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title: "2019 in many words and some photos"
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published_date: "2019-12-30 23:30:00 +0100"
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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 [2018](/2018/12/27/2018-in-many-words/), [2017](/2017/12/31/2017-in-many-words/), [2016](/2016/12/31/2016-in-many-words/), [2015](/2015/12/31/2015-in-many-words/) and [2014](/2014/12/29/2014-in-many-words/).
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So here comes the 2019 edition.
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### My year in numbers
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I attended 5 conferences in 4 cities:
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* [Rust LATAM](https://rustlatam.org/) in Montevideo, Uruguay (March)
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* [RustConf](https://rustconf.com/) in Portland, Oregon (August)
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* [Oxidize](https://oxidizeconf.com/) in Berlin, Germany (April)
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* [EnthusiastiCon](https://www.enthusiasticon.de/) in Berlin, Germany (May)
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* [RustFest](https://barcelona.rustfest.eu/) in Barcelona, Spain (November)
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The trend was very clear: It's Rust.
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I gave two talks this year. One at the above mentioned EnthusiastiCon and one at a meetup in Bergen.
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I travelled close to 39.000 km in planes across the globe (or twice that if you count the way back, I can't remember what I calculated the previous years).
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I didn't move flats! Instead I bought new furniture and equipment for my flat instead.
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I published only 9 blog posts this year.
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I went to one concert in Berlin, 4 handball games of Füchse Berlin (now I got a ticket for the second round of the HBL), one festival, but sadly didn't go diving :'(
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GitHub says I made over 4330 countable contributions across dozens of repositories.
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The huge increase to last year (more than three times) is due to the fact that [the project I've been working on](/2019/10/24/this-week-in-glean/) is on GitHub.
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Commits to the Firefox codebase declined a lot.
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I posted 167 photos and videos on Instagram and my `~/photos/2019` directory now contains ~1800 photos.
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Much less than last year, but honestly this is because I took most pictures with my phone and I haven't properly sorted them yet.
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I wrote 2735 tweets (that's about the same as last year), with 1513 (also nearly the same) being in reply to someone (that includes self-replies in a thread though).
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This also includes about 400 retweets.
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### My year in photos and words
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Last year ended and this year started with a trip to Botswana and Namibia, together with [Flaki](https://twitter.com/slsoftworks) and [Florian](https://twitter.com/Argorakk).
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March started with a ski trip to Switzerland (and France) together with my dad, brother and brother in law.
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Unfortunately I had a bit of bad luck and missed 2 skiing days (one for everyone due to the weather, and one because I slightly injured myself).
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The month ended with a trip to Buenos Aires and Montevideo for the Rust LATAM conference and a bit of vacation.
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In June I had to go to Whistler, Canada for the Mozilla All-Hands, where I hiked in a T-Shirt to a frozen and snowy lake,
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did my very first downhill bike ride and had some good work time with my colleauges.
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Afterwards I went on to Vancouver Island and visited [Ana](https://twitter.com/a_hoverbear).
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In July I was back in Dortmund to visit (and help) at the Juicy Beats festival.
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Later in August I flew over to Portland to attend RustConf, with a trip to Victoria on Vancouver Island afterwards again.
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Just before flying out to Barcelona, I first had to go to Bergen, Norway to give a talk about Rust and then hike up the mountain.
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And then I headed to Barcelona for the 6th edition of [RustFest](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2019/bergen-mountainview.jpg).
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It was the biggest RustFest to date, with two dozen speakers and coaches, over 400 attendees and 4 days packed full with Rust.
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I stayed longer for a much needed time off of work and RustFest responsibilities and did everything a tourist needs to do in that city.
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Such as visiting the Sagrada Familia for some stunning pictures.
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At the end of the year I traveled back home for Christmas and family time, but now I'm back in Berlin,
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waiting to have a nice relaxed evening with some food and drinks with a bunch of friends.
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### Thanks
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It's the same people that stuck around with me last year,
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but both [Ola](https://twitter.com/misprintedtype) and [Flaki](https://twitter.com/slsoftworks) deal with my complaints most often
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and they are always there for me and vice versa.
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At every trip I met old friends and met new people and I know I can come back and they would be all up for another drink again.
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A huge thanks to the organizer teams of [RustFest Barcelona](https://barcelona.rustfest.eu/about/).
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This year was no less stressful than any of the editions before, but the whole team jumped in and helped and made this event happen.
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I know and learned that I can't be involved in the same capacity anymore, but I am looking forward to [RustFest Netherlands 2020](https://netherlands.rustfest.eu/).
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### The Future
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This year was long and at times stressful and exhausting.
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I felt a bit too much stretched between my work and RustFest
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I had no time or energy left for side projects or some better time off the compuer (such as ... more sport, diving and cooking).
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I'm proud of what RustFest, the conference I founded just over 3 years ago, has become and the direction its headed to.
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I'm looking very much forward to work with the Dutch team for the 2020 edition.
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For the next year I will cut down on my direct involvement and management.
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I'll be around as an advisor for the team and picking up tasks where I can, but I won't be the final decision maker anymore.
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Hopefully that will allow me to explore some side projects and learnings again (that might end up only useful for myself).
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In general I want to try to be much more conscious about my self organization, allowing for more time off the computer, exploring other hobbies.
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I also need to space my vacation time better and not always combine them with work or conference trips.
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Workwise I want to push on with the great work my team and I have been doing developing a telemetry framework from scratch.
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I'm looking forward to finally contribute Rust code into the Firefox codebase.
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Let's see what the Mozilla All-Hands in Berlin in January will bring.
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