(... and some others I forgot, but there I showed up for only a talk or two)_
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Same trend as last year: Rust.
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I gave one talk this year at the above mentioned Rusty Days.
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That talk was actually supposed to happen at Rust LATAM, but it was canceled.
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And so was the workshop I had planned to give at BoosterConf Bergen.
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In March we had to cancel RustFest Netherlands, the planned 7th in-person edition of RustFest.
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RustFest was again moved to November, moved online and went Global.
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With [3 teams and 24 people][team] we created an event that lasted for 21 hours, put 24 speakers and 9 artists in front of an audience of around 1000 people. 💪
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Probably the achievement I'm most proud of this year.
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[team]: https://rustfest.global/information/#team
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I published 11 blog posts this year.
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I wrote significantly more in design proposals, bugs and notes at work.
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I went to one concert, one of the last ones in February, before it all closed down.
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I picked up playing Handball again and we managed to start the new season with 2 wins. Since October the season is on a break.
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I also picked up running again, managed to get 2-3 runs a week in, paused over the summer but now that Handball training won't happen I'm back running, even in the cold.
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GitHub says I made 3082 contributions in the last year.
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That's less than last year, but it doesn't really mean less actual contributions, given how much it doesn't capture.
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I'm back with several large patch sets contributed to the Firefox code base because of [FOG](/2020/10/06/fog-progress-report/).
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I posted 83 photos and videos on Instagram (and I don't know how many stories), also a sign of less travel overall.
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My `~/photos/2020` directory now contains ~2424 photos and videos, though this time it includes a bunch of screenshots and random snapshots,
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because I didn't even feel like properly categorizing most of them.
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Lots of baking in there though.
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### My year in photos and words
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2020 started off quite well.
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End of January all my colleagues came to Berlin for the Mozilla All-Hands.
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It was a good kick-off for several projects for 2020 and of course a great opportunity to meet some colleagues in-person.
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Turns out this was the last time for 2020 I met some of them.
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February was more quiet, a visit home, some baking, watching Handball and going to a concert.
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Starting in March we were asked to work from home and the office was officially closed soon after.
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And thus began my year of home office.
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So I did what everyone did and settled in. I started to bake more, feed my sourdough (hey, I started with that in February already!) and built Lego.
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In May I managed to bake even more and I started to improve my home office. Turns out I really missed my standing desk from the office, now I got one at home.
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In June I went to visit my family once more, as it became clear that I wouldn't be able to have a travel vacation this year really.
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I also took the opportunity to work from my balcony, right there in the sun.
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For the summer I initially planned to go to Norway, accompanying my parents on a camping van trip, but that had to be canceled.
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As they still had the camping van they decided to tour through Germany and so I joined them for a bit, together with my brother.
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Camping is an exceptionally good way to avoid people.
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We took some bike trips and visited a couple of cities in eastern Germany.
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Back in Berlin my sister & family came to visit, so more bike trips to lakes and some touristy trips through Berlin.
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August was a tough month.
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The layoffs at Mozilla severely impacted my motivation at work, and while I was not affect directly seeing that many colleagues,
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lots of people who I personally knew even before I joined Mozilla were fired.
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I snuck in another trip back home, surprising my father for this birthday and also making a new little friend
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(the cat was later picked up by an animal shelter as my family couldn't take care of it).
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End of the month I then finally did my Advanced Open Water Diver (AOWD),
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unfortunately the possibilities to make use of it when on vacations where of course limited this year.
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Thanks to [Florian] however we managed to do one weekend trip to the Feldberger Seenlandschaft somewhat north of Berlin.
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Not the same as diving in the ocean, but still a great opportunity for more scuba dive training overall and also my first night dive.
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[Florian]: https://twitter.com/argorak
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For September I stayed in Berlin. I even managed to have a small birthday party at home with some close friends.
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October was fully dedicated to RustFest.
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I worked countless hours to make the event happen, coordinating the team, speakers and artists, and working on the technology that runs the online event. It paid off.
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What followed was a day-filling event. You can find [all recordings online][rustfest playlist] (or [just the artist performances][artist playlist]).
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After that November was uneventful and I really needed that downtime.
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[rustfest playlist]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtcZ0ZOcO5w&list=PL85XCvVPmGQiudPknCxiSpybc5RTfkXe6
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[artist playlist]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho-Eq3QahAY&list=PL85XCvVPmGQji1WRVzvDmPzCEZ3z3NSTS
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December rolled around and so did Christmas.
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I did manage to meet up with my family once more. It sure was a different Christmas though.
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### Thanks
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A huge shout-out to the whole RustFest team.
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Everyone contributed their part to making RustFest Global happen, in a time when nothing else was certain.
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Thank you especially to [Flaki] for being a real good friend and co-organizer, no matter what.
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[Flaki]: https://twitter.com/slsoftworks/
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Thanks also to the small group of Berlin friends I managed to see once in a while, given that large gathering were impossible this year.
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And the biggest thanks this year to my family.
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They took precautions as seriously as I did and thus made it possible for me to visit a couple of times.
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### The Future
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I don't know what 2021 will bring.
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We're going to have to deal with a pandemic for a while longer and I highly doubt big in-person events will be a thing anytime soon.
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I sure hope that we'll get to a point that travel will be possible again, safely.
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Hopefully I can visit some friends again.
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RustFest will continue, now that we're [transitioning it into an actual project](https://blog.rustfest.eu/rustfest-project-announcement).
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We will have to scrape together a team to bring you another edition of RustFest in 2021.
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As said last year, I'd like to play a less prominent role in the nitty-gritty detail organization of the event,
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and instead focus on helping with my knowledge where I can and deal with the project as a whole.
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Work-wise I'm continuing my journey as the tech lead of the Glean SDK.
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I'm now responsible for its direction & planning and together with the whole team I have some ideas on [what to tackle first](/2020/12/18/glean-in-2021/).
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Maybe late in the year I will be able to meet my remote colleagues in person again.
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